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Life of Colleen: June 2005
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posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-06-18
at 1:50 PM (Pacific)
The Lipstick Page Forums Fashion Blog
But does it work?
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Oy...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-06-15
at 9:57 PM (Pacific)
And here I mean oy, like a sort of deflating tire sound...oyyy...
I've been on vacation for three days now. Vacation as in, the kids are out of school, not vacation as in vacation.
Simultaneously, the experience...having one kid in kindergarten and one in the regular grades for the school year...reminds me of two things.
One is a split shift. You know, when they want to fire you, they give you a split shift. No one can work a split shift indefinitely; it is the worst possible shift.
Two is something a guy up in Washington State told me. He said he knew a guy who was offered a job. You would work four days, and then get four days off.
Of course the guy jumped at the job. Turns out, they worked him so hard those four days, he did nothing but sleep on his four days off.
So. I've been doing nothing. Really nothing. I watched a little Buffy the Vampire Slayer today, that's the extent of my vacation thus far.
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When that strip turned blue...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-06-08
at 4:56 PM (Pacific)
In my mind's eye, I can remember the exact moment I changed from being a regular person, into being a woman.
It's utter bollocks of course; it took much longer than that. I'm just looking back over the span of eight or nine years, so that period has all become condensed into a single moment to me.
It's true that it is a change, and either you've experienced it, or you have yet to experience it and it's completely foreign to you.
What stands out in my mind is that scene (to me the climactic one) in Kill Bill, Volume 2. (Which I highly recommend btw; as long as you don't mind cartoonish gore, Vols 1 and 2 are excellent feminist fare.) The part where The Bride (Uma Thurman) explains to Bill (David Carradine of all people) how the positive results of a pregnancy test transformed her life.
"When that strip turned blue..." How true those words ring out to me!
The actual sequence of events in my life was as follows: I went back to college (at age 27), I got pregnant, I got my undergrad degree in what is, in the U.S., a male-dominated field, I started grad school, I got pregnant again.
That's when I became a woman.
People treat you like crap when you're pregnant. Not everyone; that's not what I mean. Some people are very nice to you. What I mean is that you suddenly become an idiot. Someone who doesn't know anything and has to be told everything.
It's astounding! I was the same bloody person. Nothing changed after I'd gotten that difficult degree (and programming is difficult). Society still thought of me as, not a stellar programmer, which I was...but as a dumb pregnant chick.
Hey, it gets better. People suddenly know so much better than you do, how to raise your children. You know nothing! How could you?
Oh well, I won't run on and on about it. I'm just looking back on this metamorphosis. shrugs It all became suddenly clear to me, how the system works. Why women get paid less than men, all around the world. Why they don't get paid for staying at home and working there...which...for me, having worked those 12-hour days and 60-hour weeks on the outside...staying at home and doing the work there is much, much, much more work than all that overtime I clocked before, back when they cut a check for me to do so.
I don't actually know if it's possible to change back into a regular person, say, when the kids grow up and move out. lol I'll let you know when I find out.
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New logo for LP
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-06-07
at 4:48 PM (Pacific)
Okee dokee, I just put up a hella big rose logo:
This was a rose in my back yard. I took a few pics of it, then photoshopped the background out. Originally I did this because I wanted to use it for something else, so it ended up getting saved as a very large image (i.e. high resolution). So, that is why it came out well as a gif.
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