This Is The Thread Where I Say Pt 24: Baby Making ? Hot Sex or Business Arrangement?

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close mark, but she would have realized the salami was yooge a long time ago. lets just say the evacuation, as you put it...was filled with glee.

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When I just got to my desk, it was COVERED in new job folders, notes from coworkers (Please do this, that, and the other...), and a box full of samples. Meanwhile, a coworker is asking me about an invoice. Then a book almost fell on my head. Then I opened my work email and ay ay ay...

I want cake too :(

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I really like the new Bridget Jones. I'd read the book. I mean, it's almost exactly like the first one, but I really liked the first one. But I won't spoil anything for you.

No, no, I like Dahl! He may be a rockist, but he no longer makes a living at it -- for the past 20 years, he's done talk radio. And he's pretty funny sometimes. Also, his favorite band ever is the Beach Boys, so I can't complain too much. (Also also, Dahl is at least 10 years older than DeRo and a hefty guy, too, maybe not as big, though.)

I really like the new Bridget Jones. I'd read the book. I mean, it's almost exactly like the first one, but I really liked the first one. But I won't spoil anything for you.
Oh I've read the book! I didn't like it as much as the first, so I guess the film will be the same!

In other news, I might go see M4r!lyn M4ns0n tomorrow night!!! PROSTHETIC TITIES FOR ONE AND ALL.

Haha - you try having an Italian degree :|

Jaymc, I gave you a shout out on mine because I really liked that entry too.

Pink, Edge of Reason (the book) was a bit depressing and dramatic, but they gloss over it in the movie. You'll see.

Also, would you like some of my cupcake? It's a coworkers b-day today and she brought in chocolate cupcakes with white frosting and little candies on top.

Does he google his name now? ;-)

Tonight, what IS tonight for me...oh right, helping in friends Y and Guy's garden. :-) Then after that I don't know, probably clean up some reviews for the AMG and catch up with some listening and reading.

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I'm curious to see exactly how this pans out. Granted I'd say that 2/3 of our kids use drugs (at least) and about a quarter of my batch have PO officers. Although those are just as often for violent crimes rather than drugs.

For example, I am a special education advocate right now. The child has civil rights, and ANY individual, not just the parent, can bring a violation of rights to the attention of the Office of Civil Rights, or identify the child for evaluation if they suspect educational rights are being violated. Parental status is not the key, the violation of the child's rights is the issue.

The legal principle of in loco parentis you describe operates in lawsuits and in civil law; but the practical question of can a child's *civil* rights be legally violated--the answer is no they can't. There is no Constitutional right or law about being grounded, so this analogy doesn't work. I feel we are talking past each other somehow.

orbit, when and if I actually witness it, trust me, I'll see what can be complained about.

Except where we've ruled or otherwise decided that they do have those protections -- such as locker searches, maybe (that'll be fought back and forth for awhile), and desk searches might be objectionable on the same grounds. And in both cases -- child delegating to parent, parent delegating to school -- there are cases where an argument can be made that the trustee has abused or neglected their power. But those are after the fact arguments, it's rare that they can be used to prevent something.

In any event, my point was never "this search is perfectly okay," it was "these situations are not clear cut." Legal arguments can and have been made both ways, and they'll continue to be because it'll be a long time before we have a Supreme Court decision that settles the matter in terms broad enough to cover all the areas and specific enough to cover all the instances.

(NB I have not been eating ass or coming into contact with ass in any way)

God, I hate the atmosphere in this university. It's like people sit there stewing in their offices, always expecting the worse, and when they get it losing no time in telling EVERYONE (via email obv) exactly how unhappy and angry they are and how unfair everything is, and generally revelling in feeling hard done by and being proved right in their low opinion of everyone else.

I mean, yes there are probably major problems. But does the entire school (including the students for unprofessionality's sake!) need to read the argument going back and forth on email ALL DAY? No. Just fuck off and get a job somewhere else if you hate it so much.

or (aaargh) digestive problems resulting in reverse parastalsis (i think that's what it's called, when everything's fucked up and things go in completely the opposite direction (puking up....stuff that should be going out the other end)? (which makes me very happy that i don't have much in the way of digestive problems). now THAT would be literal. eww.

i woke up to the sound of snowplows at 4 am. the joys of winter... snow is pretty though.

how are you certain you don't like it?

-- Miss Misery (texan...), November 25th, 2004.

Good point. I probably should have added that I've never NOT bought something just because of the gender or orientation of the performers, either. It's definitely a slippery slope once you get on it. In my list, I also forgot to mention that I love Jr. Sr. (who I played last night), but they're only half queer, so do I get partial marks? And my comments about the new Gentleman Reg album should not be interpreted to mean that I think it's no good. I just haven't heard it yet. I'm sure it's as brilliant as Make Me Pretty, which was one of my favourite albums of whatever year it came out, 2002, I think? And it's very much a queer album. In one review, I think I said that this album should be to coming out what Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is to divorce.
I haven't been divorced, nor have I come out (not that there's anything for me to come out about), but I still like to hear songs/albums about things that don't relate specifically to my experiences. I definitely related to a lot of the insecurities and desires to be loved on the G. Reg album. Damn, now I've talked about it so much, I think I'll have to buy it next week.

I forget, doesn't the radio station have a library?

-- Casuistry (chri...), November 25th, 2004.

Yes it does, but aside from a few donations (including many, many from me) it really only goes back three years.

So, remember a week or so ago, I posted about the op-ed piece from the young woman about how she thought gay marriage was wrong and how would she explain it to her children?
There was a response in today's letter page that kicked ass, basically equating the equal right to marriage with women getting the vote and how many people offered similar arguments, like "what next, dogs voting?"
It was a great letter. It also asked if the woman thought explaining to her children why so-and-so has two mommies was difficult, how about explaining why all people aren't given fair and equal treatment by the law.

hey, hi, i'm out of bed! i might just consider that my accomplishment of the day...

(those muffins sound yummy)

Or have I... no, nothing's coming to me. If you're bored, you might like this golf game (honestly, it's really good).

I've been up since 9 a.m. I finished making this concotion featuring cranberry sauce, cream cheese, and Cool Whip, and my hands got really sticky until I washed them. I'm not cooking any turkey right now because we're scheduled to go to at least two different places today -- three if we end up going to yet ANOTHER place "just for dessert and coffee". It's been pretty much the same routine for the past five years; we go to one relative's house for the big dinner and another's for the dessert. We don't exactly come empty-handed to either, though -- we always provide at least one or two dishes for each place. Today, we're carting over half of the cranberry slop, the canned corn (the Wal-Mart brand I prefer), and some dressing (just for Mom and me) over to one place, and the other half of the cranberry slop for the other place.

I really should be downstairs, though. Have to leave the house at some unreasonably early time, as per you-know-who's wishes. ;) I've got the VCR set to record some "Queer Eye" specials that are going to be running throughout the day because I am a lame fangirl type, thanks for asking, and the only thing I need to do now is put on a little makeup (special occasions, you know). Hope you guys have an awesome day!

I wonder why we Brits eat turkey at Xmas? I'm sure the answer is extremely easy to find in internetshirre, but I'm not going to look as I'd like some kind ILXor to tell me. I am suspecting TURKEY MARKETING GONE MAD as it's a pretty dull, inconvenient meat. I think Sarah* is going to do us chicken tomorrow night. I am excited.

*or me, if she's feeling too under the weather.

This is the first thanksgiving I've done in four or five years. My mom asked me to please come and I was going to b/c my friend was going with me but then she cancelled out at the last minute. D'OH!

Fucking hate holidays. Don't even like eating. . .

Mark, isn't turkey some sort of traditionalish holiday meat selection or something? I mean, not like I have any idea; all I know is that we (Americans) got turkey from the English settlers who brought it along with them. Or something. Trying to remember what that whole story was.

I've officially gotten my first wardrobe veto of the day. Mom disapproved of my slightly casual appearance, because, she reminded me, we ARE going over to that second relative's house, and if you look up "one-upmanship" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of THAT set of relatives. Yeah, so I have to look better than usual. That's why I'm up here again. Which means I need to get moving. Ugh.

(I wish we could stay with that first set of relatives throughout the day. Gack.)

I suspect the tradition is simply because turkeys are large enough to feed many people without limiting the meat portion, and poultry in general used to be much more expensive, more of a luxury -- even less than a century ago, "a chicken in every pot" wasn't a promise of the bare minimum, it was a promise of a nice and comfortable standard of living, like promising "a steak every Sunday" now.

Thanks for the wishes Dee and I hope yours goes well too. I just don't do family. period. I'm going to try and grin and bear it for two hours and then hightail it back to Dallas.

Guess I'd better get going to. Have put it off long enough. . .

I am feeling better! Headache is still here but I took a shower and got a temp. job offer and these have cheered me.

I'm not hungry, but I should be. I wonder if I should eat before I go out. So far today I've had bran flakes and hard-boiled eggs and lots of sick meds. Blech. Maybe I should get a 'turkey and stuffing' sandwich on the way into town.

Good luck with your thanksgivings, everyone.

Hmmm, it's so nice and dark and warm in here, I think I'll just rest my eyes.

except i got a hole in one once! but keep losing overall.

After work (in about 10 minutes) I'm gonna go downtown and buy the Spongebob sndtrack. Maybe I'll see the movie this weekend.

Other than him, of course.