After posting the meme on sexual assault I feel really upset. I feel like I was punched in the stomach. I had been planning to go to the Plough tonight and now all of a sudden I don’t really want to. I want to hide in my house and feel my bad feelings.
wordweaverlynn referenced misia and her post about sexual assault.
“I wondered for a moment what it would look like if just for one day, everyone who had survived sexual violence were visible as a survivor, if we could actually see the extent of it, if we could all know just how very not-alone we are. I wondered how angry and sad it would make me to know. I wondered how much power there might be in the truth.”
“This is about being public in regard to something that is normally kept a very big, very dark secret, thus ensuring that we can all pretend that This Sort Of Thing Doesn’t Happen To People Like You And Me.
It does happen to people like you and me. Trust me, I know.”
I’m a survivor of sexual violence.
No Pity. No Shame. No Silence.
If all the young laddies were linguists most cunning,
We would have fun with all of the punning…
Hey, since I have been asked by so many burgeoning pervs up in Davis… fine! I’ll come teach you guys too! Geez….. (wow this attention is sweet!) Lalu ya’ll!!
Wow was this weekend amazing. Amazingly good and amazingly bad. Mostly good. Almost entirely good. The bad was so rare (though spectacular) that I have decided to dub this a fan-fucking-tastic weekend. Yay me!
What happened you might ask? Well….
I went to the Italian Faire. What is that? Oh, It’s a Renaissance Faire with a slightly different name. I understand that there was actually some sort of plot and back-story around why it was in Italy, but realistically I didn’t know anything about it and I just did my thing. *smile and nod* I worked my very first faire this weekend! It was both cooler than I thought it would be while living up to every expectation I had for the experience. The drive up sucked monkeys through a straw though.
It took me six and a half hours Coming home took me two. This is a big clue for you readers that it should not have fucking taken so long. *sigh* Ok, I’m getting ahead of myself again. Telling a story chronologically is not a strong suit of mine. And I walked in tonight and Tom handed me a bunch of vodka to “taste.” Yeah. Right. Uhm, so I’m kinda fuzzy anyway. Yeah.
Beginning of story.
The NMA is the National Motorists Association and everyone should join.
http://www.motorists.org/
The National Motorists Association is a membership organization devoted to representing and protecting the rights and interests of North American motorists.
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Founded in 1982, the National Motorists Association advocates, represents, and protects the interests of North American motorists.
We are the organization that promoted federal legislation which eliminated the 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit.
NMA Objectives:
To guarantee the retention of your individual rights when using public streets, roads, and highways.
To support traffic laws based on sound engineering criteria and public consensus.
To protect your right to own and use the kinds of vehicles you prefer.
To support improved driver training and education.
To oppose speed traps and other traffic enforcement measures carried out for revenue-generation purposes.
To promote driver-to-driver courtesy and cooperation.
Average temperatures in January:
Spain: 9 degrees Celsius (48 degrees for us)
Germany: 1-6 degrees Celsius (33-42 degrees for us)
Ireland: 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees for us)
So basically, our choices are cold, really cold, really cold. Hmmmmm. Well, Spain lists snow as likely and Ireland just says rain. This is going to be such a hard decision.
(I’m going to make a new picture for traveling.)
Fine! I will immidiately post the news to lj.
Tom won a trip! A 7 or 8 day trip to Europe!!! (See, donating money to the NMA is worth it!!) We get to pick which package we want.
Ireland for 8 days, “From Dublin via the Dun Na Ri National Forest Park to Connemara.” Then it goes full circle round the island.
Andalusia for 8 days, “The Land of Cortijos, Haciendas & Palaces, Great Mosque, Moorish villages and Andalusia’s white towns will be explored.”
Germany for 7 days, “Munih, the Romantic Road and the great Castles of Ludwig II in Fuessen/Hohenschwangau.”
Decisions decisions… I know what I am doing for part of January!!!
And this would be how I book out way in advance. 🙂
According to: http://cheekysquirrel.net/squirrelname/index.php
I am Admiral Crazy Whiskers!!!
That’s right buddy. I’m an Admiral. You had better salute me.
This may or may not be my final announcement for this class in my lj. Depends on how panicky I get…. ACK!!!
The class will be $15 for non-Janus members. It is not yet 100% clear how many people I can get in. So if ya’ll want to go-let me know damn quickly!!!
It is next Thursday, August 5th in San Francisco. I will tell you that it is going to be near 8th and Folsom. (Those of you who can guess the location but aren’t Janus members shouldn’t just show up because they may or may not let you in.) Alternatively, I suppose I could start pairing people up with the Janus members I know. It wouldn’t be too hard for me. Remember this description? Bondage Basics
The doors open at 7 and the class runs from 8-10. I will somehow manage to not puke until 11.
I need one flexible boy and one flexible girl for demos!!!! I also want two girls who are going to the class anyway that I can dress up. You’ll like it! I promise! The girls for dressing up should be in the size 12/14 range or the stuff won’t fit. 🙂 (I am being bigotted and saying I want flexible people for the demos because it is just easier to show stuff on people who are easy to move around. I will probably pull someone from the audience at some point who isn’t flexible and show a variation for those who aren’t bendy.)
ok, breathe. ok, breathe. oh god oh god oh god oh god.
This ends your public service announcement. *beeeeeep*
Much to my chagrin I was looking at my calendar today and noticed that the CC Rider class that I was registered for conflicted with 2 classes for school (including the first day) and 2 weekend events that I can’t reschedule. Shit shit shit. k, fine. Called around. Now I’m in another one. September 9, 11, 12. It neatly wraps around my birthday. Happy birthday to me! I will be so fucking tired when I go in for a 7am class after my birthday party, but that is the next possible time for me to do it. I will load up on sleep in advance and just not drink. I will be fine. I function fine on 6 hours as long as I don’t make a habit of it. Now I will only miss one night of class.
It also means no Ren Faire that weekend. but such is life.
“I can’t call you a whore, you don’t have enough self control to be paid for this.”
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Intermediate Spanish: MWF 1:30-2:55
Psychological Foundations (something for the credential): M 4-6:45
Methods and Materials of Literature Research: M 7-9:45
Multicultural Foundations: W 4:30-8:15
This means that both Plough and Praynksters are off the list. 🙁 This means I can’t teach MWF unless I do kindergarden, which is far from my favorite. This means that given that SSG is gone, I won’t be dancing much at all!!! I will only have FNW/PEERS/Gaskell’s. Although, Fezziwigs is during this time period. Classes begin August 25 and finals end on December 17.
If I want to go to Pacific Friction I would have to miss a whole set of classes, which would make no one happy. Although, given that I do not ditch lightly, missing a class wouldn’t kill me.
Rough approximation of commitments (for myself)
Mondays: Mornings could be spent on homework. Afternoons/night in class.
Tuesdays: Work? Dates?
Wednesdays: Morning on homework. Afternoon/evening in class. Night… dates?
Thursdays: Work? Dates?
Fridays: homework/housework/class. Dance/dates?
Damn! All this free time! What in the world will I do with myself? Well yes, I will spend lots of time masturbating, but other than that I mean. None of these classes will be labor intensive for homework. I won’t have much reading. There will only be a few papers. It so rocks to have my schedule. The sadists among you might be asking why I don’t add another class if my schedule is such a cake walk. Well, I couldn’t add one one on Mondays or Wednesdays because of scheduling. There are no night classes on Fridays and I absolutely refuse to drive to campus 4-5 days/week. I’m spoiled like that.
The gown: http://northbound.com/Northbound.taf?S=w19&RegId=&bSize=325&_UserReference=CB8257CD4E09BAE140FC93B2
If there is someone on your friends list you would love to have an epic, sweaty, damn near legendary, completely mind-blowing, consciousness-expanding, 12 hour fuckathon with, post this same exact sentence in your journal…
This is the activity that you would pick above all the other lovely things you like right now. I am fully aware that most of us don’t just like one thing! Silly people.
I also feel the need to say that I like my friends and their answers. 🙂