Can I just say, you know you are really sick when the don't-hold-me cat snuggles up to you for a whole hour. Thank you, Sammie, I like snuggling you when you let me.

and I got an email -- about a possible owner

My computer wigged out all day...got the blue screen and all, but it booted fine. I think I may have to devote my life to Jesus now or something, though, so I might not be around much.

really like those photos

I am on vacation for the week -- I have:

gone for coffee

bought boots

sorted my unmentionables

run the diswahers

paid some bills

played on the internet/watched some tv

oddly more productive than planned

I'm on a forced vacation.

I worked for one hour today and then I was laid-off. The supervisor was totally embarassed and apologetic about it, totally beyond his control.

I got a new assignment starting next Monday, but not getting paid for this week is going to hurt a lot.

I'm sorry, quester. That sucks.

totally stupid quester

I'm glad you have something lined up , even if it isn't going to be easy

I just hit up my fairy-college friend-godbrother who has lent me money in the past. But, I hate doing that. It's the holidays and he is flying to Finland to spend them with his parents. But, I can't hit my sister up again so soon, if at all.

I hate this!

Almost all of the India photos are up. There are some videos taking a while, and there's a card with the end of Mumbai, train ride and beginning of Jaipur that I can't find right now, but I hope to find it when I get home and put it up tomorrow. So...more India

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Rather than the 9-to-5 drudgery to which they have been "liberated" by modern ideology, countless women would prefer to be homemakers creating delectable baked goods and living lives of ease and contentment, while their husbands would happily be the family's sole breadwinners, gladly working so that their brides could have whatever they want, rejoicing in the knowledge that every day they would come home to find an angel in the house. In such traditional circumstances, children would receive all of the attention that they require, and as a result, sons would grow up to be responsible young men, while daughters would become ladylike and well-mannered. (How different from the broken homes of today, which lead to juvenile delinquency, drug use, crime, and promiscuity.)

::snort::

This isn't "the way it was", this is a blip in middle-class human history.

Before the modern conveniences that permitted this idyl, how do you think farms operated? How do you think merchants and factory workers and the like lived their daily lives? Those women weren't making "delectable goodies" they were providing all the food. From scratch. They weren't doting on their children, they were doing piece work inbetween churning and baking while the older nine kids watched the younger nine kids.

Idiots.