i really want miss california to shut the fuck up and to get her crown snatched. Not because she has an opinion but because she's in violation of her contract. Because she lied and continues to lie about her posing in those pictures.
Next thing you know, she's talking to James Dobson about her upstanding christian values.
I grew up not being able to listen to rock music, go to movies with my friends, (I didn't see ET until i was a fucking adult) wear shorts that weren't four inches higher than my knees, talk to boys on the phone until I was 18, have a boyfriend without my father's complete 1 hour long humiliation of making sure that the boy was 'christian enough' and if he weren't then maybe my dad could 'take him to god'. One piece swimsuits worn with t shirts while the boys got to walk around in their swim trunks... etc etc etc.
all because of James Dobson's conservative values which my father shared, and many others (Jerry Fallwell, Tim La Haye etc)
This girl gets to walk around in nothing for a swimsuit competition, in which she is (to use the words I heard from my youth) parading around like a woman with loose morals and showing her body, which is reserved ( like a table ) for her husband.
She gets to have everyone from the conservative religious right rally to her side as she 'defends marriage'.
They conveniently overlook the naughty photos from when she was younger. Believe me, they would have been considered pornographic by this same community a week earlier. And she gets to go on Jame's Dobson's radio show as someone who is 'standing up' Because God told her not to compromise this?
The fact that James Dobson had her on his show as an example, is an insult to the fucking alienating torture of a teenage life that I, and several other girls had to live to conserve our 'chasteness' and moral character. I wouldn't have even been able to have a friend that did half of the things she's done lest I be associated as approving of her deeds.
I'm sick of the religious right, and sick of the back assward, hypocritical, self serving, holier than thou line of b.s. indoctrination that i've heard since i was three.
I'm sick of the stranglehold of the right wing moralistic oppressive politics. One single set of beliefs should not rule over the whole.
I've figured out how to bring down the banks ( stop using credit cards, stop using debit cards, keep as much money in your bank as possible so that you don't get mysterious overdraft charges, and use cash. seems simple, but if everyone did it, the banking system would fall because it would loose billions of dollars)
but I can't figure out how to 'bring down' the religious right political persuasion....
its all pish and i'm fed up with it. so there's my beef.
So... i've been incubating a new muse apparently.
I guess all the exposure that I've had at the university has really
started affecting my inspiration. I seem to be coming out of a lull
and ready to really get on with some creativity. I guess this works
out perfectly as this fall I have an art heavy schedule. Not really
my choice, but I don't like the idea that 'because i'm a freshman' I
can't really choose a class that doesn't start at 8 a.m. with a teacher
that isn't an asshole. So, I have 2 things I have to do this summer,
tutor myself in spanish, and tutor myself in math. I'm going to try
and test out of spanish completely, and score high enough on my
math that I can avoid taking the remedial prerequisite course.
we are really exhausted today, we just spent the weekend at Michael's parents and enjoyed our time, but are really tired. We have taken on quite a chunk since we moved here. Since January we have managed to:
go to school full time :)
start a garden
help AK get grass to grow in her front yard
help Michael's parents clean out their basement
put several shrubs in at AK's
give a yard treatment to Michael's cousins house
separate and transplant hostas at Michael's parents
separate and transplant hens and chicks at ....
pull out a retaining wall, remove 3 fire bushes, replace retaining wall and put in 2 azalea bushes
remove rose bush and put in 2 more rose bushes
remove sod around rosebushes and put in mulch.
put in stone border around a Mary shade garden
use a telescoping limb trimmer to remove several overhanging limbs
and more....
but yeah, tired. enough said.
I said I never would move again until the school life was over. That was until we put the remnants of our 3 bedroom *huge* half of a house into a tiny 2 br college apartment and then lived for 5 months.
The landlord found out that our lease (which we subletted) was up at the end of July and they wanted to know what they could do to convince us to stay...
Our reaction was shock. I mean really... someone cares about keeping good tenants?
The property owner drove us around and like suckers we fell for the big 2br apartment that we will be paying an extra 100 bucks a month for. In the building that they don't advertise because it's 'reserved' for grad students and more mature people.
I don't care. the kitchen is HUGE. It has cabinet space! And room to put a table inside the kitchen and 2 hutches if I wanted... and I do want....
We discovered that our stove here doesn't work the first week we tried to warm up a pizza... ugh. And besides that, the kitchen is so small that we have things standing on counters... and I'm a ceramics minor... this was bad... But the best thing is that there is a DISHWASHER holy freakin moly!
I could even get an apartment sized washer that hooks up to the sink and put it in the kitchen. And if we can sublet the apartment we are in now and get them to sign a lease, then woohoo, we dont have to wait until july to move. rock on.
The bedroom is huge, there are his and her's walk in closet (sold!)
I'm ecstatic. So much so that I don't mind moving. It's less than mile from our current place, so there's really not a whole lot of 'packing' to do, we are just going to shuffle it from one place to the next.
The community garden is doing well and it has rained almost every day that we couldn't get up and see them. We really need to get up there and plant the rest of the garden. I wanted to square foot garden the whole thing, but we are supposed to be planted by next week, so I think we may just break down and put rows in.
I take my final in psychology tomorrow morning, and then we head out to Michael's parent's house and take care of the carpets. It's mothers day weekend and we've been helping here and there on different areas in the house.
Monday morning it's job hunting...
that's all i got for now.