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When I got home today I sat in my car and mini-vogued to myself for a bit while Madonna's Vogue played. That's such a great song. I was once talking with someone who said they thought people who sat in the car to finish a song were weird, and I thought, really? I do that all the time, it's not weird.
I just polished off an entire Hershey's bar from my Christmas stocking. Yipes. I guess I WAS hungry and that should have been real food. Eep. I know there's a lot of fat in that thing.
I went in to work late this morning bc I worked late and there was NO WHERE to park. Craziness. I had to park waaay out in the back hidden lot that I"ve never seen full before and then I realized when I was leaving tonight that I had to walk that far alone in the dark, and I was actually a little concerned for once, which is unlike me. It's just that it is so out-of-the way, and by that time, hardly any cars were around, and mine was all alone in the far corner of the parking lot surrounded by forest. I was actually afraid something bad would happen bc I didn't call security to escort me to my car (which I think is lame anyway and I"m not sure I could ever actually call them)
A fellow spider from my year (and B school) came in tonight right before we closed, and I stayed a half hour late to help him. It really can be such a PROCESS to go to school, as evidenced by some of the stupid policies we have, and Marina was telling me she was having trouble finding information at VCU, and just today I went looking on their site for Graduate tuition rates and it took me a good 15 minutes to FIND THE PAGE. It's tuition, VCU, pretty important, make it not so hard to freakin find.
I'm so tired of the political process and all this caucus talk. That sounds bad. Now that I'm surrounded even more by politicos, everyone always is asking me about it, but I've never been really into the process (remember, I hate processess) of politics. I'm more an issues person. I have at least 2 friends who ENJOY watching CSPAN. I don't understand that at all. I think I'd rather watch paint dry. I'm also tired before I even start anymore of trying to defend my support of Hillary. Gloria Steinem described the race vs gender divide of Obama and Clinton quite perfectly (like she usually does), in her op ed article in the NY Times this week. You should go read it. I know you probably won't, so here's the points I liked best (bolding mine)
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was;...because racism stereotyped black men as more “masculine” for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren’t too many of them); and because there is still no “right” way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.
But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex.
What worries me is that she is accused of “playing the gender card” when citing the old boys’ club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations.
What worries me is that male Iowa voters were seen as gender-free when supporting their own, while female voters were seen as biased if they did and disloyal if they didn’t.
I just polished off an entire Hershey's bar from my Christmas stocking. Yipes. I guess I WAS hungry and that should have been real food. Eep. I know there's a lot of fat in that thing.
I went in to work late this morning bc I worked late and there was NO WHERE to park. Craziness. I had to park waaay out in the back hidden lot that I"ve never seen full before and then I realized when I was leaving tonight that I had to walk that far alone in the dark, and I was actually a little concerned for once, which is unlike me. It's just that it is so out-of-the way, and by that time, hardly any cars were around, and mine was all alone in the far corner of the parking lot surrounded by forest. I was actually afraid something bad would happen bc I didn't call security to escort me to my car (which I think is lame anyway and I"m not sure I could ever actually call them)
A fellow spider from my year (and B school) came in tonight right before we closed, and I stayed a half hour late to help him. It really can be such a PROCESS to go to school, as evidenced by some of the stupid policies we have, and Marina was telling me she was having trouble finding information at VCU, and just today I went looking on their site for Graduate tuition rates and it took me a good 15 minutes to FIND THE PAGE. It's tuition, VCU, pretty important, make it not so hard to freakin find.
I'm so tired of the political process and all this caucus talk. That sounds bad. Now that I'm surrounded even more by politicos, everyone always is asking me about it, but I've never been really into the process (remember, I hate processess) of politics. I'm more an issues person. I have at least 2 friends who ENJOY watching CSPAN. I don't understand that at all. I think I'd rather watch paint dry. I'm also tired before I even start anymore of trying to defend my support of Hillary. Gloria Steinem described the race vs gender divide of Obama and Clinton quite perfectly (like she usually does), in her op ed article in the NY Times this week. You should go read it. I know you probably won't, so here's the points I liked best (bolding mine)
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was;...because racism stereotyped black men as more “masculine” for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren’t too many of them); and because there is still no “right” way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.
But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex.
What worries me is that she is accused of “playing the gender card” when citing the old boys’ club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations.
What worries me is that male Iowa voters were seen as gender-free when supporting their own, while female voters were seen as biased if they did and disloyal if they didn’t.