Papers. And stuff.
Nov. 11th, 2002 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deliriumcrowI finished the paper! It was terrible! It was the sort of thing I could have rambled in endlessly, had I had more books and a longer page limit, but trying to describe the use of fairy tales in the process of growing up in four pges is more than a bit daunting. Maybe if it doesn't do well I'll finish the one on life after the World Trade Center after all.
So last night we went out to do laundry, and on the way home I tripped over a piece of sidewalk (I tell you, sidewalks have it in for me. Every serious damage I've ever had has been from a sidewalk.) and pulled my hip. Badly. This morning I still couldn't standon it, so I didn't go to work. And I walked around all day with a cane, feeling terribly out of place and damaged. It sucked, all in all. I want chai.
ANd I'm reading yet another book for the annoying class, this one dealing almost entirely with race.... It just goes to further confirm my conviction that everything would be so much nicer if we didn't compare ourselves so much on how we are so different. Not that I think anyone should conform to a single set of standards. First, I am not now, nor ever have been the sort of person in any position to say such a thing. I'm weird. I don't conform. I do what amuses me, when it amuses me, regardless of anything else in the world. And it would be boring, if everyone had the same, or even similar, experiences. No variation=bad. I don't want to obliterate cultures. I want to see them, alive and flourishing. But with the knowledge that we are all human, all genetically predisposed to similarities. There can't be any real understanding or caring if we keep presenting everyone as being somehow inherently "other".
So last night we went out to do laundry, and on the way home I tripped over a piece of sidewalk (I tell you, sidewalks have it in for me. Every serious damage I've ever had has been from a sidewalk.) and pulled my hip. Badly. This morning I still couldn't standon it, so I didn't go to work. And I walked around all day with a cane, feeling terribly out of place and damaged. It sucked, all in all. I want chai.
ANd I'm reading yet another book for the annoying class, this one dealing almost entirely with race.... It just goes to further confirm my conviction that everything would be so much nicer if we didn't compare ourselves so much on how we are so different. Not that I think anyone should conform to a single set of standards. First, I am not now, nor ever have been the sort of person in any position to say such a thing. I'm weird. I don't conform. I do what amuses me, when it amuses me, regardless of anything else in the world. And it would be boring, if everyone had the same, or even similar, experiences. No variation=bad. I don't want to obliterate cultures. I want to see them, alive and flourishing. But with the knowledge that we are all human, all genetically predisposed to similarities. There can't be any real understanding or caring if we keep presenting everyone as being somehow inherently "other".
