Wednesday, February 02, 2005

early afternoon

Help Me - I’m Addicted To “Mommy” Blogs

I’m gay.  I don’t have any kids.  I rarely see any little kids (sorry Bryce, I’ve been a bad lesbian neighbor/aunt), yet almost all the blogs I read regularly are Mommy Blogs.  Sure, they’re the raunchy, cynical and angry ones, but they’re also funny.  And sweet, in a “I’m so glad that kid’s yours, even though s/he is cute, because I want to use the bathroom alone and I want to be the stranger that looks at you in horror when your child is having a temper tantrum at the grocery store” way.  All of my nieces & nephews are now teenagers, so they rarely do anything utterly cute.  Sure, I marvel at how they’re growing up so quickly and how smart & funny they are, but when they get in trouble, it isn’t cute anymore.

(to be cont. - must go grocery shopping, now)

Oh, and AdSense, while I’m gone, please figure what my content is and quit giving me ads on grief counseling and flowers.  I’m feeling a little angry these days, but I swear I’m not going to kill anyone, and then send flowers.
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I’m back.  As I was stating up there ^, I’m a lesbian.  But at the grocery store tonight (Vons in Centennial Hills), there was a dreamy guy shopping, alone.  He looked like a combination of my cute next door neighbor (picture a white Derek Jeter) and Luka from ER.  Be still my little lesbian heart.

Back to “Mommy” blogs.  Perhaps I need to broaden my horizons, check out some single people.  Oh wait a second, I’ve checked a couple of the miscarriage bloggers, and go figure, they’re funny, a lot of the time.  I guess it’s like comedians—hardship oftens brings out the funny. 

Ugh, pain has mostly been something that’s occasionally annoying since the Carpal Tunnel/Thoracic Outlet Syndrome of the early aughts.  I now realize why the pain has been diminished.  I haven’t tried lots of typing and coding and fiddling online.  My forearms are now killing me, my elbows are burning, my fingers numbing.  Crap, I really am 34% or whatever % they said, disabled.  It’s kind of depressing.  I’ve been enjoying the writing, even if no one is reading.  It’s time to see if my custom-made (I so rock) wrist braces will help.  I never thought I’d have to wear them again, even if they are the slickest looking braces around, in Maple Leaf blue—made even before I liked the Leafs.  Hmmm.

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

evening

Idiot of the Day - High School Students

Don’t even tell me that this isn’t frightening:  “Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high-school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.” —from an article in the Seattle Times

I don’t even know where to begin.  Is it because these kids think that everyone is going to believe exactly as they do, so they’ll only be censoring the “wackos”?  Or maybe they don’t even bother to think that deeply about the question, figuring that it won’t matter in their lives.  Well, kids, listen up!  Unless you want to be living in Nazi Germany where everything was censored and “cleansed” (euphemism for genocide), you’d better start believing in the First Amendment.  And really, unless the government is sanctioning murder & mayhem, how on earth can anyone go “too far” in guaranteeing people rights?