Past few days

[catsittingstill]

1) I crawled around under the house yesterday, insulating pipes and propping up the pink fiberglass insulation that should have been under the floor and in some cases fell on the pipes.  Kip was kind enough to come help.  My nose ran so badly I had to blow it on my shirt and I got fiberglass itchies on both arms and all around my waist.  But it is done.  And I am showered and in clean, fiberglass free clothes.  I still need to put a heavier grade of vapor barrier plastic under there but that can wait a while.

2) I went canoeing today as a reward.  I spent the morning running around doing laundry and dishes, and errands and didn't get ready to go until 3:30.  Fortunately I can put the canoe on the car in 20 minutes from a standing start, and take it off in under ten, so I still got in an hour of canoeing before dark.

3) I have got the end assemblies on my workbench done except that I still have to peg the mortise and tenon joints.  I am just about ready to start work on the top.  It would be great if I could get that done soon...

4) Someone thinks that pro-choice women are ugly.  To which I say "Whew!"  Why would I want the attention of someone who didn't think I had the right to control my own body?  I say "Me too--I'm very ugly.  Very VERY ugly.  I am soooo ugly that if you ever looked at me, even accidentally, every mirror in your house would simultaneously shatter from the sheer ugliness of it.  And your computer would show the blue screen of death forever.  Maybe you'd better stay home with the shades drawn.  You know--just to be safe."

5) Someone wants 2009 over.  To which I say "what?  Skip my birthday and Kip's birthday and Yule?  Are you MAD?  You want a fresh start--feel free to declare it Jan 1 2010, and just keep repeating that day until the rest of us catch up with you.  I will be over here giving presents and getting presents and eating cake.  When I'm good and ready to be done--which will happen, eventually, because nobody can eat cake forever--I'll let you know."

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think the lady on the pro-choice side with the black bandanna over her mouth is really cute. Great eyes and hair.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-)

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yay for the transparent biasing of cultural norms! Luckily it goes both ways -- the pro-life side mostly doesn't read as attractive to me, because none of them really look to be people who would be interesting to talk to. And everyone is happier this way.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Lots of airbrushed vacant stares.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Personally I suspect he just took a lot of pictures and picked out the prettiest (in a conventional (how else?) sense) of the anti-Choicers and the least pretty (in his opinion; I thought many of them looked interesting and lively) of the pro-Choicers.

But whatever. If he's turned off by freedom, he's no loss.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

+1, all of this. and the bit about stalkers, too. *shudder* Wonder how he'd feel about being owned... but I don't wonder too hard, that way lies madness.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Who wants the admiration of someone who thinks your body isn't your own. That would be like getting the admiration of a stalker. I like being admired as much as the next person, but I would hope I'm not self-destructive about it. Sheesh.

[gingicat]

I keep reminding myself that it's already a new year, 5770, and it will be better. :)

Besides, mom-in-law and her twin are turning 70 in December two days after my daughter turns 2. Can't miss either of those! And Thanksgiving! And Hanukkah! And yuletide fanfiction! :)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-) There are a lot of December babies out there. And a lot to look forward to, in my opinion, anyway.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Re: 4: if one is so shallow as to decide such an important issue based on appearances, they deserve the bimbettes they get. And to have to support them, because they sure won't be smart enough to make it on their own.

That said? I know some pretty damn hot women who are vehemently pro-choice... and lesbian or bisexual and poly and who don't occupy a pew on Sunday morning and any number of things that would make Tammy Faye Baker have an apoplectic fit... and who are smart enough to give your computer a permacase of BSOD with a few keystrokes (but who would consider cracking mirrors a waste of energy and karma).

(Gripping hand, whether somebody is hot or not, to me, depends as much or more on what's between their ears as what's in their Victoria's Secrets...)

As for killing off 2009 early, DA HELL! I have Great Big Sea, OryCon, ASH Productions at Wayward for the first time, and a Seanan McGuire reading to see before this year is gone. Nevermind turkey day, Yule, and exploring Columbia City with a lady who tickles my funny bone. I need to give Scalzi a piece of it, if I'm not late to the party... I usually like him, but he done stuck his foot in de tar baby this time.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-) Comments there were running about 3 to 1 in favor of ending 2009 early. Feel free to add in your 2 cents worth, though.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Actually heard some right-wing radio hack yesterday claiming that attractive women, women who care about their appearance -- because, y'know, the Right is all about "you just aren't working hard enough" -- are considered traitors by feminists.

This is what that side has been reduced to: all your women are ugly, neener-neener-neener.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Heck, I'd be okay with it if they were correct. Not that I think they are, mind you. But think about it.

A shallow concern with physical appearance is just what I'd expect of conservatives. A deeper appreciation of a woman's mind and spirit, and the understanding that beauty is only skin deep, is just what I'd expect of liberals. (Note these are general tendencies, not absolutes--I'm sure there are some conservatives out there--probably the more moderate ones--who value a woman's mind.)

Given those, conservatives are likely to drive women who aren't beautiful away. And the women who remain are likely to work harder to appear still more beautiful, because that's what they're valued for.

Add into that the feelings of male entitlement (in this case the idea that men are entitled to have the women around them make an effort to be sexy, and to judge women on that basis, while women are not entitled to similar efforts on the part of men, or to judge men similarly) that are so prevalent among conservatives, and of course they're saying things like that.