I loved my public speaking classes, especially oral interpretation. Hehehe. Oral.
Anyway, love the choices in topics! Absolutely on the Pits. Thank you. Feminism...woooah baby is that a great, loaded, topic. I can't stand the word or the hard core concepts behind it at all and yet I am all for gender equality to a degree, which is why I don't buy into Feminism at all. Besides, Femi-nazi's scare me.
I do agree with Nature vs. Nurture being fascinating. Since I'm adopted, I'm a wonderful case study for it. No one in my family enjoys writing, or really reading for that matter. No one. And yet, here I am. Same with performing. Or research/higher learning. Or international travel and other cultures. That is all me from some mysterious place. However, I love to cook and care for my family like my mom. I garden and love outdoor/adventures like my dad. I deal with people in a manner very similar to my father and am amazing with kids and animals like my mom. The weirdest one is my family are a bit...redneck. I grew up with bigoted slang but somehow it never stuck with me and I fought against it at a young age. No clue how that came about. Anyway...yeah.
I wrote for the first time in months yesterday. That felt AMAZING. It was for purestofprose so it was only 500 words but still. No complaints.
My life has been about family/home/health and business.
My body art business is exploding. It's getting larger than I could have ever dreamed. I NEVER would have thought or planned this. I had to hire another artist and more hawkers, and we're still turning stuff away. YAY!
House, well. We had the roof redone which caused a dent in the driveway. They came to fix the dent but it gave way to a 5 ft deep, 4 ft across hole. Evidently there was a dry well and someone thought it was a good idea to just asphalt over the top of it instead of filling it in. It's been a fun (yet costly) mystery. We also have to have our bathroom redone. There goes all the booth profits. lol
Noah is on his summer vacation and we're trying to figure out stuff to do with him. He's 16 so we don't have much more time left to spend like that. Then again, he's going to have summer school for math and spanish so it depends on his schedule.
For me, well. I have to get tested for a form of thyroid cancer. Luckily it's a curable, localized one so that's good. Supposedly if it comes back positive it'll cure me of my fatigue, kidney stones, aches, etc.
Feminism...woooah baby is that a great, loaded, topic. I can't stand the word or the hard core concepts behind it at all and yet I am all for gender equality to a degree, which is why I don't buy into Feminism at all. Besides, Femi-nazi's scare me.
And that's pretty much what I'll be talking about, with the addition that feminism shouldn't be treated like a dirty word. I consider myself a feminist, but I think you and I can both agree I'm not the angry, all-things-phallic-must-die sort of person. And I know for a fact that the majority of women I know who identify themselves as being a feminist certainly don't think that as well.
I think that feminism shouldn't be defined by its radicals, much the same as religion and politics shouldn'e be defined by theirs. it's a social movement, which means it's gonna attract its fair share of crazies, nut jobs, and the like. But, just like every other social movement, feminism is more, to me, something that's personally defined.
So... yeah. I totally agree with you on the crazies, but I think it's kind of a disservice to the women who DID struggle and fight and actually suffer to gain us any sort of equal rights to say you can't stand the word feminist. Hate the crazies, by all means, because lord knows I do. They're a major reason why a lot of people sneer at the term feminist. I see some of them and I'm like, "... really?" To them, I'm probably the most awful feminist out there -- but at least I'm (mostly) sane and rational.
And absolute word on the pit bulls, by the way. For part of the presentation, I looked up videos and photos from dog fights. *shudders* It was horrible. I spent like twenty minutes crying afterward because of what was done to those poor dogs. Makes me freakin' sick.
Ooooh, you WOULD be an interesting case study on nature v. nurture. Hmm... *ponders* If I go into psychology, that'd probably be my thesis project right there. Study the nature v. nurture aspects of adopted children. That could be a lot of fun! Originally (yes, I'm thinking this far ahead) I'd planned on doing something involving dissociative identity disorder because THAT absolutely fascinates me. But so does nature v. nurture.
OH SNAP! I am SO thrilled your business is taking off! Where do you have it set up now? Like, what events? I could check with my friend omizu to see if there's anything coming up Ren Faire wise in the area here. *is totally not suggesting that to kidnap you*
For me, well. I have to get tested for a form of thyroid cancer. Luckily it's a curable, localized one so that's good. Supposedly if it comes back positive it'll cure me of my fatigue, kidney stones, aches, etc.
Uuuuhhh... keep me posted on this. Like, emails. Private messages. Hell, I'm gonna send you my cell phone and you can text/call me with updates. I know you said it's curable, but still... *hugs* Good luck on this.
Anyway, love the choices in topics! Absolutely on the Pits. Thank you.
Feminism...woooah baby is that a great, loaded, topic. I can't stand the word or the hard core concepts behind it at all and yet I am all for gender equality to a degree, which is why I don't buy into Feminism at all. Besides, Femi-nazi's scare me.
I do agree with Nature vs. Nurture being fascinating. Since I'm adopted, I'm a wonderful case study for it. No one in my family enjoys writing, or really reading for that matter. No one. And yet, here I am.
Same with performing. Or research/higher learning. Or international travel and other cultures. That is all me from some mysterious place.
However, I love to cook and care for my family like my mom. I garden and love outdoor/adventures like my dad. I deal with people in a manner very similar to my father and am amazing with kids and animals like my mom. The weirdest one is my family are a bit...redneck. I grew up with bigoted slang but somehow it never stuck with me and I fought against it at a young age. No clue how that came about. Anyway...yeah.
I wrote for the first time in months yesterday. That felt AMAZING. It was for purestofprose so it was only 500 words but still. No complaints.
My life has been about family/home/health and business.
My body art business is exploding. It's getting larger than I could have ever dreamed. I NEVER would have thought or planned this. I had to hire another artist and more hawkers, and we're still turning stuff away. YAY!
House, well. We had the roof redone which caused a dent in the driveway. They came to fix the dent but it gave way to a 5 ft deep, 4 ft across hole. Evidently there was a dry well and someone thought it was a good idea to just asphalt over the top of it instead of filling it in. It's been a fun (yet costly) mystery. We also have to have our bathroom redone. There goes all the booth profits. lol
Noah is on his summer vacation and we're trying to figure out stuff to do with him. He's 16 so we don't have much more time left to spend like that. Then again, he's going to have summer school for math and spanish so it depends on his schedule.
For me, well. I have to get tested for a form of thyroid cancer. Luckily it's a curable, localized one so that's good. Supposedly if it comes back positive it'll cure me of my fatigue, kidney stones, aches, etc.
Ummm...Uhhhh...that's all I've got. :)
Miss you, Wife!!! <3
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And that's pretty much what I'll be talking about, with the addition that feminism shouldn't be treated like a dirty word. I consider myself a feminist, but I think you and I can both agree I'm not the angry, all-things-phallic-must-die sort of person. And I know for a fact that the majority of women I know who identify themselves as being a feminist certainly don't think that as well.
I think that feminism shouldn't be defined by its radicals, much the same as religion and politics shouldn'e be defined by theirs. it's a social movement, which means it's gonna attract its fair share of crazies, nut jobs, and the like. But, just like every other social movement, feminism is more, to me, something that's personally defined.
So... yeah. I totally agree with you on the crazies, but I think it's kind of a disservice to the women who DID struggle and fight and actually suffer to gain us any sort of equal rights to say you can't stand the word feminist. Hate the crazies, by all means, because lord knows I do. They're a major reason why a lot of people sneer at the term feminist. I see some of them and I'm like, "... really?" To them, I'm probably the most awful feminist out there -- but at least I'm (mostly) sane and rational.
And absolute word on the pit bulls, by the way. For part of the presentation, I looked up videos and photos from dog fights. *shudders* It was horrible. I spent like twenty minutes crying afterward because of what was done to those poor dogs. Makes me freakin' sick.
Ooooh, you WOULD be an interesting case study on nature v. nurture. Hmm... *ponders* If I go into psychology, that'd probably be my thesis project right there. Study the nature v. nurture aspects of adopted children. That could be a lot of fun! Originally (yes, I'm thinking this far ahead) I'd planned on doing something involving dissociative identity disorder because THAT absolutely fascinates me. But so does nature v. nurture.
OH SNAP! I am SO thrilled your business is taking off! Where do you have it set up now? Like, what events? I could check with my friend omizu to see if there's anything coming up Ren Faire wise in the area here. *is totally not suggesting that to kidnap you*
For me, well. I have to get tested for a form of thyroid cancer. Luckily it's a curable, localized one so that's good. Supposedly if it comes back positive it'll cure me of my fatigue, kidney stones, aches, etc.
Uuuuhhh... keep me posted on this. Like, emails. Private messages. Hell, I'm gonna send you my cell phone and you can text/call me with updates. I know you said it's curable, but still... *hugs* Good luck on this.
Awwww, I've missed you too, wife!
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