Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I, for one, welcome our new celibate ex-gay overlords.

So we’re at the zoo this weekend, and Aaron says, "I, for one, welcome our new prairie dog overlords." 

Which brings us to this, or more specifically this.

I just love the Simpsons. The original version is from Episode 96, "Deep Space Homer" from Season 5 of the series:

"The spacecraft has apparently been taken over – "conqured" if you will – by a master race of giant space ants. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves." – Kent Brockman

And then this guy made it MUCH more boring: Link 1 and Link 2.

"Memetic phylogeny" – What will they think of next?!

Tom Cruise is weird. Very weird.

Hustle & Flow is good.

I am done writing. 

OK, not pours exactly. So a few weeks ago, while I was still working in the closet, people kept walking past from the conference room saying things like, "Mmmmm. That felt good." Finally, I went out in the hall to see what was going on. They had hired a maseuse! But it was for STAFF ONLY. All day, that line from Snoopy, Come Home kept going through my head: NO DOGS ALLOWED!

So anyway, I just got a call, and this woman from work, a woman I actually really like, invited me to her house tonight for a spa treatment by this same lady. Damn, I could use that. What I wish is that the…

OH WAIT! OH WAIT! I can go tomorrow night at 8pm instead!!! I just checked my own blog. ADD is a bitch, huh? OK, so I’m going to the LIA Sucks Comedy thingy TOMORROW, and tonight it’s Spa-time! I ROOOOL!!! 

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Update: Crap! Turns out it’s one of those buy-our-stuff parties. I can’t do that. I’m allergic. I’ll be at the meeting for Zach, but I probably won’t volunteer. I’m already doing as much as I have time for. I can’t tell you how behind I am on work stuff. It’s non-good. 

When I get to Boston, I’m going to have me a real graduation party. I will get cheesy decorations and everyone who comes has to get me a dumb graduation-themed gift. I’ll even pick up a cake with silly caps and gowns and fake diplomas on top. It’ll be a blast!

I TiVo’d Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days. Looks really interesting. Will let you know how it is.

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Just watched it. The premise of the show is that each episode is him putting himself in another person’s shoes for 30 days. This first episode was really good. Morgan Spurlock and his fiancee Alex try to live on minimum wage for 30 days. Of course, they are educated, White, and articulate. They don’t have many of the barriers that many people have living on such little money, and they also don’t have the time to build up alliances with other people going through the same thing, so they don’t have time for interdependence. Still, I can forgive that because they do a really good job of sticking to the parameters they set for themselves enough to make the important points about how minimum wage and the American health care system are sub-adequate for basic subsistence. I will definitely be watching this again.

Morgan would have gotten an A+ in my Multiculturalism class. Their major project was a Resistance Project. Here is a section of the guidelines I gave my students at the end of the semester before writing their final paper on the project:

Your Resistance Project is the culmination of all of the work you have done this semester on your resistance group. For this project, you began by completing an approved reading on the group that you feel resistant towards. This prepared you for an interview with a member of that group. In that interview, you had a chance to hear their personal story about being a member of this group. Hopefully, you were able to listen to their story on its own terms and recognize the filters that you yourself had as you listened to their story. Your background and upbringing… in other words, YOUR cultural experiences have caused you to feel some judgments towards this group. That is normal and expected, but hopefully, through this project, you understand just a little bit better than your way of seeing the world is only one of of countless ways of seeing the world. Your last experience was to attend a "happening" related to this group. You may have attended an OUT Meeting or attended a worship service that was different from the type of service you grew up attending. You may have volunteered at a soup kitchen, or gone somewhere else that, prior to this project, you never would have before experienced. I hope that you really challenged yourself and stepped out of your comfort zone.

I see this project as a model for how you address resistance in your life. It is my hope that now, when you encounter difference, your will be aware of your judgments and what it is about you that leads you to have them. I am not naive. I know that you will always continue to judge people who are very different from you. We all do it, but this project has asked you to question your judgments and to place them in the proper context. Your judgments about another person are not truth. You have them for a reason. When you analyze them, you learn a lot more about yourself and your personal comfort zone than you learn about the person you have judged…