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Life and Linketies
Oct. 1st, 2011 06:59 amI might get to go to the zoo tomorrow! Since I'll be home instead of working tomorrow afternoon, I might be going to the zoo with NL and his son. Will need a pretty intense power-nap between when I get home in the morning and when we go, and I bet I'll collapse again soon after, but it should be fun. If it works out, it'll be my first chance to meet NL's son, which I'm excited about (I may not want kids of my own, but I do enjoy having them about to teach and read to and explain things to).
Also, I did get my shit together this week and get some financial stuff sorted out that was hanging over my head. That's a big relief, although it does mean things will be tighter for me for a while. Now I just need to further get my shit together and finish my bedroom, which has been at the same point for the past month. Oops.
Oh, and although I accomplished nothing else during my "weekend", I did teach both Wednesday and Thursday night. Nurse Practitioner students, and I generally love working with them. All four students were pretty great, so it was happy and good.
Also, we'll have Amy's pug Bella tomorrow night again, so it works out well that I'll be home anyway.
OK, time for linketies, and Hogfather, and maybe a nice roast beef sandwich (I have a small loaf of fresh-baked french bread from one of the bakers, a little wheel of brie from the cheese vendor, and a rather ridiculous quantity of rare roast beef, because the deli vendor offered me a deal). I already ate my marinated artichoke salad, but still have teriyaki mushrooms and a half-dozen of the world's most awesome lemon bars, too.
Mmmm-tasty. Slices of the goat's milk brie wrapped in rare roast beef just don't need bread in order to be a most excellent sandwich. I do wish I hadn't forgotten to hit the fruit vendors today, though. Need more fruit.
2am: *phew* This is NOT how third shift is supposed to go! Major assignee team goes MIA, massive influx of calls, multiple conversations with my poor sleep-deprived boss about MIA team, etc, etc. I've barely been able to breathe since 11pm. At least it's kept the time passing quickly. Oy. Time to grab a very quick "hope nobody calls" break.
Live Coverage: Occupy Wall Street: Take the Bull by the Horns
Related: We Are the 99 Percent
Related: Wall Street Mocks Protesters By Drinking Champagne
Related: Chris Hedges at Occupy Wall Street
Related: Occupy Cleveland FB page
More: Main Occupy Cleveland site: first meeting is today, Saturday October 1st, 3pm-5:30pm at the Free Stamp
On Wednesday evening I gave a talk at Kenyon College as part of their annual Take Back the Night Week, about how we can use social justice to combat sexual violence. -- Awwww! I love seeing my passions and my alma mater intersect. And my first TBTN was at Kenyon, and was a really important and tranformative moment for me (it was the motivation to talk to my parents, finally, about the molestation from my cousins that happened when I was young).
35 years of Hyde: Why the fight for true abortion access has only just begun
Likewise, you don't have to actually hit each other to use BDSM methods of negotiation and consent-centrism. "What kind of play do you want today?" is an important question to ask of someone who doesn't have any Officially Designated Fetishes, but still has desires and limits--which would be, yeah, everyone.
And you don't have to be non-heterosexual to question what gender means to your relationship. If "which one of y'all does the dishes?" is a stupid question to ask a gay couple, it ought to be an equally stupid assumption to make about a straight one. The fact that assigned gender roles are available for a straight couple doesn't mean they ought to take them on without question.
What kind of relationship you have is your choice, and one choice isn't better than another. What's important is that you make a choice. That even if you're you're monogamous, vanilla, and heterosexual--you're doing it because it's what you want and because you and your partner have agreed to it, not because that's what people do. What's important isn't what path you take, but that you know there are paths. -- Yes, yes, yes, yes, all of this!
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Also, I did get my shit together this week and get some financial stuff sorted out that was hanging over my head. That's a big relief, although it does mean things will be tighter for me for a while. Now I just need to further get my shit together and finish my bedroom, which has been at the same point for the past month. Oops.
Oh, and although I accomplished nothing else during my "weekend", I did teach both Wednesday and Thursday night. Nurse Practitioner students, and I generally love working with them. All four students were pretty great, so it was happy and good.
Also, we'll have Amy's pug Bella tomorrow night again, so it works out well that I'll be home anyway.
OK, time for linketies, and Hogfather, and maybe a nice roast beef sandwich (I have a small loaf of fresh-baked french bread from one of the bakers, a little wheel of brie from the cheese vendor, and a rather ridiculous quantity of rare roast beef, because the deli vendor offered me a deal). I already ate my marinated artichoke salad, but still have teriyaki mushrooms and a half-dozen of the world's most awesome lemon bars, too.
Mmmm-tasty. Slices of the goat's milk brie wrapped in rare roast beef just don't need bread in order to be a most excellent sandwich. I do wish I hadn't forgotten to hit the fruit vendors today, though. Need more fruit.
2am: *phew* This is NOT how third shift is supposed to go! Major assignee team goes MIA, massive influx of calls, multiple conversations with my poor sleep-deprived boss about MIA team, etc, etc. I've barely been able to breathe since 11pm. At least it's kept the time passing quickly. Oy. Time to grab a very quick "hope nobody calls" break.
Live Coverage: Occupy Wall Street: Take the Bull by the Horns
Related: We Are the 99 Percent
Related: Wall Street Mocks Protesters By Drinking Champagne
Related: Chris Hedges at Occupy Wall Street
Related: Occupy Cleveland FB page
More: Main Occupy Cleveland site: first meeting is today, Saturday October 1st, 3pm-5:30pm at the Free Stamp
On Wednesday evening I gave a talk at Kenyon College as part of their annual Take Back the Night Week, about how we can use social justice to combat sexual violence. -- Awwww! I love seeing my passions and my alma mater intersect. And my first TBTN was at Kenyon, and was a really important and tranformative moment for me (it was the motivation to talk to my parents, finally, about the molestation from my cousins that happened when I was young).
35 years of Hyde: Why the fight for true abortion access has only just begun
Likewise, you don't have to actually hit each other to use BDSM methods of negotiation and consent-centrism. "What kind of play do you want today?" is an important question to ask of someone who doesn't have any Officially Designated Fetishes, but still has desires and limits--which would be, yeah, everyone.
And you don't have to be non-heterosexual to question what gender means to your relationship. If "which one of y'all does the dishes?" is a stupid question to ask a gay couple, it ought to be an equally stupid assumption to make about a straight one. The fact that assigned gender roles are available for a straight couple doesn't mean they ought to take them on without question.
What kind of relationship you have is your choice, and one choice isn't better than another. What's important is that you make a choice. That even if you're you're monogamous, vanilla, and heterosexual--you're doing it because it's what you want and because you and your partner have agreed to it, not because that's what people do. What's important isn't what path you take, but that you know there are paths. -- Yes, yes, yes, yes, all of this!
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