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I moderate web boards for teens, and today has been a lot of wandering around and explaining the female reproductive system. I feel shitty that these people are so stuck for information that they're asking me. My only qualification to talk about reproductive systems is that I've had one for 27 years. If you gave me a map of all the parts, I wouldn't be able to name most of them.
I'm sometimes tempted to award prizes for goofiest teen crisis of the month/week/hour, but mostly the whole teen thing hasn't changed much in the last decade and it all looks too familiar.
I'm knitting, but not the stuff I want to. I feel guilty about that: the stuff I want to knit is anything for me, but I'm working on a sweater for my grandma, and I don't want to start anything else till it's finished. My grandma is almost ninety. I don't want to send her something with a problematic neckline or insufficiently long sleeves. Problematic neckline and insufficiently long sleeves are accurate descriptions of my two completed sweaters so far, so I worry about that.
I'm spending waaaaay too much time on TWMIPoKL, and it's making me feel really ambivalent about M (who talked me into doing this, and is directing it). I've been dating M for a long time for me. I'd like it to not fall apart because I agreed to be in his play, but right now, I would rather anything than spend time with him and he knows it. It might be that I'm M'ed out by the 12 hours a week of rehearsal, and it will get better once we're done with this. It's hard to tell. This is the first acting I've done since "Bye Bye Birdie" in high school, and I'm not enjoying it. I don't think I would be even if the rehearsal schedule were less demanding.
These days, when I log onto hotmail, an ad for Bush pops up, informing me that his administration has resulted in a lower taxes, lower interest rates, and more jobs. The first two of these are indisputable. The third, I cannot help but notice, is a lie. It makes me think the Citizens to ReElect Bush think I'm dumb. These days, just about anything Bush does makes me furious.
Our kitten has come by to sit on my lap and explain his plan for world domination. It sounds like "Murrrrrrrrr". My understanding of Cat is naturally lacking in nuance as, sadly, I am not a native speaker, but I understand the plan to have something to do with the defeat of the laser jet printer and the subjugation of the Other Cat. The kitten is very determined about these things, and frighteningly effective. In time, I am sure, he will prevail. I wonder if I could get him pointed at slightly larger targets.
I moderate web boards for teens, and today has been a lot of wandering around and explaining the female reproductive system. I feel shitty that these people are so stuck for information that they're asking me. My only qualification to talk about reproductive systems is that I've had one for 27 years. If you gave me a map of all the parts, I wouldn't be able to name most of them.
I'm sometimes tempted to award prizes for goofiest teen crisis of the month/week/hour, but mostly the whole teen thing hasn't changed much in the last decade and it all looks too familiar.
I'm knitting, but not the stuff I want to. I feel guilty about that: the stuff I want to knit is anything for me, but I'm working on a sweater for my grandma, and I don't want to start anything else till it's finished. My grandma is almost ninety. I don't want to send her something with a problematic neckline or insufficiently long sleeves. Problematic neckline and insufficiently long sleeves are accurate descriptions of my two completed sweaters so far, so I worry about that.
I'm spending waaaaay too much time on TWMIPoKL, and it's making me feel really ambivalent about M (who talked me into doing this, and is directing it). I've been dating M for a long time for me. I'd like it to not fall apart because I agreed to be in his play, but right now, I would rather anything than spend time with him and he knows it. It might be that I'm M'ed out by the 12 hours a week of rehearsal, and it will get better once we're done with this. It's hard to tell. This is the first acting I've done since "Bye Bye Birdie" in high school, and I'm not enjoying it. I don't think I would be even if the rehearsal schedule were less demanding.
These days, when I log onto hotmail, an ad for Bush pops up, informing me that his administration has resulted in a lower taxes, lower interest rates, and more jobs. The first two of these are indisputable. The third, I cannot help but notice, is a lie. It makes me think the Citizens to ReElect Bush think I'm dumb. These days, just about anything Bush does makes me furious.
Our kitten has come by to sit on my lap and explain his plan for world domination. It sounds like "Murrrrrrrrr". My understanding of Cat is naturally lacking in nuance as, sadly, I am not a native speaker, but I understand the plan to have something to do with the defeat of the laser jet printer and the subjugation of the Other Cat. The kitten is very determined about these things, and frighteningly effective. In time, I am sure, he will prevail. I wonder if I could get him pointed at slightly larger targets.
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Date: 2004-03-02 08:32 pm (UTC)teens, taxes
Date: 2004-03-02 11:54 pm (UTC)Instead of awarding prizes, though, you could post an anonymized version of the goofiest story of the week for use here :)
That the Bush administration has resulted in lower taxes is very disputable. For most people, they've actually resulted in higher taxes. Bush's tax "cuts" have actually been a big tax shift from the rich to the middle class and poor. He's cut income taxes, especially the higher brackets, drastically. But for most people, the majority of the tax they pay isn't income tax. Payroll taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and user fees, become much more significant the lower down the income scale you are. Then there are expenses for the sorts of things taxes partly pay for, such as college tuition, health care, and so on. Overall, by cutting income taxes, the Bush administration has caused a lot of those expenses and fees to go up, and reduced federal aid to states. Along with some large unfunded mandates, Bush's policies have resulted in drastically increased state and local taxes and user fees, while payroll taxes have remained steady. So, most people are paying more, while the few people who were in the top income tax brackets are paying less.
http://www.bushtax.com/
Re: teens, taxes
Date: 2004-03-04 08:26 am (UTC)And very funny.
Re: teens, taxes
Date: 2004-03-05 03:11 pm (UTC)Re: teens, taxes
Date: 2004-03-05 05:54 pm (UTC)Which is to say, almost, and I'm keeping my distance.