intermission from brewer's jam

So I do museum education.  I've had some rather.... dense groups for the last while.  The frustrating part is that these are all fifth and sixth graders who I thought would have had SOME exposure to the Civil War in their life.

Answers to "So what were the two sides in the Civil War" (I was looking for north/south or union/confederate or something along those lines)

French and Indian (ok, not too bad)

The British and the French

The Soviets and the US (maybe because I had mentioned "union" earlier)

The Indian and the Men  {---- my fave, i think

Answers to "Who was president during the Civil War, he's one of our more famous ones"

Ben Franklin

Dr. Suess


le sigh

Brewer's Jam (part i)

This is going to be in a couple parts as I am tired and I think I'm coming down with something.

Brewer's Jam 2008.

Yay! Brewer's Jam.  I heart the beer and the people and the amusement.  This year was slightly different.  More people joined, I was there with Morgan, I met Eric's parents, and I saw someone who I totally didn't expect to see at all, really ever ever again.

The day started with giving David's ticket to Heather, at about 11:45.  On the way back Morgan and I grabbed some Krystal's for ourselves and hsi friend Tom.  We get back to Morgan's place, Tom meets us there, and as we're eating Kimberly, Shannon, and Lindsey show up.  The reason for this meeting up was because we were all returning to Morgan's place after the Jam to sober up and as there have been multiple muggings in the neighborhood, we didn't want people walking after dark to random cars.

We get there at 12:30, and after figureing out checkin and everything, we get in line and eventually make our way in.  Eric introduces us to his parents.  They're ADOREABLE!  They're shorter than I thought, though.  Heather's parents met everyone.

Eric was taking pictures for the Knoxvillle Voice, so when they get out up I'll probably try to link them. We'll see if I remember.

At 2PM we had a drink for one of my girls who had to give a paper out of state, so she missed us.

...later...

Culinary Blog

So I'm going to try my hand at recording my cooking adventures.

Here's the link.

Gexx Cooks

i'm helpful!

I tend to be the "helpful" friend.

No, not really, I'm just (surprised? impressed? amused?) by the two "help me"'s I've been asked for today. Probably by the way the asker approached it. I like to think that I'm helpful in general, once when the sewer exploded up one friend's second floor apartment bathtub, again when a friend's husband left, still again at random other askings.

One: I dropped a friend off at the airport at 430AM.
how this happened:
friend: "I have a favor to ask you."
me: "I'll see what I can do, what's up?"
f: "Ineedyoutodropmeoffattheairportat430thursdaymorningwednesdaynighttakeyourpick"
m: ::giggle:: "ok"


Two: Laundry for another friend (in a way)
how this happened:
friend: "question"
me: "answer"
friend: "did i wake you up?"
me: "no"
friend: "ok, that was the question, bye"
me: "really?"
f: "no, there's a leak in my apartment so they're taking out the subfloor and the water heater which means that i can't take a shower or do laundry. and it happens that today i need to take a shower and i really should do laundry..."
me: "come on over"

ha. ok, to go do work now.

i haven't been gone that long

but for some reasons my cats have decided that the only appropriate action this afternoon is to sleep in my lap. well, orion is sleeping in my lap. nece is sleeping on the back of the couch where she can nuzzle my face.

no worries. gives me time to find odd media. no?

Rabbit


Put Down the Duckie!


Palin and book burning


Who doesn't

dexter

the other night morgan and i watched "dexter", the series on hbo.  he had somehow temporarily aquired the dvds from the first season. so we watched the first episode, excited because of all the good reviews we heard about the series.

i really didn't like it.

it seems like the potential for a good drama couched in the shock value of realistic looking dead people.

granted the porosity at the end of the long bones looked somewhat accurate (i'm not the most experianced among my crew) in the dismemberment, but really.

there was a lecture a few weeks ago for class. it was billed (in my mind) to be about the logistics of the 9/11 recovery process and forensic anthro type stuff there.  instead we got to see lots of dismembered body parts from different criminal cases.

i don't like soft tissue.

but at the same time i'm glad that physanths are able to develop the methods and technology to apply to such forensic situations in order to identify individuals and methods of body "modification".

dexter is cashing in on this.

ah well. shock shock shock.

Weekend

Enjoyed the weekend.

friday night was first friday, it was my first first friday also, and lee and rusty and claire had exhibits opening. the plan was to dress up meet up at lee and rusty's gallery (@ cumberland and gay), do the "ooh, awesome!" thing then grab food @ 7 @ the bistro and make our way down to w summit hill for claire's stuff and then hit sassy ann's for a little cutthroat action.

so i dressed up, green low cut sweater hoodie, brown tank, short denim skirt, and brown boots. i had just had my hair done, and i even put on makeup. i felt so much like an undergrad getting ready for a night out. my normal "lets go out" clothes consist of a pair of ripped jeans and a tank top. ah well. it wont kill me to get dressed up now and again.

but the others were running a little behind. lee and rusty weren't even there when we had to leave for our dinner reservations.  so we ate, shared a bottle of wine, and went back.  at lee and rusty's there was a water cooler full of wine. a WINE COOLER if you will. so much wining was had, and there were multiple people who i hadn't seen in a while so there was a bunch of catching up going on there when it was like OK! MUST GO FIND CLAIRE!

morgan was driving (thankfully) so he toted my and shannonette's arse up to w summit hill in which progress i call claire up twice, the first time thinking i had a bad connection. the second time realizing it was just REALLY LOUD where she was. she was at the crown and goose, apparently her thing was over for the night (BOO!) I felt like such a pathetic friend missing her thing, especially since when i showed up at the crown and goose to talk for a few moments i was obviously feeling the wine.

when i first got to the c&g i saw nate and adam, so i talked to them for a bit. morgan and shannonette joined me in there, so they both said hi. it was morgan's first meeting of this cookeville group, but shannonette had met them previously. i guess bringing morgan may have been somewhat transparent (bringing the current boy when meeting up w the ex-boy's bro) but at the same time i wanted to find claire.

finally found her! after running into one of our prof's, that is. i was so intent on finding claire, though, that i just gave him a half wave while trying to figure out what she was saying. i'm doing great with my personal interactions. found claire, talked for a while, left, ran back by nate and adam, and asked about a wedding this coming weekend.  then asked about the ex's plans for this coming weekend (which is also brewers jam, and yes, is where i met him last year, and i hoped wouldn't be a big deal, but with some of the emails that he had been sending me and the fact that he kept checking my blog and myspace somewhat consistently until about 2 weeks ago, i'm honestly a bit worried about what might happen if we both meet face to face utterly beer-plastered) i find that not only does he not have plans to attend brewers jam, he also does have plans for something else. so no worries there.  i just don't want drama. i'm tired of stupid boys.

any way, after that, off to sassy ann's, where i change into my jeans and chacos. it was easy as i was already wearing a skirt. yay me.

cutthroat was cutthroat. yay. i was beat, though, i had been on the move since 7AM. had done the oil change thing, the hair cut/color thing, and then the social thing, so we cut out at about 1AM.  and went home. and passed out.

zonk.

good times.

the following day the morning was spent reading, and taking a shower, and getting things together, as that afternoon there was another dnd game (yay?). i think i'm enjoying it. I'm just trying to decide if i really like spending 5 hours i could devote to school stuff with this limited tangable reward system.  after the game we hit the mall and i had to physically restrain morgan from purchasing for me an item from williams sonoma. i know, what was i thinking. dinner was lovely mashed taters and tomatos with mozzerella with olive oil and balsamic viniger. because that was what i wanted. and the trend seems to be with him that i get what i want. i can't abuse this, but with wierd food cravings while cramping, it's totally legit.

sunday was good brunch at sunspot, grocery shopping, and more reading (read that as "napping), and monday was monday.

tonight i have options. morgan might still be in town, or he might not. if he isn't i may go watch the debate with jim (where? does he have a tv?) and play www.palinbingo.com with the prez candidates. or a may go see dennis at his open mike at the pres pub. or i may stay in and read this book about fair trade coffee if i don't get it done by then.

blargh.

when i was in fourth grade my mother told me "the american people don't trust women to such a point that they will even elect a black man as president before considering a woman."

what she said reveals so much about her.

Link to article. i don't feel like writing much. i'm hungry.

"I support sexual empowerment. I think it's more of having a critical eye to how capitalism produces this sexual fetished culture."
Samhita Mukhopadhyay

"... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, or we are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose."
bell hooks


"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, Sarah Palin repudiates the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirms dimensions of that legacy by their her refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"
bell hooks (me)


"As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media."
bell hooks

link fun

60 things worth shortening your life for.... mmmm... butter

rhetoric rage! and myspace removed my uterus

this has been bugging me for a while... the phrase
"rape or incest"

aren't these both rape if they're non-concensual?



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so the uterus picture below with the caption of a play on "this is not a pipe" which has launched discussion of my french proficiency (yeah, yahoo translator for the not-win, we're working on this) has been removed from myspace (after i took it off of my default as i wanted to fix it) for the fact that it was offensive.

darn those internal organs, forcing us to face the fact that we are females with girly bits.

but apparently cleavage /  bikini shots are fine

RAGE!