We’ve moved!!

I mentioned something about it earlier and everything is finally transferred over.

Thus, I unveil to you the new home of Disgruntled!

http://www.algf.laronmi.net/blog/

Fake Horoscopes

These are horoscopes that I wrote for my school newspaper.

Virgo (August 23 – September 22)
associated with purity and service
+ intelligent, dilligent, analytical, self-sufficient, controlled, orderly, modest
- fussiness, perfectionism, harsh criticism, coldness, hypochondria

Things may be looking bad for you now, but strap yourself in because they’re going to get worse. So your dog got run over and your grandmother died? Well, those are just bumps in the road compared to what’s coming up next.
Beware of the sign Taurus this time around because their hedonistic, lazy nature might just make your fussy, perfectionist head explode.
Lucky Numbers: 13 and 6.

 Taurus (April 20 – May 20)
associated with material pleasure
+ calm, practical, reliable, loyal, affectionate, sensuous, ambitious, determined
- hedonism, laziness, inflexibility, jealousy, antipathy

Everyone is lying to you. While they might be acting nice and wearing those tidy litte smiles, you know the truth. You know that they’re all talking behind your back. That’s okay, though. You’re better than they are. You bleed awesome.
Lucky numbers: 86 and 43.

 Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)
associated with hard work and business affairs
+ ambitious, patient, responsible, stable, trustworthy, shrewd, and persistent
- coldness, conservatism, rigidity, materialism, dullness

You know why your love life has been lacking lately. You’re boring, and more change comes out of a vending machine than out of you. This horrible luck you’ve been having with the opposite sex will continue because you’re hopeless.
Lucky numbers: 98 and 124.

The Blind Leading the Blind to Anarchy

Edited version submitted to Teen Ink.

The Blind Leading the Blind to Anarchy

I have lately become very appalled with my generation, embarrassed to be a part of it.

When I was but a child, my parents instilled in me a sense of respect. “Please” and “thank you” were some of the first words added to my rapidly expanding vocabulary. I addressed adults and authority figures with their proper titles, adding ma’am and sir where necessary. Most of you have had the same experience.

During a slideshow at my school’s annual Veterans’ Day Program, a clip of Bush commending our American armed forces for their sacrifices was greeted with a corus of heckles and boos.

I had thought the basic sense of respect would have stopped many of the students from being so blatantly rude, especially in front of our veterans. I was wrong, though. I apparently put too much faith in the maturity of my generation.

These were high school students, which means that they should have had the maturity to know to respect a figure of authority. This includes the President of the United States, even if we may not agree with him.

Of course, maybe it’s not their fault. After all, we’re growing up in an era where a person will lay the blame on anyone he or she can instead of accepting the consequences of his or her own actions. Nearly an entire generation of parents has let the television and internet raise their children.

So, let’s point the Crucifix at another Satan.

If anyone is more to blame for their own ignorance other than themselves, it would be the corrupt news media filling your head with lies, prejudices, and stereotypes. One of the many problems with my generation is that we don’t think for ourselves anymore. Like sheep, we look for a shepherd to lead us to greener pastures. Unfortunately, we look towards the wrong shepherds. We allow celebrities who are no more mature than we are to acpture our attention and strongly influence the way we think, speak, dress, and act. We look to movies and video games to find solutions to our problems, and we look to a cesspool of baised media to find our stands on current issues.

Sit down and ask yourself this very important: exactly what reasons do I have for not liking George W. Bush? Many of you will probably say that he’s an idiot, that you don’t like him because of the war raging overseas. Unfortunately, you say thisbecause you have allowed the biased, partisan media to educate you instead of doing the research for yourself. Do you homework and you’ll find that Bush isn’t the idiot you think he is. NOt only did he graduate from Yale University with bachelor degree in History, he was also the only president to ever have a master degree from Harvard. During his time in the military, Bush served as a fighter pilot. The position is one of the most highly educated in the military, even today, and every soldier serving in this position must at least have a college degree. To add to this, he flew F16 Bombers, which were the most advanced warcraft for the time and one of the aircraft model that receives the most action today.

As far as his two terms as president go, George W. Bush has done a lot of good things for our country. it’s because of Bush that you can walk the streets safely again, or am I the only one who remembers the child abduction scare a few years ago? Our current president was the one who signed the Amber Alert, which created a system to immediately alert the nation through various media sources when a child goes missing. In January of 2003, he signed the Adam Walsh Protection Act, which requires all convicted sex offenders to register in a national database and update their states (current address and such related things) at least once a month instead of the previous once a year requirement.

Unfortunately, the debauched press corps wouldn’t tell you that good news. All you hear about are his failures and his shortcomings. In fact, this modern devil would make up lies to turn you against your country’s leadership. George W. Bush’s military service in the military has been a subject of a somewhat controversial nature. A journalist serving as a henchmen for the wicked cause of Democratic controlled media claimed to have produced a set of documents that showed a rather cowardly act on the part of our president. These documents were apparently evidence that showed Bush to have skipped his physicals while in the National Guard so they wouldn’t send him to Vietnam.

There’s a reason why that man retired shortly thereafter. One must realize that no one in politics is ever fired. They simply resign.

These documents were proven to be forgeries. It was discovered that they were typed in a font that hadn’t existed during that time period, when documents were still typed up on typewriters or the most basic of word processing programs.

You didn’t hear that in the news. What few of you realize is that you are being led by a group of people are unaccountable for the crimes that they commit against their fellow Americans. Freedom of speech can only be upheld when they stop throwing lies at us. Libel and slander are illegal, but the law haw made no moves to stop the lying devils cleverly disguised as  our good shepherds from committing their acts of defamation and malice.

Are these the people you want to continue to be led by? Will you make the decision for yourself, or will you stay happily nestled within your false belief that whatever the corrupt media tells you must be true?

I won’t tell you that I understand politics, and I won’t pretend to. I simply know what I learned from doing the research that I have done and speaking to those who actually know what they’re talking about.

If you walk away from this article with anything, let it be this: treat soemone with the respect that their position deserves and reserve all judgement of a person’s character for a day when you’re better educated about what they have done and who they are. I have broken free of the spell cast upon my generation by the wolves in sheeps’ clothing. Hopefuly, my fellow Americans and students, you will also be able to think for yourself one day and judge yourself before you heckle anyone.

“An anchorman is a bland, well-coifed TV entertainer who is paid more to read the news that ten reporters are paid to report it.”
- The Cynic’s Dictionary
This will certify that the above work is completely original. Meaghann Elizabeth LeBleu.

Underappreciated.

I need a new audience. I’ve been mulling it over for some time, and I’ve realized that I need to expand beyond the boundaries of my high school newspaper if I am to actually reach someone with my writing. Though I have all these rants and I write all the time, I don’t publish alot of those rants in the paper because the people at my school just don’t appreciate my opinions. They’re too absorbed in what alcohol they’ll be drinking that weekend or who said what about someone else that they aren’t paying any attention to what’s going on the world around them.

My writing should inspire them to think!!

I need people to listen. I need to make a damn difference. Maybe the actual newspaper.

I Have Found My New Home! :)

Actually, I just find myself absolutely enamored with the Student Press Law Center.

If there is anything I nerd over more than Star Wars, is journalism. After all, it is the profession chosen for me by my God. I’ve got the personality for that type of thing.

I think that it is my duty to purge the profession of its bias and lies, to help restore free speech to its once glorious status. As American citizens, we have become complacent and ignorant. We have sat idly by while corrupt leaders have slowly whittled away at our freedom to speech and expression.

I for one, am through with it. Being one of the few left in my generation who still speaks proper English, I feel that my future in America belongs in media.  I have a duty to my fellow citizens to protect their voices in our government and culture when they are too fat to heave themselves up off the couch and do so.

While I grow ever disappointed in my country and its people, I will continue to do what I can to make a difference in hopes that one day, it will have actually been worth it.

P.S.: I’m planning my next editorial right now. I think this one will go over as well as “The Blind Leading the Blind to Anarchy.” I’ll post that later today.

I Met a Famous Author

I know, not one of my more creative titles, but it’ll do.

Anyway, Chris Crutcher came to speak to our creative writing class today. It was awesome. He’s one of those writers who is just as good with his speech as he is with his words.

I read Chinese Handcuffs in preparation for his visit, and I had to think about the book for a while. I decided that I liked it and I would like to read more.

That being said, I actually was able to give him the address to my blog. That means he might actually read it.

I should probably put something good up here. Poo.

Alright, I Give In.

I think that I have reached a point in my life when I can write about the one thing I never see anything about. Thus, the title of this post.

Those involved in my creative writing class the actually read this sad little existence of a blog will know how much I have despised the Natalie Goldberg tapes and her droning, monotonous lectures on memoirs.

Yes, I do plan on writing something that is memoirish to an extent. It will be a combination of essays, creative writing journal entries, and memories of course.

I think it’s about time that people know what Multiple Hereditary Exostoses is and how it affects people. It’s a chapter of my life that I think I’ve left finished for the most part, I just need to write the epilogue.

I am well aware of how ludicrous the previous statement about MHE was as the mutation that I have is a very, very rare occurence–unless you live in Mexico. For some odd reason, a lot of people in South America seem to have it.

Anyways, I digress. I doubt anyone will actually want to read about MHE. It’s not something that people might really take seriously, but it has a deeper affect that most people would realize. Of course, most people just look at the surface.

Maybe that’s why I’m writing this. I need to show that people need to look at the bottom of the pool, not just the pretty water on the top.

I think including my rants and the like in there will help that.

Most of all, I think I need to justify to this world and to myself who I am and why I am that person. After all, I’m going to be famous one day.

And He said, “Let there be Light!”

Yeah, don’t know what provoked that title. I didn’t go to church this morning, and I always feel guilty about that.

Two of the three students in the bible class that I teach on Wednesday nights were saved this morning. To think, I could have been the one that led them to God

Well, congratulations to them. It’s a big thing, especially at such a young age. Raise them up in the way of the Lord and they will not stray from it.

Moving…Maybe

Well, soon, this blog is going to be part of my site that LaLa is so graciously hosting. You’ll get to have penties of fun with that.

Hopefully that will occur soon.

I Am Teh Honored

Yes, the spelling mistake is deliberate. It is the gamer way to use teh when addressing something that is just too awesome.

Anyways, my friend and fellow creative writing classmate Elise has asked to use some of my writing for her speech stuff. That’s awesome. I think that’s awesome.

I actually just want to gather all of my creative writing journals and rants into one happy page and let the anger flow away from me. I actually think the whole journaling process has been very healthy for me, since I would otherwise be bottling up all those angry feelings until one day I jumped over the host stand and killed some poor hapless man just inquiring as to where the bathroom was. You know, it’s not like they don’t walk right by it! It’s got a frickin’ neon orange glowy sign that says “RESTROOMS,” but I’m apparently just too observant.

See what I mean?

Best Answer, Biatches!

I answered a question on Yahoo! Answers and the person who asked the question chose mine for best answer bitches. I feel strangely accomplished. How sad.

Go figure it was a question about Windows. ><

 My Yahoo! Answers moment of glory.

Wasn’t There a War Going On?

It’s still pissing me off that the most newsworthy items of the week have been Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears.

Alright, Anna Nicole Smith is DEAD. She’s been dead for well over a week now. I think it’s time her fifteen minutes of fame ended and you move on to the fact that our soldiers and DYING IN A WAR!

Britney Spears shaved her head. That’s all that needs be said on it. She did something crazy and stupid AGAIN. Why does everyone care so much? The baseball team at my school shaved their heads once because they made playoffs. Cancer patients lose their hair because the chemo. Some people are just bald because they’re old. Hair loss it common. It happens.

Last I checked, we have thousands of troops marching around in a foreign country to protect our freedoms. I thought that was newsworthy, but apparently it’s not. We have thousands of people dying of genocide in Darfur. That’s not top news either. Hell, there are hundreds of thousands of people living and dying on the streets but we have to focus all of our attention on Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears.

Way to go America. You’re the greatest.

Oh, Motivation! Where Art Thou?

I can’t really seem to getting anything concrete going lately. Like now, I could probably be doing a million more productive things than writing another blog post today. Unfortunately, as much as I’m screaming at myself to do so, I just can’t get out of this damned computer chair.

I know of one reason as to why I’m so damn lazy this week:

IT’S COLD!!!

It was 30-something degrees this morning when I went to wait for the bus and it’s supposed to be 27 tomorrow! Better yet, it’s going to be 22 tonight. I live in the armpit of the United States! It’s humid, moist, and it smells bad.

IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE 22 GODDAMNED DEGREES OUTSIDE!

I’m going to go write fake horoscopes now.

Every Now and Then

It’s rare that I stumble across a story in the news that plugs in the life support keeping my faith in humanity alive.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/14/shubert.hospital/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

According to this, the staff of this hospital hasn’t been paid fully in nearly a year, but they still keep their hospital running as best they could. In fact, the doctors that were getting paid higher than the other gave up some of their wages so the poorer staff members could get the money they needed to support themselves and their families.

I can’t imagine that hospital charges people a hell of a lot. If they do, they don’t expect to get any money back. After all, more than half of Palestinians live in poverty.

 I suppose it takes a special breed of people to keep going under those conditions. I doubt you’ll find any hospital in the United States doing that. We just wish our doctors were that awesome. I mean, we have such advanced medical technology, but we pay out the ass for it.

That’s why I’m waiting for some sort of vaccine against my appendix exploding and my tonsils dying. I can’t get insurance, and I’m not paying them money to cut me, especially not that much money.

Hundreds, thousands of dollars to remove an organ that doesn’t even have a use anymore.

Thanks, Uncle Sam and Ronald Reagan, for making my health care impossible to obtain.

Is it over yet?

I worked a five hour shift at work yesterday. I usually use this long period of time in which I do nothing to catch up on the news because they always have at least one tv on FOX news. Unfortunately, the news was gripped with the death of Anna Nicole Smith.

It’s living proof–well, I can’t say living proof–that everyone’s a saint when they die. Few speak ill of the dead, but everyone is free game when they’re alive.

How horrible. We should change the old saying.

If you can’t say anything nice, wait until the person’s dead and you’ll think of something.

I like that. Pure genius.

Anyway,  I accomplished my greatest achievement last night in the three months that I’ve been working at Buffalo Wild Wings.

We have a set of pagers, things that vibrate and light up whenever your food or table is ready, and the amount of these pagers has been slowly dwindling. Well, a group of assholes (excuse the colorful language) had been waiting there for twenty minutes to get their food, because we use the pagers primarily for takeout orders. When they got their food, they tried to take the pager in retaliation for having waited so long.

And I chased that bastard down! He got halfway across the parking lot, but I caught him! We only have about 8 pagers left, so I was going to be damned before someone stole another one.

I deserve a raise. None of the other hostesses would have chased that guy across the parking lot just for a pager.

I hope that I will be making $6.50 by the end of next month.