Diary of a mother, student, and borderline OCDer.

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I had Sociology class tonight - and found myself leaving pissed off. Which is odd, because normally this is a lecture/special news reports watching class. Tonight, for this first time all semester, we actually had a discussion. Which could have been great....Until, however, in a class of 40...I was targeted. Guess why? Well, it could have been the huge bullseye I had on the back of my shirt - but it was most likely because I was the ONLY ONE who raised my hand when the female professor asked this question:

"Who here is a feminist?"

As the class was 3/4 FEMALE, I expected to be one of many with their hands waving proudly in the air. Nope. Shocker. Just me. I was appalled.

The next question, of course, was just for me.

"Why are you a feminist in the twenty-first century?"

Um, because there is still a need for people to stand up for women's rights? Because women are still looked at as being inferior to men. Because my paycheck isn't as high as the man's who does less than I do? Because it's a legal debate about what I choose to do with my body? Because I'm a woman who sees and hears the demeaning way women are referred to? Because the world, as a whole, is sexist? Because it doesn't matter if it's the 21st century - women are treated like a different, subpar race in the workforce, in the churches, in the home, in the classroom...every day. Need I continue??

Whew boy. That started some finger pointing and rolled eyes. She asked...I answered. While I don't expect people to agree with me...I couldn't believe that 17..yes 17 women in my class raised their hands when the prof. asked...

"Who believes that a women's place is in the home?"

THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?

"Oh, well, I need this class for my nursing degree."

Why are you getting a degree in nursing...shouldn't you be getting a degree in pot roast? (Actually didn't say that last part...but I wanted to soooo bad.

Why the answers were all different...they damn near all started with, "Well, my husband..."

Are you kidding me? Are YOU KIDDING ME?? It's not like I think women shouldn't stay home...I think that they should have a choice.  If they decide they want to stay home - that's awesome. But don't judge those who didn't make the same choice you did. And that's what they did...for 20+ minutes...I was attacked because I believe that women deserve more than they are currently getting. Not more money, not more jobs, but MORE RESPECT. That's it. That's what it all boils down to. Respect.

Ok, I have to stop now. I'm getting off my soap box. Just needed to vent.

So..I'm sitting here with my laptop at 1:40am Saturday night. No, I have not been drinking, but I have been taking new meds. Being halfway crazy is so stinkin' fun.

But anyway - amid the pacing and racing thoughts - it occurred to me that no one else on earth has had a life like mine. I can write gud, and I do have moments of pure genius - so I thought I should write a book.

Call it

"Diary of a student, daughter, mother, and borderline OCDer"

Whaddya think?

Here's the potential outline:

It would of course, have to be a trilogy, or maybe even a saga..

Book 1

Chapter 1 - 4: I am born. blah blah. I could talk about the fact that I went to 12 different schools before graduating, my mother remarrying twice, moving from sunny SC to blizzardly MN

Chapter 5-7: The rebel teenage years. Such wasted potential

Chapter 9-10: OoOO - my big old move back to SC, and promptly getting the boot out of my old man's house...

Chapter 11: An entire chapter would have to be devoted entirely to Hollyhell Video - wouldn't you agree Natalie?

Chapter 12: The ONE.Watch out there's a cliffhanger!!

Book 2

Chapters 1 -5: LIving with the ONE

Chapter 6-7 Move back to SC, potential ending of friendship - supposed affair with said friend's man

Chapter 8-10 - PREGNANT!!! OHHH Shit.

Chapter 10-12: Move back to AR, have huge fights with the ONE, another cliffhanger!!

Book 3:

Chapter 1-5 move back to mn, have baby, get shunned by family,

Chapter 6-9 The ONE moves to MN, we have great makeup sex, fight, and eventually get engaged.

Chapter 10-12 - THE wedding - again - predicatble - cliffhanger bride misses her own reception!!

Book 4:

Well, you get the idea...

so what do you think? 

I feel your looks and hear your

whispered words. Don't think I'm

unaware of the consending way

you stare. You think you know me.

You think you see me. You don't

have a clue. But that petty little thrill

you get, thinking I'm below you, never

ceases to amaze me, at all the damage

you will do. God must have a purpose,

He must have a plan.  There's a lesson here

worth learning, but I'm not sure I care. I'm

not untouchable, like I believed myself to be.

I can hurt too, can't you see. You bleed just like

me.  What crazy thing have I done that makes

this so deserving? I can't think of a reason, I

can't think of a cause. I don't have the

strength to fight, my knuckles are too

bruised. Maybe I'll survive this, and you'll

be the one to fall.

So I watched this:

I hope you get a giggle as well..

Do you think that when the marketing firm for Geico were having their power hour meeting about commercials and first came up with the "So easy a caveman could do it" slogan..and then after that came up with actually putting cavemen in the commercials that they thought it was so funny they sat there laughing their asses off?? I imagine a bunch of smartly dressed people sitting around a big table,  brainstorming. And came up with this:

After which, of course, they were laughing all the way to the bank.

For the record:

As a consumer - the Geico caveman commericals have lost their humor. They are no longer funny. Go sit around that table and come up with something else, please. And I have never been inspired by the commercials to switch to Geico car insurance. That shit is expensive.

However, the cartoon girl who kicks ass on the E-commericals - now THAT shit is cool..

Omigod...George Carlin is dead. He was so great. I loved watched his HBO specials...he was so damn sarcastic and jaded and fabulous. I'm sad.