Josh is right
Blogging really is for when you are bored at work. It's perfect when there is nothing else to do.
Can we just talk about this article in the NYTimes for a minute? I'd like to talk about the repressed sexuality of this country, in particular those of the Catholic persuasion who grew up with the fear of going to hell if they had sex before marriage. I will admit to being a good little catholic school girl and looking remarkably unlike the sex fantasy of catholic school girls all sexed up. Essentially I think that the Catholic religion screw with people as kids making them super screwed up sexually as adults. Let's make it seem like sex is a bad and dirty thing and that people shouldn't do it (until they are married of course - and then only for having babies.) Let's not talk about the fact that biologically we are programmed to want to have sex and have a lot of it.
I really thought groups like the one above were going out of style, and I truly thought that this was a good thing. Let's get rid of our Victorian style values and start living less repressed lives. I don't understand the turn back to these more repressed, self-abstaining lifestyles. I thought it was a good thing that people were more open with each other and more open about what they wanted out of life. Look at here it got ---
I just need to pause a second to bitch about work. I am so tired of this new guy making me do double duty and looking like an idiot in front of the customers. We made a change at a customer site last week, I called the customer yesterday to follow up, then this morning the new guy is going through the paperwork and asks me to follow up on the same thing that I did yesterday. When I tell him that I followed up already the previous day, he ALWAYS asks me to just follow up again today. So then it looks like we are foolish and don't communicate internally? Then it looks like I'm bothering the customer for no good reason and we just like to call and chat? I don't think so. I just lie and tell him that I will follow up a second time and then don't do it and sign off on the paperwork. It makes me so mad that he either A) Doesn't believe that I did what I said I did or B) that he has no idea how to handle customers. Freaking ridiculous. I hate people who don't know what they are doing. I think he spends something like 40% of his time at work on the phone about personal stuff - like finding a car, finding an apartment, calling companies about bills that he owes. Just dumb stuff that wastes everyone time. I understand that people have to do personal stuff at work sometimes, but this is a bit over the top.
women during the women's rights movement. They got what they wanted and now we live in a more fair society with more equal treatment of women. Jobs can't be denied to us just because of our sex and a lot more things are acceptable for women to do - like wear pants.
It's sad to me to think that people really want to live self-repressed lives. I don't understand it - but then again I don't really understand religion.
I think that there is a very fine line between religion and culture. The two are inter-related and yet separated. Growing up in the US culture and being a fourth generation citizen - I come from a very different view than someone who did not grow up here - or is much more closely tied to their traditions. My family still has some traditions that grow out of our German ancestry - but it generally comes down to the food, rituals, and items that we have. We have been living here so long we don't identify with our past country - but rather our present country. I wouldn't say that we've forgotten where we have come from; we've merged what we came from with what we are now. During the time that my great-grandparents immigrated, due to societal pressures they felt that their children needed to look, act, speak, and essentially be the same as other "American" children. So, they made choices like not speaking German at home, only teaching their children English, and doing their best to blend into their new environment. Those pressures don't seem as steep today as they did 100 years ago. The pendulum has swung the other way and immigrants feel that they must hold on to their old traditions and do not feel like they must be forced to merge with the common American culture; they feel more pressured to keep what they used to have rather than trying to adopt to a new way of life.
Culture is a really interesting thing. The US culture is not one similar thing. It is very regionally distinct - and even population density distinct in the US. The culture of California is very different than that of New York. The culture of New York City is very different than Albany New York. From my experience, population density and the prevalence of public transportation has more effect on culture than region and weather. I would say that the culture of a place like London is more similar to New York City than Los Angles. Completely due the similar use of public transportation and not population density. Springfield MO is also very similar to a place like Spokane WA. Yes there will be some regional difference, but in terms of the way people treat each other an interact with each other on the whole will be very similar.
*Sigh* I need some more yoga.
Can we just talk about this article in the NYTimes for a minute? I'd like to talk about the repressed sexuality of this country, in particular those of the Catholic persuasion who grew up with the fear of going to hell if they had sex before marriage. I will admit to being a good little catholic school girl and looking remarkably unlike the sex fantasy of catholic school girls all sexed up. Essentially I think that the Catholic religion screw with people as kids making them super screwed up sexually as adults. Let's make it seem like sex is a bad and dirty thing and that people shouldn't do it (until they are married of course - and then only for having babies.) Let's not talk about the fact that biologically we are programmed to want to have sex and have a lot of it.
I really thought groups like the one above were going out of style, and I truly thought that this was a good thing. Let's get rid of our Victorian style values and start living less repressed lives. I don't understand the turn back to these more repressed, self-abstaining lifestyles. I thought it was a good thing that people were more open with each other and more open about what they wanted out of life. Look at here it got ---
I just need to pause a second to bitch about work. I am so tired of this new guy making me do double duty and looking like an idiot in front of the customers. We made a change at a customer site last week, I called the customer yesterday to follow up, then this morning the new guy is going through the paperwork and asks me to follow up on the same thing that I did yesterday. When I tell him that I followed up already the previous day, he ALWAYS asks me to just follow up again today. So then it looks like we are foolish and don't communicate internally? Then it looks like I'm bothering the customer for no good reason and we just like to call and chat? I don't think so. I just lie and tell him that I will follow up a second time and then don't do it and sign off on the paperwork. It makes me so mad that he either A) Doesn't believe that I did what I said I did or B) that he has no idea how to handle customers. Freaking ridiculous. I hate people who don't know what they are doing. I think he spends something like 40% of his time at work on the phone about personal stuff - like finding a car, finding an apartment, calling companies about bills that he owes. Just dumb stuff that wastes everyone time. I understand that people have to do personal stuff at work sometimes, but this is a bit over the top.
women during the women's rights movement. They got what they wanted and now we live in a more fair society with more equal treatment of women. Jobs can't be denied to us just because of our sex and a lot more things are acceptable for women to do - like wear pants.
It's sad to me to think that people really want to live self-repressed lives. I don't understand it - but then again I don't really understand religion.
I think that there is a very fine line between religion and culture. The two are inter-related and yet separated. Growing up in the US culture and being a fourth generation citizen - I come from a very different view than someone who did not grow up here - or is much more closely tied to their traditions. My family still has some traditions that grow out of our German ancestry - but it generally comes down to the food, rituals, and items that we have. We have been living here so long we don't identify with our past country - but rather our present country. I wouldn't say that we've forgotten where we have come from; we've merged what we came from with what we are now. During the time that my great-grandparents immigrated, due to societal pressures they felt that their children needed to look, act, speak, and essentially be the same as other "American" children. So, they made choices like not speaking German at home, only teaching their children English, and doing their best to blend into their new environment. Those pressures don't seem as steep today as they did 100 years ago. The pendulum has swung the other way and immigrants feel that they must hold on to their old traditions and do not feel like they must be forced to merge with the common American culture; they feel more pressured to keep what they used to have rather than trying to adopt to a new way of life.
Culture is a really interesting thing. The US culture is not one similar thing. It is very regionally distinct - and even population density distinct in the US. The culture of California is very different than that of New York. The culture of New York City is very different than Albany New York. From my experience, population density and the prevalence of public transportation has more effect on culture than region and weather. I would say that the culture of a place like London is more similar to New York City than Los Angles. Completely due the similar use of public transportation and not population density. Springfield MO is also very similar to a place like Spokane WA. Yes there will be some regional difference, but in terms of the way people treat each other an interact with each other on the whole will be very similar.
*Sigh* I need some more yoga.
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