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~E~ Queue. QUEUE. It flows so beautifully when one types it. Queue.

~E~ You know, it's often these little things that go unnoticed that snowball into making life dangerous for certain groups of people. In this case, it's women. Apparently some doctors in Canada are refusing to provide pap smears to unmarried women, presumably because if you aren't married, you should not be having sex, and so would not contract a sexually transmitted disease which might ultimately lead to cervical cancer. Ergo, if you ARE having sex, you deserve to die (if you are female; no word on if unmarried men are denied testing and treatment for STDs). You must suffer the consequences, much like the belief that if you have sex, you should not be allowed birth control or abortion because everyone has to pay the price for HER behavior - pregnancy. (link) I contacted Peggy to learn more about what was going on with the doctors refusing to perform pap smears and she responded by saying that in one case it is actually the doctor's receptionist who won't allow he...

~E~ Scenes from one of my favorite movies.

~E~ Stalactites and stalactites. Please. Make it stop.

~E~ Lunchtime, time to eat and surf a bit. I was mindlessly scanning this blog today, where the discussion was about Jane F0nda saying the word c*nt on the Today Show or something. (She was discussing the Vagina Monolouges) It didn't click at first that I maybe should exit that webpage until I came upon this comment: "like Dana says, the mere presence of the word triggers those porn filters and all hell could break through at work , so we gotta not have ‘em around." That was after reading comments like this: c*nt c*nt c*nt c*ntyrama - heh I’m so offensive! Eek. What do you think of the word? Much of the time I'm not particularly bothered by it. I happen to have one and frankly I like it. It took some time to reach this point though. It's also pretty funny/ironic that guys who spend half their time looking at lady bits in p0rn or trying to get access to one seem to think it's such a disgusting thing to call someone. There seems to be a bit ...

~E~ Snow Snow Snow Cars sliding off the road Snow Thunder, lightning and snow Snow Rain Snow Snow Cars sliding off the road Fog Huge multi-car accidents Snow Cars sliding off the road Snow Cars sliding off the road Snow Cars sliding off the road Snow Cars sliding off the road Snow Cars sliding off the road Snow People driving like they've never seen snow before and making it take me an hour and a half to get home

~E~ My anniversary was celebrated at work a week or two ago. It's been three sometimes wild and sometimes boring years, and I'm doing ok. Here is what my coworkers chose to gift me with. First, I was able to choose between some backpacks and this bowl. No contest, sorry. And since things are getting crazy again, they thought I could use these aromatherapy products designed to make me calm and peaceful. And should that not work, I now have a giant button that plays "I Will Survive" I think I'm going to use it a lot!

~E~ Sound it out. I misspelled it on purpose so no one googling would come here by mistake. I was reading about this new restaurant coming to town called the Till Ted Kilt and I began to get really excited! I thought we were finally going to get a place where women could go to check out some hot guy kilt action, where the males servers would flirt with us and make us feel attractive whatever our age or weight or clothing. I imagined guys wiggling their butts as they brought me my hot wings, and doing the 'bunny dip' as they served me my beer. It would be great! As I read further I realized with a sinking feeling that this was not to be the case. This was going to be a Hooters type 'restaurant' all over again. The 'attractive female servers' will wear kilts that barely cover their butt cheeks and short tops tied just under the breasts, like that Britney video. Talk about crash and burn, I was bummed out for the rest of the day. These places work because men (as a...

~E~ Or something. I've never been pulled over in my life. I was pulled over for the first time a few days ago downtown, after noticing the cruiser pull up behind me at a stop light. I remember thinking that no police officer would be stopping anyone today since the temperature was about 7 below zero. The light turned green, I pulled out and the cop immediately turned on the lights. I thought Oh shit, what?? I stopped and rolled down my window as the guy walked up to the car. He addressed me heartily by name and i had a few moments of disconnect trying to figure out where I knew him from. I wonder if they do that on purpose. I wonder what Al thought about it all, since he was sitting right next to me. My crime was that the registration sticker was missing from my license plate, it was no big deal, I was told to just go to the DMV and get new ones. Whew. I have not yet begun my life as a career criminal. Thank Maude that's over, but at least I got slightly amusing story out o...

~E~ If you're black, should you vote for Obama because he's black? If you're a black woman, you must be really confused because who do you vote for THEN - the woman, or the African American? I see these questions debated all over the intertubes and it drives me flipping nuts. We've been so socialized into these categories that we're missing the biggest category of all. White men. I don't see anyone asking them if they must vote for Edwards or Kucinich because they are white men. It never even occurs to anyone to ask, if 'anyone' means any mainstream source of media. Here's an anecdote I read in some blog comments, with the caveat that one anecdote does not equal data; a high school regularly held elections for student body government positions, with both boys and girls running for office. Invariably, boys were elected to almost all positions consistently for years. The school administration was concerned, and spoke to the students about it. It turns ...