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featherynscaleSo I've been out of work for almost a week now, which would explain the lack of posting. Let me unpack that. When I'm not working, I feel vaguely useless and full of whinge, and so, to avoid sounding too emo to those who aren't around me all the time and used to my inherent emoness, I don't talk to the internet. It seems kinder, that way.
But! As it happens, I made arrangements today to have a job. I start Monday. All is well in the world.
I was reading a book that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
agrnmn lent me today, called God's Debris. There is a bit in it which is largely unrelated to the main point of the book in which one of the characters tells the other that the secret to being a man and talking to women is that you have to know that women want you to sacrifice things for them, whereas men want to feel useful. I think that's bullshit. Last time I checked, I mostly wanted to be useful, and also, last time I checked, I had a vagina. I'm pretty sure that having a vagina is the sort of thing that qualifies one as "woman" in the minds of people who are prone to divide the human race in half according to gender. But there you go. I tend to think that most things that people say which include the phrases "men are/women are" or "men want/women want" are bullshit, though, just as a general rule.
Anyway. The point is: yay, job. I'm currently reframing the whole unemployment incident in my head as an elaborate way to ensure that I had enough money in my pocket come Saturday to buy Tool tickets.
But! As it happens, I made arrangements today to have a job. I start Monday. All is well in the world.
I was reading a book that
agrnmn lent me today, called God's Debris. There is a bit in it which is largely unrelated to the main point of the book in which one of the characters tells the other that the secret to being a man and talking to women is that you have to know that women want you to sacrifice things for them, whereas men want to feel useful. I think that's bullshit. Last time I checked, I mostly wanted to be useful, and also, last time I checked, I had a vagina. I'm pretty sure that having a vagina is the sort of thing that qualifies one as "woman" in the minds of people who are prone to divide the human race in half according to gender. But there you go. I tend to think that most things that people say which include the phrases "men are/women are" or "men want/women want" are bullshit, though, just as a general rule. Anyway. The point is: yay, job. I'm currently reframing the whole unemployment incident in my head as an elaborate way to ensure that I had enough money in my pocket come Saturday to buy Tool tickets.
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Date: 2006-04-21 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 01:07 am (UTC)Tell us about it! Doing what, how did you get it, and so forth?
YAY!
Because I can
Date: 2006-04-21 01:11 am (UTC)(or at least, because I can the second time around)
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Date: 2006-04-21 02:02 am (UTC)What job?
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Date: 2006-04-21 02:28 am (UTC)Impressive
Date: 2006-04-21 03:13 am (UTC)I have that book. I like parts of it, but haven't decided what I think about it, especially since Scott Adams has said something like he wrote it to see what the reaction is. Sorta trollish.
Concert and meal tickets...
Date: 2006-04-21 04:23 am (UTC)Now...about tickets. Yes, I am also aware that Tool tickets go on sale Saturday morning and that they are the only band on the ticket. $66 per seat + $8 mishandling = $74 per person not including parking at Municipal. That's a bit steep in my book...even for an awesome band like Tool. I perhaps paid more to see the Summer Sanitarium tour in St. Louis, but that was a number of great bands all at once. The presale for Rockfest tickets is already going on, but the line-up there is only so-so. A few good bands that I like will be there, but too many that I said 'Who?' about. Maybe I'm just getting old...
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 08:58 am (UTC)In fact, the attitude expressed in any such statement (that *all* people in a particular group exhibit this or that emotional trait) has been described as the basis of racism, sexism, homophobia and other such human complaints. The hidden 'allness' statement (all X equals Y, whether that be 'all Scots are misers', 'all SF fans are sexless geeks', 'all women are bad drivers', 'all men are violent' or whatever) makes knee-jerk generalisations so very easy.
Robert Anton Wilson once suggested the word 'all' in such contexts be replaced with the phrase 'some-but-not-all', or 'sombunall'. Nice idea - shame the word itself sucks.
Good luck with the job and enjoy your Tool!
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Date: 2006-04-21 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 01:49 pm (UTC)Re: Concert and meal tickets...
Date: 2006-04-21 02:20 pm (UTC)You'ev been before, yes? Can you explain the two stage deal? Are they alternating setup on one with playing on the other, or are they actually simulplaying? How many songs, on average, does each band get to play?
All extremists should be shot
Date: 2006-04-21 02:22 pm (UTC)Book slut quickie
Date: 2006-04-21 05:43 pm (UTC)Re: Because I can
Date: 2006-04-21 05:44 pm (UTC)Re: Book slut quickie
Date: 2006-04-21 05:47 pm (UTC)Also, nice icon.
Re: Concert and meal tickets...
Date: 2006-04-21 05:50 pm (UTC)Should I take that to mean that you won't be there?
Rockfest Scenario...
Date: 2006-04-21 07:46 pm (UTC)Re: Concert and meal tickets...
Date: 2006-04-21 08:00 pm (UTC)Re; Job
Date: 2006-04-23 06:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 12:42 am (UTC)then on the book. i read that piece of trash book "men are from mars/ women are from venus and i think he had it all wrong. either that or mac and i are backward cuz i fit most the "mars" bit and he fit most the "venus" but. but then again i have also been accused once or twice in my life that "for someone who is so "girlie", you sure act very much like a man emotionally". weird...but true...i guess...