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well, lexis/nexis seems to have every article ever written in the national review or the weekly standard about gay marriage. other than that, not so much. i thought i would be dealing with TOO MUCH information. gah.

i am sitting in front of my computer early on the morning that my final is due, doing just about anything i can think of to avoid writing this second essay. western conceptions of human rights, national law versus political expediency? really? because i don't think i have anything even vaguely new or revealing to say on the subject. locke blah blah blah. grotius blah. realism blahbity blah. human self interest poot.

i hate having to lock my kittens in the bathroom. i hate even more that the room, since it's so small and the litter box plays such a predominant part in its decor with only some ventilation, now smells like cat piss. i hate the smell of cat piss. it reminds me of whistle and fidget dying. but i hate more the pitiful mews that bumble is making from inside the bathroom. having simi in there quiets him down a lot, and simi doesn't really seem to mind being in there that much. (i think i'll let her out at night, though, to give her a break. after all, she didn't do anything wrong.) the guy from kitty kind says i have to be strong and not relent. but i can't do a whole week of this! of keeping him in a bathroom? that's so sad!

i finished my midterm. unfortunately, the answer that's supposed to be the longest is the shortest. i think i'm missing some major point, but i can't see what it is. the republic of cyprus is the de jure state on the island. it's recognized as such by everybody and his brother. it has a stable constitutional democracy and openly welcomes the turkish cypriots back to the country and has no apparent pretentions to enosis with greece. why the fuck shouldn't it be in the EU? because turkey isn't? but that's a whole other issue. whatever. it's short but it's all i've got. the exam's supposed to be under 3000 words and mine is 2700. that'll do, pig. that'll do.

Prepare to be bored...

Based on the portions of the Treaty of Guarantee provided for us, I cannot find that Makarios was in breach of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee when he proposed the amendments to the constitution which would have changed the proportional representation of the Turkish Cypriot minority. Specifically, the responsibilities delgated to the Republic of Cyprus under the Treaty regard only the unlawfulness of a union with another state or promotion of partition of the island. Although the treaty chides the RoC to have "respect for its constitution," amendments to the constiution passed lawfully would not violate international law and therefore are strictly within the municipal constraints of the law of the RoC itself. It is unclear in the facts as given whether the amendments actually passed or were merely threatened before the Turks quit the government. However, a case can be made, from a monist standpoint, that reducing the participatory rights of the Turkish Cypriots would have (or did) invoke the eye of international standard-keepers, in that it deprived the Turks to their right of internal self-determination within the RoC. Were it not for the Treaty of Guarantee, the Turks would have a strong case for external self-determination and statehood. however, the Turks were signatories to the Treaty and Makarios's government, strictly speaking, did not violate the terms of that treaty.

yesterday siobhan, segev, my cousin sam and i went to a taping of the daily show. it was fun except for the long standing-around portions of the afternoon. but sam bought me gummy bears for the wait in line, so that was good. only 2 people behind us in line got in, so it's a good thing sam got there before us to stake out a spot.

jon stewart is so cute! he really is as little as everyone says! for some reason i thought they were exaggerating, but no. i think he's shorter than segev. he just has an enormous head, so that makes him look bigger on tv. and one of the guests they filmed was charlie sheen, who is also a little man. taller than jon stewart, though. but that didn't surprise me since i saw emilio estevez once when i was in LA and he is shetland pony-sized. jon stewart was so adorable during the commercial breaks -- he kept drumming and lip-syncing along with the music they were playing in the studio, and doodling on his little sheet of paper, and periodically throwing his hands in the air and collapsing back in his chair. siobhan and i were giggling like schoolgirls.

and then afterwards i managed to somehow trick sam, who is a pickier eater than i am if you can imagine, into eating thai food. i think my uncle mat should provide me with some type of payment for that. i don't have any idea how i did it.

today i have my TA session, then i have to go down to 96th street and pick up my remaindered drugs, then look into getting a new cell phone and maybe get my eyebrows waxed. oh, and i have to go to the post office and buy stamps, and i need to put in a work order for a new bathroom sink because simi knocked my glass moisturizer bottle into it and cracked it and there's a big ol' hole and the sink is now non-functional.

my observations about the video music awards so far are all drug-related: they keep cutting to snoop dogg laughing stonedly in the audience, and justin timberlake's romance with cameron diaz has certainly fuelled his coke habit.

my sister is coming tomorrow, and dave's surprise birthday party looks to be a bust. no more news.

my show went perfectly. no ther way to describe it. lots of fan support, worked on my on-air chatter, got to joke around with the djs who were on after me, and i FINALLY got to play my perfect "screwed over" soundtrack. all good. and i gave away donnie darko tickets to dale. as soon as i started mentioning them on air, he just started i.m.-ing me "I WIN" over and over. hee hee hee. and i got to be morgan freeman! and talk about fish oils. what a lovely time.

ok, this time the show SHOULD actually happen. if not, i may bust some skulls.

access the show here and enjoy from 2 til 4.

well, guys, officially no show this week. no one from the station ever showed up to unlock the doors, so i cut my losses after an hour and 45 minutes. i don't trust that the key will be back at security tomorrow morning, either, so i'm scotching that option. this makes two weeks i've had to postpone this playlist. but i'm telling you, it's good! next week, hopefully, all will finally go as planned.

ok, folks, i'm off to the radio station. wish me luck and listen in. all the info you need is on the WBAR home page.