…so I never got around to thinking about that post. …So I didn’t write it. Now it’s 4 30 am and I have an orientation in the morning at 830. My goodness. I PROMISE, a decent post soon. But for your entertainment…

LOOK HOW MUCH I’VE CHANGED!
Me then and me now.

I went through some weeeeird phases my friends, weeeeird.

I know I haven’t really posted anything worth reading for a while, but I’ve been busy. However, I’ll write something on environmental ethics later, I think. Or on one of the wars….or economic geography…I’ll decide after I have a nap. But, I just thought I’d share something that I nearly died laughing at today.

Mikael: I think I’m going to be a buddhist…
Me: Good luck, quit your UFC fighting junk now then.
Mikael: Oh. I’ll just stick to christianity then.
Me: …What can I say to talk to you out of that too?
Mikael: Hey Kate, what do you think about Jesus?
Me: I tend not to…
*silence*
Me: Why, what do you think about Jesus?
Mikael: When I think about Jesus I think about the time he swallowed the puzzle peice and the man in the yellow hat had to rush him to the emergency room.
Me: *…blank stare…followed by uncontrollable laughter*

I found out later he got it off Family Guy, but it was still one of the most random and halarious thing I had ever heard, especially in refrence to Jesus, from a 15 year old kid.

I just wrote a fucking amazing post on marriage and some fucking yahoo thing popped up in the window when I hit submit instead of the posting page and now the post is gone. This stupid yahoo page keeps popping up instead of the URL that i request. I dont know wtf it is, or how the fuck it got on here, but I’m starting to get uber pissed. I’m out of this blog shit for a day or two before I throw my fucking computer out a window.

It was a DAMN GOOD post about marriage being the social corruption of today leading to stupid patriarchical divisions, and how the religious intollerance of the world is partly to blame. I even linked to about 8 differnet places, which I’ve already closed off because I thought the stupid thing would have stupid posted.

But, one was to this feministing post about marriage, which I basically agree totally with, and another was to Alon’s post…and I made a comment in there that basically sums up my opinion on that.

Since it’s 230 am and I’m still sort of on Ontario time (so its 530 am) I’m not going to bother redoing the post now. But basically - marriage is totally irrational. I don’t need an insitiutionalized peice of paper telling me who I love, and then having to get another peice of paper with more signatures on it if something goes wrong. ….Then some blabber about gender roles, some more blabber about how much of a waste of money big weddings and receptions are…and a little bit more blabber about how I’m just going to ‘live in sin’ with as many guys as possible, simply because it pisses off so many fundamentalists I know.

GRRR. This is the most frustrating week of my life. I hate yahoo right now, more than I hate walmart. and boy. do i hate walmart.

It’s really, being posted everywhere, but I’ll first link to the Angry Black Bitch’s post announcing that the FDA has finally approved Plan B, aka the morning after pill!

If a woman takes Plan B within 72 hours of unprotected sex, she can
lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent. Plan B is different
from the abortion pill: If a woman already is pregnant, Plan B has no
effect.

…well, for girls 18+. Now girls 18+ without a prescription can go and take Plan B… I think it’s great, but would be even more beneficial if even younger girls could take it, since they’re even *less* ready to be a mother than girls 18+. So instead of having Plan B available for all girls, America has decided to keep the abortion rate nice and high…

But for some reason, when it comes to preventing abortions, so-called
“pro-lifers” have rallied around and demanded that BushCo do everything
in their power to keep the abortion rate as high as possible by
withholding emergency contraception from women who are eager to prevent
abortions.

But while Plan B was up in the air other factors in teh birth control department were neglected and there was a sneaky price hike.

No one much noticed, but thousands of family-planning clinics across
the country went into a tailspin last month. They were reacting to a
drastic price increase by Ortho-McNeil, a major supplier of
birth-control pills and maker of the popular contraceptive patch. The
company used to charge publicly funded clinics as little as a penny a
pack for the pills. Then, as of July 1, the price of some pills jumped
to more than $18 a pack.

One really great thing about living in Canada, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, is the health care. I don’t spend a dime on my birth control. It would cost me $10/month, but instead I pay zip. And I started to get it when I was 16, and my mom didn’t even know about it. Canada rocks.

I know, the look keeps changing. But I have yet to find a look and a picture I’m totally happy with… so it’s going to keep changing…all the time. I keep thinking I’m happy with the look, and then I find things I don’t like. …If there is one you see that you think is actually good, or works real well, lemme know somehow. They’re all starting to look the same to me.

*edit: I might keep this look, but not the picture. …I may just have to take a new picture just for the blog… but even then its going to take me a million and a half photos to find one where I don’t look like a tard. …Also, with this template/design I need to get used to all the lists…not have spaces inbetween each line. Its sort of hard on the eyes, and I don’t like it, but I might have to suck it up… like there aren’t even bullets to separate the differnet things. …Also, I’m taking some people off the blog roll. I’ve found I don’t go to about 1/4 of the sites I have listed… or some, like Eco-Chick have just gone downhill.

However, having just said that, there is pretty interesting …*eye-rolling*… post on Eco-Chick. What’s the eye roll all about? Well, the brand new shirt that says to repair old clothes instead of buying new… Honestly now. What person who wears that t-shirt can’t be deemed at least a tiny bit of a hypocrite? I fully understand the message the shirt is trying to get across, but if you really wanted to advocate for this issue… wouldn’t you just take an old t-shirt, and repair it, and then like, sew on some lettering that said the same thing?

Honestly, a shirt made that way would have a far greater effect, at least I think so. Sorry, mini-rant.