Copying your diary entries into TP and trying to substitute them for other people’s views is pretty lame.

Only a pathetic neocon would think women should value themselves in terms of marital status. How self-destructive of you Brandi. Shave your upper lip and maybe you’ll find a date… Maybe.

It’s just an ad on the hotmail account, that’s pretty bizarre. No biggie.

Goodnight!

May God help us all if this madness is allowed to continue.

It’s this pink tank top thing (really nice pink), but it looks like it’s got corset-type stays in it. The slogan on the ad says, “Find Your Pretty.” If they’re talking about the pink, I’m good, but it looks like workout gear with a corset in it. Is that really necessary? Or prudent? I can get close enough to passing out all on my own during hard exercise — I don’t need a corset helping me along.

Anyone have a clue about this?

I have a friend who thinks there will be a man-made apocalypse… and that afterward, the heaven will be earth being returned to mother nature and the lack of credit card debt :)
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Smart friend. I hope it turns out that way — except for the whole “apocalypse” thing.

I love it!

You say ‘tomato’, and I say “less crap to clean, fix, maintain, worry about, etc.” :)

Janis Joplin was a bright star, who burned out too quickly…
Comment by Zooey — September 17, 2006 @ 2:48 pm

That seems to be the way with the enlightened folks… short but potent… John Lennon also come to mind… Imagine…

I have a friend who thinks there will be a man-made apocalypse… and that afterward, the heaven will be earth being returned to mother nature and the lack of credit card debt :)

My sis was at my house for a short time yesterday, after having driven up in her new red car, and she said the house looked empty. I said it only holds the people, and a few things, that I love most. Then she asked when I was going to get rid of my POS car, and I said probably never, it holds my bumper sticker collection. She didn’t get it.

Janis Joplin was a bright star, who burned out too quickly…

That makes perfect sense…

One of my co-workers is close to 100K in debt, has three kids, three cars and a mortgage. Her husband barely makes more than she does despite his phD from an Ivy League school and her duel Master’s degrees. She’s very liberal, but told me that her goal is to fly as low beneath the radar as possible because she can’t afford to lose her job (unlike me who has already stood up the one of the Administrators because he did something I believed was unethical). I think you nailed it. They define themselves in terms of accumulated wealth, and then have to sell their ethics to afford the real price tag (which is much higher than the financial one).

Janis Joplin was right when she said that Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose… The American Dream simply isn’t worth its price tag.

In a nut shell, I would say it’s a little something called FEAR.

Instead of remembering to go at life “balls to the wall,” they begin to cower when they realize they have “stuff” they don’t want to lose.

I was surprised at how many students started making jokes about it. I really don’t know how they go from not being gullable at this age to becoming deeply gullable adults. I really don’t.

I hope so. I plan to teach them about Julia Morgan and Zaha Hadid – very competent and driven women who achieved more than most men… :)

I don’t know how many times I’ve been introduced to a man’s children, where he says, “This is my daughter, Sarah, but this is my boy…”

That is horrible. Though, I can’t say it was any different with my father. And then he didn’t understand when I told him that he favored my brother – the second born child – who was named after him…

Apparently some men think girls are deaf, too.
Comment by Zooey — September 17, 2006 @ 1:45 pm

Apparently…

Reminds me of this old Danish couple my friend and I shared a restaurant table with – in Tivoli amusement park. It was crowded, so people were sharing tables. Though I got teh feeling they were just normally like that in Denmark. So, the husband says that he learned English during the War, but his wife (he spoke for her), didn’t. He then proceeded to ask us what we thought about the Clinton affair (it was late summer 1998). He then told us that it was a man’s nature to cheat and that there wasn’t a man alive who’d never done the same thing. From the grimace on his poor wife’s face, it was clear that she knew enough English to understand that he husband has just admitted to cheating on her.

And people wonder why women like us are perfectly happy being single at our ages…

If they won’t be taught at home to respect women, maybe they have a chance to learn at school.

I don’t know how many times I’ve been introduced to a man’s children, where he says, “This is my daughter, Sarah, but this is my boy…”

Apparently some men think girls are deaf, too.

I don’t know if he really learned anything, but I’m sure he’ll think twice before using ‘girl’ as an insult in my classroom again…