Random Cougar Life
I like feministing.com
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I was browsing their archives, here is an excerpt from an older article.
“It’s amazing what folks come up with these days to disparage feminism. We’re blamed for girls being “slutty,” appropriating feminine colors (!), and killing babies as a way to get off. (And of course, much, much more.)
But this article is one of my faves to date. The headline alone is priceless: “Feminism’s legacy: YouTube catfights”"
Definitions I think you should consider
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PORNOGRAPHY: Material that combines sex and/or the exposure of genitals with abuse or degradation in a manner that appears to endorse, condone, or encourage such behavior.
EROTICA: Sexually suggestive or arousing material that is free of sexism, racism, and homophobia, and respectful of all human beings and animals portrayed.
The above definitions are from “Pornography As a Cause of Rape”, by Dr. Diana Russell, PhD, which is a book excerpt from “Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm”.
I find those definitions to be apt. Dave dismissed them out of hand and offered me a dictionary when I said “Well, this is an issue we do not agree on.” Dave said “They are different words for the same thing.”
Work
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Cable internet is dumb. But we can’t get DSL 
Anyways, the little job I have in the mall is going pretty good. Its fun and easy and since its family owned there isn’t any stupid bureaucracy to deal with. It is a huge change from all my other low paying jobs, which sucked hard core. I hate inefficient management, and systems and inefficiency in general. It just makes me frustrated when I see a way that something could be made better and it can’t be done. When I worked at that cafe, we couldn’t cater to the customers because we weren’t allowed to buy jalepeno peppers or limes!! So much more money could have been made if we had that!! ARG.
Anyways, go coogs.
weekendinoneminute (okaymorelikethree)
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The chemistry department had a mixer Friday and we went, it was pretty fun. They had a fish fry so we got to have some pretty good fried fish and hush puppies. And various snacks and such. We took home some french fries and some dip, its pretty good stuff. Saturday we had a sushi party, we hosted it so it was cheap for us! We just provided the sushi rice and cucumbers, and I made some miso soup. I found a site where I could get supplies for miso hella cheap. Asianfoodgrocer . com if you are interested. We had some imitation crab meat and Dave used it to make a spicy crab meat saucy thing. Japanese mayo, chili paste and the meat blended up. It was really good! We watched 300 with the riff tracks and after we played trivial pursuit, genius edition. It was pretty funny, since all of us are awful at sports. But my team got the shittiest question!! “Who killed Cleopatra” the answer was freaking “Cleopatra”!!! That is such B.S.!!! I was mad arg >:( Anyways, we got to hang out with Kim and Byron, whom we never get to see so it was pretty awesome. They brought some pretty sweet beers too, left over from their beer tasting party. Friday I worked at a place in the mall, its called Museum Earth. It sells all sorts of random stuff, new age stuff and jewelry and fossils and all sorts of stuff. Its a part time job for minimum wage, but at least its income! I’m interviewing *again* at Applebee’s tomorrow at 2, but I *think* this is to set down my schedule. Supposedly I should be hearing back from the place where Diana works this week too, but that has been all month. They are a startup net business and aren’t very organized though. Dave thought he had a full scholarship, but it is only partial, and he didn’t apply for financial aid this semester, since he thought he didn’t need it. The scholarship pays for all the fees and stuff, which cuts his tuition in half about, but he still had to make a payment or be dropped. Well he has to pay about $1600 for the semester, but because of some bureaucratic bullshit he had to pay a third of the WHOLE THING, $1300! AND THEN because he didn’t file the form for a PAYMENT PLAN he had to pay $300 MORE!! We have like, no money now, it super pissed both of us off. We are lucky, because Dave’s dad is going to pay our rent and bills so we don’t get evicted, and my parents lent us some money for groceries. But Dave doesn’t get payed until *September* and I just now got a job. It is such anger making!! I also don’t know if Dave is even eligible for financial aid, since his dad is still claiming him as a dependant on tax forms. I suppose since his dad is aiding us we don’t actually need it, but I think he’d rather not rely on his dad. I certainly would prefer if we both could be financially independent. But I suppose that is how it goes.
Kthnxbai!
(I just noticed I used emoticons as sentence ending punctuation. That is kinda weird?)
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I was a little down when I wrote my last post. My mom kept reminding me how whatever I do is never good enough, and even though I had a job I needed more, because no one would use me to teach. But I took a bath and Dave and I watched some Star Trek: Enterprise and I felt loads better. I’m really quite excited about substitute teaching, I think it would be very rewarding and maybe even fun. I’m quite looking forward to it, I am a little bit scared though. It is a huge responsibility, and I want to make sure I do a good job. I don’t want to be like my crappy substitute for high school chemistry. Though I still think it is bullshit that the teacher quit in the middle of the first semester for another job. I feel he had a responsibility to finish out the semester and ensure his students were taught by someone that knew the subject, not someone reading from a textbook and assuming it is all correct.
Anyways, I’m starting off on half days since I haven’t worked in a while, and I want to make sure I don’t get burned out in a few weeks. Once I get adjusted to the half days I plan on going to full days but maybe only four days a week. Maybe not, it depends on how well I’m doing. I’m going to turn in my recommendation letter and copy of my passport this evening and hopefully I will have how to get observation hours explained to me better. They said you just take the form to the school you want to observe, but that just seems so simple! I’m sure it is really that simple and I’m just making everything complicated for no reason.
Anyways, I’m pretty excited about this. I figure also there is no point in keeping business things anonymous since public schools operate under transparency. And if you really had a mind to, you could make a good guess about which school I’m subbing at and so forth by looking at the public records and seeing who needed a sub for x class for t hours or days. Anyways, I think I will try to convince Dave to let me play the Xbox while he showers. He is smelly manly man right now.
a job
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Well, I went to orientation for substitute teaching yesterday. As long as I get two reference forms filled out, and a photocopy of my passport I have a job. I don’t know if I want this job, it is a big responsibility. And it also feels like I’m settling for less. I know it is an important job, and I will do my best at it, but I didn’t get my degree to teach. I got my degree so I could go out and test soils and air quality and make sure everything is safe, and if it isn’t to clean it up.
There was also a job fair thing for Barnes and Nobles and Target today that I sort of forgot about, and then my mom reminded me and made sure I knew I’d probably never work the substitute job anyways so I ought to go get another job. I was kind of happy that I had finally found work, even if I still need to finish my application and do class room observation hours for it. But it isn’t enough, I have to be reminded that I’m worthless and even if I get hired I won’t get worked, so I might as well have three jobs. I guess I could have gone to the job fair, but it just made me so depressed thinking about it. I’ve been to job fairs, and I’ve been interviewed, and I’ve even made it to the final interview process. But I’ve never been hired. The only job I can get is one that is taking everyone that applies that isn’t a sex offender. I feel so useless. Ugh.
hm.
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Well, it turns out that I got to get out of the house last night after all. When Dave finished his cleaning up of his playlist, it was too late to hang out with Kim and Byron, but we went over to Nathaniel and Jerry’s place. He even picked up some beers for me! I got my Young’s Double Chocolate Stout, which I lurve, and I tried some berry wheat beer, which was pretty good. Very, very sweet, but not bad. Over all we had fun. Dave wanted to watch t.v. shows all night but I convinced him to play games with us. At least I think I convinced him, I might have bothered him until he decided to play, I’m not sure. I just don’t like going over to someones place to hang out and then spend five hours watching shows. Anyways, it was fun! We played Apples to Apples and such and so on. I had a good time!
keh.
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Actually, it looks like we aren’t going to pint night after all. Dave is reorganizing his playlist and doesn’t want to drive. I wanted to go so I wouldn’t have to be the designated driver, so there isn’t any point in my going alone.
I also can’t find anything to do online that I haven’t read or looked at 100 times already, or that doesn’t piss me off. Not sure what I’m going to do tonight, cooking takes too much energy and I don’t seem to have much of that for some reason. I slept till noonish and ate pretty good, but I don’t feel like cooking. weird.
eh.
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I’m feeling slightly better now. But it still sucks that no one is calling me back, and kind of pisses me off. It’s been weeks since my first interview and not even a call to tell me it isn’t going to work out. If they didn’t want to hire me why the hell did they tell me they were gonna get back to me within X days and then not follow through? Its so disrespectful and unprofessional. Ugh.
Also I have a head ache
And maybe Dave and I are goin’ to the Sauce’ tonight, and maybe I won’t be the designated driver! They have some really good brews, and I really love their beer cheese soup. My dad gave me some cash while they were up here, and I can buy my own soup tonight! Dave doesn’t have to waste his money on my food! Yey! We will probably meet Kim and Byron there too, and hang out with them and some of their buds. It is always pretty fun when we go, except once when it was really really loud and we couldn’t find seats. But oh well.
