Fly Nazi

So, I was washing dishes at work today – more in para 2 – and I discovered something that disturbed and intrigued me. And I wanted really badly to blog about it. AND I managed to remember what it was when I got home ( which I then promptly forgot in favour of ignoring my twitter buddy ( who I really wanted to talk to ) to finish reading xkcd. A feat I have now successfully accomplished, you’ll be over joyed to know. )! Wooh!

[ A quick warning. This post may actually and honestly offend people. I'm sorry if it does. I don't mean it that way, I was just thinking. You'd be surprised how much room washing dishes by yourself gives your thought patterns to stroll. ]

Work tonight was actually alright; things have been kind of awkward lately since we had five staff abandonments in less than a fortnight. Tonight I was on dish duty – something I actually really enjoyed. I impressed the manager twice with my much improved dish-washing skillz ( ie – it doesn’t take me three hours to wash roll pans anymore ) and I kept everything pretty much caught up ( except for some slacking at the end. ). While I was washing out one of the batter mix pans ( the pan of mix you dunk chicken into between batterings to make it delicious and crispy. Well, I wouldn’t know about delicious, but it certainly makes it LOOK crispy, at least. ) and there was a black fly trapped in the water. Over the time it took me to wash the dishes around that pan, the fly managed to crawl his way out of the liquid – his wings completely useless and flat in the wet – and was just stumbling up onto the outer edge when I came to empty the pan out.

I had two options. Save the fly by scooping him out of the liquid and putting him somewhere safe -or- dump the liquid down the drain and swish him away with it to his fate.

I chose option two. The reasoning behind that was: I work in a food place. Food places don’t like flies because they’re evil and unsanitary and make customers unhappy. Unhappy customers mean unhappy managers which equates to less hours and less pay meaning reduced probability of mountain trek/quest/journey with him. This is undesirable. [ Well, okay it was actually: I work in a food place. I saw a fly embedded in the bottom of a cooked roll once. Fly + Food = Bad. ]

So I sent the poor little creature down the drain along with batter mix and doughy flour.

And as I was rinsing out the pan and pumping the drain under the sink ( if you don’t pump it, it overflows, then you have to clean the floors a lot more than you would have had to if it didn’t [ I just remembered that I can do italics here. I'm not tweeting! I can actually stylize my text!! I could change the colour if I wanted to, too!!! ] overflow due to your negligence… ) I tried to suppress my guilt over the little fly’s life – it’s sort of part of the job description, keeping pests dead – and I thought, quite unintentionally, ‘this must be what the Nazi soldiers ( that weren’t heartless ) felt about the Jews they persecuted and murdered. And that doesn’t show my [ non-existent ] hate for Jews. It shows my appreciation of life.

I wondered, as I washed the dishes and with a slight air of “If I remember to blog about this, I bet a bunch of people are gonna get po’d and thing I’m being horrible when I’m really, really not,” if those soldiers felt the same desire to save life but a similar duty to their higher power – ie, the government and its ideals, or, the chicken place – that they felt, as I did, left them no choice. Their first duty is to the people that give them money, protection, stability, a chance to better their lives – not to some unnamed creature that is obviously bad because Big Brother says it is.

I’m not saying that Nazi soldiers were in the right. They weren’t. Killing people because of their religion is just as stupid as killing them because of the letter their name starts with ( or kissing them for the same reason, come to think of it… ), and is inexcusable.

But, I wonder… There are people behind statistics. Those soldiers were real people, who felt and breathed and loved just like me. And, undoubtedly, they felt that same duty-constricted remoteness towards the objects of their cull. Or some of them did, at least.

I don’t seek to excuse, just to point out that at least some of them probably felt bad. But felt like they had no other choice.

In retrospect – I should’ve saved the fly.

And I might stay vegetarian.

xxdruxx

 

Phone and Curiosity

So I was talking on the phone to Dru and I had to mute myself for a second so I could take care of something.  As I did, I sang (where she couldn’t hear me) “You change your mind…”  and then she picked up, right in time, same pitch and everything: “…like a girl…changes clothes..”  LOL.  It was Perfect!!

 

And then I talked to… someone.  (Dru, what name to you use?)  And I know I shouldn’t do anything.  I shouldn’t because what if it bothers my best friend?  She says it won’t, but what if it does?  She doesn’t think it will, but it MIGHT.  But at the same time…  I’m a cat.  I’m sooooo curious.  I sort of do want to, even if it’s just once…  (I’m talking about kissing, not something worse.  Promise.)  AGH!  I suck!  A lot.  I’m really stupid.  I thought I had resolved this issue with myself, and I told her I wouldn’t because of the reasons already listed.  But then I talked to him, and her, and they both said he would want to try it.  Even if it’s just once, and even if we didn’t go anywhere.  And it got me thinking about it again and I’m too curious.  Holy crap I’m serious.  If it were a sin to be curious, I’d be the ultimate bad girl.  No joke.  Why can’t I accept that I really shouldn’t?  Am I a horrible person?

 

:Batman:

 

Warning! Opinion post!

Well, I’m generally a person to keep my political opinions under my hat. Mostly because I don’t have that many, and secondly because they tend to make people angry. I’m not going to be too surprised if I get some negative comments on this post, especially because it’s a double-whammy and involves racism too.

But this is just terribly irksome.

I’m only seventeen, so I didn’t vote. I probably would have voted for McCain but no matter what people can tell me about awareness I just didn’t follow the election race that well, so I can’t say for sure. So this rant really doesn’t reflect on what I think of Obama’s policies or anything.

But his fans annoy me and the news coverage is just plain stupid. Out of all the news I’ve seen of Obama’s supporters from the time he won onward, I’ve not seen one white person happy about his inoguration. Most have been black, and I saw one latino girl. But really, I’m sure one of the main points that had people turned off of McCain was “Let’s have a black president because black people deserve glory after being slaaaaves!”, to keep people from voting on race alone, and pinning the McCain campaign because they can’t retaliate without being ‘white supremecists’. Of course, ‘keeping people from voting on race alone’ just means keeping white people from voting for McCain just because Obama is black. Guilting people into voting for Obama because of slavery years ago is just fine!

what.

Now, let me clairify. I don’t really think that Obama won just because he’s black. I think people voted for him because of his policies and how well they fit in with their own. I DO think that the news is doing a crappy job of proving that notion wrong. Ever since the day the votes were announced black people have been rejoicing all over america! All the white people are sitting in the corner and scowling, of course. or something. I mean yes it’s historic, the first black president, but if the white people of america REALLY hated blacks as much as everyone wants to believe, then they would still own black slaves. It shouldn’t be as big a deal as everyone wants to make it.

I mean, racism has more than one side. All people want to make it is “WHITE PEOPLE HATE EVERYBODY WHO ISN’T WHITE”, but has anyone ever noticed that there are scholarships that you can get just for being black? If there was something similar for white people, they’d get bitched at.  I mean, how do you even prove that? Is there a certain shade you have to be darker than to get that scholorship? I thought segregation was supposed to be over?

And I know, “Of course you think that, you’re white!”

Yep, I’m white. I’m christian too, gasp! I should just roll over and play dead, shouldn’t I? But, lo and behold, I have a vagina! I’m a woman too! So here’s my thoughts on that: I am probably eligable for a few perks that men aren’t simply because of the fact that I’m not one. No, I don’t think that’s a good thing, EVEN THOUGH women were considered lower than men for hundreds of years too. Wanna know why? Because that was years ago. I’m not going to punish a son because his father did something stupid. HOWEVER, I believe that men and women are different, men generally don’t pop out babies, but I also think that most things in life are circumstancial. Generally, there’s a few jobs that have more women doing them than men and vice versa, but those numbers change all the time. But I’m chasing rabbits now, my this paragraph’s point in general is don’t start on me thinking what I do just because I’m white.

I have a lot more things I could say about this but they’re even less politically correct than what I’ve already said. In general, I’m just not looking forward to the swelled egos of america’s black population for the next four years. And yeah I know, there’s probably a portion of the african american community that agrees with me on this point, but again, I’m mostly pointing out that the media is doing a damn good job of making sure nobody knows that.

Oh by the way, I’m in the same boat with Amie on the challenges. ): I was working on a video a few months ago but my creativity has gone kerbloowey. Although soon I’m hoping to get a few sewing lessons from mom so maybe when I start doing that I’ll have some of that to upload. But probably not in time for the winter challenge, I’ll do some other stuff for that hopefully. XD;

*¡Kiara!*

(By the way, I was running out of rant steam right around the time I started talking about sexism. I probably misrepresented some of my views on it, feel free to call me on them and I can correct them. I’d do it myself but being in general less irked by this situation than I was when I started, and being on a ‘racism’ line instead of a ’sexism’ line, I probably couldn’t condense all of what I think about it into a paragraph if I tried.)

 

We are amazing…GO BOBCAT DEBATE!!! WE’LL EAT YOUR BABY BUNNIES!!!

Well, first of all, I have to show you this. It’s amazing. There is a model ( she’s twenty ) who has been photographed as though she were 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 years old. Everything is done with make up and lighting. Isn’t it cool?

Okay now to the debate!

Ryan Tenny ( yes, the very same that was in Godspell! ) and I are our school’s debate team. It’s LD debate ( that is, Lincoln-Douglas ) and yesterday was our first opportunity to debate against real people. I finished my case while I was sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the first round. Well, I finished my aff case. I never finished my neg case and I got absolutely murdered in the first round. But that’s okay because I was debating against a seasoned debater and…yeah. I hadn’t prepared. BUT! The second two debates were really good. I almost beat my second competitor and only lost because I started talking about Ralph Nadar ( lol! ) and I won my third. Which is awesome. For both of the last two, I was the aff which was good. Seeing as that was prepared. ^^

Ryan did equally well. ^^ *hug* I’m so proud of him!

And during the waiting time he and I came up with an evil master plan that we’re going to attempt to get into motion. Which means that awesomeness will surely ensue. And I’ll probably get to run my fingers through his hair ( which is awesome cuz I ♥ him to death. ^^ ) hehe ^_^

So…the UIL meet went well, I bonded a little with some of my peers, I remembered just how amazingly awesome Macy is and…that’s it really. It was a good day. I made friendly with my second opponent and he and I had lunch together which was pretty cool.

xxdruxx