Random Thoughts....
May. 8th, 2006 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phoenixastraeaOk, so pain in the ass: I get a call from my boss at the English Department who was asking where I was. Apparently, she forgot to tell me that she can keep us working until May 12th. Thrilling, huh? Definitely so, considering I only asked her four times last week whether or not she had heard anything about extending our hours. Argh! So, it looks like vacation doesn't quite start yet. In to work tomorrow.
Also, I just got off the phone with my grandmother, whom I love dearly. I know she's doing this to help, but she keeps calling with all these job opportunities in other parts of Virginia that she wants me to look into. Again, I know she's trying to help, but all it seems to be doing is stressing me out. Big time. Right now, I don't feel like moving, so I'm looking locally. I do have an interview on Thursday, and every time she calls she asks if I know where it is and how to get there. Its not technically nagging, but it feels that way.
I'm 25. I can do these things myself. Of course, that's an ungrateful, awful thing to say but there are times when I feel like I haven't left the womb! *shrug* ah well, no biggie.
I've also had some random thoughts bouncing around in my head that I thought I'd run past you all: as a woman, do you think its worse to be mousy or slutty? Its a tough call, but I think 'slutty' implies some sort of subversive, outrageous behavior...yes, sluttiness can be self-loathing and degrading, but it also implies that the woman has some control over her sexuality...or does she? Now, this begs the question that you can have two forms of sluttish behavior: the powerful, controlling, empowering sexuality or a demeaning desecration of the female body by bowing down to the wanton, consuming needs of the patriarchy only to be picked apart, used, devoured and spit back for more. Controlled or controlling? Dominating or submissive?
On the other hand, what do we mean by calling a woman "mousy"? I heard someone use this term a few days ago and the first thing that I thought was, "Wow, that is one of the words adjectives I can think of to describe someone. I would hate it if someone described me that way." Mousy. I thought of someone who loved blending into the wallpaper...a dusky, aged, peeling wallpaper on a house that has been abandoned for years. Mousy. Someone who is timid, easily frightened, who lives in small holes off of society's scraps. Mousy. Someone who can be stepped on, trapped, experimented on, used, tossed away only to be replaced.
Mousy. The food of the cat.
Thoughts? (Besides the fact that my sanity is selective! ;^D)
Also, I just got off the phone with my grandmother, whom I love dearly. I know she's doing this to help, but she keeps calling with all these job opportunities in other parts of Virginia that she wants me to look into. Again, I know she's trying to help, but all it seems to be doing is stressing me out. Big time. Right now, I don't feel like moving, so I'm looking locally. I do have an interview on Thursday, and every time she calls she asks if I know where it is and how to get there. Its not technically nagging, but it feels that way.
I'm 25. I can do these things myself. Of course, that's an ungrateful, awful thing to say but there are times when I feel like I haven't left the womb! *shrug* ah well, no biggie.
I've also had some random thoughts bouncing around in my head that I thought I'd run past you all: as a woman, do you think its worse to be mousy or slutty? Its a tough call, but I think 'slutty' implies some sort of subversive, outrageous behavior...yes, sluttiness can be self-loathing and degrading, but it also implies that the woman has some control over her sexuality...or does she? Now, this begs the question that you can have two forms of sluttish behavior: the powerful, controlling, empowering sexuality or a demeaning desecration of the female body by bowing down to the wanton, consuming needs of the patriarchy only to be picked apart, used, devoured and spit back for more. Controlled or controlling? Dominating or submissive?
On the other hand, what do we mean by calling a woman "mousy"? I heard someone use this term a few days ago and the first thing that I thought was, "Wow, that is one of the words adjectives I can think of to describe someone. I would hate it if someone described me that way." Mousy. I thought of someone who loved blending into the wallpaper...a dusky, aged, peeling wallpaper on a house that has been abandoned for years. Mousy. Someone who is timid, easily frightened, who lives in small holes off of society's scraps. Mousy. Someone who can be stepped on, trapped, experimented on, used, tossed away only to be replaced.
Mousy. The food of the cat.
Thoughts? (Besides the fact that my sanity is selective! ;^D)
