A week in...

Been trying to update this for the past couple of days. Compy time has been off and on. 1st thing of interest...labels. The more of 'em you have the less able they are to box you in. I mean, labels are meant to make you 2d. But, when you've got like 10 or so of them, at some point they may begin to conflict. Thus making you wonder about the vegan-anti-abortion-jock. Or the smoker with tattoos who refuses to eat non-organic foods and what not (no really, they're here). Current labeled person of note for me is the Canadian-middle-aged-lesbian...who is seeking US citizenship...to join a commune...who was once a lawyer...

She really made me think of some issues I hadn't considered. Marriages of convience. The canadian lesbian wants to marry someone here, so she can join the commune. I never really thought people did things like this, but it would seem my knowledge of the world is quite limited. She also swayed my stance on the gay community. For a few days I was sort of getting fed up with the lesbians here who seem to have based their identity solely around their sexual orientation (really short hair cuts, piercings, and playing songs with lyrics like "I'm leeesbian!". I'm a pretty open person. I was getting ticked off because it just seemed so selfish. I'm starting to think the gay community/movement is all about "look at me! look at how I suffer! we're the last civil rights movement!". Perhaps I carry too many labels to really get that worked up about one particular issue (not to exclude me from being pissed as hell regarding ineqaulity and injustice towards marriage and being protected in the eyes of the law).

For me, racism is still pretty much a pain in the arse. My sexuality? Not too worried about that, that's easier to conceal for myself. My interest in dating people of other races? Also able to hide it, but still a pain that I worry about potentially getting hurt if I'm with a loved one in public. I don't know, I guess I wished that most movements weren't so self centered (ex. PETA...exploiting other's to get their message across...http://www.wavy.com/dpp/video/nat_cnn_JacksonvilleFL_PETA_ad_criticism_20090818 , http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/03/germany-bans-peta-ad-campaign-equating.html , http://vegetarianstar.com/2009/02/19/peta-kissing-ladies-offending-people-including-lesbians/ , http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/petamorons.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/003636.html&usg=__eP-iQw1BFiywwKdMKpvUQBeP0ko=&h=240&w=400&sz=20&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=RCttmst8xl8lkM:&tbnh=74&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpeta%2Bslavery%2Bad%2Bcampaign%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1 -man I dislike PETA...).

But! Talking more with the Canadian lesbian, I may have pieced together some of the self centeredness! She told me how her family tried an intervention, how she thinks she was born 20 years too early, and that her mother still writes her 15 to 20 page papers beseeching her to change her ways or she'll go to hell. That's an intense reality to deal with. So if that is what you're faced with, perhaps you are allowed to celebrate with lesbian anthems? Maybe at some point I'll rock out a fro? Hmm...might be a bit too showy for me.


So what have I been up to? Lima bean picking! Ain't it swell? Today moved on from the bush lima beans (which require one to hunch over) to the pole lima's! Which requires one to get entangled in vines and be trapped within a row of questionably buggy leaves and what not. But really, it eventually became fun. Thanks to Misses Doctor Zune!

-Uh! Done rambling! DUECES!