My tummy and uterus want my soul

[pollyfarrah]

Ow. Ow. Ow. And in case you havent gotten the idea yet, OOOOOWWW. My stomache and uterus want my soul. Which is weird. Seeing as how I dont have my period for the next...*counts* 3 weeks. I cant sit because then I feel like I'll faint or throw up from the pain. And I can't really lay down or stand either. And I can't eat. Yesterday I ate one bowl

Comments

[ian_holdstock]

I liked kaffir boy.

[missyhokans101]

yeah....i liked kaffir boy too, i think people who don't understand the extent of it, even today, won't like it as much....

[ian_holdstock]

Personally, it was my favorite of all the books I had to read that year, far outstripping Speak, which had a very biased view of rape, I think (just kidding). Also I preferred it to Great Expectations, of which I only managed to read half before the school year began. I subsequently failed my first test of the year, and was very nearly removed from the honors english class. It was only by reading the latter half of Great Expectations and then taking a re-test that I was able to stay in the class. Interestingly enough, two other students failed the test along with me, but they however, were removed from the class. Consequently, I foudn that..... (blah blah blah blah)

[pollyfarrah]

i like it, the sotry i mean!! i like it alot more now that im done with it. its like...woah *impact of it hits me*

[ian_holdstock]

Yeah, it's a damn good story. In fact, I just read it over the summer, and, in the school year, we didn't touch on it at all. We did alot on Great Expectations, wrote essays on Speak, but Kaffir Boy was, for one reason or another, completely ignored. Even with this though, it was still in my mind, so much so that, while playing tennis with my dark skinned friend, I called him "Mark Mathabane" I had to explain it to him, even though he had, in theory, read the book. I might move to South Africa, get myself some black servants. I wonder what the gun laws are like down there?

[missyhokans101]

you sure as fuck better be kidding.....

[ian_holdstock]

Kidding about what? The servants? The gun laws? My dark skinned friend?

[missyhokans101]

why would you want to know what the gun laws are? how would that make any differnce

[ian_holdstock]

Because if they're restrictive, and don't let you own many cool guns, I don't want to live there. Actually, it's probably fairly easy to take a quick sojourn up north to get some undeclared guns from another country, so the gun laws aren't really that important. Loose gun control is something I'm rather fond of.

[missyhokans101]

people like you are the reason there are FUCKING GUN LAWS! because you go out and absuse the laws already there, causing them to make NEW ONES!

[ian_holdstock]

You know, for someone who I'm not entirely sure knows me, you've made a very apt judgement about my character. You are to be commended on your exceptional skills of character assesment. Although, I have to say, you do seem a little aggressive. And no, people like me aren't the reason there are gun laws. At least not in America. In America, I think you'll find that some of the older gun control laws were created to prevent the recently freed negroes from getting firearms. I am not a recently freed negro. Now, think about this, am I trying to offend you? And what do you mean, people like me? And I haven't abused any gun control laws to date. And I don't plan on it. And if I plan on sticking to that plan, I might have to move out of Massachusetts. Which would kind of suck, as it's one of the best states in the Union. Oh, and Missyhokans, you have hurt my feelings. Gun laws were created by "The Man" so as to insure that the bourgeoisie remain unthreatened by taking care to see to it that the underclasses remain unarmed. Gun control is not

[missyhokans101]

*sigh* ok, since you sound kinda confused about why I'm kinda...upset about this, which although I may have slightly over re-acted, i still had my reasons. My name is Ruth Hokans, commonly known as Ruthie, and a year and a half ago, I moved to winchester from Johannesburg South Africa. While i lived there, for 8 1/2 years, I have expeirenced more violence and crime then most will in there entire life, due to poor gun laws and corrupt goverments. I feel because of this, that gun laws are put in place to keep people (like i thought you were, which you might be) from abusing the already loose ones. If as you said, you haven't absused gun laws, and don't plan to, why would it mean anything to you whether or not we have loose or strict gun laws? Thats why i was upset, becsue when I was living there, a friend of mine was held at gun point, and then shot, by a WHITE man. Its not that there are strict laws on coloreds owning guns, its on everyone.

[ian_holdstock]

I don't feel there is an inherent connection between increased frearms posession and crime. Another thing I don't feel like is getting into a huge gun control argument, especially considering most of my arguments against gun control are based on the United States, and especially if I may get trounced in said argument. That having been said, Hey, ruthie, I'm Ian Holdstock, and, if we were meeting face to face, i'd probably complement you on a physical feature of yours.

[missyhokans101]

ok agreed, no online arguments. i think I have met you once, but you wouldn't remember it... I was watching the drama club play in 7th grade, at the end, when I was talking to cat you came up to me, and said something about pants....yeah.