Check yourself before you wreck yourself

Women and politics all right lets do this shit.
My migraine is all better, incidentally. Thanks for the 0 well wishes, plebeians.

What do you think, is it time to talk about gun control yet? Can we, huh, can we?

Had to tell 3 people to check themselves before they wreck themselves today.
Not going to have a gun control debate from 16 year olds who can't even legally own a gun yet.
BUT WE'LL BE ADULTS WHEN THE FULL EFFECT OF OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION IS FELT! One kid argued.
Yeah and I'm an adult now so clam it up.
We're reading Paradise Lost, goddamn. I don't have time for your bullshit one way or another.

Dear Mr Genachowski,


Media consolidation is dangerous to our democracy, and I urge you to back off on this subject. Please do not betray the American People by allowing Murdoch and his like to buy up all the TV and newspapers in America. 

Like you have freedom of the press now.
What a fucking joke.
That's what I tell these kids. English class is important because it'll teach you skills you need later in life to figure out how much the TV and the crap you read online is lying to you.
Also if I'm teaching the class it's also the last time in your life the written word won't be a lie.

Rather, we need the Fairness Doctrine reinstated. It would better serve American democracy to break up the already too consolidated media empires that exist to propagandize on American soil.

>Capitalism
>fair
plz go

Case in point: the american people want 500 million jobs NOW. What do we get? We get all the bobble heads talking 24/7 about THE DEFICIT - we get Austerity in the form of "entitlement reform" by which we mean stripping the social services we have already bought and paid for down to nothing, and giving rich people tax breaks.

AVE CAESAR.

We get states playing a zero sum game of musical chairs, trying to entice corporations to move minimum wage jobs from one state to another. This is crazy.

"I don't understand macro economics" is what I'm reading right now. 

One town in CT just paid over $100,000.00 per year each for a few tens of jobs, when they could have directly hired more than twice the number of teachers, firefighters, police and janitors to do real work for the townspeople, at a good remuneration rate. 

I spent a great deal of time considering my current economic and infrastructure policies in my empire.
I feel I've been-- perhaps-- remiss about my strong arm tactics before.
I don't think death should be the first step for corrupt bureaucrats. In many cases they serve a necessary task.
So, in cases like this, we should find the offending party and cut off the pinkie finger.
Then if they do it again the only answer is death.
In many cases these people have a great deal of education and training and it would be a shame to waste it if the pawn cannot perhaps be repurposed to serve in Caesar's great game.
Caesar is both kind and just.

Dear Mr President,

We hired YOU to fight for US in Washington.

A president is weak and can only maintain the status quo.

If you want real change you need a true ruler.

First You negotiate away all of our most important ideas - Medicare for all, adequate stimulus, tax the rich... then you "put on the table" our most cherished programs - Social Security, Medicare, support for the destitute...

I believe Caesar (the actual Caesar) taught us that it is better to die than to negotiate.

Negotiation is just another form of suicide, really.

Now you want US to fight the republicans for YOU? have you not been listening and learning these last three years?

God the government has you plebeians trained.

Fight the Republicans?
As if they're some sort of alien invading entity?

They're fucking Americans like you, for Christ's sake.
There isn't a Republican party to fight--

it's just a different group of idiots who disagree with your particular notion of macro level economics.

The republicans do what their corporate overlords want as expressed through their oracle the tea party.

Yeah buddy. If EVE Online has taught me anything it's that corpos are big assholes.

I thought that fighting for Democratic values was YOUR job. YOU have the bully pulpit. 

You elected a president expecting him to do something besides serve his own self-interest?

How fucking stupid are you?

I've joined the ranks of the unemployed. I've spent the last three weeks (when I wasn't calling on jobs) wandering around wondering what to do with myself. I always thought that if I didn't have to get in the car every morning and race to work, I'd jump on all those projects that I've been putting off for years - like writing, and blogging, and art projects and getting some exercise...

It turns out that self discipline is a whole lot harder than you'd think.

CHRISTMAS BREAK WOOOOO

This blog has no back button. I have to click on each month which then opens in a new tab.

I guarantee I'm the first person to even look for a back button on this cunt's blog but come on.

Obama invited Bush to Ground Zero for tomorrow's appearance... Bush said no.

If Obama called me and told me to come out and do something I'd tell him no too.

Listen, Obama, I'm sure it's important or whatever but I got battlecruiser orders to fill.

Here's a post about how full of shit the petroleum industry is-- amazingly, this post was entirely reasonable and I agree 100%.

Of course none of these thoughts were hers and it's just a copied image from another blog but whatever.

Dear Mr President,

I listened to your energy speech and I was amazed that we still cannot have an adult conversation about our energy problems here in the United States.

Stockpile all the petroleum in the world then blockade the Middle East.

I'll sell you gas, China, for ten thousand dollars a barrel.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Seriously, why am I not hired as an idea man?
Disband all government think tanks. I've solved 100% of our problems as a nation.

I mean, you all but said we should "drill baby drill". Your administration is giving out deepwater permits like they're candy, before the oil corps have even cleaned up the last mess they made. 

No don't worry about those permits. I'm then turning over 50% of those profits to researching alternate fuel.

0 dollars of tax money goes into this--

I've successfully cockblocked the growing threat of China

and I've balanced our budget

with a single war.

I guess fuck the last 5 presidents, huh?

I'm ace pro.

 Create an artificial shortage you dipshits.

I mean goddamn, it's like none of you play EVE Online.

What was that fuel source that Goonswarm blocked?

liquid ozone or some shit?

Why aren't cars powered by liquid ozone?

Everyday I'm not driving a car fueled by liquid ozone is another day of my life fucking wasted.

They still have not shown that they know what they're doing or how they can prevent another disaster in the Gulf. 

I'm waiting for that phone call.

When you people are tired of shit not going your way give me a call.

You just need a guy with an idea and the balls to execute the idea.

Take this cocksucker in EVE Online. He was mining my kernite.

So I asked him, kindly, if he could leave some for me.

We can share. I'm not greedy.

When he said the entire system was his I decided to show him how mistaken he was.

In this situation I'm the Taliban. His characters were better trained, had better equipment and everything.

And yet I can lose everything I use to mine thousands of times over before I go broke.

Every single one of his losses is prohibitively more expensive.

Fighting me at all costs him way more than it'll ever cost me.

So he packed up and went home.

This is how terrorists win.

You think there's emotion in this?
If you're fucking stupid you do.

It all comes down to his presence cost me money.

Being a thorn in his side cost him more money than it cost me so he went.

Even if I lost I won.

If anyone tells you the war on terror can be won he's either a fool or a liar.

We need a CLEAN GREEN JOBS INITIATIVE the size and the urgency of The Marshall Plan, and we need it NOW NOW NOW! 

As I said.

I've solved this issue already.

You think the Chinese are ready for a green energy initiative?
They will be in 60 years.

As it is they're stuck in the 60s when it comes to emissions. 

I don't know how many people are smart enough to comprehend what will happen when 1.5 billion people are free of other countries for their energy source but all I can say is good luck keeping up, other countries.

If you want to attack China without invading (another no win situation) this is the only way to do it. Do it now while they still have an Achilles heel.

You've already bamboozled the American people into a bullshit war in the Middle East. At least get something to show for it.

People have already bled and died over a lie. Make it count for something.

Imagine if we took the 3.5 billion that we give as a gift to GE(one of the most profitable corps in the history of the world) and instead fund a solar panel plant in every county in the US - JOBS! 

I'd have a use for GE as Caesar. They can stay.

Take the billions we give away to Big Oil, and build a windmill plant in every big city in the US - JOBS!

Yes.

Because as we all know a single windmill plant will generate enough electricity to power an entire city.

The windmill is a far older invention than the power plant so if that were the case it sort of makes you wonder why they bothered with coal in the first place.

 Tax Wall Street, break up "too big to fail".

Tax Big Oil, fund clean energy.

Tax the rich, fund Medicare for all.

Stop the WARS, Tax the War Profiteers!

Well if you stop the wars the war profiteers don't have as much money to tax, do they?

Come on, think about this shit for a second.

SAN ANTONIO — Oxytocin, a hormone with a rosy reputation for getting people to love, trust and generally make nice with one another, can get down and dirty, according to evidence presented on January 28 at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Bring me the man who discovered this.

I will give you a billion dollars to weaponize this.

This brain-altering substance apparently amplifies whatever social proclivities a person already possesses, whether positive or negative, says psychologist Jennifer Bartz of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

Five billion.

Previous work has shown that a nasal blast of the hormone encourages a usually trusting person to become more trusting (SN Online: 5/21/08), but now Bartz and her colleagues find that it also makes a highly suspicious person more uncooperative and hostile than ever.

I won't go higher than seven.

You might be a Progressive....

If you think that every patriotic American(including the mega-rich and the corporations) should pay their fair share of taxes, in order that We the People can invest in infrastructure that would benefit us all.

I'm progressive, guys!

Conservatives have accused me of being a socialist but liberals have accused me of Facism.

I'm positively zany!

So instead of giving tax breaks to companies for buying more machines to replace their workers, make big profitable companies pay severance to any worker they lay off, equal to a month’s salary times the number of years worked. And require that any corporations receiving government contracts and subsidies (including defense contractors) use the money to create jobs in the United States.

I don't understand this notion of "creating jobs" as if jobs are some sort of commodity you can trade in.

I know in an abstract way you can trade in jobs but that's not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the way people talk jobs are something you can box up and ship.

If you've had a job of making socks and your company severs what exactly are you qualified to do?
You can't fix the machines that now make the socks without going back to school which admittedly a lot of people do and succeed at doing but what about the rest?

If I'm a weapons merchant (excuse me, defense contractor) and the US government gives me money to create make work jobs in my corporation I'm seriously going to be looking at my bottom line and wonder if China couldn't offer me something sweeter.

If this sounds needlessly cold and calculating: this is how corporations think.

This is why they fire you and you don't fire them.

Take the $159 billion dollars that Obama is asking for yet another "supplemental" to fund the wars in the middle east... and make income tax go away for the first $35,000 for every American taxpayer. Then, take the $16,000,000,000 that's left and pay down the deficit.

I think that 550 BILLION dollars is more than enough to run the pentagon and run the wars too, and I don't want another red cent of my tax money going to kill poor people on the other side of the world.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY!

Blockade.

The Catholic Pedophile scandal just seems to grow wider and deeper every day. The river of sickening accusations and the pricetag that goes along with it makes me wonder whether there will be a Catholic Church when this is done with.

Ha, ha wow.

Wondering if the Catholic church will go broke.

The answer is no.
They still have basements full of gold coins from the Crusades.

They have basically infinite money.

I'd seize it in my crusade to unite humanity but that's just me.

Consider it payback for Theodosius' indiscretions, okay. 

I'm righting thousand year wrongs, here.

Post about why China is fucking the US economy--

DON'T WORRY I FIXED THIS ALREADY.

GET WITH THE TIMES.

FUCK.

Anyway time for bed.

Goodbye.

HULULULUL

BLOGGER.

Why Mitt Romney and the GOP Lost: Ask Maya Angelou

Because he got fewer votes than Obama.
There ends the reason.

"When people show you who they are, believe them."

~ Dr. Maya Angelou

There's been a lot of punditry going on about Mitt Romney and the GOP's loss of the presidential election.   It just isn't all that deep.  Just ask Dr. Maya Angelou.

No I think I figured it out.

Dr. Angelou has been quoted a bazillion times for saying, "When people show you who they are, believe them."  Simply put, Mitt Romney and the GOP showed the American electorate who they are.  And we believed them.

...
He showed them he was a man who got fewer votes--
so therefore he isn't president.
Why is this such a complicated concept for people?

Gentle Readers, you know how I am:  If I find something that I think will help someone, I feel compelled to share it.  Well, these past few days, I've been treated to -- no, blessed with -- some real words of wisdom that have not only lifted me, but freed me.  Perhaps they'll do the same for you.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Truly one of the wisest men to ever walk the earth.
Despite emphatically not marrying a brown girl when that was pretty much what Rome was busy conquering.
Brown girl land.
I dunno, man.
He married his maternal cousin, in fact. What's that about anyway?

First are words of wisdom from my second-oldest sister (SOS).  Before I begin, let me tell you the value of having older sisters around when your mother is deceased.  Older sisters are like vaults of your late mom's wisdom, if for no other reason, because they knew your mom longer than you did and have more of her wisdom. 

"A man should be upright, not kept upright."

I was also blessed with words of wisdom from one of my book club members, Joann, who turned 70 last week and doesn't look a day over 45.  God has been good to Joann.  That's not to say she hasn't had her struggles -- who hasn't?-- but she looks good and has a happy spirit.  When I asked Joann for words of wisdom to reach the age of 70 looking and feeling like she does, she gave me these words of wisdom someone imparted upon her:

1) Find a church;
2) Keep a job;
3) Rest.

Of these three, she said the most important was getting enough rest.  

"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."

As for keeping a job, I've done that, but I want more than a job:  I want a calling.  That leads me to some words of wisdom imparted upon me by a former law teaching colleague who, like Joann, has been blessed with fabulous genes (she doesn't look a day over 40 and she's in her 60's), and an even more fabulous spirit.

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.” 

 I told her how frustrated I am about continuing in the practice of law when I feel I have other skills and talents I want to use, but I just don't know how.  

And the one quote that if the world learns nothing from Marcus Aurelius but this it should be his:
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” 
YOU SEE THAT YOU WEAK-WILLED TWATS?

This time, I'm voting for President Obama because he's black.  Before you accuse me of "playing the race card," a phrase I find offensive because it is intended to thwart any meaningful and real discussion of race and racism in America, hear me out.

I'm voting for Mittens because he's white.

Last time, I voted for President Obama because I believed he was the candidate with the better intellect and temperament to deal with the challenges American would face.

I was not disappointed.

... You weren't?
I was.
Go see that Lincoln movie and stand in awe at how shit modern politicians are. Lincoln was a guy who got shit done.
Even if you don't agree with him you have to at least give him credit: he did some shit.

I knew that there was no way he was going to be able to reverse the tsunami that would become the Great Recession in only four years.

Lincoln ended the Civil War and slavery in four years.
Just saying.

To my knowledge, the GOP didn't even conspire to make Roosevelt a "one-term president," and his agenda was decidedly more radical than President Obama's.

Also a great doer of shit.
That's what I'm starting to learn. Conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican--
as long as you do some shit you're okay.
The problem is no one wants to do some shit.

To my mind, the only plausible explanation is that a whole lot of white folks just aren't comfortable having a black president, no matter what he's done to save many of their broke behinds.

So I've already voted for Barack Obama because he's black. 

I voted for Gaius Julius Caesar personally.
I think Caesar's ashes would make a better president than the two chucklefucks running.

Since he's not been graded fairly because of his race, I've decided to balance the unspoken racial bias with my racially biased vote.  As a fellow African-American Ivy League-educated professional, I totally get it.  Been there, got the "unspoken racial bias" t-shirt many times over. 

Caesar: assassinated
Lincoln: assassinated
FDR: attempted assassination
If someone doesn't try to axe you you aren't doing a very good job is what I'm learning.

Hell, it's not like a whole lot of evangelical white folks aren't holding their noses about Romney's religion and voting for him just because he's white.

I haven't really heard anyone say they're voting for Mittens because he's white.
Outside of the joke I made a bit ago, that is.

Last week, "Take Our Daughters and Our Sons to Work" day occurred. I didn't take anybody's daughter or son to work with me. The obvious reason is that I don't have a son or a daughter. I could have taken countless great-nephews and great-nieces to work, though. The reason why I didn't is this: I don't want to teach my great-nieces and great-nephews to be employees like I am.

Don't want to teach them to be successful.
Okay.

I want them to be entrepreneurs and business owners, even if they have a small business on the side.

The reality is that, at least in a good economy, anybody with a high school diploma and a pulse can get a job.albeit not one the pays a living wage. And in a bad economy, anybody can lose a job regardless of his or her qualifications or experience.  That's because, in bad economy, bosses -- or the government, if you're a government employee like me -- get to decide who stays and who goes. If you happen to be on the poopy end of that decision stick, you're stuck. You have a greater measure of control, to my mind, if you are your own boss and supply and demand, not people, 

Economic shrinkage is well known for being especially kind to small scale entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Please, do continue.

If you have a skill or a product that is needed or desired even in the worst of times (e.g., iPhone sales in a down economy -- WTF?)

>Apple
>small business
I think I found a critical flaw in your logic.

When I was young, my parents would tell my older brothers all kinds of things to do in order to protect themselves from racism, such as "Don't run at night," "When you buy something, always ask for a receipt and bag," "If you get stopped in your car by the police, keep your hands on the steering wheel and don't reach for anything without asking first. And don't mouth off." At the time I wondered, "Do white parents tell their sons the same thing?"

Yeah pretty sure I heard all of these things at some point in my life.

Those words also reminded me of a sermon at my husband's church that boiled down to this: Guard your peace. I don't know what it is about the holidays, but somehow evil people feel the need to let loose with whatever comes into their minds, no matter how evil and hurtful it is, as did the author of the email in question. And it reminded me of this:

The devil don't celebrate Christmas, and evil don't take no holidays.

Shut the fuck up, Jesus Christ.
Do you ever shut up?
Have you ever just stopped and had a moment of introspection?
Have you ever just stopped and thought about why?
Or are you always going a thousand words a minute?
Silence and introspection, holy fuck.

She is reclusive, mysterious, breathtakingly beautiful, with a singing voice like no other that you recognize the instant you hear it. If you are a Sade fan like I am, do not miss this once-in-a-decade opportunity to see Sade (the singer AND the phenomenal band of the same name), because, and these are not my words: 

Sade.
Pronounced Shah-day.
Because--
because letters work that way and fuck you, that's why.

What I Would Say to Today's High School Girls

Plz stop inviting me to bowling.
I know some of you were kind of joking but some of you weren't and while flattering I can't go bowling with you.
Yes I'm aware other teachers will (ostensibly) be there but I can't go because I'm not actually a teacher of this school.
I'm sure this woman's message will be some bullshit but mine is literal and immediate.

I had the pleasure of having drinks and appetizers with some of my high school classmates, all of us Black women, all of us in our late 40's.  

Also:
inquiries about whether I have a girlfriend and then giggling to your friends when I tell you no and emphatically not telling me if you have an older sister is not helping a motherfucker out.
I can't ask because it looks creepy. I need you to take initiative.

6) Know that God's got your back. 

Oh boy, the deity that drowned the entire planet and demanded his most faithful follower to sacrifice his own son to show is devotion before, indeed, sacrificing his own son has my back.
I'd feel more comfortable if you said Zeus had my back and he was pissed.
At least Zeus can be reasoned with.

All the ladies I dined with are church-going women. I'm not, but I consider myself to have a relationship with God. Having a relationship with God allows you to see beyond whatever current trouble you're going through and know that you'll get through it because He's got your back. I really don't know what atheists do in times of trouble, but I wouldn't want to be one. 

Considering 90% of the quotes people pull from the Bible aren't actually in the Bible and are later paraphrasing from sometimes unrelated texts from such exemplars of literature as Dante Alighieri and John Milton I don't think you need to be religious to find comfort in commonly cited religious thoughts.

You're a child of God. God created you. Act like it.

We, as the Greeks rightly believed, are children of Chaos.

There's A Reason They Call It A "Not Guilty" Verdict
I've been somewhat surprised at the backlash against the jury in the Casey Anthony trial. No sentient being with warm blood could help but be repulsed at the prospect of what Ms. Anthony was accused of. But proving beyond a reasonable doubt that she did indeed murder her daughter? That's another story.

The very notion of this is 100% alien to me.
It's 2012. Why isn't there a group of highly trained people who act as judge, jury and executioner?

"If you continually give, you will continually have."

~ A friend of mine

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can."






~ Julius "the motherfucker" Caesar

 "Give. That's where your blessings come from."

~ My mother-in-law

"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."

~Niccolo "top pro" Machiavelli 
If you combine the philosophy of Aurelius, Caesar, Machiavelli and Musashi you create a philosophy that handles every problem in life absolutely.
Got a problem in life?
They wrote books for you idiots to read so you won't have these problems.
Not their fucking problem you're too stupid to apply them.
They made this shit simple.
This goes on as I'm sure you can well imagine.
I'm going to bed.
Gotta teach 9th graders about The Odyssey.
The greatest book ever written.
Or, as I've been told, "it's, like, so boring."
It has a guy stabbing a giant in the eye with a fiery poker. Read it you uneducated twat.
Homer just invented writing for the purpose of telling your dumbass this story.
People literally died preserving it.
Nothing happens?
NOTHING HAPPENS?
Just adventure on the high seas, murder, sex, vengeful gods and battling fantastic creatures.
Also it has a romance story or something I don't know.

The Political Views of 500 Bints

WELCOME...
TO OBLIVION!
That's how I welcome people into the classes I teach every day, incidentally.

Alias valiens. Downtown NYC art baby, now in Naples, FL. Homeschooling hipster. Capitalist creative. World foodie. Community seeker. Gun toting garden yogini. Can also be found on Twitter, Pandora and at IIN. More of this blog is true than you may think.

... Shut the fuck up Jesus Christ.
World foodie.
If a girl said she was a world foodie to my face I would punt her on the ovaries.
Anyway this bitch is in retirement (hopefully from life) and the last post was 2010 and literally the next 15 blogs had posts from this week but I'M STARTING AT THE TOP OF THE LIST I GOT.

I've been trying to feel my way back here, and just am not feeling it.

So much is happening in the real world, so much personal growth, and work is beginning to pick up. I want to keep blogging, but not on this blog. That's the realization. It just feels like a time capsule to me. Pre-lost baby, post-lost baby. Everything changed after her. So this is it. The official retirement of this blog. It seems crazy to me, having blogged since '04. So many links, so many friends made even. But I need a new outlet for the new me.  

Cool.
Cool.
It is almost the midway point in school. I have begun to see clients for Health Coaching, which is going really, really well. The first newsletter has gone out and been well received, the second one is in the almost ready. I'm trying to get my summer class schedule organized so it can go into the July issue.
A health coach.
Wait a minute. I was promised a feminist housewife not a feminist usual bullshit women do for a living.

My talented and wonderful friend Bree and I have been meeting for brainstorming and creating sessions for our Art Group. This has been a truly magical thing. We have been thinking arts thoughts, writing poetry, writing and planning a performance, doing improv together (that upsets the dog) and visiting museums.

This'll probably say a lot more about me than it will this woman but I remember thinking in one of my English classes that the scariest god in Greek mythology wasn't Ares for his wanton bloodlust or Zeus for being able to kill any motherfucker he wants with a lightning bolt but probably Eros or Aphrodite for their powers of making people fall in love.
Like what if I fall in love with a cunt like this?
I'd suddenly be tolerant of this nonsense.
I'd probably be miserable and okay with it.
What can Ares do?
All right I can die but that's all he can do, really.
This is probably why all important religions (Greek mythology) advocate being guarded when it comes to romance.
Well I guess I now know why that religion died out: made too much goddamn sense.
Also didn't spell shit out.
Here it is, retards. Figure it out or get fucked, not my problem.
Not how you want to run a self help camp.

We're gearing up for Earth Day weekend at Koreshan again. Amazing to see our last trip there was one of my last posts for so long. This photo of Baird in a mango tree was sent to me by some kind vendors last year. It's so very Baird.

...
Baird is her son.
She named
her son
Baird.
Holy
fuck.
Name your kid something manly so he doesn't turn out like a twat.
It's literally the first step after he's been fired out of your crotch cannon and you can't even get that right.
Step one (arguably the easiest step) and already you have irrevocably ruined this kid's entire existence.
I think I just figured out the worst thing that could ever happen to this kid:
there's an afterlife.
"Oh, what did you do with your life, Achilles?"
"Killed a bunch of Trojans and fucked bitches."
"What'd you do, Baird?"
"My mom took me to Earth Day."
I don't advocate naming your kid Achilles, incidentally.

My biggest challenge is keeping balance, same as it is for most people. This whole homeschooling three kids, starting a business while in school and supportive husband too busy as well thing is a challenge.

And you're homeschooling Baird.
You don't want this kid to be a well-adjusted, productive member of society.
That's all there is to it.
It's difficult to imagine homeschooling is legal in this country, actually.
I had to go to school to learn how to do this. You're 100% unqualified.
You might be (might being the qualifier here) a good mom but that doesn't actually make you knowledgeable in an area of study.

  I know I can't duplicate myself, I know I can't bag the whole sleep thing (!), but in fact I also know we all get the same 24 hours. So my real challenge is how to best support myself in those 24 hours, by organizing, prioritizing and being selective, and taking good care of my health along with that of my family. 

Step one: enroll those kids in a normal school.
Baird has to go to school with normal kids who will make fun of his name. It's the only way to avoid him developing a complex about it.
I've known about the kid for five minutes and already I have a complex about his name.

We lost dear Anci two years ago, our daughter of second trimester, as many of you are aware.

Anci.
Anci.
Hindi for "spared" I think.

Anci (Ahn-shee)has also helped us find clarity and continues to do so.

Use the Latin pronunciation. Why the fuck not?
Maybe it's best you're homeschooling them, actually.
Those poor substitute teachers.
IT'S PRONOUNCED AHN-SHEE.
Well excuse me for not being fucking clairvoyant and just guessing your whore mother was an expert on Latin.

The economy continues to be an inspiration to us and to everyone we know. There has never been a better time for making lemonade. But you don't need me to tell you that.

Yes that's the word I'd use to describe the economy.
I wish I were still in college because I'd totally use that in my paper.
WW2?
Inspiring.
The Fall of the Roman Empire?
Inspiring.
The Plague?
Inspiring.

The house is tidy, no one is sick, my desk has been cleared (though not entirely conquered for real), and it seems like a great moment to go to bed.

This blog?
Inspiring.
Awe-inspiring, that is.
Like what the fuck is wrong with you?

All these changes in the world make it harder to blog. Not that I don't have just as much to say, but I'm out doing things, and spending so much time catching up from the month and a half with three fevers. And then catching up with my love, who is always off working. I'm just so glad we're all finally all the way better.

Off working to support you.
Like seriously, what did Zeus do to punish people?
9/10 they were totally asking for what they got.
He turned a bitch into a tree--
he turned some dudes into dolphins--
he turned one guy into a bull--
he lit a guy on fire--
like all of that is bad but what did this poor sod do?

Right now I'm finding some combination of faith and thought is the best answer. Thinking things through, and then letting go. I'm a big fan of leaving room for Grace.

Of all of the punishments wrought by the gods let this one never visit me.

Funny how it actually works when I actually do it. I'm not really a chat with God type, so it feels funny even thinking about my own faith this way, but I don't think I need to analyze it.

Pretty sure the gods are more metaphorical than literal but this is serious enough that I'd sacrifice a goat to prevent this from happening.
I'll admit I haven't been too big on the libations because I always considered it bronze age superstition but please let's just not have this happen.

I think I'm okay just letting it be. If it works, why am I going to mess with it? To be rigorous? Why in all things? Or maybe, why not invite the possibility that rigor can be the act of trying on faith a different way, and not freaking if it changes some things I thought I was sure about. Why should rigor equal cynicism?

Wrap the thigh bone in fat. Let's do it, come on.
Wait, how did that go in the Odyssey?
It's only written like a thousand times and I've only read it a thousand times. You'd think I know.

Day three of my Lenten fast. It's brilliant.

I decided to just move boldly forward without any particulars for my master plan. The plan is this. 1. Eat mostly raw, aiming for 90%. 2. Fill in with either macrobiotics inspired, or at least whole. 3. Once a week or so, eat a Healthiest Meals On Earth type meal.

Yesterday was easy. The kids had oatmeal for breakfast with rice syrup, blueberries, and goat milk. 

The point of Lent isn't to be a cunt. The point of Lent is self-denial so it can bring you closer to Jesus.
Holy fuck, do you seriously not get the point of one of the most sacred holidays in your religion?
I just talked about sacrificing a goat. That's about as heathen as you get and even I understand this.
I made whole wheat blueberry scones the other day, so we finished those as well. Lunch was cut peppers, some soaked and dehydrated almonds, a big salad of locally grown organic chrysanthemum greens with soaked and dried pumpkin seeds, garlic, heirloom tomato, fresh dill from the garden, blueberries, lime, extra virgin olive oil, pepper, Himalayan salt.

Gluttony
(From Lat. gluttire, to swallow, to gulp down), the excessive indulgence in food and drink. The moral deformity discernible in this vice lies in its defiance of the order postulated by reason, which prescribes necessity as the measure of indulgence in eating and drinking. This deordination, according to the teaching of the Angelic Doctor, may happen in five ways which are set forth in the scholastic verse: "Prae-propere, laute, nimis, ardenter, studiose" or, according to the apt rendering of Father Joseph Rickably: too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, too daintily.  

Just added some bold face for you.
Something to think about, O Blessed One.

The girls and I loved it, but Baird didn't. He had raw peanuts-only peanut butter on the last of his ciabatta roll and some freshly squeezed orange juice. Kali used her ciabatta for a little grilled cheese.

After we made and drank smoothie twice, I really wanted something salty, and crunchy.

Baird.

I am devoting Lent to eating raw & living foods, and streamlining my life.

The point of Lent isn't to diet.
Forget it.
It's not that important, honestly.

That means more household carnage. Things must go. It means looking at my computer time a new way. It means an electronic sundown. [Insert movie track sounds of impending doom].

I know I approach things too radically. I know, I know. 

Yeah your Lent diet sounded pretty extreme.
It sounds like more than I eat in a day.
That's your fasting meal.
More than I eat in a day.

2. Begin at the beginning. Keep reading the books, schedule a trip to Food & Thought, plan some foods the kids and Tim can eat (raw & cooked). Put ceviche on the menu.

OH GOD HIS NAME IS EVEN TIM.
ZEUS AEGIDUCHOS.

I'm a little late to the trough, I realize. But yesterday I consumed all of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.

Nah, that's cool.
So glad that fad died out.
Now it's Hunger Games but whatever, one step at a time.

Even if he was not a vampire, one fact is clear based on his smaller, seemingly insignificant relationship behaviors. He is not a nice man. 

He's a vampire, dipshit.
Also it's "if he were not a vampire"  because it's subjunctive.
That might seem needlessly nitpicky to you but I would argue you're only an English teacher.

At first I attributed the Cullen character's oddities to mere vampiric repertoire, as I'm sure most readers also have. He is, after all a predator of humans. The red flags were buried in the willingness to be taken, the desire to be led by the author.

So case fucking closed.

I don't think it's over-analyzing to point out Edward's controlling personality or anger issues. He is possessive, demanding, unpredictable, violent.

Vampires in most (decent) fiction are barely contained animals.
In fact in Warhammer vampires that lose too much of their civility literally become monsters.

There are times when life comes in rapid fire.

Two shots at half range if you haven't moved.

First, at church (a 2000 year old game of telephone, T gleefully calls it)  

So he's a cunt too.
A SHAME TO ALL TIMS.
A STAIN ON OUR OTHERWISE RESPLENDENT ROLL OF HONOR.

 I won't call it a neat, clean faith. It is, perhaps, diverse in the trappings, but I've been told by some who claim to know, my theology is sound. If my outer label is smells & bells queer- and woman-friendly Episcopalian, heavily informed by panentheistic Indian Mysticism in general, and Trika Shaivism in particular, with a subtle Buddhist finish and humanist base, my inner spiritual life is quite clear.

AVE CAESAR.
I don't even know what the fuck anymore.
This is seriously The Meanest Mom 2.0 and I'm sad both of them are in retirement now.
Or glad.
I guess I should be glad since my goal is to stop blogging--
This is some Dragonball Z shit, man.
If I destroy blogs who will I have left to battle?
And on that somber note I'm going to bed.