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Name: Emily
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Metro: Dayton
Birthday: 7/31/1982
Interests: laughter, books, music, mysticism, singing, card games, writing, puzzles, my husband, friends, family, grad school, biking
Expertise: egocentrism, listening, asking questions
Occupation: Administrative
Industry: Education
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Yahoo:  jane73182
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| When it rains, it pours. Well, here in southern Ohio it's raining off and on today, so I guess it's an exception. Family and friend life is interesting of late but not overwhelming. Please pray for my great aunt in Michigan who is having kidney and infection issues. I don't pray for any outcomes to change, but I do ask for the strength for all family members who will have to deal with whatever comes. My aunt's husband has dementia and I don't see things happening easily.
I learned all of this when I didn't answer the phone when my grandmother called. Later I talked to my dad, who had talked to her, and he filled me in. Then I left a message for Grandma offering to drive her wherever and to help her with computer issues. My dad had other news too, though. He's in Missouri visiting his mother and my mother (shoulder surgery stuff; that's going really well, by the way). He up and bought a truck! It's a used basic model Ford Ranger - manual transmission, nothing frilly or fancy. I guess he's been talking about it for a while as a car to supplement his little used old BMW when the weather is less than favorable, but stuff like this always seems to happen out of the blue. I'm glad he's doing what he wants to do.
Tonight hubby and I are meeting another couple at the local comedy club, where I got free tickets. This week is book club on Monday but no yoga Tuesday. Then this weekend we're planning on going 3.5 hours northeastish to visit friends for a fun food festival and hanging out. Hubby will have to rework his work schedule because his manager apparently forgot that she had granted him leave for both Saturday and Sunday. No, they don't call it leave, but as a former Air Force brat with an enlisted brother I'm close to and a good friend who's a sailor, I still find myself using the lingo.
I'd apologize for the boringness of today's blog, but
a) it's quite a contrast from my last one, which few people wanted to touch (partially, I'm sure, because I haven't been a very good visitor or commenter myself lately) and
b) it's my journal  . Some days I'm philosophical, some whimsical, a few confrontational, and days like today I just need to catalogue what's going on for posterity and personal understanding.
Peace, y'all
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| Rantiness... It's like Truthiness*edit - I wrote this yesterday. It's true of the time I wrote it, but the vim and vigor aren't here anymore.
In theory, I really like the idea of a super libertarianism in which we all work on our own, individually, without intervention, but it's
a) completely antithetical to Christianity (a lot of the libertarians I know call themselves Christians)
b) impossible
c) contradictory to progress in any form
We have two political parties, and for anyone to think that one is Big G and one is small g is also ludicrous. People have this crazy instinct called self-preservation. Politicians, dear creatures that they are, are no different. They want to stay in office. And reducing the size of government might cost them their jobs, or at least a pay cut, so none of that. So... how do the United States's two main political parties break down?
There
are some cool "conservatives" out there who are really libertarians -
they want no intervention, no programs, no nothing. Fine. But this includes no intervention in my social rights either. So see above.
Ah, now down to the real two.
There are traditional Democrats - "let's make it look like we're
redistributing the wealth, giving money to highly bureaucratized
welfare systems and stuffing half of it down our pants in the process. We believe in women's reproductive rights and social
liberties in general. We like fringe issues and have trouble deciding our stance on defense spending - it depends on whether our constituents see babies or seals being killed."
And traditional Republicans - "no money to baby-killing but yes to
killing convicted criminals. We think you should have all the rights
you want to your own money, except for the money we need for military
spending. Oh, and if you're a corporation, we'll give you tax
loopholes out the ass while everybody else has to pay for you to pollute the air and drinking water. But that's okay, because the Free Market will eventually get rid of the bad companies that do this. No
civil liberties, because God doesn't like them."
Democrats want to control your morality by forcing you what TO DO with your money.
Republicans want to control your morality by telling you what NOT to do. Period.
... I find myself discussing the idea of America as a Christian Nation (despite Thomas Paine and Constitutional freedom of religion) and claims by many that the deChristianification of our nation is leading to an imperfect Democracy (wasn't it really a republic anyway?), Capitalism, and taking away our other Freedoms?
... And another question. According to most Christians, isn't FREE WILL where sin came from?
Wasn't the Fall, when the binary of good versus evil became apparent, a
bad thing? So... wouldn't this Freedom be a bad thing? Should we be submitting to the will of God (and who interprets what that is? Don't tell me there's only one way to read the Bible) or embracing Freedom in America? I don't really get how the two can coexist as written.
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| My side ribs feel wonderful today - still - from Tuesday night's yoga. Hubby hugged me last night and popped my back in a good way.
Our book club will be reading Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright. (Tracy, by the way, is a woman.) I've seen her stuff on shelves before and am excited that Jeri recommended it and the ladies agreed. Hubby picked it up from the library for me. Perhaps I'll be good and start it tonight. Ah yes, reading Chevalier's site I am reminded that this is about William Blake. While I am still caught up on Keats's "Negative Capability," William Blake remains the intrigue of the English Romantic Poets. No, it's not just pretty landscapes and dull, empty romance. Dig under the poetry to the hearts of the poets - and their private notes and letters - and there's a lot more there. I don't know it well enough to teach it, but I did have an amazing teacher last fall who made a subject I thought I would hate totally come alive for me.
Wow, that rant went somewhere I didn't expect. Zut alors!
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| Tonight was yoga, so I feel stretched, relaxed, focused, centered. For some, this is an easy, natural place from which to write. I'm not feeling pressed to say much of anything, though, so I'll observe from over here.
I hope everybody is doing well in this season of heavier travel, hotter weather (in this hemisphere, anyway), and longer, sometimes lazier days.
Listening to some embarrassingly fun Pussycat Dolls (Jai Ho!!!) and enjoying this weird smoothie I made with ice, light chocolate Silk (soy milk), a few Whoppers candies, and *gasp* Fiber One cereal. It's delicious. I realized I was out of raw oatmeal and I like a little texture in my smoothies once in a while. The cereal is perfect.
And now for something completely different...
"Wading in the Velvet Sea" by Phish
Thank you, Katelina, for that introduction.
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| Why don't more places carry badminton birdies in stock in the warmer months? I went to the grocery store (because it was close), the dollar store (next door), Target, and Walmart, and none of them had it. I was running out of time, as I had a dinner date at a friend's house, but I went to Dick's Sporting Goods and found a canister of shuttlecocks and picked up a yoga mat for good measure. It helped me feel like it was worth it.
I was too late to the party to set up the badminton net, but I enjoyed watching the kids play with a massive frisbee, and we had wonderful grilled rosemary chicken, fruit salad, some seven-layer salad, and corn on the cob. Mm, teeth flossing generators . It's one of my favorite summer foods - that and watermelon, grilled peppers, my mom's barbecue sauce on anything, especially ribs.
I have a job interview tomorrow, and I figured out what to wear. I've had this new jacket I've been excited about, but the trouble was figuring out what to wear under it. With my beloved's help, I picked out a blouse, but it has to be ironed. I hate ironing.
Loving Life of Pi. I know you're sick of hearing about it, but I'm almost done with The Shack. I will finish The Amber Spyglass as well, though that one's going painfully slowly every other chapter. Maybe I'll hit the sack soon and read to make myself sleep so I'm fresh for the morning's interview.
Peace and Independence!
*edit - I will correct neither my subject/pronoun agreement nor my tenuous pronoun/antecedent connections. Hua!
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