my worst encounter with discrimination thus far.

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International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery, and oppression. Along with Partners in Health, IJM is the organization for which i want to spend the majority of my future working.

well...wantedthe other night, i was looking over their website, browsing the application, which i

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I just have to say first -- good parenting IS being a friend; it's just being that friend that always knows what's right but still manages to fit in. It's very Happy Days, I know, but still. Cool people aren't always the bad people. Being a good parent only requires "knowing what's right" and "knowing what's cool." Hopefully they're both transmitted accordingly.

in other news, though...

if you can prove both A and B of the following section, you can nail these people. Not break them down, mind you, because they are doing good work, but at least make them accept non-Christian members (which I have to warn, is against EVERY EXISTING MEMBER'S WISHES, and so... yeah. Stay the fuck away for a while.).

A: show [fill in official agency here] that IJM is something above and beyond the relatively tame term of "biased," and (most importantly) prove that the email is real. If you still have the official email, that's a plus. Some sort of spy-rooting-mumbo-jumbo might go in your favor, even for just this once.

B: FUCK THOSE MUTHAFUCKS

yeah I kind of combined an awful lot into item A, and then didn't want to change it. Consider that all of it.

I have to be at work in five hours, and need to lay down. On either a Sunday or a Monday, you should come to Manassas and we should hang out. I will supply Scrabble. Let's muthafuckin RAWK (before I'm working seven days a week, half of them double-hours, which will suck, but will make life [non-work-or-rent-related] way easier).

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i like to think of "good parenting" (whatever that is, cuz honestly, who the fuck knows) as a happy medium between friendship + actual parenting. i wasn't trying to harp on my dad, i was just saying that instead of combining the 2, each of my parents got one of the 2 sides...good-cop-bad-cop, if you will. but i turned out okay, so i guess they did something right, eh? haha

as for the advice in A, i would LOVE to stick it to them. i think, however, that this would be impossible given that they are a private organization and therefore can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want...wrong or right. here? very wrong. plus...even if i could legally fuck them in some shape or form, i wouldnt have the least idea of where to begin.

as for YOU, my dear knickers, a visit is most definitely overdue. however, i won't be back in northern virginia until the first weekend in october for reading days...at which point in time you better bust out the scrabble board + order up a Jack Black marathon, because it's gonna be on like donkey kong. I MISS YOU! <3