weekend love and hate

[aftertherockets]

Things I love:
1. Brock taking me out to dinner so he feels less guilty about making me drive him to the airport tomorrow.
2. Feeling like I actually kinda look slightly cute today. :)
3. Megan calling me while I'm bored out of my mind at the library and avoiding my homework to tell me she's applying to the Peace Corps and she'd appreciate a recommendation from me! And that she'll be home on Tuesday evening and we should hang out!!
4. The new Food Lion opening and having my toothpaste for ten cents cheaper than Safeway.
5. Seeing The Incredibles on Friday night, because it was the most adorable movie ever. Seriously, you guys.
6. Watching episodes of old school Buffy, in which Oz throws things on the floor because Wesley doesn't want to save his future wife from being tortured to death.
7. Watching the scene in Big Fish where Alison Lohman opens her window to find Ewan McGregor standing in a field of daffodils. (Because after seeing that movie in the theater, I totally get it! Ewan is the cutest thing EVER! And! And! Daffodils!)
8. Dr. Reed telling both my classes on Thursday to make sure we "eat until we puke" this weekend. And that he'll be spending his Thanksgiving in Las Vegas.

Things I hate:
1. Having to spend my afternoon being falsely cheerful to a bunch of kids and their parents who don't really care about what I'm saying to them.
2. Being asked questions and then having the asker not wait to listen to the answer.
3. Working in the library on Sunday nights. OMG SO BORING.
4. Having a stack of books sitting next to me reminding me that I have a ten page paper due way too soon.
5. http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com <-- SEETHING hate for this one
6. Having to spend five nights on my stepfather's couch this coming weekend. Woooo.
7. Spending most of this weekend working all four of my jobs so that all the stuff I had planned to do didn't get done. At all.
8. Thinking about and formulating an answer to my journal entry for history, because it just makes me all kinds of depressed. (Chapter 12 ends with Foner stating that, “because of the sixties, the United States, became a more open, more tolerant – in a word freer country.” Has this lasted or have we as a nation overturned the legacy of the 1960s? What is the legacy of the 1960s for college aged students today?)

Comments

[emulsion-lift.livejournal.com]

7. Watching the scene in Big Fish where Alison Lohman opens her window to find Ewan McGregor standing in a field of daffodils.

yesssssssssssssssssssssssss and omg alison lohman ineedtochangemypants


; )

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

I supoooooose she's kinda cute. ;)

[sihaya09.livejournal.com]

Please, please tell me that link's a joke.

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

I really wish I could.

Did you look at this thing? And the number of women who believe this stuff? I'm serious, I know I keep repeating it, but have you read The Handmaid's Tale Cause it's all so eerily familiar.

[sihaya09.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't read it yet. Is that the one about the girl and the other girls who pick on her by Atwood?

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

No, that's Cat's Eye, it's also good.

Handmaid is Atwood, but it's basically about America being taken over by scary right-wing Christians in an era where women are becoming increasingly sterile. So all the women who can still reproduce are rounded up and made into handmaids. They're sent to live with rich commanders and such and bear their children, in these really awful sex ceremonies in which the wife is present, like this really twisted threesome. It's hard to read.

And there's a whole lot more. The story basically follows Offred and how the whole country turned into a place that systematically stripped away women's rights, follows the loss of her husband and child, and there's this one really awful scene where the handmaids literally rip apart an accused rapist.

You should read it. It's entirely disturbing and relevant. And it was written in 1986 by a Canadian.

[khai]

Duh, you're cute EVERYDAY!