Eurythmas Wishes
I've been very depressed recently so I haven't posted much- I'll get into some of the reasons later but it does have a lot to do with my job. One of the reasons I enjoyed teaching is that I had a high degree of autonomy, but that has vanished; couple that with 12-hour days and weekend work and I'm reconsidering. I get here before the sun rises, leave after the sun sets, and am still not done with work. If I'm going to work this many hours, I might as well be a lawyer and get paid good money, and have some more prestige. I'm going to have to go back to school ANYWAY to finish certification and I still need to get a Master's if I did want to continue so I have made what I think is a Good Decision today. Since one of the hurdles for me is taking the LSAT, I think what I will do is bite the bullet and ask Leah how much it would cost for me to take the class through Kaplan, and then pay whatever it is just to have it done. I need to get Serious because I'm not getting any younger, and when I graduate law school will be competing with people 10 years younger than myself. I don't think I can take too much more of this. Then again, I've heard that barristers have one of the highest incidences of both alcoholism and depression, which I'm already subject to - - - Sigh. I'll just have to manage that when I get there.
Part of the problem is that I hate working, period. I don't like getting up in the morning and when people are all chirpy at obscene hours I want to smack them. After that things are more or less OK but ooh, the getting up out of bed. I love puttering around the house and doing Martha Stewarty things. I would NEVER get bored if I stayed at home all day. I LIKE doing nothing.
Speaking of which, that's more or less what I want for Eurythmas. I do very much still want an unmolested 1987 Buick Grand National with less than 60,000 miles and t-tops, but if I could find someone to buy one of those for me I wouldn't be whining about my job. I want to move very badly, but there you are again, and then I want to go to law school. I would like a replacement camera for the one Trey lost, and I signed up for SunTrust's new CD- start it with $100, and then you can have as little as $50 deducted each month from your checking account! I put in $25/week, because I figure I can cut back that much each month in one way or another (watch out for any moist, brown, meaty canapes at the next dinner party) and then by this time next year I will have $1,400! If Trey does the same thing, then we will have enough money to go on a nice vacation to Mexico; if we do it two years in a row we will have enough $ to go to Germany. I haven't bought the Eurythmics Boxed set yet, and the more I think about it, the less I really feel like forking out that kind of $ all at once. I don't really have the time to enjoy listening to the cd's either. We have a Netflix subscription. Trey wants a TV/DVD player, but I really can't stand to have one in the house. I would probably like any of the Joan Didion books I don't have already- (I have the Book of Common Prayer and Slouching towards Bethlehem); Ruth Rendell's The Lake of Darkness or The Rottweiler (Trey may get that for Eurythmas, continuing the tradition of giving people things I want) One Across, Two Down. Or Thirteen Steps Down. O and a large bottle of Citadelle gin is always welcome. Other than that, I have plenty of clothes, even with Happy Bunny on them, and don't need more; and I did get one large glittery piece of jewelry from Eva so I shan't really be able to afford any more for a while, and we can't fit anything else in the house.
O and Trey made a joke yesterday that I thought was hysterical. You wouldn't know how to take care of children, he said. You'd leave them out in the sun all day, and they'd get sunburned, and then you'd say, They're supposed to be like that, they're red babies.
Well, I thought it was funny. I guess you had to be there.
The reason conservatives have been up in arms so long about the P.C. movement is that so much of it has become mainstream- not so much the terminology, but the ideology. Pre-P.C., most people might be offended, but probably wouldn't take action because someone says something "offensive." Nowadays, people lose their jobs for making allegedly "offensive" comments, or those comments/stances are used to justify witch hunts. Example, courtesy of opinionblog.com, courtesy of Instapundit;
Massachusetts chief justice apologizes for 'red state' remark
By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer December 2, 2005
BOSTON --Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, author of the landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage in Massachusetts, on Friday apologized for a remark she made about "red states" during a commencement speech at Brandeis University last spring.
Marshall's apology resolves a citizen complaint filed against her with the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
In greeting the audience at the Brandeis commencement on May 22, Marshall commented on the hundreds of blue and white balloons held in nets tied to the rafters. "No red states here," Marshall said.
In her apology Friday, Marshall said she regretted making the comment about "red states," a term used to describe Republican-leaning states.
Marshall called the comment "an unconsidered, spontaneous attempt to connect with the exuberant celebratory feeling in the audience, reflecting the balloons I had seen."
"The reference to 'red states' was not part of my written, prepared speech. I regret the comment, and I apologize for it," she said.
"I did not intend to say anything of a political nature. The comment did not reflect what I had intended."
Marshall's attorney, Hugh Scott, emphasized that the commission did not bring any charges against Marshall.
"After the complaint was received by the commission, there was a series of mutual discussions between the commission and the chief justice, and she concurred with the commission that this was an appropriate way to resolve the matter," Scott said.
Jill Pearson, executive director of the commission, would not comment on the complaint against Marshall.
After the SJC issued its landmark ruling on same-sex marriage in 2003, the justices -- particularly Marshall as its author -- were criticized by opponents as an example of "activist judges" who allowed their political views to influence their decisions.
"I hold sacred my oath to decide every case fairly and impartially and according to law," she said in her apology Friday.
I'm deeply offended that this judge was censured (that's correctly spelt) for making a simple comment about a lack of Republican/right wing influence at some semi-private gathering. She made her comments at a COMMENCEMENT speech, not in a professional setting, and if she had, so what? We all know that judges are either political appointees or elected officials and usually serve one party or the other, and have their own individual ideologies- they can't be entirely unbiased. If their work reflected a bias, that would be another matter, but this is thought/speech control plain and simple, and it's absolutely terrifying. In the future, no one will be able to express any opinions of their own, unless the Culture has vetted them; example, a comedienne might be allowed to make this comment, but no one else would. I simply cannot believe that anyone thought it was worth taking action that she said something so inane and meaningless. Sigh.
Part of the problem is that I hate working, period. I don't like getting up in the morning and when people are all chirpy at obscene hours I want to smack them. After that things are more or less OK but ooh, the getting up out of bed. I love puttering around the house and doing Martha Stewarty things. I would NEVER get bored if I stayed at home all day. I LIKE doing nothing.
Speaking of which, that's more or less what I want for Eurythmas. I do very much still want an unmolested 1987 Buick Grand National with less than 60,000 miles and t-tops, but if I could find someone to buy one of those for me I wouldn't be whining about my job. I want to move very badly, but there you are again, and then I want to go to law school. I would like a replacement camera for the one Trey lost, and I signed up for SunTrust's new CD- start it with $100, and then you can have as little as $50 deducted each month from your checking account! I put in $25/week, because I figure I can cut back that much each month in one way or another (watch out for any moist, brown, meaty canapes at the next dinner party) and then by this time next year I will have $1,400! If Trey does the same thing, then we will have enough money to go on a nice vacation to Mexico; if we do it two years in a row we will have enough $ to go to Germany. I haven't bought the Eurythmics Boxed set yet, and the more I think about it, the less I really feel like forking out that kind of $ all at once. I don't really have the time to enjoy listening to the cd's either. We have a Netflix subscription. Trey wants a TV/DVD player, but I really can't stand to have one in the house. I would probably like any of the Joan Didion books I don't have already- (I have the Book of Common Prayer and Slouching towards Bethlehem); Ruth Rendell's The Lake of Darkness or The Rottweiler (Trey may get that for Eurythmas, continuing the tradition of giving people things I want) One Across, Two Down. Or Thirteen Steps Down. O and a large bottle of Citadelle gin is always welcome. Other than that, I have plenty of clothes, even with Happy Bunny on them, and don't need more; and I did get one large glittery piece of jewelry from Eva so I shan't really be able to afford any more for a while, and we can't fit anything else in the house.
O and Trey made a joke yesterday that I thought was hysterical. You wouldn't know how to take care of children, he said. You'd leave them out in the sun all day, and they'd get sunburned, and then you'd say, They're supposed to be like that, they're red babies.
Well, I thought it was funny. I guess you had to be there.
The reason conservatives have been up in arms so long about the P.C. movement is that so much of it has become mainstream- not so much the terminology, but the ideology. Pre-P.C., most people might be offended, but probably wouldn't take action because someone says something "offensive." Nowadays, people lose their jobs for making allegedly "offensive" comments, or those comments/stances are used to justify witch hunts. Example, courtesy of opinionblog.com, courtesy of Instapundit;
Massachusetts chief justice apologizes for 'red state' remark
By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer December 2, 2005
BOSTON --Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, author of the landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage in Massachusetts, on Friday apologized for a remark she made about "red states" during a commencement speech at Brandeis University last spring.
Marshall's apology resolves a citizen complaint filed against her with the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
In greeting the audience at the Brandeis commencement on May 22, Marshall commented on the hundreds of blue and white balloons held in nets tied to the rafters. "No red states here," Marshall said.
In her apology Friday, Marshall said she regretted making the comment about "red states," a term used to describe Republican-leaning states.
Marshall called the comment "an unconsidered, spontaneous attempt to connect with the exuberant celebratory feeling in the audience, reflecting the balloons I had seen."
"The reference to 'red states' was not part of my written, prepared speech. I regret the comment, and I apologize for it," she said.
"I did not intend to say anything of a political nature. The comment did not reflect what I had intended."
Marshall's attorney, Hugh Scott, emphasized that the commission did not bring any charges against Marshall.
"After the complaint was received by the commission, there was a series of mutual discussions between the commission and the chief justice, and she concurred with the commission that this was an appropriate way to resolve the matter," Scott said.
Jill Pearson, executive director of the commission, would not comment on the complaint against Marshall.
After the SJC issued its landmark ruling on same-sex marriage in 2003, the justices -- particularly Marshall as its author -- were criticized by opponents as an example of "activist judges" who allowed their political views to influence their decisions.
"I hold sacred my oath to decide every case fairly and impartially and according to law," she said in her apology Friday.
I'm deeply offended that this judge was censured (that's correctly spelt) for making a simple comment about a lack of Republican/right wing influence at some semi-private gathering. She made her comments at a COMMENCEMENT speech, not in a professional setting, and if she had, so what? We all know that judges are either political appointees or elected officials and usually serve one party or the other, and have their own individual ideologies- they can't be entirely unbiased. If their work reflected a bias, that would be another matter, but this is thought/speech control plain and simple, and it's absolutely terrifying. In the future, no one will be able to express any opinions of their own, unless the Culture has vetted them; example, a comedienne might be allowed to make this comment, but no one else would. I simply cannot believe that anyone thought it was worth taking action that she said something so inane and meaningless. Sigh.
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