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I haven’t abandoned this blog! Promise!
I’ve been absent a lot, yes, but I have reasons. For various financial reasons my job as an au pair is no more, and rather than switch to a new family I have been traveling in France, and am in New York now. Will be back in Florida at the end of the week, and then will be either re-vamping this blog to include more, or making a new one that combines my personal blog with this one. Dunno yet. But I’m still here. =D
London
Sorry about the lack of posts; I was in London and forgot to leave a post saying I’d be gone for a long weekend =/
Had fun though, so that’s good. I’ll write up a proper post tomorrow when I have more time. Chicken noodle soup or homemade enchiladas. Both are recipes I’ve been meaning to type up and keep forgetting about. =]
-Ariel
Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 10 and Open Thread
- “Why Amurika is F*cked”– eight minutes and twenty-two seconds of youtube wtf interviews with people waiting in line at a Sarah Palin book signing
- In the UK a straight couple was denied a civil union because those are for the gays?
- Escalation in Afghanistan.
- “Dinosaurs are for Boys (Girls Allowed)“- Sociological Images discussing androcentrism, “or the idea that boy things are good for everyone but girl things are only good for girls”
- On BPA in all our food packaging, how it’s effecting us, and who to contact to help stop it.
- Hillary Clinton and Obama in a caption-this-photo.
- Cats actually are evil. I win.
- [Edit to include this sexist pig’s shit:] Glenn Beck is OK with a Beck-Palin 2012 ticket, but Palin-Beck 2012 is too rich- she should just get back in the kitchen where she belongs.
This list is short. Sorry- most of what I’ve read this week wasn’t particularly share-worthy (imo) or filtered into my Google Reader at a time when I was just skimming. Anyone have any links or stories to tell?
Also, hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving =]
Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 9
Awesome: “Starting December 14, 2009, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine will no longer be a required vaccination for immigrant women and girls.”
For those looking for stores to boycott over the holiday season, here’s a list of the stores that say ‘Merry Christmas’ and those who are more inclusive, choosing a ‘Happy Holidays.’
“Meet the Predators“: a post on who rapes.
Glenn Beck, still being an asshole, compares universal healthcare to rape (are you kidding me?) using the Polanski case for an analogy that doesn’t even make sense to anyone who’s read or seen or knows ANYTHING about that case.
Two recent diagrams from Indexed that I liked.
John Stewart on Palin’s book tour, or whatever.
Tampa (the city I’m from) adds transgender protections to its nondiscrimination ordinance.
Chaz Bono in an interview on abc news: “…gender is between your ears, not between your legs…”
You don’t even need to see the before and after shots to see what a terrible, impossible photoshop job this was. An entire chunk of Demi Moore’s hip is missing (quite obviously) in order to make her appear even thinner.
After all that crap they put her through, Caster Semanya will be allowed to keep her title.
Oprah plans to end her show in 2011 and start a new one on her own channel.
[Edited to include links I’d forgotten to insert prior to the scheduled time this was posted for.]
Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 8
This is, of course, also an open thread. And sorry to be posting this so late, I need to learn not to let my computer troubles get the best of me.
- On dealing with ‘sexism doesn’t exist’ comments from other women.
- Hells yes. “at least 41 House Dems are writing directly to Pelosi, telling her that they will not vote for anything “that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law.””
- Just in case anyone hadn’t heard: “the Republican National Committee (RNC) has a health insurance plan for their employees that covers abortion.”
- Rachel Maddow. Apparently the teabaggers and the teabaggers are suing each other.
- Sesame Street in South Africa has a new HIV+ character on it’s show.
- India is friggin rocking right now, allowing people to signify ‘female,’ ‘male,’ or ‘other’ on ballot forms.
- Another study on math and how environment, more than innate ability, effects how women perform.
- On cancer and divorce rates.
Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 7: Open Thread!
Fuck. Okay so I had a ton of tabs open in my internet browser meaning to insert them into this post right up until three days ago, and my computer crashed and I lost them. Furious. Especially since I normally make sure to insert and save them into the post as soon as I find them and decide to use them as I’m aware of the fact that my laptop is old and crashes often. I did not, however, learn from this mistake and my computer crashed again last night after I found some more to post. And now I am just too tired and annoyed to find them again. So here is an open thread for anyone on here to post what ever they are reading/writing/cooking/crocheting or whatever else you want to blogvertise. Go for it.
Ridiculous.
“PORTLAND, Maine – Maine voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage.” -Via MSNBC
Can’t we have just one state uphold the legislation by popular vote? Fuck.
Sunset, Sunrise
According to the internet, the sun set tonight at 4:30pm. It was completely dark by five. And it’s not even winter yet. (Oh, and this is a more personal post, if you haven’t noticed yet.)
On the brighter side of things, today I have, for the second time, successfully bicycled up the ridiculously steep hill behind the house without falling off (the falling off was generally a result of me not having the strength to pedal against the hills steepness, the bike halting, then tipping to the side- the path curves.) So that was exciting. I was completely out of breath for the remainder of the way to the 6yr olds school, but my goal was to do it, and I have. Now my goal is to do it every day when I pick her up, in the hopes that by the end of the month I am not winded by the time I am at the top.
Last night I made this Moroccan dish for dinner, subbing the ground coriander for fresh coriander leaves/cilantro and leaving the cayenne pepper out (we don’t have any so I put red chili flakes on the side to sprinkle over if anyone wanted.) It was delicious. We ate the leftovers again tonight with a small salad (still yummy.) Tomorrow I plan to make a Thai red curry (pretty much my favorite dish.)
I’ve been very busy lately with my Danish lessons. I’m there three days a week for four hours. I find them particularly interesting because I am almost completely immersed in the language at home (and everywhere I go) so every thing I learn is like a small (tiny!) piece of a very large puzzle clicking into place. I had a twenty minute conversation with a woman from Brazil during break last week who didn’t speak any English. We got through [most of] an entire conversation speaking Danish, Spanish (me,) and Portuguese (her.)
Oh, and I have an appointment for later this month to get a pap smear. Hopefully this time it will come out clear, but if not the doctor will recommend a gyno (in DK you don’t just see a specialist because you feel like it, you have to see your regular doctor first and the doctor will recommend if you need to see one or not) and I’ll make an appointment. If this whole pre-cancer shit is still there it’ll probably be time to scrape it out. Who knows
And, lastly, I want to make some cute slippers to wear around the house to keep my feet warm. Anyone have any good patterns?
-Ariel
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! What are you doing for Halloween this year? (I will be dressing up as a Vampire ($5 teeth and some black clothes, what could be easier?) and going to a party at the neighbors house.)
-Ariel
Cook & Hook 
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