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    <description><![CDATA[name is kristen. i like friendly people as long as they don't talk too much. i like museums, music, art, and other cultural things. i like kicking back with a cold one and relaxing with family and friends. i like pina coladas, getting caught in the rain. not really, i just like living, and right now, all things good.]]></description>
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      <title>buck o' five</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[why do we expect freedom and rights for ourselves and not for others? so they believe a different way, as long as their beliefs don't threaten my life or liberty, why the hell should i care? i wouldn't want someone else telling me how to live, why should i expect any different from them? sometimes i want to crack open that thick skull of yours and expose you to the world around you, forcing you to either embrace or just close yourself off completely. because you are never going to change someone else's mind about how to live, so being judgmental of them accomplishes nothing. it just makes your own life a little harder to deal. if that makes me a hippie, so it goes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:14:14 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>the greatness of d.f.w.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[killing time at work reading david foster wallace infinite jest (not for easy summer reading). i found this particular excerpt enjoyable and thought i would share:

'I'm not denying anything. I'm simply asking you to define "alcoholic." How can you ask me to attribute to myself a given term if you refuse to define the term's meaning? I've been a reasonably successful personal-injury attorney for sixteen years, and except for that one ridiculous so-called seizure at the Bar Association dinner this spring and that clot of a judge banning me from his courtroom - and let me just say that I can support my contention that the man masturbates under his robe behind the bench with detailed corroboration from both colleagues and Circuit Court laundry personnel - with the exception of less than a handful of incidents I've held my liquor and my head as high as many a taller advocate. Believe you me. How old are you, young lady? I am not in denial so to speak about anything empirical and objective. Am I having pancreas problems? Yes. Do I have trouble recalling certain intervals in the Kemp and Limbaugh administrations? No contest. Is there a spot of domestic turbulence surrounding my intake? Why yes there is. Did I experience yes some formication in detox? I did. I have no problem forthrightly admitting things I can grasp. Formicate, with an m, yes. But what is this you demand I admit? Is it denial to delay signature until the vocabulary of the contract is clear to all parties so bound? Yes, yes, you don't follow what I mean here, good! And you're reluctant to proceed without clarification. I rest. I cannot deny what I don't understand. This is my position.'
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:27:10 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>coffee and thunderstorms</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I love a cup of coffee in the morning after a good rain. Even a crappy cup of coffee does wonders for the hangover from last night's midnight frivolity. I love that phrase, "midnight frivolity." I found it while searching info about Stonehenge and how the ancient people who built it made it as a calendar, but that star worshipers today will use it for ceremonies and rituals. The web site was warning anyone trespassing that "midnight frivolity could land you in trouble." I love stealing phrases like that, since I can't come up with any of my own.

Rain is really a blessing, especially since the city of Lubbock decided to build an unnecessary highway through town, and before consulting any blueprints or documents on the layout of the city's utilities, suddenly discovered that a major water line is in the path of their destruct/construction. So water for the city is limited, and living in a desert that is no surprise. We might have to result to boiling water. I feel like I'm stuck in a bad twilight zone. You can't live anywhere anymore without having problems of some kind. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:28:42 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>killing time in DFW airport, May 17, 2007, 4:43 pm</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[i've realized that i believe in what i can't see because i can't believe what i see. our physical being can't be trusted. we only see color because of the cones in our eyes that allow us to see red, blue and yellow. but what about other animals that have 4 different cone cells. what other colors do they see? what else are we missing out on because of our physical limitations? i had a friend once that was colorblind and thought that rainbows were a myth because he had never seen one. he didn't believe what he couldn't see. doesn't mean it's not there. so i don't trust what i see, but what i feel. that holds more truth to me. i have to go deeper, to the soul, and find out the truth for myself. call it intuition, a sixth sense, whatever. i've only been able to trust this. when my eyes lie, i trust in this.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 21:48:07 -0700</pubDate>
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