I didn't know that a link to this article (I read it while I was in New Jersey) existed, but now that I found it via SBTB (my current temporal crack), I felt like sharing.

Has Hillary Clinton's Campaign Caused a Feminist Reawakening?

FYI: The article's front illustration was designed by design superstar Paula Scher

One of the best written articles I have ever read in my entire life (but then again, that may just be the bias talking). Technique-wise, it isn't a plagued by emotional overtures (which I confess to doing a lot when I am running out of ideas), and was light yet compact (meaning it was insightful and informative yet not burdensome to read). This is how I wish I could write one day.

On the actual content itself, it relays exactly the general unease I feel with modern Filipino women's complacency about the status of feminism and female empowerment in the country. You think it's not a problem, but that's because you're so used to living in that particular way. I feel like there is a decidedly marked lack of awareness amongst my peers, and even amongst people I consider my elders, that's a scary thought since if we, the educated bourgeoise, are ignorant of this problem, then what more the rest of the Philippines?

And thinking about all of this, and all the implications that come with it, I feel a little bit overwhelmed. Taking up this cause means committing myself to not just fighting against prejudices which have existed even before I was born, but even prejudices I might unconsciously believe in too. This is about agreeing to detonate theoretical bombs that will inevitably push people together, and maybe even apart.

Oh the drama. I am positively giddified by all of this. I even made a feminist tag!

ETA:
I was so channeling Michel Foucault in my first feminist entry but this person says it better.

Feminism does not suggest that men are evil or that they hate women. It only suggests, particularly in the 3rd wave (Michel Foucault), that femininity and masculinity are false concepts. They are nothing more than roles created by culture to define and divide, roles we have allowed and perpetuated endlessly.

I do not suggest that men act more like women or that women act more like men. I suggest that there is not any such thing. Just as there is no such thing as a Black person acting White or a White person acting Black. These roles do not exist!

They only injure and shame, and I am tired of it.

As a Black woman in college, I see the racial and gender dynamics at work all around me. As a feminist at a time when it is very unpopular I only wish to build up all of the wonderful, beautiful men AND women around me, including myself. We all want the same things, regardless of race or gender. I hope that has not been completely forgotten.

Does anyone know of a perfume that has a strong vanilla/cookie dough scent?

Thank you very much in advance!

Revised Draft:

64 Pages, 32 sources, 1 paragraph devoted to Elvis.

Now I have to go into Imprints tomorrow to see if they will print this hulking monstrosity.

Wow, somehow I walked to the store, finished this, watched the entire Clannad movie (massively depressing...), looked over lit journal bibliographic info, and scrupulously cleaned my entire apartment today. I also ate a panini somewhere in there. It was a tasty panini, too.

Tomorrow I have to give a speech in front of a bunch of people who are way smarter than I am.

...I still have no idea who the heck nominated me for that.

This is Sci, signing off!

The main reason I love summer is that everyone's home from school and I get to see people again!  I've seen more people in the last few days than I have period since about Christmas break.  (Japan not included.)  It's been FABULOUS. 

Friday was interesting, to say the least.  We went to Dad's graduation, which was a very nice little ceremony at his rehab place.  One of his counselors said some very nice words about him and he got up and made a speech and then at the end of it we all shook hands with everyone and accepted everyone's congratulations and all that jazz.  Fortunately it didn't go on too long 'cause I had to drive Kiddo to school and then get myself to work.  That was a busy day. 

On Saturday, went to work early and then I hung out with the incomparable Jackie, which entailed watching Ghost and driving through some truly scary rain and eating the most fattening baked potato ever at Jason's Deli.  Good times were had all around.

Sunday was Mother's Day, so the family decided to go out to lunch to wherever Mom picked.  And she picked Luby's of all places.  ^^;; We were like "Mom, you can go ANYWHERE YOU WANT" but the woman wanted Luby's, so who are we to complain?  The line was long, but it was a pretty good time all around.  I wuv my mommy.  After we got home, Jackie and I met up again and went and saw Iron Man.  I'm reaally glad I got to see it again because it got even BETTER the second time around.  ^_^  And considering how much I liked it the first time, that's saying something.  I'm also glad that I saw it with Jackie in particular because we're both comic book geeks and she happens to be a Marvel geek in particular.  And she pretty much freaked the fuck out during the whole thing, especially the bonus scene after the credits.  It was awesome.

On Monday, I got up early and drove out to Dell Valle to pick up Dad, as he was now a free man.  At this point, i hadn't gotten a decent night's sleep in several days so the prospect of waking up EARLY to go do this was, shall we say, somewhat less than appealing, but I did it anyways.  It was kind of surreal seeing Dad again, much less DRIVING him somewhere, but it all went well.  ^^:; And he paid for me to fill up my car so yay for that.  I dropped him off at his old apartment (which is now Kris' apartment) where his truck still was.  I made sure he was okay and then went home to grab a shower and a change of clothes because I had to be at work at 11.

Got to work on Monday and discovered that I was going to be in charge of training the new host, a very sweet girl by the name of Cathy.  ^^;; It makes sense since I'm the senior host and all, but I'm REALLY not used to the idea of being a trainer of all things.  So that was INTERESTING.  I'm hoping I did an okay job and didn't confuse the hell out of her, poor thing.  I got out of work at 2:45 instead of 4 like originally scheduled because Coworker Brian #2 (there are now THREE Brians at work) is a sweetheart and let me go.  ^^;;

Noelle and I had made plans to hang out Monday night/Tuesday morning at Georgetown, but due to a slight change in plans, she decided that it was easier if she just crashed at my place instead.  ^_^  And since she wasn't done running her errands for the day, I ended up going home after work and passing out on the couch with Panzer for about an hour, waiting for her to get in touch with me.  She eventually did call me and I ended up going out to the mall to where she was buying clothes.  I hung out there for a bit with her and helped her shop (ish ^^;;) until she was done.  By that time both of us were STARVING so we went up to CPK because it was convenient.  I got the wild mushroom pizza and she got some crazy mango tandoori pizza.  ^^;; Craziness, I tell you. 

Headed home after that and just pretty much chilled for the rest of the night.  Played a few video games and watched a bunch of bad horror movies (Return to the House on Haunted Hill was my favorite of the lot.  THE HOUSE HAS A BRAIN) and were just generally very goofy until we decided to crash.  Noelle took my bedroom and I went and invaded Mom's bed for the night.  ^^;; 

Woke up the next morning and did more hanging out.  Watched the new version of The Amityville Horror, which was interesting.  Not sure if I like it as much/more as the original, but not bad at all.  Eventually got hungry so we went to Pei Wei for lunch.  Yummmmmy lo mein.  Mmm.  I miss noodles.  We also hit up Amy's and I got Mexican vanilla with chocolate chip cookie dough and graham crackers crushed in.  OH MY GOD HEAVEN.  So good.  ^_^  I'm gonna have to remember that one.  I also talked with the really good-looking guy working there.  -_-  I wish I had asked his name. 

Got home and chilled for a little bit before I had to head to work and Noelle needed to head home.  Work itself was fine. I trained Cathy again and we were fairly slow all night, so that was kind of nice.  My stomach started hurting really badly towards the end of the shift, but it must have sorted itself out 'cause now I feel fine.

Tomorrow is more work and some urgent errands.  I'm sort of stressed out about getting into ACC, but I can only try my best.  >_< I hate deadlines.  And also possibly cosplay shopping with Jackie.

But for now, it is time to SLEEP. 

Just watched 300. I knew that when I first caught a glimpse of the commercials, it was going to be purely retarded. Was I right? Oh hell yes. If it wasn't supposed to be mandatory for my American Studies final, I would have stayed far, faaarrr away from it.

300 was nothing but a pretentious, hetero-sexist, xenophobic piece of utter bullshit that ever graced this planet. To the producers and directors of 300, here's a big FUCK YOU.

And to that nasty mole woman who acted as the queen, pssh, go scrub yourself, ya hood rat. The only good thing that came out of this drivel was the actor who played Xerxes. What a beautiful, beautiful man.

Am gonna combat this pure stupidity by watching "Bride and Prejudice". Mnn, Aishawarya Rai, now that's a woman.

I have this absurd desire to say Vegeta, and see how many people get it. So, I will.

That salsa. Is authentic. Still feeling it. Oh yes.

And I made this. Comedy gold.

*scowls* As if I needed another addiction? I've made it to episode 167 since last Thursday. Wait, it's Tuesday. Thursday before last, then. 12 days, 166 episodes in between work, housework, and - oh, right. The chibis were camped out on my bed watching a good lot of them. One of these days I gotta remember that sleep is important!

*grumbles* Of course, that will be after I find myself a nice lot of interesting fic starring Renji or Ulquiorra.... or Ashida! Aizen-sama can kiss my ass. I don't like him. Gotten rather fond of poor Gin, though. He amuses me.

*points at bed* Going. Now. For real.

or not. Kids' spring concert was tonight. I recorded. If I figure out how to do it, maybe I'll upload to YouTube and let ya see the cuties.

Rave's bleached his hair. Mine's black.

From chaneystarr (try it here at Belief-O-Matic.) ( Religion Meme )

The first Phoenix Wright is still eluding me, but I decided just to screw it and play JFA anyway, and yes. It is truly kickass and I can't believe I missed out on it for so long. XD;; I THINK I'M ADDICTED, HOSHIT. ♥♥♥♥

And, er, alksdfjaskd trying to schedule all the meetings I need to have for Angel is...it's impossible, really, unless I double up on some of the shifts. T__T;; Which I could try doing, but that totally failed last shift because there's just so little time. UNLESS I JUST BACKTHREAD EVERYTHING but yeah. ;___; Everything just kind of happened at once because everything exploded last night and the IC repercussions are carrying over into dayshift now. |D;;

lololol I still hate you, WB, for axing the Dragonriders of Pern TV show because you wanted to pimp it up with modern slang and teen-speak. Die in a fire, WB. Just because Buffy was epic doesn't mean all your shows had to talk Joss-esque. I'm only half sorry you turned into crappy CW.

Copperheart Entertainment secured the rights in 2006, and said they hoped to make a movie... no news yet. It was originally projected for 2008 - so much lies. :( I'm hoping something will be made... 20 years down the line. Those were great books - not pure fantasy, but kinda sci-fi! I like things that have a grounding with something.

And speaking of:

The Red is a girl and the White is a boy. Together, they made a red egg! :D Which I abandoned by accident, oops. Resisting the huge nerdy urge to name the white one Riku. Axelle would probably not be a favorable name for red, either.

Wah~ but I picked up two silver eggs in a row! Lucky~



I'll not spam FList with this any more, promise.

Kittens! Two black and one completely white one so far!

They're so cuuuute

Ugh, but snot's making me nauseas!!!!! I'M A WIMP, BUT I CAN'T HELP IT.

I-I need to. I know.

I'm exhausted.

I think what I'm going to do is take a nap or just sleep for 7 hrs, wake up and do all hw.

I'm really tired these days. I don't know if it's from stress of falling behind or some other shit I have to take care of, or just school, but I'm fucking tired. Like, I really. can't. take. this. anymore. Why the fuck did I take hard classes this year? DX

And I miss Aibou. I haven't seen her in forever. And how did people see Into the Solace, aka the prequel to Beyond the Wasteland? Those are still rough drafts; I wasn't expecting people to look into my IJ. STALKERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS AJFLAJFLASJFALJF

Note to self:
-Take care of Solano stuff (summer and counseler appointment; this sunday)
-Take care of those cars, windows, fridge
-Take care of hw
-Take care of those algebra books
-Get caught up in precal
-Clean backpack

I had a thought. I think I really need to change my priorities or just rearrange them because this isn't working. I just wanna go to curl up in bed and don't ever wake up, ever.

Urono is too damn cute.... and with each lil episode only being 5 mins long.... my mental stability isn't too greatly affected... (HA!)

I wanna see lil kids cosplay the characters - it'd be like a massive Anne Geddes photoshoot.... HA! Tho a smoking rabbit and drunken unicorn probably aren't high on the list of "OMG, must dress my kid as this...."

勉強ダメでも、かけっこビリでも、コクってフラレても
毎日毎日、宿題忘れて学校で先生にしかられたって
イイじゃん、イイじゃん！イイじゃん、イイじゃん！

料理がヘタでも、そうじがヘタでも、車をぶつけても
毎日毎日、ゴロゴロダラダラおひるねばっかりしていたって
イイじゃん、イイじゃん！イイじゃん、イイじゃん！

ムダな努力も　ドッサリしたけど
カガミの中みつけたよ　コタエを

ケセラセラと　魔法の呪文をとなえてみれば
フシギ　全てが　キラキラ　輝いてくる
いつもと同じ　なんいも変わらない自分でいても
それがイイの差、世界でいちばんボクが好き！
世界でいちばんみんな好き！

DONE WITH SCHOOL! At least for one week!

Tomorrow! New internship!! Work!! Thursday... oh lord I dun' even want to think about Thursday. There are director's cuts up though and yeah. Hi director's cuts!

It was a pain and half to send that document because I was stupid and didn't realize just how big the pictures I was sending until about an hour after I finally got it to work. But it's over, and the grade will hopefully be Not Bad, and I do not have to worry about this ruining my GPA because it's already dropped since the transfer.

Tomorrow afternoon if I am not too tired I want to straighten this room up a bit. And rearrange some things. HAH. I can wish!!

I needed some Japanese style backgrounds for my Power point presentations and made some for it. Feel free to snag them for PPT or for your PC wallpapers :3 They are very simple/light coloured so that any text overlapping the images could still be legible. No need to credit. If you want to modify them, it's okay too.

The steps to personalise background in PPT for Windows XP is:
Go to "Format" > "Background" > select "Fill Effects..." from the drop-down menu > "Picture" > "select picture" and choose from your PC's harddisk the image of your choice > hit "OK" > "Apply to All"

And done! :3



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I am awesome at upsetting people, somehow.

in traditional work fashion, travel is on hold again *sighs* I'm getting tired, but not as tired as people who're trying to get their families sorted out as well. At least it's only really disrupting ME. I hate it when I'm all set to go, and crap gets yoinked again... It woulda been nice to have gone back to Japan, but methinks the boss said to those that get to decide that I'd "go native" and they pulled it. The buggers....

So... it's "lets spin the wheel and see where you end up time"... I'd say that I'm so sick of this shit, but it's really all par for the course (see all the way at the bottom for random amusement)

I can soooo see the English accent coming out tomorrow (aka, I'm pissed off) tho you never can tell which one it'll be - hell, I'd probably come out sounding like the Geico Gecko tomorrow at this rate.

So I'm back to deciding whether to rent the place out, or leave it empty cuz I'll be bouncing back and forth again *urg* Just watch... whichever way I end up going, it'll be WRONG. If I leave it empty, I'll end up not coming back every 2-ish months.... If I get someone in here, then it'll be "ooh, we're keeping you local for a while... nothing needs fixing...."

*snort*

I can't WIN this one....


RANDOM AMUSEMENT :

Quotes of the Week : (my comments in bold if it's a 2 part convo)

"It wasn't like I was naked, I was only playing golf!"
"The Titanic SANK, you idiot"
"If I come up to your office and grab you, what will your office do? " "define 'grab' for me.... " "
"OMG, it's 2:30 and you picked up the phone?"
"Here's your travel itinerary.... it should stay like that this time..... oh wait, that's before the revision."
"I spent over $1500 on my car while I've been here.....! " "does that include your parking tickets?" "oooh, crap.. No...."