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merchimerchToday has been a link-ful day.
First I got my horoscope from the Rob Brezny mailing list:
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Boobs: I wish I had them. Not enough to buy them, though." So testified skinny actress Lara Flynn Boyle in the *Globe,* rejecting the idea of getting silicone implants. Take your inspiration from her clarity in the coming week, Leo. Identify one of your half-assed desires--a vague wish that chronically floats around the back of your mind--and renounce it forever. If necessary, have a no-nonsense conversation with yourself in which you discuss all the reasons why the satisfaction of that longing is not at all crucial to your happiness
or well- being, and why, therefore, you will never again indulge in a serious fantasy about it.
This hits spot on with some of the issues I've been having lately. Especially when faced with Uzbek female tininess and submissive identity, I need to rethink my values. I don't even particularily want to be skinny - though I seem to be faced with that irrational desire on a fairly regular basis. If I were skinny noone would love me more and I wouldn't be more successful. I would however like to be healthier. The eating habits have been very manic depressive and now that I've been here for a while I need to discipline myself into normalizing them. I've gotten back into yoga, which is a good thing, but in general I think I need to do better at treating my body as a temple where the functioning inside matters much more than outside appearance.
And I finally found a link about the "maniac" that has been rumored to be running rampant through Tashkent since October. Apparently starting in January the rape and killing of young girls has been confirmed and the embassy even sent out a notice about it a few weeks ago. The rumor in neighborhoods are flying around and everyone is terrified. My neighbors from last year won't let their youngest go to school anymore for fear of the "maniac." Malika opa and Komila opa are both scared for their daughters and don't let them go out without adult supervision anywhere. It is effectively keeping young girls housebound at the moment, but the press hasn't said a thing about it. Here's a link: http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca2/rca2_343_1_eng.txt
Also, off of the brutal women blog I found an interesting link about the language used in federally funded pro-absistenance programs: http://www.siecus.org/policy/in_their_own_words.pdf
This year's list of the top 10 worst corporations in America:http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/10worst012505.cfm
And finally, the vending machine association of America's attempt to claim that some of the junk food in their machines (like sugary teddy grahams) are a healthy and appropriate snack for young kids: http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/vendors.cfm
Wow, no wonder I'm feeling the blues today.
First I got my horoscope from the Rob Brezny mailing list:
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Boobs: I wish I had them. Not enough to buy them, though." So testified skinny actress Lara Flynn Boyle in the *Globe,* rejecting the idea of getting silicone implants. Take your inspiration from her clarity in the coming week, Leo. Identify one of your half-assed desires--a vague wish that chronically floats around the back of your mind--and renounce it forever. If necessary, have a no-nonsense conversation with yourself in which you discuss all the reasons why the satisfaction of that longing is not at all crucial to your happiness
or well- being, and why, therefore, you will never again indulge in a serious fantasy about it.
This hits spot on with some of the issues I've been having lately. Especially when faced with Uzbek female tininess and submissive identity, I need to rethink my values. I don't even particularily want to be skinny - though I seem to be faced with that irrational desire on a fairly regular basis. If I were skinny noone would love me more and I wouldn't be more successful. I would however like to be healthier. The eating habits have been very manic depressive and now that I've been here for a while I need to discipline myself into normalizing them. I've gotten back into yoga, which is a good thing, but in general I think I need to do better at treating my body as a temple where the functioning inside matters much more than outside appearance.
And I finally found a link about the "maniac" that has been rumored to be running rampant through Tashkent since October. Apparently starting in January the rape and killing of young girls has been confirmed and the embassy even sent out a notice about it a few weeks ago. The rumor in neighborhoods are flying around and everyone is terrified. My neighbors from last year won't let their youngest go to school anymore for fear of the "maniac." Malika opa and Komila opa are both scared for their daughters and don't let them go out without adult supervision anywhere. It is effectively keeping young girls housebound at the moment, but the press hasn't said a thing about it. Here's a link: http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca2/rca2_343_1_eng.txt
Also, off of the brutal women blog I found an interesting link about the language used in federally funded pro-absistenance programs: http://www.siecus.org/policy/in_their_own_words.pdf
This year's list of the top 10 worst corporations in America:http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/10worst012505.cfm
And finally, the vending machine association of America's attempt to claim that some of the junk food in their machines (like sugary teddy grahams) are a healthy and appropriate snack for young kids: http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/vendors.cfm
Wow, no wonder I'm feeling the blues today.
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Date: 2005-01-29 05:51 pm (UTC)AARRGGHH!!!! (violently throws objects)
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Date: 2005-01-30 05:21 am (UTC)The extra funny thing is that abstinence programs are proven not to work. Teenagers are hormone-carbonated and are going to have sex. Maybe not all of them, but some of them (most of them I'd say). These programs will just make them too scared to protect themselves and then too scared to tell anyone and get prenatal care when they get knocked up.