I don’t even know where to begin answering that question. I’ve had the best intentions, but it seems that every time I get on track with something, an illness of some sort hits me full force. I’m still dealing with a UTI from several weeks back, and between specialists appointments, my demanding reading schedule, work, and the rest of life, it’s been near impossible to sit down and research a blog post. I have more ideas than time to write them all in. Of course, I could have taken the time I used to play Mario Kart Wii to whip up some prose, but we all need a break once in awhile. I’ve been dying to quit the full-time employment scene but it feels like I’m continually being met with resistance. I’ve even fantasized about being fired, although I can’t think of any grounds for that. Maybe all my absences, but unfortunately most doctors’ offices aren’t open after 5pm on Friday. Anyways, I hope to have something for you all in a few weeks, and maybe write several posts to be waiting in the wings so there aren’t too many more long absences from this blog!
Archive for the ‘Quoted’ Category
‘Think’ This Might End Up on My Letter of Intent
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008But ultimately we need to think critically and seek knowledge, whether it’s considered cool or uncool, because it fulfills a deep practical and even spiritual human need.”
Michael LeGault, Think! Why Crucial Decisions Can’t Be Made in the Blink of an Eye, 31.
So true
Thursday, March 16th, 2006“Our position to one another in our families is, and must be, like that of the Moon to the Earth. The Moon revolves around her, moves with her, never leaves her. Yet the Earth never sees but one side of her; the other side remains for ever unknown.” – Florence Nightingale.
So right on the ball – how many of our families actually know us even though they claim that they do?!
Hrm…
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006“Our foremothers may have known that the details of daily survival and human touch dominate our lives, not brief moments of public recognition or a few minutes in a voting booth.” – Elizabeth Jameson, Women as Workers, Women as Civilizers, page 161.
I thought it made sense in context with current events. I don’t feel like any less of a woman because I didn’t vote — although I mostly didn’t vote because of inconvenience, not because I don’t care or didn’t feel like it. I didn’t set back the suffrage movement (that some would argue happened more because men decided to give it to us than we actually won it, see the article quoted above in its entirely for more thoughts on that) and really, exercising my democratic right won’t make me a better human being. It’s human contacts that really matter.