Xander ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse, that is INSANE late, even with snow days! I hope they don't have to go back until after Labor Day.
I hate when schools go back in the beginning of August. It just doesn't feel right.
You go back to school in September! In the fall, at least month-wise.
You should still be swimming and watching TV on August 15th.
I get that there is an unreachable "ideal" for men, but what's pernicious (Pernicious!!) is how TV especially is full of men who don't meet that ideal, but are partnered with women who meet theirs, or at least are much closer than the men are.
Word, Jesse. Also commercials and movies: the hapless guy who is a slob and just wants to watch sports and eat Doritos, married to a pretty harridan who makes him take his feet off the coffee table.
As long as Judd Apatow keeps making hugely-popular movies, I will not believe that the social construction of masculinity is more damaging than the social construction of femininity.
Not a real dry heat, but not ny or no humid.
I just blocked off my vacation time at work. Three weeks, August 29-Sept 18. Now I need to figure out where to go.
I hate when schools go back in the beginning of August. It just doesn't feel right.
I would kill for my high school schedule: Classes start mid-September with exams at the end of May and almost the entire month of March off for Spring vacation.
It's quite warm here today--supposed to hit 90 in the East Bay. So of course I'm wearing a summer dress with a cashmere-blend cardigan in my freezing office. Sigh.
I don't have a great deal of work right now, and I have a writing project I'm working on. How evil would it be if I spent some time scribbling notes for this story, rather than working? Hmm. Probably no less evil than posting on B.org, I suspect.
As long as Judd Apatow keeps making hugely-popular movies, I will not believe that the social construction of masculinity is more damaging than the social construction of femininity.
Yeah, I still think the social construction of femininity is more damaging.
Thanks to the internets, I'm now a little worried about the social construction of felinity. I mean, are our cats feeling pressured to conform to unrealistic expectation of jumping into boxes or riding Roombas?
Best entry from the Police Beat in the local paper this morning:
600 block West Slate Drive, 2:36 a.m. Saturday, a 24-year-old man called police to report he was lost in the woods. Officers found him intoxicated at a picnic table outside an apartment complex and arrested him.
Jesse, that is INSANE late, even with snow days! I hope they don't have to go back until after Labor Day.
When I was a kid, I remember being in school as late as 6/28, and we definitely didn't go back until after Labor Day, so I assume it's the same deal now.
I just blocked off my vacation time at work. Three weeks, August 29-Sept 18. Now I need to figure out where to go.
West coast tour! Seattle and San Fran and LA!