Various and Sundry Updates
1. School: Is fucking hard. I got my first Probability homework back and not surprisingly did terribly. It was filled with Calculus. I love learning Spanish, but I feel like I am the only person in the class who does. How can you not love learning a new language? IT IS AMAZING.
2. Social Life: I have had the opportunity to hang out with the co-opers a lot more. I went to a silly girly knitting night with some of my friends, and felt slightly awkward that I was the only person there not engaged/married, but I was happy that we got to rant about this Sarah Palin nonsense.
3. Politics: Speaking of Sarah Palin? I am fucking pissed. I mean, I really don’t give a shit about the fact that she exists, I don’t care about her family, her “choice” to keep a Downs syndrome baby, her daughter’s pregnancy, and I’m really just sick to death of hearing about it. What makes me mad is that the republicans chose a woman WHO IS COMPLETELY ANTI-WOMAN. I’m sorry, you can’t call yourself a feminist if you make policy decisions which hurt most women in the US, you just can’t. I really don’t give a shit how much of a career mom you are. And the thing that hurts me the most is that they did this solely to manipulate women in this country (I’m not nearly as worried about the manipulation of far right extremists, because why would they be far right extremists if they weren’t easily manipulated?)
4. More Politics: I swear, I scare (though maybe annoy the better word) the shit out of my boyfriend sometimes. I think he was trying to explain to me that in his boredom at work he occassionally listens to Glenn Beck, and that Ted Nugent was on once and that Ted Nugent is not a hypocrite because he might have a lot of money, but he worked his way up. I realize that my boyfriend is moderate, but I have to go on a rant anyway. I am not against hunting. I think hunting is fine and dandy (though you won’t see me shmoozing with hunters anytime soon because they kind of scare me). I think hunting predators is a bad idea. I think we have too many deer. But geez, Ted Nugent is a jerk. Look at this crap:
“In a 1992 radio interview, Nugent referred to Heidi Prescott of the Fund for Animals as a “worthless whore” and a “shallow slut,” asking “who needs to club a seal, when you can club Heidi?” and was ordered by a court to pay $75,000.”
My boyfriend also attempted to explain to me that Ted Nugent thinks we shouldn’t have welfare because people can just get jobs.
I really fucking hate this argument. Deal with this hypothetical situation: You’re a 34 year old single mother who had children young, partially because you had no access/had not heard of birth control/were misinformed about your choices, didn’t have abortion as an option. Okay, so you’re 34, you have three children at home, you can hardly afford food.
So get a job. What? Please, fuck that. You get a job working at Wal*Mart because they’re the only people who will hire a woman who hasn’t graduated from high school. What do you do with your children when you are at work? Put them in day care you can’t afford? Get your deadbeat ex-husband to take care of them? Call a girlfriend who is also busy as hell to care for your kids? And then what do your children do? Get into trouble? Have sex and more babies, what?
Please, what the hell do you do?
Not to mention working minimum wage does not get you enough money to pay for a family.
Although, to boyfriend’s credit, he was trying to get to a point about how Glenn Beck tends to make common sense arguments, but then cut to something which is way too simplistic. I am way too fired up about politics these days to have low-key conversations regarding making poor people poorer, and so I am not a very comfortable person to be around right now.
Entertainment: I watched the second season of Heroes. I’m not completely disgusted with all the girls in the show. The one “muscle mimic” girl is awesome, and I love Veronica Mars as miss Crazy, even though she is another woman who strikes me as helpless. The Hispanic girl with the “emotion powers” pisses me off (another helpless woman), but I appreciate hearing Spanish a whole heck of a lot.
It strikes me that the writers/producers/whatever of the show are not actually trying to be sexist, they just really easily fall into it.
Also, a lot of shit doesn’t make sense. Why does Peter always forget he can walk through walls? Why is the whole nonsense with West and Claire so incredibly overplayed? Why are Kirsten Bell’s eyes always so darned shiny?
I’ve also been watching the third season of Supernatural. I was eating dinner through the first episode, and I really wished I hadn’t been. The show strikes me as a lot gorier, which I suppose is good, but on the other hand it has really fallen into a routine as far as the whole black-eyes demon thing goes. I miss the original season with all of its toying with various mythological and spooky creatures, rather than settling on one particular sort of spooky creature.
We also played Kya (which is a fun platformer written by people with very little grasp of English. “Neither me.” Huh?) and Condemned II, which I am too scared to play, but jeez does the combat look more painful than most games I’ve seen. When they swing, it really looks like they are freaking swinging at you, you know?
I’m sure that this post is long enough as it is, so I suppose I will end it with that, especially since I need to update my resume for the job fair tomorrow.
