She's gotta be stong to fight them

Writer's Block: Prying Eyes

2009-07-03T02:28:40Z

Have you ever read someone's private writings (journal, diary, email, letters, etc.) without their permission?

You mean is my little sister's journal scanned onto my computer??

Yes. Yes it is.

I'm still suffering the curse of 1,000 honeybeeeeths

<3

2009-05-04T23:36:35Z

Hey you

2009-04-24T21:33:14Z

Yeah, you!!!

Serious lol's@your sad little life communicated via LJ headline.

You are forever crackin' my shit up girl! Thanks for being such a loser.

Writer's Block: Ripped from the Headlines

2009-03-29T00:44:35Z

What news story have you heard or read lately that made you really angry? What about one that made you really happy?

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Anything having to do with this bitch....

Seriously

2009-03-10T22:17:13Z

Fuck. Octo-Mom.

Writer's Block: Seven

2009-02-05T21:00:38Z

Which of the seven deadly sins—sloth, greed, lust, gluttony, anger, envy, and pride—are you most likely to commit?

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D) All of the above. Maybe even at the same time.

Writer's Block: Super Sunday

2009-02-02T01:56:54Z

Which is the better game: the Superbowl or the Puppy Bowl?

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Why is this even a question?

Puppy Bowl, hands down.

Wonderful

2009-01-28T23:43:13Z

There are so so so many new Best of Craigslists.

My favorite.

My #1 Fave...NOT!

2008-11-16T16:19:40Z

Seriously...

2008-11-11T14:21:45Z

You are the WORST!

Yeah, I said it.

2008-08-27T23:07:57Z

Fuck Twilight.

Writer's Block: Six-Word Story

2008-08-15T00:48:30Z

Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” He is believed to have called it his greatest literary work ever. Can you write a story in six words?

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Dear Ernest Hemingway,
Suck it.
--Carleigh

Dear Shari Murgado

2008-08-10T02:48:20Z

I thought it was finally time to let you know.

I've secretly been filming you and compiling a serious documentary called

The A-Mrazing Race

Here are some clips. I hope you enjoy it.

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Regards,
Carleigh Anne Mahaffey

mahaffagoo @ 2008-07-21T13:27:00

2008-07-21T17:29:16Z

According to the Internet, this is what mine and Joe's future child will look like.

PRETTY AMAZING, HUH!?!?!?!?!?

Sass Mouth

2008-07-10T15:59:59Z

Dear Katy Perry,

Your song is really swell! It truly paints female sexuality in the best light, especially when you qualify your sexual experimentation by saying "I hope my boyfriend won't mind." You want to make sure that when you go out on a limb to quell any sort of sexual curiosity (especially when it involves crossing the line of being physical with another person) that your boyfriend should approve. And why wouldn't he!? Dudes LOVE when chicks make out! Hopefully you'll top off the evening with fighting over which one of you gets to suck his dick at the end of the night!!!

I think what's even better than the message just the song sends out is the one that's expressed in the video! I love how infantalized you are! Wearing a babydoll dress in bed while stroking your ~~pussy~~ cat AND hanging out with your stuffed animal is all extremely sexy for a twenty-three year old woman to be doing.

So keep on keepin' on, Katy Perry! I wanna jam to this at the club with my girls, maybe make out with them, but then be totally appalled when dudes come over and watch!

GIRL POWER!

Regards,
Carleigh

The weird thing is...

2008-06-26T04:47:42Z

When you burn all your bridges, you've got no where else to run.

Two Muthafuckin' Hearts

2008-06-16T20:20:54Z

So earlier today, around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, I saw this frog in the pool. He was still alive and I knew that if I left him there, he'd certainly drown and then I'd have to fish out dead frog. After a couple attempts, I scooped him out and he landed on the lanai. Then he just sat there. Usually they sit for a second, and then hop away. Not this guy. I took this picture a good three hours later and he's straight chillin'. The dogs have walked up to him and given him a few good sniffs and he's all like...whatever, man

What Really Burns Me...

2008-06-10T23:59:48Z

ABSTINENCE ONLY EDUCATION

So if you've driven around the Tampa Bay area, I'm sure you've seen those giant black&white billboards emblazoned with an A followed by this website . Have you ever wondered what exactly these ads are about? Probably not, due to the fact that there's more images splattered across your windshield than love-bugs. However, it peaked my curiosity. Does this have something to do with my darling Hester Prynn and her Scarlet Letter? Some modern-day Hawthorne (ie: Shari Murgado's wet dream!?)

Sort of. However, I'll leave it to the actual website to describe what exactly a Red Letter Rebel is:

"The red letter "A" represents the choice to be chaste. In today's society, the social norm is sexual promiscuity, with an ideology that sexual activity whenever and with whoever is harmless and carries no consequences. The choice of chastity, voluntarily choosing to save sex for marriage, is an act of rebellion against this social norm and will not only help to avoid physical, mental, emotional and social consequences but will help to reach goals and dreams in life.

The red letter "A" also represents the choice to abstain from drug and alcohol use as a teenager.

Be a REBEL. Choose Abstinence."

I'll give you a second to work that around. See how it sits with you...alright, ready? Here's me...

During the current administration, approximately $168,000,000.00 is appropriated a year to abstinence only sex education; in the last ten years, over $1 billion have been spent. 86% of public schools that even offer sex education promote abstinence only and 35% require that abstinence be the only option taught to unmarried people.

Despite the flood of money into abstinence only education, there has been little to no significant change in the numbers of teen pregnancies in the United States. Holland, that scandalous land of sex and drugs, has the lowest teenage pregnancy rate with only 12 pregnancies per 1,000. Following close behind are most other Western European nations and Japan, with only 40 per 1,000. Leave it to the U.S. though to double the efforts with more than 80 teenage pregnancies per 1,000! This super-power is on par with other nations like Bulgaria, Romania and Belarus. Kudos!

Even simply putting pregnancies aside, this abstinence only education has seemed fruitless if one looks at the number of teenagers who graduate from high school with their virginity still in tact. According to the Center for Disease Control, nearly 80% of Americans become sexually active while still in their teens. This number has steadily increased through history. In 1982, 64% of teens had engaged in sexual activity; in 1968s Summer of Love, it was a mere 42%. Clearly, abstinence only education has been working (poorly).

Also available on a linked page from Red Letter Rebels, (www.m2l.org) is an FAQ which is just a wealth of information! It was quite funny reading it after taking this Composition class last semester that really turned me on to how much language can be used to manipulate a persons thoughts. I luckily have that advantage reading the site but unfortunately your average high schooler lacks the depth and maturity to realize these sorts of subtleties of language. My personal favorite was this:

Q: Is oral sex safe?
A: Oral sex can and does spread STDs

Is it just me, or does this sound like something from Mean Girls? "At your age, you're going to have a lot of urges. You're going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you will get chlamydia... and die."

One in three sexually-active teenagers in Florida get an STD. Play safe kids. Wait until you are all grown-up and an adult; then there is only a one in four chance of becoming infected with an STD. And 25% is a lot safer than 33%!

Maybe instead of telling kids that sex is a naughty, naughty thing until you have a ring on your finger, we should be changing their attitudes towards why they should have sex. Little is done in schools, on T.V. and in magazines to differentiate (especially for girls) the differences between their sexual desires and their desires for attention. I think Ariel Levy (who I credit for the information provided) sums it up perfectly when she says:

If you process this information through the average adolescent mental computer, you end up with a printout that reads something like this: Girls have to be hot. Girls who aren't hot probably need breast implants. Once a girl is hot, she should be as close to naked as possible at all times. Guys should like it. Don't have sex.

In conclusion, despite all the Real World hookups, skirts so short they could be belts, the increased number of girls getting breast implants as high school graduation gifts, the ease of accessibility and 'anonymity' afforded by the internet and the treasures that come along with that and the images of sex (and the pervading idea that this sexuality equals power and success) that saturates the everyday of the average American, sex is actually awful, dirty and will ruin your life unless you are married. So you better not be gay either, because then you'll never be able to have good, wholesome sex unless you move to California or Massachusetts.

For those of you fearing for your soul and your genitals and wish to repent, please feel free to purchase your sexual salvation through Soul Virgins.

This one goes out to LJ Simon--

2008-06-05T02:28:44Z

You know what I'm pretty stoked about???
a

Oh, also

2008-05-28T00:25:27Z

I've got lots of ideas floating around in my head of things I want to write. However, I want to wait and break in my brand-new fly ass laptop with them.

Get excited, they're coming soon.

Good Old Fashion Lover Boy

2008-05-28T00:23:52Z

When I'm not with you
I think of you always
I miss those long hot summer nights
I miss you
When I'm not with you
Think of me always
Love you - love you.
---
Hey boy, come home soon.
xoxo.

Oh Man

2008-04-11T05:49:14Z

Dear Pandora.com,
WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF HAVING A SPICE GIRLS STATION EARLIER!?
So much love,
Carleigh

HELP!

2008-03-23T22:45:03Z

So I'm working on this project for my Composition pedagogy class, and between now and Thursday the 27th, I'm going to be posting in this other journal 2literate2quit about what I believe literacy is and what it means to me and a bunch of other crazy stuff.

What would be ideal is if you, dear reader, would be kind enough to log onto your lj's, or reply with an anonymous comment (with a name so I can be so pleased!)

The main point of my using a blog is because 1) My initial idea totally fell apart last week & i needed a new solution asap and 2) I think that blogs are an untapped resource when it comes to the classroom. Be a part of the movement!

Excuse me...

2008-03-21T02:58:11Z

....but when can I go to Europe?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-02-14T05:55:05Z

Remember that one episode of Simpsons with the Michael Jackson guy who sings a song for Lisa from Bart for Lisa's birthday?? Okay...keep that thought in your head....

SHARI, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHARI!!!

GET WARM, GIRL!
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3!