posted June 16, 2009 12:21 PM         

You love Bad Girls! Ha, that's hilarious. I always see the commercials for that show on Logo, but i've never watched it. I'm a Queer As Folk junkie though.

I've given it some serious, serious thought lately, and i am 132% positive sure that i was a gay man in a past life.

posted June 16, 2009 12:24 PM         

Yes, i have been here more recently. Perhaps that's because it's summer and i'm off from school? Or maybe it is the transferring thing. I SOOOO excited to switch schools. Where i'm about to go is a much, much bigger University- and much more my speed (it's in the heart of the city).

posted June 16, 2009 12:26 PM         

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and in Godzala, it doesn't matter what you say - it's ALWAYS on-thread.

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posted June 17, 2009 05:13 AM         

I'm really glad that you like the pace of your new school. I understand that. We moved from the city to a country town and I still operate at city pace, so I understand that. For me, it's about stimulation. When things are slow, it's draining.

posted June 17, 2009 08:01 AM         

Thanks for the laughs in the other thread tonight. You're a riot!

posted June 18, 2009 05:16 AM         

It doesn't seem to address their emotional needs. Half the time, so it seems to me, the parents are doing their very best, they are just in a difficult situation. A bit more support would be nice, and here I'm not just talking educational authorities, I mean the community in general, as well.

It's naive to think the children don't get affected by their father not wanting anything to do with them, for one example. It's not good for the self esteem. Then they get shunted around between schools, just to add to the feeling of rejection.

Letting that out this morning, to no-one in particular.

posted June 18, 2009 06:13 AM         

There's a child in my son's class that has done the rounds of all the schools in town. We know him from our last school and I know his history where he's been shuffled between different foster homes on a daily basis (and that's literally the truth). He's now with his grandmother. There have been times he's passed our house on the way to school and we've walked with him and he's been quite open about his parents and their drug addiction and their inability to look after him. He's on Ritolin (excuse the spelling if it's incorrect) now. I've heard parents at school b1tch about him and his behaviour. They don't know the past and the sadness behind his story. I don't divulge. I treat what he's told me with discretion. I defend him without giving details, and it p1sses me off that people are such arseholes. He's a child, who needs help. He's seen and experienced things that you wouldn't wish upon anyone. I'm grateful that he's finally at a school that won't give up on him.

posted June 18, 2009 06:27 AM         

Wheels, I'll try and have a read of your thread on astro2 tomorrow.....

posted June 19, 2009 04:26 AM         

All this societal bu11shit that makes people drift away from any sense of what's right for them and into the path of guilt based on the ridiculous beliefs of other people infuriates me.

I'm all for each to their own, but when it makes people guilty about what comes natural or is right for them then...........

posted June 19, 2009 05:15 AM         

On the thread in question there were some suspicous logical goalpost shifts.

I do think that if zodiac symbols are etched in lead on a pulpit, it is unlikely that the priest will start a lengthy sermon on the evils of astrology. It's also unlikely he will base his sermon on the subtleties of T-Square configurations but the basic infererence remains.

posted June 19, 2009 05:31 AM         

I think of you as quite a romantic. The way I see it/you is that you see beauty in really lovely, maybe even simple, things that other people may not even notice. What you said the other day about the old couple holdings hands and seeing each other as beautiful/youthful - that was really beautiful. I loved that. And it was absolutely on the mark.

You know I'm a fan of irony. Zodiac fonts/figures in a church really covers it for me. I was curious about the timing. Think the Becket information is interesting. Sherlock Einstein?!

posted June 19, 2009 05:56 AM         

The Lezzo contingent will like this as it is all about fannies.
http://www.sheelanagig.org/

And thanks, Peace. It's true, I'm neither thick nor a fan of B.S. I am also a staunch believer that true romance can be found in offbeat places that will outshine Brangelina quite significantly.

posted June 19, 2009 01:41 PM         

That lead font depicting the signs and labors at the Church of St Augustine in Brookland was fascinating!!

posted June 19, 2009 07:53 PM         

Just wanted to say that I share your taste in comedies