I talk about empathy in response to distress, and I see feminist articles circulating around addressing this topic, and I cannot emphasize how important it is. Men, in general, do not care to show empathy, when a lot of the world’s problems could be solved if they did. Terrorism, racism, sexual assault, pollution, child slavery, poorly written ( Read more... )

I had to attend an 8 hour meeting today after you know, working my butt off 14 hours yesterday. The second most experienced tech left and our lead tech went on vacation at the same time, go figure. Anyway, the new district supervisor (the fifth in the past 5 years I was with the company) seems like a well-meaning woman, but you know what they say ( Read more... )

I tried the 25 Expressions challenge from deviantart, but I only did 5 before I was like, okay, I guess I’m not going to be a comic artist anytime soon because this was really hard. In my defense, I tried to do it in my own style, not easy-cheesy cop-out anime style, and without using expression cues from the rest of the body (shoulders, hands, etc ( Read more... )

I wanted to mention that today my mom apparently thought driving to the casino would be a good idea. One hour into northbound I-35 traffic we decided to turn back. It only takes an hour to get there, we were halfway there, I don't even want to know what happened. But that's okay, the last 5 or 6 times I went to the casino, I lost $20 without ( Read more... )

As the first sign in the zodiac, and corresponding with the first day of spring, the Aries individual is a mover and shaker, fearlessly forging ahead or "springing forth" into new territory. Indeed, some very influential historical characters are found under this sign including Thomas Jefferson (April 13) and Leonardo Da Vinci (April 15). The ( Read more... )

I was going to reply to everyone's comments last post, but I had a million projects and things to do at once. And then I read an article on sex ed (how abstinence was proven to be superior to contraception and do-nothing classes) in the Corpus Christi newspaper and it just infuriated me so much, I can't even think about it anymore. Graaaah ( Read more... )

Argh, just as soon as I got back home, my laptop's keyboard started messing up. Hundreds of miles away from IT people who can fix it and give me a replacement. Have to use my brother's computer to do schoolwork, don't have any of my bookmarks or school documents or settings or art programs ( Read more... )

H-HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR'S... *sobs*

Poll Am I rude?That is a very biased poll, haha, I should know better after taking statistics ( Read more... )

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 some of your friends to do the same.Day 2 ( Read more... )

My mother spent 15 years trying to get my stepfather to stop smoking - begged, pleaded, threatened, bribed, made us do the same, but she ultimately lost. She and I have spent an equally futile 20 something years trying to get my brother to not be so lazy, what foolish hope we have ( Read more... )