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| view points and birth control
Samantha is reading blog comments again. It's the featured blog on Momaroo. The one about birth control. I'm really thankful for my education and for my open BW family. I'm very thankful that I have not let my mom influence me in any opinion I have. Paraphrase of a quote, "I would never let my daughter go on birth control, I would make sure she had condoms for her boyfriend." Was the whole 'condoms are not 100% affective" a scare tactic? Huh. The way I learned it, one form of protection is like Russian Roulette.
Directly quoted from someone who will remain anonymous. "There is a reason that my religion encourages us to get married young, to avoid falling into temptation and committing fornication or adultery. If my daughter or son wants to have sex as a "teenager" which is only a concept in the USA I should add, they can get married."
I've never felt like I've led a very sheltered life. I mean, I live with my conservative mom in a conservative town, but I visited and lived with my dad in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. My BW family is very open about everything and very carefree. I can remember discussing birth control over the toaster as my bagel baked last summer. But, reading these comments (and they are like road kill; I cannot turn away) makes me think I haven't experienced something... I mean, some kind of culture. I mean... the US is the only place where there are teenagers? True, the idea of teenage-dom is quite recent, last hundred years or so when getting a job and getting married at 15 or so stopped being so kosher... but, last time I checked most developed countries believed in teenage-dom. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm stopping and going to bed. I should be spending my time in more productive ways. | | |
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I was totally going to blog about something.
But then I forgot what it was. | | |
| 1. Four hours naps are awesome... except for the tiny thing about it making you awake and able to stay up much longer than you should. I'm not a nap person so any nap I take is really just like a bad night of sleep. 3-6 hours is a nap for me. However I can't go to bed early, so napping it is.
2. I had the perfect class schedule for next semester that left Mondays and Fridays free to work along with Wednesday mornings. Then I received news that the governor ordered three furlough days, the first three Fridays of the month. The kid in me is like, yes! three day weekends! Awesome! Then the responsible person inside me is like, fuck! two days of work a week? I can't do that! I spent the hour and half at work today reworking my class schedule.
MW:
2:15-3:35-Astronomy 101
3:45-6:10-Algebra 2
TR:
3:45-5:00-American Sign Language 1
Online:
US History
Contemplating:
Philos 10?: Existence and Reality. Seems pretty hardcore, I'm just not sure I'm going to be up for the workload.
It looks like I'm stuck with three more semesters of Hancock, taking a semester off (my mind can't do starting a new school in spring) perhaps volunteering abroad during then and then starting 4-year in fall 2011. If three more semesters is the case then I can still take the classes that I'm interested in later, like Philosophy, when my work load is lighter.
With this schedule I can work 16-18 hours a week. It's not terrible. They are gonna be long days (Working from 8-12 and then classes+bus anywhere from 1pm-7pm) which means excessive amounts of coffee to keep me going, which means spending money, which means needing to make money. Quite honestly, the job is getting dull. I know I shouldn't complain! 20 hours a week, very chill, a lot of time spent surfing CNN or trying to find the next camera I'm going to buy. I shouldn't complain. Hell, I have a job! I just wish I didn't feel so guilty for doing so little work at work! It's not like I don't try, I do ask people if they need something done, but with the new gal they hired I'm only working up front with two other people. One who is always on top of her work and the other who is never on top of her work but never has stuff for me to do except busy work.
I kind of fail at not complaining.
3. Going to Denver from July 24-August 14. c: More on it later, Sammie needs to try and sleep. | | |
| What happened to actually featuring content that was thought provoking?
Seriously. I'm fine with, like, the personal experience blogs. Those can be interesting reads. This is a blog site first and foremost, not a news site. But there's a fine line between "The Not So Beautiful Portrait" by colormethespian and "The Rare $2 Bill" found on Dollarish. Seriously? A post about the two dollar bill? They aren't that rare, you just have to go in to the bank and specifically ask for them. I do enjoy reading a lot of the religious blogs, those certainly thought provoking for me. I like thinking. I really, really do.
But what happened to the ones that sparked discussions and debates? Are we so afraid of confrontation that we have to avoid it all together? I might not comment a lot but I do read the comments and some people can get down right nasty in the comments. Not quite sure why the expletives needs to come out when discussing the pros and cons of females covering their heads for God (I could not find the exact blog but this was featured on Revelife a little while ago. I do not know if expletives were actually brought out, this is just an example of people getting worked up over a rather minor detail in the world of events.) I suppose if you are going to get angry, you should get angry.
My meditation teacher was talking about how it's important not to let emotions rule you and to never become angry or furious. But, my first thought was... if you never get angry, how do you get anything accomplished. I'm not talking about English homework, I'm talking about real-life real important situations, not the comparison of two game consoles. Stuff like Iran and North Korea and equal rights and the economy. (Despite my comment on English homework, math homework is in this category.) Those aren't fun things to talk about or think about or really acknowledge, but the fact is there are tons of people in Iran who can't access YouTube. This is not a travesty because they cannot watch the newest episode of Fred, this is a travesty because their speech and thoughts are trying to be quashed by a government. North Korea is building missiles. Last time I checked, those are bad. Correct me if I'm wrong. Why aren't we talking about those things? If no one ever got angry, nothing would be done about these things. We would be spineless. We would be doormats.
I'm not the poster girl for this. My knowledge on the situation in Iran kind of ends at: the access to YouTube and Twitter and Facebook is limited to proxy service because of the jacked up election. My knowledge on North Korea is stated above. I'm not even saying you should come on to Xanga for your news. That's what CNN and MSNBC and the Nightly News are for. Simbathe2nd posted a blog about how Twitter and Facebook are boring. He listed various reasons which are his own opinion, whoop-di-do. I'm just keeping this relevant. The thing about Twitter and Facebook is that they spark discussion. Xanga is and always will be first and foremost a blogging site. And I'd like to see it remain that way. Facebook and especially Twitter are geared towards people talking about #iranelection and #prop8 and #actuallyimportantissues.
Yeah, Xanga should be a place where you can complain about your boob size and talk aboutvideo game music and your brain. But, I'd also like to see posts by people talking about things that aren't superficial (come on girls, in a perfect world where the issues in Iran and North Korea didn't exist neither would these issues with mammary sizes) or totally pointless (am I the only one that turns the music off when video-gaming? that stuff's annoying!). I'm sure these things (the real-life important ones) are being talked about on Xanga, maybe I just need to learn how to use the tags. | | |
| Books of 2009January
1. The Dead Girl's Dance by Rachel Caine
2. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
3. Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine
Feburary
4. Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine
5. The House Next Door by Richie Tankersley Cusick
6. Evermore by Alyson Noel
March
7. Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine
8. Lucky by Alice Sebold
May
9. The Wave by Todd Stasser
10. Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr
June
11. Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine
12. The Martian Child by David Gerrold
13. Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
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