Had to post this...

Basically just sums up why I don't go to church and why I don't have many Christian friends:

Top Ten Signs you are a Fundamental Christian:

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

Gross

Everything I have eaten in the last 10 minutes have been rotten. I've come home after a couple of beer and a great conversation with my boyfriend at Ted's Collision, and I somehow decided that it would be a great idea to make a guacamole-pasta sauce-cheese-sour cream wrap. Everything I used was moldy. Even the cake I washed everything down with. I feel really sick and dizzy. But damn. It was a good sandwich.

As promised...

...here are the pictures from the Gala, which proved to be a very fun, successful night with lots of laughs and new friends. Feeling a bit lazy, so the only writing will be the description of the photos. Laaaaaazy.

This is me, Alex and Rachel in that order. This was before the performance in the hot, humid basement of the venue, with 300 other bellydancers. Ew.

This was taken just after our performance, looking obviously full of ourselves cause we did so well.

There are no pictures of us on stage because no flash photography was allowed. Ok, enough for me.

Daaayyy off...

Daaaay off. Daylight come and it's my day off. That's my day off song. Not very impressive, but it gets me excited. I decided to take a day off from my wonderful fulfilling high income job (haha) to find the best apartment my wonderful fulfilling high income job can but (rent) me. It turns out that my salary is considered lower class to the government (who can kiss my lower class ass!) thus resulting in a cheap apartment. So I'm dedicating a full day to search out the best place for the cheapest rent. I already have an appointment tomorrow for a place at Queen and Bathurst, but upon closer speculation, it is really quite small. But I guess I'll have to see for myself. My coordinates for living downtown is from Yonge and Bloor to Bloor and Bathurst, to Bathurst and Queen, and to Queen and Yonge. Yes, I know that's a small section, but I'm determined to find something around there, I will not end up in North York or Scarborough again. So if anyone is around those coordinates tomorrow, give me a call. We'll do lunch like we're important. Oh by the way, my first show went amazing, I truly kicked belly dance ass. I'll upload pictures once my friend from class sends me them.
More later...