Sunday, May 31, 2015
happiness, a little while ago
One time I was fretting about a relative working a job on a holiday and then I got the message that says I love my job, I get to work in the back on a project, listening to Cornflake Girl and other really good music, and seriously, I was like, "This is happiness."
Yeeehaaaw
Got stuff accomplished! Taking a break to goof off on the 'net!
GOOF GOOF GOOG OOFOORRRRROROROROROOROROROROOROROROORORORORR
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| You rock, blog from 2006 |
To do
Get work done
http://www.theonion.com/article/report-underpaid-migrant-laborers-working-18-hours-50531
or procrastinate
http://www.theonion.com/video/seven-male-role-models-every-child-needs-healthy-u-50487
or cater to the neighbor's cat...
http://www.theonion.com/article/report-underpaid-migrant-laborers-working-18-hours-50531
or procrastinate
http://www.theonion.com/video/seven-male-role-models-every-child-needs-healthy-u-50487
or cater to the neighbor's cat...
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| http://thechive.com/2014/09/02/these-cats-have-something-to-confess-30-photos/ |
Whoops
This is what I thought was happening:
An older teenage boy appeared to sit a small child with long hair on the edge of a wall where there was a steep, scary drop. I was walking right towards the situation. I got a sense of dread and hoped that it would not continue, but it did. The older person kept the child there, as the child was squirming to get off, and the older person kept asking, "Do you want to fall? Do you want to fall?" I was hoping this would not continue, as memories of bullying by older boys flashed through my mind, but instead, it escalated as I walked towards them. (I had to, to get to the entrance.)
So I asked this "teenage boy" if "he" was threatening to push the child off the wall and the person responded, "Yes I am. Mind your own fucking business." I was also told not to butt into their business, and I should try having my own children. That's when I began to realize I was probably talking to the kid's mom.
Eeeeee....yeah...So, maybe threatening to make your kid fall off a wall is an aggressive parenting technique? It looked horrifying.
I don't have my own kids, but I did have a younger sibling that I was kind of "in charge of" a lot, as our parents had to be away for long periods of time when we were growing up, and I thought to myself, did I ever think it was a good idea to sit her on the edge of a wall and threaten to make her fall?
No...
It was a strange encounter.
An older teenage boy appeared to sit a small child with long hair on the edge of a wall where there was a steep, scary drop. I was walking right towards the situation. I got a sense of dread and hoped that it would not continue, but it did. The older person kept the child there, as the child was squirming to get off, and the older person kept asking, "Do you want to fall? Do you want to fall?" I was hoping this would not continue, as memories of bullying by older boys flashed through my mind, but instead, it escalated as I walked towards them. (I had to, to get to the entrance.)
So I asked this "teenage boy" if "he" was threatening to push the child off the wall and the person responded, "Yes I am. Mind your own fucking business." I was also told not to butt into their business, and I should try having my own children. That's when I began to realize I was probably talking to the kid's mom.
Eeeeee....yeah...So, maybe threatening to make your kid fall off a wall is an aggressive parenting technique? It looked horrifying.
I don't have my own kids, but I did have a younger sibling that I was kind of "in charge of" a lot, as our parents had to be away for long periods of time when we were growing up, and I thought to myself, did I ever think it was a good idea to sit her on the edge of a wall and threaten to make her fall?
No...
It was a strange encounter.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
There is a thing that life does
which is this: it shapes your view point, based on certain circumstances...and at this time, it seems to me that even if I did do those things society would praise me for doing, such as getting married & pregnant, that is not the point...for even if I did, what about people who do not have those options? I mean, at this time it seems to me that marriage is a choice, but getting pregnant is less so...there are many women who would have and believed they could and tried and spent $$$ and yet it did not happen for then... Why should their experiences be ignored and denied?
And fertility also seems connected to our food system, to me. We need food to be fertile. So if we are always turning a blind eye to a system where some (too many) workers are forgotten and mistreated (and perhaps even in some cases exposed to pesticides that could cause infertility) while we just eat the food without thinking about it, how is that going to help fix anything???
And fertility also seems connected to our food system, to me. We need food to be fertile. So if we are always turning a blind eye to a system where some (too many) workers are forgotten and mistreated (and perhaps even in some cases exposed to pesticides that could cause infertility) while we just eat the food without thinking about it, how is that going to help fix anything???
Folding laundry
If you google images of folding laundry, it would appear that attractive women and girl children are awesome at it and they also love doing it.
Males either don't do it or are just not very good at it.
Except for Sheldon.
(Big Bang Theory)
Males either don't do it or are just not very good at it.
Except for Sheldon.
(Big Bang Theory)
Friday, May 29, 2015
boomerang?
wow, can't believe how much this is going round in my mind again...
was talking to someone who tells me about how engineers at her work ask her when she's going to have kids and it's annoying and she wishes they'd stop...
why pressure people to have kids? why tell them they're selfish if they don't or they'll never know true love if they don't?
why is that cruelty okay? why is that so?
listen you never know if the person is on the fence, wouldn't want to, or would love to have kids but seems to find it difficult for any number physical/emotional/financial reasons...
so consider this
would you really go up to a legless person and say,
"oh, you just will never experience true joy in life unless you run a marathon on those two legs you were born with, just like meeee...I'm am sooo genetically gifted....you will never know truuuuue joooooy....like meeeeee...."
because, if you'd do that, you're probably the type of person who'd kick a homeless person on the street and say "get a job" just to feel great about yourself, and that's just sick
yeah
there's something off about saying that
that's why I am boomeranging
was talking to someone who tells me about how engineers at her work ask her when she's going to have kids and it's annoying and she wishes they'd stop...
why pressure people to have kids? why tell them they're selfish if they don't or they'll never know true love if they don't?
why is that cruelty okay? why is that so?
listen you never know if the person is on the fence, wouldn't want to, or would love to have kids but seems to find it difficult for any number physical/emotional/financial reasons...
so consider this
would you really go up to a legless person and say,
"oh, you just will never experience true joy in life unless you run a marathon on those two legs you were born with, just like meeee...I'm am sooo genetically gifted....you will never know truuuuue joooooy....like meeeeee...."
because, if you'd do that, you're probably the type of person who'd kick a homeless person on the street and say "get a job" just to feel great about yourself, and that's just sick
yeah
there's something off about saying that
that's why I am boomeranging
Thursday, May 28, 2015
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I can't even believe this EXISTS
"The women shrug. It is our tradition, they say. It's what our parents and grandparents did, so it's what we do. But away from the group, as she has her picture taken in her miserable chhaupadi shed, Nandakala is more frank. 'Of course I hate it,' she tells the photographer. In the winter it's cold. In the summer it's hot. The restrictions are stifling and unfair. 'Why should the gods punish us? Why should women be punished? But what the hell can we do?'"
~~~
"Rishi Panchami enrages many educated Nepali women. It's not so much the superstition but the legitimacy that the government gives it by providing a holiday that declares women to be dirty and polluting."
~~~
"The problem isn't men like him, or traditional healers. 'We can change them,; says Madan Kumar Majhi, Kabi's cousin and a member of the Chhaupadi Minimization Committee. 'But it's the women who are the barrier.' The mothers and mothers-in-law are the worst. A female community health volunteer tells the room how she pretends to be menstruating just so her mother-in-law starts shaking and trembling and pretending to be sickened by chhaupadi. 'But when I am actually menstruating, I touch her and nothing happens.' She laughs, but still she has to observe the taboos."
~~~
"It is an irony of chhaupadi that talking about periods is easier in Nepal than in many other countries."
~~~
"Sarita came to Dhaka four years ago, and as soon as she started work, she managed her period as everyone else did, by using scraps of cloth from the factory floor."
http://jezebel.com/what-life-is-like-when-getting-your-period-means-you-ar-1542273510
"The women shrug. It is our tradition, they say. It's what our parents and grandparents did, so it's what we do. But away from the group, as she has her picture taken in her miserable chhaupadi shed, Nandakala is more frank. 'Of course I hate it,' she tells the photographer. In the winter it's cold. In the summer it's hot. The restrictions are stifling and unfair. 'Why should the gods punish us? Why should women be punished? But what the hell can we do?'"
~~~
"Rishi Panchami enrages many educated Nepali women. It's not so much the superstition but the legitimacy that the government gives it by providing a holiday that declares women to be dirty and polluting."
~~~
"The problem isn't men like him, or traditional healers. 'We can change them,; says Madan Kumar Majhi, Kabi's cousin and a member of the Chhaupadi Minimization Committee. 'But it's the women who are the barrier.' The mothers and mothers-in-law are the worst. A female community health volunteer tells the room how she pretends to be menstruating just so her mother-in-law starts shaking and trembling and pretending to be sickened by chhaupadi. 'But when I am actually menstruating, I touch her and nothing happens.' She laughs, but still she has to observe the taboos."
~~~
"It is an irony of chhaupadi that talking about periods is easier in Nepal than in many other countries."
~~~
"Sarita came to Dhaka four years ago, and as soon as she started work, she managed her period as everyone else did, by using scraps of cloth from the factory floor."
http://jezebel.com/what-life-is-like-when-getting-your-period-means-you-ar-1542273510
Surprisingly great
SALAD!
spinach leaves
kidney beans
crumble corn chips
chicken
salsa
2 teeny very fresh-tasting green jalapenos (from an old plant that is dying but still producing weirdly shaped fruit and yum, they really made it)
spinach leaves
kidney beans
crumble corn chips
chicken
salsa
2 teeny very fresh-tasting green jalapenos (from an old plant that is dying but still producing weirdly shaped fruit and yum, they really made it)
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
That thing again
I was thinking about that thing again, that many people say, or have said:
"You'll never know true love until you become a mother."
Giant swathes of society promote that message, ignoring how this attitude contributes to the pain of many people, both men and women, for not living up to knowing "what true love is."
And suppose you are a parent...what if one of your own children has any problems becoming parents themselves? Have you thought of how saying that can impact them? Now you've just added extra baggage to an already painful problem.
This writer, who does not have children, and chooses not to attend church on Mother's Day, notes that she was "able to stand up" the "one and only time" she was pregnant a few weeks before she lost the baby. She has some thoughts on what she'd say if she "were the pastor on Mother's Day."
http://www.uscatholic.org/life/everyday-spirituality/2011/04/mother-without-child
There's also this to consider:
"Guatemala stands out in Latin America and the Caribbean, the only region in the world where births to girls under 15 rose between 1990 to 2011, according to the United Nations."
http://news.yahoo.com/guatemala-trying-keep-girls-growing-too-fast-120001982.html
Of course, many people don't even seem to have the time to consider the lives of those whose work provides them with food, clothing and more.
So it is not surprising that they also are not thinking about women who struggle, either with infertility, or with becoming mothers at the age of 14, when they make blanket statements about knowing or not knowing what "true love is" until the magical gift of motherhood happens.
But maybe that can change.
"You'll never know true love until you become a mother."
Giant swathes of society promote that message, ignoring how this attitude contributes to the pain of many people, both men and women, for not living up to knowing "what true love is."
And suppose you are a parent...what if one of your own children has any problems becoming parents themselves? Have you thought of how saying that can impact them? Now you've just added extra baggage to an already painful problem.
This writer, who does not have children, and chooses not to attend church on Mother's Day, notes that she was "able to stand up" the "one and only time" she was pregnant a few weeks before she lost the baby. She has some thoughts on what she'd say if she "were the pastor on Mother's Day."
was
able to stand up one year, long ago, in another church, the one and
only time I was pregnant - See more at:
http://www.uscatholic.org/life/everyday-spirituality/2011/04/mother-without-child#sthash.44rBgDW5.dpuf
http://www.uscatholic.org/life/everyday-spirituality/2011/04/mother-without-child
I
have decided what I would say if I were the pastor on Mother’s Day. I
would ask the mothers to stand, because they deserve applause, by all
means. But after they were seated, I would ask all those women to stand
who are not mothers. And I would say something like this:
Some of you are not mothers by choice.
- See more at: http://www.uscatholic.org/life/everyday-spirituality/2011/04/mother-without-child#sthash.44rBgDW5.dpuf
Some of you are not mothers by choice.
- See more at: http://www.uscatholic.org/life/everyday-spirituality/2011/04/mother-without-child#sthash.44rBgDW5.dpuf
have decided what I would say if I were the pastor on Mother’s Day. I
would ask the mothers to stand, because they deserve applause, by all
means. But after they were seated, I would ask all those women to stand
who are not mothers. And I would say something like this:
Some of you are not mothers by choice.
- See more at: http://www.uscatholic.org/life/everyday-spirituality/2011/04/mother-without-child#sthash.44rBgDW5.dpuf
Some of you are not mothers by choice.
- See more at: http://www.uscatholic.org/life/everyday-spirituality/2011/04/mother-without-child#sthash.44rBgDW5.dpuf
There's also this to consider:
"Guatemala stands out in Latin America and the Caribbean, the only region in the world where births to girls under 15 rose between 1990 to 2011, according to the United Nations."
http://news.yahoo.com/guatemala-trying-keep-girls-growing-too-fast-120001982.html
Of course, many people don't even seem to have the time to consider the lives of those whose work provides them with food, clothing and more.
So it is not surprising that they also are not thinking about women who struggle, either with infertility, or with becoming mothers at the age of 14, when they make blanket statements about knowing or not knowing what "true love is" until the magical gift of motherhood happens.
But maybe that can change.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Watchin' an old movie
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| Purple Rrrrain... |
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Don't listen to them Prince...in a few years, Foo Fighters will make your raunchy song into a big hit...something about the Apollonia 6 number makes me think of working in a college cafeteria. I don't know why! Cereal in plastic bins. Spaghetti toppings. Hot Potato Bar.
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Y: "So they're the Apollonia 6. There's only 3 of them. Is that a joke about their boobs?"
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Ironic statement of the day
"Agricultural workers are at the bottom of the food chain"
~ http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-solomon-farm-worker-housing-20150515-story.html
~ http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-solomon-farm-worker-housing-20150515-story.html
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| http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201305031630/d |
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| http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201305031630/d |
My healthy, organic, immune-system boosting food
came from Mexico.
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| http://www.peoplesworld.org/u-s-call-to-support-striking-farmworkers-in-baja-california-mexico/
"In the case of San QuintÃn, about 80 percent of the workers are
indigenous people. Some do not speak Spanish but only Mixteco and other
indigenous languages."
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