Dear me...=\ (and Randy E.)
Apr. 7th, 2005 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
songofjoy02I didn't get up early enough this morning to go to the high school first thing like I had planned. Why does my body's fatigue so control my life?! Actually, the real problem is that I just don't do caffeine. And, whether you can guess it or not, I do intend for it to stay that way. College is most assuredly not worth my health! I mean, I've already given myself to it almost completely...and I'm not going to let it have yet another area. As it happens, though, I don't really do all that well with caffeine, so it's pretty easy to leave the stuff alone. I don't think I'm having anything at all right now that qualifies as a stimulant. That's pretty good, huh?;-) No sugar, no caffeine, and of course no other mind-altering substances...
Anyway...that's discouraging, but I guess I should be happy that my body's going to kick in so that I won't get overly tired. Since I missed the boat on the time that I was supposed to leave, I'm not going to leave now until about 9:00 A.M., which gives me time to do a few things--like type this post, eat some food, take a shower, and pack a lunch. And I did actually get seven hours of sleep last night! That's really not bad at all...I seem to be less and less able to rely on my body's ability to get up early in the morning.=\ Okay, enough of my bellyaching.
I'm going to go find my journal so I can type up two interesting things from yesterday.=D
4.07.05 7:50 P.M.
I had a rather interesting conversation with [about thirty-year-old; 6.9.06 turns out he was only 22] Randy E. today. He really is kind of a thoughtful guy, which is cool...at times, though, he can sound rather ignorant (not that that's an insult--he just opens his mouth more than the average person). In the middle of readings on rights issues--human and feminine--he burst out, "I think women should have had equal rights a long time ago." So? LOL! Why make that remark? I mean, he was talking to me...I was the only one there. He seems to have adopted my habit of studying right there at that table for class [our Western Civ. II teacher is in the classroom until fifteen minutes before our class begins, so I usually wait at a nearby table and study], which is fine...and interesting. I mean, the guy thinks I'm the smartest student in the class. LOL! I don't know if that's true and I really don't care, but his perception is flattering--as is his attention, although I certainly hope it's...um...purely intellectual in nature. LOL! But the conversation was interesting.
"Why do you think things are that way?" I obviously didn't clarify my question well enough--he thought i was asking what gave him that impression [that women have been oppressed throughout history]. I rephrased. "What do you think caused things to be that way? How did they come about?" He stopped and thought...mentioning religion (even quoting specific passages from I and II Timothy) as a cause, but said he didn't think it really could be pinned down to any one thing. "Well," I said, "When I took Western Civ. I with Dr. Huggard, he suggested that it might have been related to physiology. Men are, overall, bigger and stronger than women." Over the course of this interchange, Randy had some context for various remarks like one that he thought a woman should be allowed to do whatever she is capable of doing, granting that there are indeed some practical differences between men and women. [In the Biblical discussion aspect, we talked about how woman was made from man, but man comes from women...so it's almost like the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first...he said the chicken did. LOL! The guy seems to know his Bible pretty well.]
After mentioning physiology, I said, "How many people have you seen who, in a position to dominate someone else, have not done so?" He confessed that he was probably a minority, saying as he had said previously that we would avoid so many problems if people didn't get hung up about things like sex and skin color...to which I sort of agree, but with the realistically Scriptural assumption that that just isn't going to happen, which was my point in bringing up people's tendency to want to dominate. "Isn't that human nature?" "I guess so," he replied. When I talked to my mom about it, she called it the sin nature, which is more accurate. It's part of the Genesis 3 curse, I believe. Of course, I didn't get that far with Randy. When he mentioned the Bible, he qualified his references by saying that he didn't know whether I read it or not [okay, so my position apparently isn't clear enough]. After having brought up the things that I had, I told him that I am a Christian and I do believe the Bible, although I believe that such passages are frequently misapplied...that I believe that we are, as he said, created equal...yet that we have different roles, that we are different. [Ultimately, I think he responded that we'd find out for sure one day.]
Anyway, interesting interchange. I actually enjoyed talking to him, and I think I may have misjudged him previously in thinking him so liberal...surely he's not...a...Christian?! LOL! But to know God's Word as minutely as he seems to implies to me that he he has some association with Christians, whether or not he is one himself.
When I first met him, I was not impressed...and I still find his joy over A's amusing...but I'd be happy to get to know him a little better, too...LOL! And I don't mean romantically. I only pay attention to guys for their brains, anyway...well, except where they have hearts [for the Lord], too, which does happen to be the case with at least a few of them.
Oh, and my other "big news" of the day is that I'm to have my Home Birth essay published in a text book. Another woman from church (who graduated from the community college) is getting published, too, along with the two others whose essays my Comp. I and Comp. II teacher (the lead faculty for the English dept.) submitted. That was my first real research paper, too. Cool, huh? It should reflect well on the school. I can't help wondering if there was any competition, though. Oh, well.
Now...to go type this up. Or maybe not. I'm so tired! I should just get to bed ASAP and get up really early--that'd work well, I think. We shall see.
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Obviously, that did not happen. My plan was to rise at 4:30 and then to leave by 6:30. Ha! I didn't get up until after 7:00, and there's no way I'm going to deal with school traffic unnecessarily. That was a pain yesterday as it was (though it was a good thing to do, nonetheless). I should still be able to get plenty of hours, though. Life's fun!=D
Anyway...that's discouraging, but I guess I should be happy that my body's going to kick in so that I won't get overly tired. Since I missed the boat on the time that I was supposed to leave, I'm not going to leave now until about 9:00 A.M., which gives me time to do a few things--like type this post, eat some food, take a shower, and pack a lunch. And I did actually get seven hours of sleep last night! That's really not bad at all...I seem to be less and less able to rely on my body's ability to get up early in the morning.=\ Okay, enough of my bellyaching.
I'm going to go find my journal so I can type up two interesting things from yesterday.=D
4.07.05 7:50 P.M.
I had a rather interesting conversation with [about thirty-year-old; 6.9.06 turns out he was only 22] Randy E. today. He really is kind of a thoughtful guy, which is cool...at times, though, he can sound rather ignorant (not that that's an insult--he just opens his mouth more than the average person). In the middle of readings on rights issues--human and feminine--he burst out, "I think women should have had equal rights a long time ago." So? LOL! Why make that remark? I mean, he was talking to me...I was the only one there. He seems to have adopted my habit of studying right there at that table for class [our Western Civ. II teacher is in the classroom until fifteen minutes before our class begins, so I usually wait at a nearby table and study], which is fine...and interesting. I mean, the guy thinks I'm the smartest student in the class. LOL! I don't know if that's true and I really don't care, but his perception is flattering--as is his attention, although I certainly hope it's...um...purely intellectual in nature. LOL! But the conversation was interesting.
"Why do you think things are that way?" I obviously didn't clarify my question well enough--he thought i was asking what gave him that impression [that women have been oppressed throughout history]. I rephrased. "What do you think caused things to be that way? How did they come about?" He stopped and thought...mentioning religion (even quoting specific passages from I and II Timothy) as a cause, but said he didn't think it really could be pinned down to any one thing. "Well," I said, "When I took Western Civ. I with Dr. Huggard, he suggested that it might have been related to physiology. Men are, overall, bigger and stronger than women." Over the course of this interchange, Randy had some context for various remarks like one that he thought a woman should be allowed to do whatever she is capable of doing, granting that there are indeed some practical differences between men and women. [In the Biblical discussion aspect, we talked about how woman was made from man, but man comes from women...so it's almost like the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first...he said the chicken did. LOL! The guy seems to know his Bible pretty well.]
After mentioning physiology, I said, "How many people have you seen who, in a position to dominate someone else, have not done so?" He confessed that he was probably a minority, saying as he had said previously that we would avoid so many problems if people didn't get hung up about things like sex and skin color...to which I sort of agree, but with the realistically Scriptural assumption that that just isn't going to happen, which was my point in bringing up people's tendency to want to dominate. "Isn't that human nature?" "I guess so," he replied. When I talked to my mom about it, she called it the sin nature, which is more accurate. It's part of the Genesis 3 curse, I believe. Of course, I didn't get that far with Randy. When he mentioned the Bible, he qualified his references by saying that he didn't know whether I read it or not [okay, so my position apparently isn't clear enough]. After having brought up the things that I had, I told him that I am a Christian and I do believe the Bible, although I believe that such passages are frequently misapplied...that I believe that we are, as he said, created equal...yet that we have different roles, that we are different. [Ultimately, I think he responded that we'd find out for sure one day.]
Anyway, interesting interchange. I actually enjoyed talking to him, and I think I may have misjudged him previously in thinking him so liberal...surely he's not...a...Christian?! LOL! But to know God's Word as minutely as he seems to implies to me that he he has some association with Christians, whether or not he is one himself.
When I first met him, I was not impressed...and I still find his joy over A's amusing...but I'd be happy to get to know him a little better, too...LOL! And I don't mean romantically. I only pay attention to guys for their brains, anyway...well, except where they have hearts [for the Lord], too, which does happen to be the case with at least a few of them.
Oh, and my other "big news" of the day is that I'm to have my Home Birth essay published in a text book. Another woman from church (who graduated from the community college) is getting published, too, along with the two others whose essays my Comp. I and Comp. II teacher (the lead faculty for the English dept.) submitted. That was my first real research paper, too. Cool, huh? It should reflect well on the school. I can't help wondering if there was any competition, though. Oh, well.
Now...to go type this up. Or maybe not. I'm so tired! I should just get to bed ASAP and get up really early--that'd work well, I think. We shall see.
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Obviously, that did not happen. My plan was to rise at 4:30 and then to leave by 6:30. Ha! I didn't get up until after 7:00, and there's no way I'm going to deal with school traffic unnecessarily. That was a pain yesterday as it was (though it was a good thing to do, nonetheless). I should still be able to get plenty of hours, though. Life's fun!=D
