Actually, a quick trip to Facebook made me think of something else. The place is flooded with ME TOO postings from women who have been sexually harassed at some point in their lives. This basically includes every woman out there. So it made me think of all the times I was sexually harassed when I was young. It's such a vulnerable age to be in your ( Read more... )

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It's been well over a year since I've updated my LiveJournal. So sad. This was once such a vibrant community. I'm getting really sick of Facebook too. Social Media in general. Well, I guess LJ is social media but it's in a different realm from Facebook. There's more reflection. And there doesn't seem to be the constant bombardment of current events ( Read more... )

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I'm taking a break from Facebook because it's way too depressing and political over there. I can't take it anymore. The world and America in particular is way too depressing for me. Stop the world I want to get off.


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I was billed $19.73 this month via my MasterCard by Live Journal and I have no idea what it's for. I have a permanent account. Does anyone know how I contact someone at LJ to find out what this is?

Almost a week ago we returned from a week spent in Cuba with the Oberlin Alumni Association. I wish I'd been feeling more hale and hearty for it but I came down with a cold early on which has now settled in my chest since returning home. Ugh. Still the trip was great. We saw many things, people and places. Drank ample mojitos and ate generous ( Read more... )

There's nothing more depressing than Google-ing an old boyfriend and finding out all the NEA grants he's gotten, Fullbrights, solo museum exhibitions, books published, and blah de fucking blah blah blah. Why did I do that? I knew it was going to be like this. I knew it. And bad blood aside (let it be known that I dumped HIM)..his work is some of ( Read more... )

Matthew 19:24
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

I'm reading The Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert and really, it seems that from time immemorial it has been true of the human condition that the wealthy keep getting wealthier off the ( Read more... )