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gwydion* The group my friends got their assist dog is trying to raise funds for medical kennels for their rescue dogs: http://lcdsvolunteers.chipin.com/medical-kennels
* The money came through, which is a huge worry off my back. As iong as the car doesn't break, I'm okay for the trip. I also was able to restock a whole bunch of things in the kitchen, which needed doing since my EBT got cut. Seriously, 2/3rds of my shopping list all at once! They were nearly out of emergency protein, which I'll need to sort out later in the month and there was stuff from other shops I missed, but my freezer is full, my baking stuff and spices are replenished. I had fresh, locally grown, organic fruit from the farmer's market, naan, and tzatziki for dinner! Omnomnom! It's real summer and the plants were out soaking up sun. I got fuck all done on the internet as I was mostly focused on clearing space for more Olympics. I've got my directions copied out. Now to pack my overnight bag and try for a real night's sleep.
* I will be incommunicado until Monday or Tuesday night.
* Olympics Day 7? and some 8 I think. I'm glad trampoline is now in the Olympics, but I really need to remember to only watch the finals as I burn out about 8 people in. I'm the same way with shot put really. I did Track and Field from 6-12 and Winter track for all of High School, but I've never seen a Shot Put competition live. Oh we had a few shot putters over the years, but most of the big guys were off doing Lacrosse, so my team was terrible at it, and our practice area was up in the woods and hard to see from the track where I spent my afternoons. I got to throw a shot put once a year on try out day and see the other wirey runner guys (and the occasional girl) try the same and also suck at it, but that's it. (It was a men's Track Team, but there were 1D3 girls every year. Girls in general were in very short supply so were needed for Lacrosse so we could field a team at each level. A girl had to be strong willed to get them to let you run instead. It was the same with Fall with Cross Country vs. Field Hockey, and Winter Track vs Swimming/Basketball/Squash. With boys the prestige sports were Football/Wrestling/Lacrosse. The middle of the Road boys played Soccor/Swam/Basketball. The Cross Country/track team was where the good looking misfits ended up. At least I thought they were good looking. I always favored the wiry build and mild geekiness over the big assholish football guys and the bland middle. Not that I deigned to date anyone at my school. I was always off hunting the working class bi-boys in my neighborhood. Can't blame a person for looking though. I mean there was a guy three years ahead of me looked just like Ben Cross and his friend who could have been from the cast of Another Country. Yum, as long as they didn't open their mouths.) I've never seen javelin live at all, as my league didn't do it for fear of us delibrately killing each other. Anyway, it was exciting to see woman from Qatar, Brunei, and Saudi Arabia competing. It's a big fucking deal, especially as the IOC wasn't going to allow head scarves and the woman from Saudi Arabia got them to let her compete with. Similarly, it brought tears to my eyes seeing the woman from Afghanistan running in her scarf. It's a big deal that their countries and the IOc let them compete. It may seem like a small thing, but it's real progress. Similarly, it was genuinely exciting to see Oscar Pistorius line up with the others despite all the bull shit people heaped on him and the efforts to keep him out. I was going to complain about a lack of decent heptathalon coverage, but the Canadians came through. I have no idea why I find the triathalon mesmerizing, but I kind of do. I ran it silently in the background while I gave LM the long pet and did massage chair time.
* My library just got Season 3 of Glee in, but there is rather a line. I'll tell y'all what I think of it when it comes. I have seen the lost scene batch. Watching with only minimal context, the thing that stood out about the "I Want You Back" beyond the sexually threatening creepiness is that post-Blaine Warblers no longer dance like birds on a perch. Sebastian in particular reminds me of a cobra getting ready to strike in a lot of those shots, especially towards the end. For serious, go back and watch them all turn into dancing cobras towards the end. Cobras eat birds.... Yeah. So that fits.
For the record, the threat of sexual violence and that particular smirk Sebastian has in that scene? That's what real life prep school is like in a nutshell. See, if you carry yourself like that you can do anything to someone less powerful than you and claim you were "just joking." I mean anything short of actual murder. If Blaine Era Dalton is the side they show the parents; Sebastian era Dalton is what it's like when the adults are looking the other way.
* The money came through, which is a huge worry off my back. As iong as the car doesn't break, I'm okay for the trip. I also was able to restock a whole bunch of things in the kitchen, which needed doing since my EBT got cut. Seriously, 2/3rds of my shopping list all at once! They were nearly out of emergency protein, which I'll need to sort out later in the month and there was stuff from other shops I missed, but my freezer is full, my baking stuff and spices are replenished. I had fresh, locally grown, organic fruit from the farmer's market, naan, and tzatziki for dinner! Omnomnom! It's real summer and the plants were out soaking up sun. I got fuck all done on the internet as I was mostly focused on clearing space for more Olympics. I've got my directions copied out. Now to pack my overnight bag and try for a real night's sleep.
* I will be incommunicado until Monday or Tuesday night.
* Olympics Day 7? and some 8 I think. I'm glad trampoline is now in the Olympics, but I really need to remember to only watch the finals as I burn out about 8 people in. I'm the same way with shot put really. I did Track and Field from 6-12 and Winter track for all of High School, but I've never seen a Shot Put competition live. Oh we had a few shot putters over the years, but most of the big guys were off doing Lacrosse, so my team was terrible at it, and our practice area was up in the woods and hard to see from the track where I spent my afternoons. I got to throw a shot put once a year on try out day and see the other wirey runner guys (and the occasional girl) try the same and also suck at it, but that's it. (It was a men's Track Team, but there were 1D3 girls every year. Girls in general were in very short supply so were needed for Lacrosse so we could field a team at each level. A girl had to be strong willed to get them to let you run instead. It was the same with Fall with Cross Country vs. Field Hockey, and Winter Track vs Swimming/Basketball/Squash. With boys the prestige sports were Football/Wrestling/Lacrosse. The middle of the Road boys played Soccor/Swam/Basketball. The Cross Country/track team was where the good looking misfits ended up. At least I thought they were good looking. I always favored the wiry build and mild geekiness over the big assholish football guys and the bland middle. Not that I deigned to date anyone at my school. I was always off hunting the working class bi-boys in my neighborhood. Can't blame a person for looking though. I mean there was a guy three years ahead of me looked just like Ben Cross and his friend who could have been from the cast of Another Country. Yum, as long as they didn't open their mouths.) I've never seen javelin live at all, as my league didn't do it for fear of us delibrately killing each other. Anyway, it was exciting to see woman from Qatar, Brunei, and Saudi Arabia competing. It's a big fucking deal, especially as the IOC wasn't going to allow head scarves and the woman from Saudi Arabia got them to let her compete with. Similarly, it brought tears to my eyes seeing the woman from Afghanistan running in her scarf. It's a big deal that their countries and the IOc let them compete. It may seem like a small thing, but it's real progress. Similarly, it was genuinely exciting to see Oscar Pistorius line up with the others despite all the bull shit people heaped on him and the efforts to keep him out. I was going to complain about a lack of decent heptathalon coverage, but the Canadians came through. I have no idea why I find the triathalon mesmerizing, but I kind of do. I ran it silently in the background while I gave LM the long pet and did massage chair time.
* My library just got Season 3 of Glee in, but there is rather a line. I'll tell y'all what I think of it when it comes. I have seen the lost scene batch. Watching with only minimal context, the thing that stood out about the "I Want You Back" beyond the sexually threatening creepiness is that post-Blaine Warblers no longer dance like birds on a perch. Sebastian in particular reminds me of a cobra getting ready to strike in a lot of those shots, especially towards the end. For serious, go back and watch them all turn into dancing cobras towards the end. Cobras eat birds.... Yeah. So that fits.
For the record, the threat of sexual violence and that particular smirk Sebastian has in that scene? That's what real life prep school is like in a nutshell. See, if you carry yourself like that you can do anything to someone less powerful than you and claim you were "just joking." I mean anything short of actual murder. If Blaine Era Dalton is the side they show the parents; Sebastian era Dalton is what it's like when the adults are looking the other way.