Spring Break cont.
My understanding is that there is a place for them to go … sort of. There is a lot of clarity on this issue, other than you can’t stay here. International students have options, but I think no one is given a clear picture of what that is. Small school with lots of change in the works, but not a lot of answers yet. I think this is something they will certainly have to address more fully in the future, but right now we are making do. Thank God this community here is very willing to take students in for a week or so if needed. ;) It is a very strange system that is not some thing I know a lot about. :)
Spring Break
It is a well known fact that I love my job. I LOVE my job!! If you didn’t catch that the first time I have my dream job and I LOVE IT!!!!
However, I do expect that at an institute of higher learning the students would know how to read. This would includes, but is not limited too, reading e-mail, snail mail, posters, your hosing contract, and talking to your RA. Had you paid any attention to the last week or two weeks of things in your mailbox, e-mail’s in your inbox (school account is all I have access to!) you would have seen that you can not under any circumstances stay in the RESIDENCE HALL (YES, NOT DORM!!!!) over Spring Break. The building is closed and the locks have been changed. There is no exception to this rule. There is no way around this, examples (but again, not limited to): athletics (all sports fall into this), a school sponsored trip, function, event etc., your an international student, your parents kicked you out (don’t bring your drugs here, cause we will kick you out too!), or you just don’t feel like being at home any more. It is your responsibility to find somewhere else to go. We are closed. I am not working a full week, my staff is not here, I am not doing rounds and there are many legal reasons you can’t be here. So I am sorry you have “no place to go.” This your problem, you are an adult. Also, this includes staying later then the designated time and coming back earlier then when we reopen. YOU CAN’T BE HERE. You don’t have to go home, BUT YOU CAN’T STAY HERE!! So, thank you for trying your key in the door at 5pm on Friday night, but you can’t come in and you will not be able to get in until noon on Sunday. Have a great weekend!! I am going to continue to enjoy the quiet without you!!!
Now that I can sit up, daddy lets me read the Sunday paper. 22 weeks.
You’re bad at this, Rush Limbaugh. You don’t even understand how babies are made, let alone how people can have sex without making a baby, and you would like the government to take over decision-making on these issues on your say-so. And you don’t get it. You biologically don’t get it. You just don’t understand it. You were absent that day. - Rachel Maddow
This is my youngest daughter, Ava. I felt that I needed to share the conversation she and I had after a school field trip today.
Ava: Mommy, we saw Princesses skating on the ice!!
Me: Wow!! Did you have fun?
Ava: Yeah, but there is a best part!!
Me: What was it?
Ava: We got to meet the Princesses and I asked Snow White if she had a boyfriend.
Me: (Laughing) Did you? What did she say?
Ava: She said she did and then she asked me if I had one!! And I said I had one, but I didn’t like him any more.
Me: Oh. Well, how come you don’t like him anymore?
Ava: Because I like my other friend now and then I got scared and asked her if I could still be a princess and she asked why so I told her that my friend I like is a girl and I want to have a girlfriend.
Me: (a bit surprised) Oh. Ok, well what did she tell you?
Ava: That’s the best part! She said that as long as I have love I already AM a Princess!!
<3
Win.
YES!!!!
Yay!!!!!!!!!!
(Source: metalintheflesh)
I find it interesting …
- that you comment on all things political
- that you always point out everyone else’s wrongs
- that you have nothing nice to say
- that you silence my voice because I have to choose not to argue with you for the sake of the child
- that you want to be treated like an adult, but only communicate with me through your comments on my fb wall
- that even though we agreed to disagree you continuously comment on my views
So thanks, for once again, I have to turn to the one thing I wanted to be positive and fun. Thank you tumblr for not judging. For letting me choose who sees and for giving me a safe place to vent/spew my frustrations.
Vote for Christopher!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150593772600690.404366.14902270689&type=3
He is the naked baby on the fuzzy blanket!!
One dream I thought I could give up …
That my sister-in-law would actually act like the adult she and my brother keep insisting they are. But I heard that if you have to tell people you are something, you most likely are not that thing …
So long story short: keeping your nasty right-wing option to yourself and off my FB page, cause I don’t give two shits that you don’t agree with me. We have established this and I don’t care. So please let if go and stop shoving your fucking shit down my throat!!!!
Last night I went over to a lady friend’s house, ostensibly to hook up. When I realized that she was far too drunk to be making any decisions, we said goodnight and I slept on the couch. Didn’t even kiss.
There were some pretty funny nuances to the story, so I told a few female friends about it. The response that I got from all of them was “Thanks for being such a great guy!” or “Wow! That was such a good thing for you to do!” After I heard that for the third time I started feeling pretty profoundly disturbed.
How the fuck does not taking advantage of a drunk girl make me a “great guy”? Is it because most guys would have done something questionable in that situation? I shudder to think of the answer to that question. Not taking advantage of someone should make me a “normal guy.” At most.
Why should I be proud of myself? I’m never proud of myself for drinking a cup of coffee or putting on a sweater. We are fucking ill as a culture when not raping someone is something so fantastically foreign and atypical for a man to do that he receives surprised praise from others. I don’t deserve any special treatment or congratulations for “doing the right thing.” No one does. It shouldn’t even have to be qualified as the “right” thing to do. It should just be the thing you do.
Acknowledging that my straight male privilege could very easily make me a little late in the game in thinking about this stuff that so many people do not have the luxury of avoiding, I want to make a plea to my fellow men in this world: Fellas, we need to step up our game so that we can break through the cynical miasma surrounding rape culture and confront this shit head on. I don’t like living in a culture where people are pleasantly surprised that a man didn’t take advantage of a woman. We need to be working towards a world where not violating and taking advantage of people is something so natural that no one would even feel the need to comment or compliment in the first place. Peace.
