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I only want to be my own woman . . .
After five and a half months of teaching, two weeks of flight-related bullshit, one almost-flight, five days stuck in a hostel in Tbilisi, an eight-hour layover in Warsaw, an eight-hour layover in Chicago (all hail
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Some assistance, please?
Guys, please, please signal boost if you can. I never ask for things from the internets, but I'm getting a bit desperate.
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Still no plane ticket. Still being screwed out of London. Still being dicked around by this program.
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The Cesspool of Weight Issues in Korea and Georgia
You know that rant I keep threatening to post about weight issues in third-world countries and how Western beauty/weight ideals are a threat? This is it, because I need to focus on facts instead of how depressed I am.
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And all the good boys? Baby, they're in grad school . . .
So, Liz Sladen has died, and there is rape and misogyny in one of my new Bright Shiny Fandoms (The Borgias, no I'm not shocked, I'm just pissed they took the Rape As Backstory/Break the Cutie route with Lucrezia instead of letting her become a HBIC on her own merit) and there is yet more fail in one of my current Fannish Loves (Glee, stop using ( Read more... ) -
I love this job, but ah, good god/Sometimes I hate this business . . .
So, a month and a half into this Georgia thing. It's been - shall we say - interesting. Here is the extremely-lengthy and personal account. Feel free to skip for mental health reasons.
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Who says you can't go home?
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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shooting
I cannot even begin to express my feelings on this horrible situation. So many people hurt or killed for some kid's twisted ideas of what the American political system should be. How can you justify anything coming at the price of the life of a nine-year-old girl, who never has and never will vote ( Read more... )