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Mar. 9th, 2002
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Mar. 9th, 2002 01:22 ami only had to hit "random" over and over for two hours to find this:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/pa1patine/
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Mar. 9th, 2002 01:49 amfrom cadaverous's lj:
for christ's sake, you POSTED it on the INTERNET.
Fuck.
I'm extremely mad.
I was supposed to go out with Cal tonight but it ended up not happening. I needed to go to Hecht's to get Rasputina tickets for Katie and I... so my mom came by a while ago and we went. On the way there somehow it was brought up about me smoking and Todd thinking I'm having sex and doing drugs. It turns out he has been reading my journal. When me and Rachel had been over there, he followed our links to my journal to SPY on me, basically. He has done this before. I don't know why the fuck he always thinks that he has the right to INVADE MY FUCKING PRIVACY and put me through hell because he doesn't like the way I talk or some other stupid shit. Really fucking pisses me off.
for christ's sake, you POSTED it on the INTERNET.
romance and adventure on the high seas
Mar. 9th, 2002 10:53 ami've been reading about female pirates lately. one day last week on my way home from work, i turned on the radio and caught the last bit of an interview with a woman who'd written a book on the subject. she sounded pretty serious and knowledgeable, so i was even more appalled than i might otherwise have been to discover that the book was entitled Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas. i'd love to smack the shit out of whoever came up with that title.
anyway, i ended up picking up a couple of more serious books on female pirates. currently i'm reading Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages, which is pretty interesting despite going a little too heavy on the feminist rhetoric in places.
so i was lying around in bed this morning trying to avoid getting up, and started to wonder: if i'd been born in, say, the 1600s, would i have become a pirate? i certainly can't see myself decked out in the standard female regalia of the time. surely i'd have done something more interesting than letting myself be married off and popping out babies once a year till i wore out and died. i'm sure anyone who buys into my rep would have no trouble imagining me striding the decks of a pirate ship, brandishing a cutlass and keelhauling my enemies.
then i thought... no. as much as i'd love to believe that image of myself, i know i'm not really that adventurous. above all else, i love security. so maybe i would have just married some guy. and made him really miserable, no doubt. and, well, think about the social order back then. the vast majority of people were poor peasants. most likely i'd have been one of them, and no matter what i wore, it would have been filthy and drab.
but let's be even more realistic. assuming the same sort of personalities and health issues that my family has now, i'd probably have died in infancy. in fact, chances are pretty good i'd never have been born, because my mother would have died in infancy. even if by some bizarre chance i'd survived, i wouldn't have been healthy enough to be a laborer. i probably wouldn't be as fat as i am now -- decent food, after all, was scarce, and people worked hard -- but i'd have a squint, terrible skin, horribly crooked teeth, greasy stringy hair, and by the age of 35 -- assuming i hadn't thrown myself into a pond or been burned as a witch -- i'd no doubt have been hopelessly crippled by arthritis and depression. i might well have been too hideous to marry off, so i'd be a worthless drain on my family until i finally died.
what a cheerful thought with which to begin the weekend!
anyway, i ended up picking up a couple of more serious books on female pirates. currently i'm reading Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages, which is pretty interesting despite going a little too heavy on the feminist rhetoric in places.
so i was lying around in bed this morning trying to avoid getting up, and started to wonder: if i'd been born in, say, the 1600s, would i have become a pirate? i certainly can't see myself decked out in the standard female regalia of the time. surely i'd have done something more interesting than letting myself be married off and popping out babies once a year till i wore out and died. i'm sure anyone who buys into my rep would have no trouble imagining me striding the decks of a pirate ship, brandishing a cutlass and keelhauling my enemies.
then i thought... no. as much as i'd love to believe that image of myself, i know i'm not really that adventurous. above all else, i love security. so maybe i would have just married some guy. and made him really miserable, no doubt. and, well, think about the social order back then. the vast majority of people were poor peasants. most likely i'd have been one of them, and no matter what i wore, it would have been filthy and drab.
but let's be even more realistic. assuming the same sort of personalities and health issues that my family has now, i'd probably have died in infancy. in fact, chances are pretty good i'd never have been born, because my mother would have died in infancy. even if by some bizarre chance i'd survived, i wouldn't have been healthy enough to be a laborer. i probably wouldn't be as fat as i am now -- decent food, after all, was scarce, and people worked hard -- but i'd have a squint, terrible skin, horribly crooked teeth, greasy stringy hair, and by the age of 35 -- assuming i hadn't thrown myself into a pond or been burned as a witch -- i'd no doubt have been hopelessly crippled by arthritis and depression. i might well have been too hideous to marry off, so i'd be a worthless drain on my family until i finally died.
what a cheerful thought with which to begin the weekend!