Uninspired

I figured it's been a while since I posted so I'd let you know that I'm still alive, although haven't been home much. Baba came up for her knee surgery on Friday and I think I've spent most of my time at the hospital since then. She went home yesterday and is doing really well. I guess that means I have to do homework now and have no real reason for procrastinating.

Other than that, I don't think much else has happened. Well, aside from the whole getting abducted by aliens who took me to their planet, made me there queen, and then by some horrible gaff in killing the dude who was supposed to be my king, who I thought was some creep in the night, sent me back home to live out my existence forever knowing that I probably somehow doomed the human race in a midnight battle to the death with the alien alliance. So I guess I should apologize in advance for any future alien abductions that turn out to be horrifying ordeals filled with torture and pain. I should also learn not to have such an overactive imagination and realize that aliens are nice creatures, eventhough they laugh at our technology because there's is so much more advanced...blah blah blah. Oh well, maybe it's better not to be the queen of a race of super cocky aliens who think their so much better than us. "What, you have a superneutron realigning laser? Ya, well, I know karate, and the names of six of other martial arts!"

Anyhoo, I'm going to go eat the rest of my peanut butter smoothie cheesecake and revel in my earthly inferiorness.

Take Care and beware of signs that point to cheesecake set on very large visible nets. Damn my chocoholicness!!

Thinness isn't worth dying for

I've been working on a paper for my social studies class these past few days. It's supposed to be a paper on an issue affecting women, so for lack of anything else to choose, and maybe knowing I could find a lot of info on it, I chose dieting and women. I know that there are so many women out there that are so convinced that they have to look a certain way in order to get somewhere, but somehow I don't think I ever really fully comprehended the shear amount of women that would literally die to be thin. As I was reading through these articles it made me feel sick the things that women do to their bodies (I won't even begin to list them) to become thin. I guess I just started realizing how lucky I am not to be in that same situation and how lucky I am to have parents who always told me that I am more than just a set of tits and an ass and that I don't have to conform to the extreme thin ideal in order to get where I want to be.

Another thing that I started thinking about as well is how we as a society went from idealizing a size 10-12 for a woman to idealizing Kate Moss with a dress size of...2 maybe? Or is that still 'too big'? In relation the the size thing I was also reading a recent article that says that the size 14 (which is what many plus sizes start at now) is the average size of most women and a 40 waist is the average size of most men. The set up of the article seemed to me that they were condoning people of these sizes and seeing them as too big. What I'm wondering though is who is it exactly within the media or fashion industry that decides what size is 'to big'? Quite frankly, yes, I am probably a little bigger than is the 'ideal' weight for my height, but quite frankly, even if I reach that weight, I don't think I'll be any smaller than a size 12. Why? It's because I HAVE HIPS!! I love my hips. Most women have hips. But for some reason the fashion industry seems to not want to acknowledge this fact and keeps making a lot of clothing to fit the supermodel figures on magazines which are often an image of not one women, but many. Surprised? You really shouldn't be. Now with the technology of computers, the ideal female figure is an impossible goal unless you are naturally that thin, and even then, there will still probably be something the someone would think wasn't quite 'right', which most women aren't, nor do they have the bone-structure for it either.

I guess it just sickens me the amount of women who are trying to reach this unattainable ideal and I sort of feel sorry for them as well because the time they are spending trying to pattern themselves after what they are bombarded with, they could be spending doing something...finding out who they really are, and what their talents are that will ultimately help them succeed more than a size 2 waist and a DD chest.

But with that little rant being said, I should go move the towel back into the bathroom sink as my cat is yelling at me because it got moved out and now she can't go to sleep.

Take Care

"I'm very proficient with a spork, but I also swing a mean sock of Legos"

I've added a new link to my sidebar for any of those that are interested. It's a link to Jann Arden's online journal. I know there are people out there that may not like her, but I honestly believe that she is a truly amazing person and deserves to be recognized for all she does. I love her music and her amazing sense of humor which often seems to come out in her writings. All in all I've added it because I think it's something that is a very good read for all the writings it contains. Whether anyone that visits this page agrees with me or not, I still think it's well worth a look, and I hope at least some of you do too.

Take Care

I'm not that gullible

I was waiting for my class to start this afternoon and was wandering around the hall looking at the articles on the wall to pass the time. One of the profs posted a story from The Onion (and online newspaper that contains much satire...I can add it to my links list for interest sake) that was, as I saw it, to poke fun at dieting. As I was reading it, one of the profs was walking by, stops, leans over and has the tenacity to tell say "I think that's supposed to a joke". Normally things people say don't irritate me that much, but this did. First for the reason that he is supposed to be an educator of high esteem teaching people that do have some smarts to them; so to me this would seem as if he thinks I'm too stupid to recognize fact from satire. The other reason it irritated me was that there was possibly some underlying message that just because I'm female I'm looking for any diet I can get my hand on to allow me to lose weight and look like some skinny supermodel. I don't know, maybe I'm just reading to much into his comment, but it still irritated me on some level. But I also know that I'm never going to look like some supermodel and I'm fine with that. I have no problem with the way I look, but if someone does, that's not my concern. I'd rather live my life being known for what I have accomplished, not for how skinny I can be. I suppose I just find it kinda sad that he would potentially think that that was the reason I was reading the article, and also that I would take something like that seriously.