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Archive for 1 February 2008

Thing-​​A-​​Day 1!

1 February 2008, 11:49 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Art, Needlework.

If there’s a way to auto-​​cross-​​post rel­e­vant entries from here to Thing-​​A-​​Day, I haven’t fig­ured it out. Doing it man­u­ally feels inelegant.

I don’t have a photo to post, but I got out the draw­ing tablet for the first time in an embar­rass­ingly long time, and worked on a cross-​​stitch design. It split into two designs, some­how, but I’m hop­ing to post pics tomor­row. I dis­cov­ered that Pat­tern­Maker isn’t installed on this machine, so I’ve made graph­ics that have to be trans­lated into graphed designs.

I feel that I’m really in the “get­ting orga­nized” stage, which I should have done last week. But the tablet is attached now, and I know where my stitch­ing bag is. I’ll find out in the morn­ing just what my daugh­ter did with my col­ored pen­cils and such, and locate the Pat­tern­Maker install CD. And the cam­era, that would help. Yep.

It did feel great to have time on my sched­ule devoted to “being cre­ative” and noth­ing else!

Rainbow Stickers = Gang Affiliations? Right

1 February 2008, 9:30 pm. 5 Comments. Filed under Civil Rights, Education.

Yeah, I hear there’s a real prob­lem with queer street gangs these days, tag­ging every­thing in sight with those damned rainbows.

ACLU sues Florida school for bar­ring Pride gear

Admin­is­tra­tors at Ponce de Leon High School stated that stu­dents’ wear­ing rain­bow stick­ers could mean that they are mem­bers of an ille­gal orga­ni­za­tion.…
An uniden­ti­fied stu­dent was sus­pended for five days for express­ing her sup­port for gay rights, the ACLU said. Stu­dents said a les­bian peer was harassed and tried to report the sit­u­a­tion to admin­is­tra­tors. She was instead greeted with cen­sor­ship of sup­port­ing stu­dents writ­ing “gay pride” on their arms and notebooks.

This story def­i­nitely goes in the “glad to be home­school­ing” file, but it also gives me cause to won­der if the school admin­is­tra­tor train­ing process sur­gi­cally removes all com­mon sense. Or do they just pre­fer to recruit those who don’t have much of it in the first place?

So What’s Different?

1 February 2008, 6:27 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Feminism, Links.

I saw the topic and thought, “Gosh, maybe I’ve missed some­thing obvi­ous. I’ve never been so good at this Girly-​​Girl thing. I should watch that.”

I watched it. I don’t feel enlightened.

Maybe it’s just been too long since I thought about this stuff, but what’s so dif­fer­ent about apply­ing make-​​up for 40-​​year-​​olds than it is for 20-​​year-​​olds? I get that people’s skin type might change, but that’s an indi­vid­ual thing. Where did this “no mas­cara on the bot­tom lashes” thing come from, and why?

Maybe some­one who reads women’s mag­a­zines or watches TV can give me a clue here.

(Yep, this is a very shal­low entry.)

 

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