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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Straight-Girl Summer Camp
The "straight-girl summer-camp" thing is something I've wondered about for years. That particular phrase was born during conversations between myself and my housemates and other close female friends as a short-hand way for me to say, "you've suddenly started speaking a completely alien language, in terms of my cultural experience, and I need you to explain in explicit and simple detail just what it is I've missed, that you take for granted" whenever we reach a point in the conversation where someone is looking at me as if discovering I was raised by wolves.
Flippant as the phrase is, nonetheless sometimes I must wonder.
Jill said, in the comments: "Straight girl school? Ha. My mom was a hippie chick. I learned zilcho from her re: being a woman and she didn't know to send me to that place.
I'm still trying to figure it all out. Though most times? I just do ma own thang."
Not zilcho, Jill--cuz didn't you grow up to do years of public-interest law? Seems like you learned rather a lot about being a human being, at least.
Are we all making it up as we go along, like Jill suggests? Where do you credit learning how to be an adult woman in our culture?Are there things we learned from our mothers, either by observation or direct communication, that still are valuable?
How fast are things changing? How big an influence do you really think the various entertainment media is, on girls-becoming-women? Does that thing about white shoes after labor-day still matter in anyone's reality?
Because I have to admit, I think of myself as a human sooner than I think of myself as a woman. For years I suspected that sense of gender-alienation had to do with being queer--but now I'm not so sure. I wonder if I didn't choose, on an unconcious level, to reject the limitations sometimes inherent in gender-specific labels for ourselves. Because I don't feel in any way as if I reject my actual sex--I enjoy being female, and wouldn't change that for anything.
I wonder, though, if there isn't a reality gap growing between sex and gender. I also wonder where those gender rituals that serve to identify us to one another become stifling, rather than providing safety and comfort.
25 comments:
- Jill said...
First, let me tell you that I'm touched that you've quoted me. Wow. Another friend quoted me back to myself yesterday. That's weird! Ok - thanks, I think.
As for the being a human before being anything else - I agree completely. I've always felt that way.
Short vignette: I lived and worked in Israel for a year after college. Part of the time, I spent on a kibbutz. I worked in the gan - which is the nursery and cares for three to six year olds, kind of like a Montessori school actually. I got this rotation because my Hebrew, though not great (one four year old asked me why I spoke Hebrew like retarded person - and I had to have someone else translate his insult for me) was adequate.
So my first day on the job, I walk in and I'm asking about the kids, the makeup of the group and I say, how many boys, how many girls? And the madrichim - counselor/teacher/day care type people - look blankly at me and each other, put their hands on their hips, curl their brows and finally say, we have no idea. We don't think in those terms.
How do you like them sunflowers? (that was the main crop at the kibbutz)
- Ms M said...
The questions you raise Mac are really interesting and I pretty much ponder these or a similar selection of them just about every day on some level of my consciousness. Making it up as we go along and being shaped by our parents may be compatible. One way of looking at is that the muddling through reinforces or incorporates practices that come up for re-negotiation.
I'm wondering if this "straight-girl-summmer camp" phrase is a strategy to reduce the gender alienation that you experience in those moments when you are distanced from the cultural intimacy of your female friends. On some level you feel uncomfortable about their talk and recognise that what they are doing is reproducing a particular model of gender which is oppressive. Their bond consolidated through acts of intimacy in the group dynamically reproduces the gender divide and what it is that separates not just male from female but also certain characteristics of being from other characteristics of being. Your comment is reflexive and analytical and it points to the limits of gender - that anyone who doesn't go to the school or may not have access to the school or who may be kicked out of the school or whatever, is excluded from all the reunions.
Now I'm going a bit out here for a moment but I'm wondering if these choices you have made are really that unconscious. Well, let's put this another way. You have embodied these choices through habit so they seem unconscious but your body is speaking loud and clear - your gestures, the way you work your face and move your body, what you put on in the morning. These are all bodily dispositions that have become habit over time. Automatic yes but unconscious I'm not so sure. Maybe they become more conscious or recognisable in these moments of re-negotation where alienation and disalienation is performed and re-enacted. I don't know maybe I'm not making any sense. But I so know what you mean.
- Mac said...
Jill--sunflowers? How fucking FABULOUS is that? It just makes me smile to think about it.
I love the notion of not sorting by gender, from the very beginning. How did that play out between adults, later?
MsM--wow. Just, wow. You've articulated beautifully what I was sort of crabbing sideways towards.
Sure--you're dead about concious/unconcious and reflexive choices regarding gender re-negotiation.
I find personally an amount of discomfort in what, on some level, might be interpreted as rejection of gender identity--not to be confused with rejection of sex.
Which brings to mind Margaret Atwood's very smart labelling of queerness as "gender treachery" in A Handmaid's Tale.
How much were all our parents making it up as they went along, as well?
- Ms M said...
If that was crabbing sideways I'd love to see you in mid flight! I feel a little naughty somehow because I was sort of trying out some of the concepts from the master class I just attended. Please know though that it was not just trying out my new set of power tools. I really do grapple with this one constantly and it has been particularly poignant in the last few days at this workshop. I loved the Handmaid's tale and you have reminded me that I'd like to re-read it.
- Mac said...
MsM--Power tools? Heh, let's just shift the whole conversation into male-identified metaphors of power, eh? *grin*
What else are new power tools for, if not to try them out whenever the occasion arises...heh, no worries, what you said was relevant and helpful, and raises a whole new batch of questions to explore.
So how does this come home for you? The more I listen to other women talk about gender-identity stuff, the more convinced I am we all feel some degree of that alienation, staight, queer, married, single--it seems almost an identifying characteristic.
- Mac said...
which then, of course, raises the question of how a sense of gender-alienation plays out in masculine models, as well...
Any of the guys lurking care to jump in?
- Kira said...
I've never thought about whether I'm a woman or a human first. I don't know that I've separated the two in thoughts about myself before.
Maybe I just listened to "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor too many times. Or maybe it's that I come from a very matriarchal family.
About six months ago I was at a friend's house for dinner, and his whole family was there.
The men ogled photos of a new sailboat, and the women--and the friend's new girlfriend--meshed into one unit of domesticity in the kitchen. This one stirred a pot while holding the oven mitts out to another, that one advised on a why a cream pie curdled, another chopped vegetables while reciting a recipe to a fourth.
It was a blur of arms and spoons and potholders that all blended seamlessly into one movement.
And I didn't know what to do. So I sat and watched and wondered how women do that.
The women in my family couldn't have done that without a full-blown domestic disturbance.
I kept wondering what I was missing by not knowing how to participate.
- Ms M said...
How it plays out for me? Wow big question. I feel it every day in lots of dfferent contexts, as I think many people do. Being a lesbian and considering having a family with my partner has brought up ALOT of stuff and is amplified by the current social political climate of conservatism in Australia modelled no less on a very limited notion of 'the family'. I do rant occasionally about this on my blog but should alot more! There is so much I feel uncomfortable about and haven't articulated. By the time I have worked through it all I'll probably be post menopause. Is this a strategy of my (un)conscious self? Oh dear, oh dear. I think it might be.
dangit, you're making me think hard again. I've written about half a page of stuff that I have to revise and edit and add footnotes to.
Here's what I'm pondering:
what is culture? how are my cultural experiences different?
is it really culture or unique experience or personality type distinctions -- I've felt like I'm not from the same gender as some women I've met, don't get me started on cheerleaders and cheerleader moms.
Isn't it cool that we can join up in communities of interest on the net and relationships are built on the text we post which often reveals very little about our gender unless we choose it
self-revelation and honesty --yeah, it's a stream of consciousness headed who knows where next.
I'm gonna have to respond later or in my own blog as these thoughts gestate.
- Mac said...
Kira, the women in my family cook, too--and damn, even without having gone to straight-girl summer camp, I can cook, and even cook in a communal setting. :)
I'd be lost trying to throw a shower. You don't even wanna think about it. When my little sis was getting married, I threw her a big party and hired a stripper. her husband-to-be was a good sport. Mostly.
Her friends handled the "shower" part, and one of them kindly advised me on what sort of gift to buy, and that I should plan to leave early if I didn't want to play odd games involving gift-bows and lingerie.
But I'm never more at a loss than when attending a holiday function with a current fling, and they have a catered meal. Holidays in my family mean a noisy and crowded kitchen, with the women moving in almost choreographed precision to produce a complex meal.
What I think I'm seeing, though, is a parallel in everyone's experience of feeling "other" and finding oneself at a bit of a loss as to how to re-engage with a group, once marginalized to that alienated place.
We (inclusive, generalized "we") can be absolutely brutal to someone who steps over the lines of our comfort zone. Lesbians usually ostracize a member of their community who chooses to sleep with a man. Women with children tend to apply pressure--either wittingly or unwittingly--on women without children; and vice versa.
How do these divisions serve the community as a whole, I wonder? There's an odd politics of exclusion that seems self-defeating, at least in some contexts.
And how much do we do it to ourselves? I've been following Dawno's blog, and watching her discuss her internal conflict about reclaiming a more distinctly intellectual identity--after years of family and career.
MsM--you sound as if you're struggling with the same issues Dawno has, but in reverse--you're considering starting a family in a socially conservative political climate, having spent the last few years pursuing academic and intellectual goals?
And thank you all, by the way--for your honesty and considerable participation in this discussion. Y'all freakin' ROCK.
By the way, lurker-folks, don't be shy. Jump right on in. :)
- Jill said...
Mac wrote in an earlier comment: Jill--sunflowers? How fucking FABULOUS is that? It just makes me smile to think about it.
I love the notion of not sorting by gender, from the very beginning. How did that play out between adults, later?
Yeah, can you imagine? Fields and fields of sunflowers. Awesome, except when I had to get up at 4am to paint the fields' irrigation pipes grass green to blend into the fields so that they wouldn't get bombed (true).
As far as how the not sorting by gender thing played out with the adults, that's a great question, especially when it comes to the Kibbutz I lived on(Tel Gezer - Gezer means carrot and a "tel" is a archeological site, like a large mound over old ruins, which we had on the kibbutz, way cool).
This kibbutz has had several incarnations, but during the time I was there (spring 1985), it was a trilingual, extremely liberal - even my Israeli standards - kibbutz. The founders were American, Israeli and Brazilian, so even the kids I cared for spoke fluent English, Hebrew and Portugese.
There were also numerous gay couples, including a German lesbian couple. Now, this is particularly fascinating because first, they were not Jewish. Second, they were German and third, they were lesbian.
Now, being lesbian - no biggie at all on a kibbutz. Being German, eh - also not such a big deal. But to have non-Jews on a kibbutz, that's quite radical given the economic and historical underpinnings of the kibbutzim.
It was a fantastic place to learn about a different way of life. I loved every minute there.
And - back to your post and the comments (great comments - cool people) about gender, doesn't it all just make you wonder how and why what actually seems to almost be a completely false and cruelly paradoxical dichotomy between two homo sapiens? What was nature or God thinking?
(I was a sociology major in college - can you tell?)
Great thoughts, thanks, Mac.
- DD said...
Something Ms. M posted bugs me, "On some level you feel uncomfortable about their talk and recognise that what they are doing is reproducing a particular model of gender which is oppressive."
Oppressive to whom? And why oppressive?
- Mac said...
>>Something Ms. M posted bugs me, "On some level you feel uncomfortable about their talk and recognise that what they are doing is reproducing a particular model of gender which is oppressive."
Oppressive to whom? And why oppressive?<<
Ah. Oppressive to themselves and to women in general, in that--on some level--identification of self through gender-modeling is by definition restrictive.
That is, when people develop a specialized set of customs or community rituals for situations, they put themselves into a box.
In this specific example, how any of us really felt about the items my acquaintance sent home with me wasn't supposed to matter--there's a set of customs in place to observe. Anyone not observing those conventions puts herself outside of the immediate community--even if only briefly.
So any behavior outside of the expected is proscribed by popular opinion--the perception of that behavior ranges from mildly eccentric to outright taboo, with accompanying levels of appropriate reaction.
The problem is also, I think, within the perception of the outsider, in this context.
Which would take us immediately into a discussion of positive versus negative freedom.
Because I think what I hear you driving at, DD, is that there are benefits to those conventions.
That's completely true--and an informed community member could be said to be choosing whether to remain within the norm, or whether to behave eccentrically and refuse to participate.
The problem is when the choice is unconcious rather than deliberate: At that point, the system becomes oppressive.
Make sense?
There must be a 'hard wired' component to this. The key word that brought this to mind was outsider. The animal mind is wired to reject the outsider as a danger, right? Could it be that some unconscious reaction coming from that animal past out of our deep brain structure underlies all the conscious and subconscious rule making to define what is 'one of us' and what is 'the other'?
- Ms M said...
DD - yes you hit the nail on the head (just to continue the power tool metaphors) in identifying the most troubling word in this piece. Troubling because as Mac pointed out gender identification is not always experienced as oppressive and that being on the outside can have benefits because it literally and metaphorically enables another orientation but it is alwasy defined in relation to it by the fact of its exclusion. This other orientation may be negatively valued by the group (thus the potential for oppression) but may be highly valued by others wishing to share that orientation. One of the aspects that intrigues me is the movement between the inside and outside - how groups may also appropriate other orientations and what this then means for the incorporated identities.
- Ms M said...
Dawno, your words make me wonder though whether the threat from the inside is not just as great i.e. dissolution of the group and that having an outside is a rather strategic way to keep the group intact.
- Kira said...
Without the outside, there would be no group.
I've always been on the outside looking in. I've often wondered what it's like to be on the inside but obviously I didn't wonder enough (or I didn't think it looked like much fun) because I'm still on the outside looking in.
I have a neighbor that keeps telling me, 'Look in the mirror. You're a beautiful woman.' The first time he said that I looked at him like he had just spouted Zulu. ??? I thought, (and probably said,) 'What's that have to do with anything??'
Would I have had an easier time in life if I 'thought like a woman'? Is it too late for me to learn how to be one? Do I even WANT to be one? (not like I have a choice, but...do you follow?)
What does it mean to be a woman and how far from the 'womanly norm' am I?
I think I'll go back to lurking. It's easier.
- Ms M said...
Hi Anon? I think your comment is a really interesting one. How do you 'know' the norm. How do some people seemingly perform the norm better than others and how is it measured? They are all key questions.
- Mac said...
Kira hit a key point, as well-not only are we defining outsiders in terms of difference, in some ways that difference describes the bounds of community, as well.
In case y'all haven't clicked over there, Ms M says some highly pertinent and interesting things about this on her blog, too. I'd try to reproduce it here, but I'd likely muck it up, and also I'm still smarting a bit from having misspelled "taxonomic" over there.
- Mac said...
Welcome, Anon--I'm glad you came out of lurkdom. I think you've articulated a universal characteristic--to varying degrees, we're all outside looking in.
Jill points out her Hebrew made her an object of ridicule for small children, for example. It's still a lot more Hebrew than I could possibly muster. :)
We're so painfully aware of our differences, and make social decisions all the time about whether or not to strategize to either increase or decrease our status to the community--that re-negotiation Ms M was talking about.
I'm wondering about this, developmentally, now--some of the most poignant moments of childhood are those "outside looking in" moments, where we're learning how these social contracts all work.
I'm pondering your topic a bit. (Just til it starts giving me a headache - then I stop. :)
Negotiating to fit in. Redefining norm. What is norm, etc.
I think I must have subconsciously chosen, "If I can't be myself, then I don't want to play." I can't play someone else's role in life; not their own, nor one chosen for me. It's like wearing shoes that don't fit. Uncomfortable in the short term, painful over a long haul, and down right crippling if you have to wear them all your life.
Do you think that might be why some people go 'crazy'?
- Mac said...
Ms M said, in response to Anon: How do you 'know' the norm. How do some people seemingly perform the norm better than others and how is it measured? They are all key questions.
Which brings us full-circle, then, back to Straight-Girl summer camp, where women learn this stuff as little girls. :)
Seriously, Anon, in response to your last post--I dunno if it makes people crazy, but I can tell you there's a pretty solid literary tradition, especially in writing by women, that suggests perhaps it does. The Madwoman in the Attic explores some of those themes, especially in 19th century women's fiction.
So great characters like Rochester's mad wife, the narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, or Edna in Kate Chopin's The Awakening--who illustrates this discussion nearly perfectly.
From the link above about The Awakening:
"Edna is not Creole, but her husband is. She has never felt like she fits in with their lifestyle. Edna has always done what is expected of a woman, including marrying a man she did not love. He regards her as a possession rather than an individual.
While on vacation, Edna falls in love with Robert Lebrun. She often goes to the beach with him. She begins to realize for the first time, at age 28, that she is an individual. Edna feels like one who awakens gradually from a dream to the reality of life."
- Kira said...
Anon...I do think trying to fill a role and life a life you weren't meant for could drive a person crazy.
Meet my Grandpa. He didn't want to get married, and he didn't want to join the Navy. He did one because his mother wanted it, and the other because it was the only way to escape his father. Meet him at 17, a corn-fed midwest farmboy who played football and blew up bridges with his buddies.
Add 45+ yeas of marriage to a wife in New England who's as domineering as his father, children who he can't relate to and years spent on cramped submarines. Add retirement from the Navy and a career in drilling and blasting business ownership (love of his childhoos) that's twice doomed to failure.
Meet Grandpa and his nervous breakdown. Meet his depression, and his bottles of xanax, prozac and more I can't name. Meet his two heart attacks.
Yeah, I think societal roles can drive a person mad.
And you don't want to meet Grandma. We're still trying to slip her anxiety, mood and personality disorder meds in her tea, with little success.
- Kira said...
I read this in the paper today, thought you guys might find it relevant to the topic here: Transcending Gender: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/12461845.htm


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This book of photographs from around the world, with information about each, will make you jealous.
Beautiful…beyond beautiful photos, and amazing experiences!
My favorite was of the man sitting in the fire. Yes…you read that correctly. Art Wolfe, captured an amazing photo of that, and the story behind it is incredible as well.
This book is going to sit on my coffee table, as I will browse through it again from time to time.
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I just received a phone-in report from a D&H customer about his fishing yesterday on the Elkhorn Creek in Kentucky.
The water was super clear and cool. There was a large amount of moss floating down the stream and every cast he had to clean off his weighted streamers. He switched to a non-weighted wooly bugger and started to get results. The thing that surprised him the most was that he caught most of his fish and the best in unlikely spots. He said the slower moving water that he never even looks at was the place to fish flies yesterday.
He caught a nice bass with a really large crayfish in its mouth.
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On top of that, it was a record week at the blog!! By our calculations, we got between 87 and 225,000 hits last week!! Probably due to the "Brandon Whizzer got kidnapped by ET" story leading the google-pack when using the google to search for "The Iowa running back getting kidnapped by ET." See, we try to be topical here, so in an effort to try to fenagle another quarter-billion hit week: BARACK OBAMA MOSQUE COLUMBIAN JET BRETT FAVRE VAGINA
...that should do it...
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We're getting all super-duper-ly pumped for our show at the Iowa State Fair (I Know!!) this Friday at 3pm in the Budweiser Tent. We're really planning on ramping up the action for this bit and rucking the fuck outta some bitches seems like not just some sort of veiled promise, but an actual possibility...nee, a certainty!!
Josh will be along shortly this week with your tour guide so that you won't be all like, "dude, what the fuck is this place?? I came to see New Member Charles!! I totally wasn't expecting this much horse dung!!" Fear not, J will be taking you on your own little virtual tour to get you all prepared for the cavalcade of dung-edness that is the Iowa State Fair.
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Last week, I reconnected with people who were a part of Om Shanti Om Yoga in some capacity. Of course it felt great to catch up but what I did not expect were the fond memories they had of the studio. Funny times I had forgotten. Memorable events I thought only I had found special.
The last months before the sale of the studio were tumultuous and left a lot of hard feelings. Sometimes when people leave my life, there are irreconcilable differences. I hate that but am learning – at full glacial speed – to be okay with the fact that not everyone is going to like me or be happy with my actions. I hadn't realized how much I let the stress from last year skew my perception of all we accomplished at the studio those five years. Yes, we. I couldn't have done it by myself. Together as teachers and students we created a beautiful sangha that will continue indefinitely on many levels. Thank you for the reminder of the connections we made, the lives we touched and the good times we had.
For a really long time, I was almost incapable of connecting with others. Isolating myself was a coping mechanism that once served me quite well. As a kid, I didn't know how to handle people were two-faced, obnoxious, cruel. My takeaway from having endured these painful situations was that people were generally untrustworthy and the only person on whom I could rely was myself.
But the self-inflicted badge of self-sufficiency is a lonely sentence. Always searching for solutions without ever asking for help out of fear that someone would label me as stupid. Never having a shoulder to cry on because I didn't want to be perceived as weak. Fooling myself that it was better this way but, in reality, it was an awful way to live.
Then, when I started having panic attacks, I couldn't do it by myself anymore. Now even I was letting me down; how terrifying. At the time, it was horrible but I can see now that it was my saving grace as it forced me to do the unspeakable: ASK FOR HELP. I was actually shocked how people rose to the occasion. For the first time, I had a support system.
Along the way, I have had to learn how to set boundaries: draw closer the people who respect me and put distance between me and those who don't. But my most shocking revelation has been: My strength manifests from my most vulnerable moments. Being vulnerable actually takes me in the polar opposite direction of panic: it brings me towards peace and love.
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for the past two years, my goal has been to read at least 52 books in one year. and last year i did it! i read all sorts of different kinds of books -- memoirs, non-fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, etc.; some were good and some were not, but it was a great accomplishment for me. especially since i started out the year so slowly, and by july it looked like i was not going to make it. but in the last five months of 2012, i read 40 books! forty. that's insane. (that means that in the first seven months i only read fifteen books. ridiculous.)
at one point a friend asked if i was retaining any of it, and i said yes, but i'm not sure that's true. looking over my list of books there are definitely some that i totally forgot about or totally forgot the plot of. so in attempt to not only read a lot of books, but also retain some of the information from them, i will try and pick books that i particularly enjoyed (or not) to review and share with you.
the first one, the poisoner's handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age new york by deborah blum, is one that was recommended to me by a friend who is in the throes of medical school. i think she recommended it because she knows how much i get a kick out of stories of blood and guts.
let me start with this: i'm not sure how to write a book review. so i apologize, in advance, if it's awkward and weird.
to start: this is definitely a book i would recommend. it's not a short book, but it's super interesting. especially if, like me, you enjoy learning about a weird subset of history.
the poisoner's handbook is separated into eleven chapters about ten different poisons -- chloroform, wood alcohol, cyanide, arsenic, mercury, carbon monoxide (part 1), methyl alcohol, radium, ethyl alcohol, carbon monoxide (part 2) and thallium. it proceeds in chronological order, beginning in 1915 and continuing 1938. each chapter talks about one particular poison: the history of the poison, stories of people using that poison to kill others, the process by which the medical examiner, charles norris, and the toxicologist, alexander gettler, determined which poison was used in the murder, and the result of the subsequent trial. in addition, the author includes anecdotes about new york's history during this period; she includes stories about politicians and prohibition.
all of this can sound a little daunting, but deborah blum does a great job of putting the history and the science with the scandal and intrigue that goes along with poisonings. she hooks you in with the story, gives you a little history, tells a little more of the story, gives you the science, and then tells you the resolution to the story. unfortunately, most of the stories end with the poisoner being acquitted because the science was just too new; jurors had a hard time believing it and defense attorneys could come up with any number of different excuses for what had happened.
blum's descriptions of the effects of the poisons are sometimes cringe worthy, not because she wrote it poorly, but because these poisons can be pretty brutal to a person's body. in addition, her explanations of the forensic science are not dull and actually make sense, although it is a bit upsetting the number of dogs that were used for experiments so that alexander gettler could better understand each poison.
anyways, it was a good recommendation.
and i hope you enjoy it too, if you decide to check it out.
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- 30 Day Shred every day – Just have to do it today yet, no problemo!
- C25K workout 3 times a week – I did this once. I try to stay away from running when I get sick, so back at this when I'm feeling better!
- Track everything that I eat. – This has been a success. I haven't had any of those moments where I just fell off of the wagon and stopped tracking.
- Eat more fruit instead of other snacks when I'm hungry. – I can't say that I went to grab fruit instead of a snack. But I can say that I got all of my fruit and veggies in with the exception of one day where I didn't eat much at all because I wasn't feeling well.
- NO VENDING MACHINE SNACKS AT WORK!! – Not even a one. Well, I don't count diet Coke, which I did buy once.
This week:
- Finish my 30 Day Shred Challenge
- c25k 3 times
- Take one complete rest day on March 3rd- after 30 days of exercise!
- Post a healthy recipe
- 5 Different breakfasts M-F. I'm getting in a bit of a rut with breakfasts. I'll try to take pictures and post them too.
I have to share a NSV with you all. I've had this dress hanging in my closet that I haven't worn since high school. I have always loved this dress, it's one of those timeless black and white ones. I got it at Old Navy a really long time ago. It is a size 20 and I haven't been able to wear it since I don't even know when. I just look at it longingly every time I open up my closet. Well, this morning I decided to try it on, and it zipped! I could even get a way with wearing it! It was just a tad tight in the hip area, but you could hardly tell because of the fabric it's made of. It's a little too cold outside for it right now, but come spring I'll be wearing it! The awesome thing was, I looked at myself in the mirror and couldn't believe it was me. I have gotten so much smaller than I used to be. I told my husband, it's time to go shopping but he just laughed. :)


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Moon Craters? Or an ultrasound of my ovaries?
Since getting pregnant, staying pregnant, birthing a child, and gradually nursing my body back to some semblance of normalcy, the thought of ovulation or my periods has not crossed my mind for almost 18 months. Admittedly, it was only as I started to get a full night's sleep that the musings of what having a second child might be like started to creep slowly into my mind. It started when I came across an errant onesie stuffed in the back of Shira's drawer. Oh, errant onesies….you are a mind fuck. It was a newborn size, and the thought that Shira had actually fit into it at one point made me pick it up and sniff at it longingly. This is what the passage of time does to you when you're a mom. You forget that you were a sore, bleary eyed confused mess at the time that your child was actually wearing that onesie, and somehow your brain convinces itself that everything was soft lighting and baby coo's in those early days of holding her in my arms.
As my 2 loyal followers can attest, my PCOS-riddled ovaries have always been clunkers. Growing up, there would often be times I wouldn't get a period for 6 months. The year I went off birth control (and started this blog) I didn't ovulate for a full year. Ultrasounds indicated upwards of 30 cysts on each ovary. It was only after taking three rounds of Clomid that I conceived. Round One of 50mg Clomid was a dud and did nothing, Round Two of 100mg I ovulated and got my period, and Round Three I got Shira.
For me, the when, why where and how's of ovulation and pregnancy don't add up to normal questions about a general range of time I can expect my fertile window, or when I will get a period. The entire process is fraught with anxiety, frustration, and truthfully, scary indications that there is something wrong with my body. Not getting a period is not something I'm happy about, and it really irks me when other women who have never battled with PCOS comment on how lucky I am to not have to deal with bleeding every month. They are speaking out of ignorance, I know….but I just wish more people knew that "not getting your period" is actually a symptom of a much bigger problem that can have long term effects on my body and my health–insulin resistance, high cholesterol, and heart disease are also more likely in women who "don't get a period". Personally, I'll take a bleeding vagina over death by heart attack, thanks.
Anyhow–I'm writing with news to report. A couple of months ago, about 8 months post partum, I got a weird sort of brown blood period that lasted on and off for over a week. I didn't think much of it, except to note that it most likely wasn't ovulatory, and I could pretty well assume I wouldn't see another period for at least a year, if my track record proved correct. Then, about a month later, I had another weird period that lasted over a week of sporadic bleeding. Again, I chalked it up to coincidence, but this time,I started to feel those familiar yearnings to understand my cycle….I started to remember how it felt to be back pre-pregnancy, yearning to finally get a grip on what was going on with my body. I banished those thoughts from my mind.
Until around 3 weeks later.
I started noticing what I thought was EWCM when I wiped. I laughed. Clearly, this was my body's form of some sick joke. I fully expected it to be a fluke. But the next day, there was even more. And the day after that, it was all like:
So. Haha. Very funny, body. You expect me to believe I am ovulating. On my own. What a riot. Right around the day that the EWCM subsided, I dusted off the math on my luteal phase which is usually 12 days on the dot. I counted forward on the calendar and came up with tomorrow–Thursday the 12th, as the date in which I would get my period IF I happened to have ovulated which I haven't done on my own in over 3 years (prior to starting birth control).
Today, (Wednesday) I went to the bathroom all "ho hum". Wiped. And saw a massive quantity of blood on the toilet paper. "Fuck. Hemorrhoids are at it again." I thought. Wiped the butt. Nothing. And then,
VAGINA hemorrhoids.
Or, as I like to call it:
Sorry, Picard. I'm in shock.
This month, I ovulated on my own. I fucking ovulated. I have no idea how I did it, but I'm proud.


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my best year in college
in the summer of 1987 my mother received a call from millikin university in decatur, il. apparently they had over booked dorm assignments and they were looking for approximately 40 students that would be willing to live off campus in a hotel. i was hoping my mom said "yes" but she took it one step better. because i hadn't expressed an interest in a roommate, she told millikin i would like a signal room! so my sophomore year of college, i was among approximately 80 students that lived on the 4th (male) and 5th (female) floors of the ambassador hotel in decatur. i had my own bathroom, there was a shuttle back and forth to campus (probably a 15 minute walk) – the only thing that wasn't included was maid service.
in 1988 (on april 30th) i met my wife eva and in the fall i moved into the new dorms millikin had built to accommodate the overflow. we were married on june 22, 1991 and our son samuel was born on our 7th wedding anniversary. since then we celebrate the day we met as our anniversary in april.
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I was born on April 8th. was very happy to learn of this it makes me realize that there are things in my life that need to be released. 🙂
Theravada is one of the oldest forms of Buddhism, and the word "Theravada" means "the Ancient Teaching." It originated in India, and is now found mainly in Sri Lanka and most of southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Mayanmar and Thailand). It is also found in parts of China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is estimated that there are about 100 million Theravada Buddhists around the world.
The New Year celebration, called Songkran in Thailand, is celebrated for three days from the first full moon day in April. Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death are celebrated during this festival, but not as you might think.
It's the end of the dry season. The rains will be coming soon to provide much needed nourishment to the earth as well as clearing the dirt and grime. So it's no surprise that people this as a time to cleanse and purify yourself!
People build sand mounds on the beaches and in front of monasteries. Each grain of sand represents a wrongdoing, something you regret, something you're holding onto that you need to release or something that went against your karma. With lots and lots of water, the sand mounds are swept clean away! You can let go of the past and move on with your life. Pouring water over Buddha statues is also another way to honor Buddha, the monks, elders and the dead.
In a way, this is a tangible demonstration to show you how getting rid of something you don't need (reminders of things you regretted doing or unhealthy relationships you can't get over), can make room or space for something new to grow and be nourished by the rain.
Is it time to let something go? Are you ready to be nourish yourself and allow new things to come into your life?
I was born on April 8th. was very happy to learn of this it makes me realize that there are things in my life that need to be released. 🙂
Sri lankans and many other Buddhists celebrate the birth, enlightment and passing away of Lord Buddha on the poya day which falls on the month of May.


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It's not even close: Broncos' loss to Jacksonville was way worse
I know the emotional wounds from the Broncos' double-overtime loss to the Baltimore Ravens are raw this morning.
But the notion this surpasses the 1996-season playoff defeat to Jacksonville as the worst in franchise history is preposterous.
For many reasons, but here are the top two: One, the Ravens were a much better opponent than the Jaguars. Two, the 1996 Broncos were a much better team than the 2012 Broncos.
The Jaguars then were a second-year expansion team. An EXPANSION team! They were 4-12 in 1995. They were in the NFL's womb in 1994. There were 3-6 to start the 1996 season and needed Atlanta's Morten Anderson to miss a short field goal at the end of the final game to get in the playoffs.
These Ravens have been to the playoffs five consecutive seasons. They've been to the AFC championship game three of the their five seasons in the Smokin' Joe Flacco era.
As for the Broncos, to prove how strong they were in 1996, they went on to win the Super Bowl the next two years. Do you think today's Broncos are winning the Super Bowl the next two years?
I know John Elway was 36 in 1996 and he was 37 and 38 the next two years when the Broncos won it all. And Peyton Manning is 36 now and he will be 37 and 38 the next two years.
But there's some age on this team. The priority of Elway the executive this offseason has to be getting younger.
What made the loss to the Ravens worse than the Jaguars was how the Broncos gave up their 38 points: Three big plays for 21 and three Manning turnovers for 17 points.


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The efforts that scientists have put into trying to explain what they've seen in data has been exhaustive and nowhere is it more evident than in the work that has been done by the scientists at Ashima Research. Want to know about CO2 distribution issues and how best to track the migration of carbon dioxide in the Martian Atmosphere? Maybe it's best to review this (LINK) that explains the value of following the noble gas, Argon, to understand how CO2 moves.
Here (above), you can see a better depiction of the REMS.
Being able to explain the Martian atmosphere, to model the Martian weather and to draw understanding from that has helped to better understand the weather on Earth. (LINK) For a more complete list of publications by Ashima Research, look HERE.
Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory, has a sophisticated Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) located on the Remote Sensing Mast, designed by Ashima (Pasadena based company) and built by Centro del Astrobiologica (Spanish component of the European Space Agency.
REMS has been designed to record six atmospheric parameters: wind speed/direction, pressure, relative humidity, air temperature, ground temperature, and ultraviolet radiation. All sensors are located around three elements: two booms attached to the rover Remote Sensing Mast (RSM), the Ultraviolet Sensor (UVS) assembly located on the rover top deck, and the Instrument Control Unit (ICU) inside the rover body. (JPL)Read more here: http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/REMS/
Ashima Research has been one of the leaders in extraterrestrial weather research and its application to Earth Science since the company was founded by scientists working at the California Institute of Technology. It's sister company, Ashima Devices derives none of it's research money from the US Government, but in its own way, the devices that it designs and takes to market will change the way you look at the world around you.
It is apparent from the picture taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that there are three distinct zones of ground at the landing site. At top-right is an area that previous observations have revealed to have high thermal inertia - it stays warmer longer at night, for example - than the broad area off to the left that holds all of the landing components other than the heatshield. The third zone at bottom-right seems to display more impact cratering, which is usually indicative of being an older surface. Visiting the intersection of all three zones is now being considered as a possible destination once the rover starts some serious driving in September.
Check this out (play the video) (LINK)
Explaining what happens on Earth has continually been expanded by our exploration of space and of both planets and moons in our own solar system. Consider where we are today with science and where we were fifty years ago, and you'll get some sense of the exponential benefit of the money and effort that have been expended.
However, our bankrupt nation will not soon repeat this sort of mission as politics (and political hand-outs designed to buy votes) takes precedence over discovery.
We spent $806,000,000,000 on the relatively worthless war in Iraq (with apologies to the service men and women who served, or were wounded, or died there). We've spent $554,342,000,000 so far in the war in Afghanistan with results that are somewhat underwhelming (with similar apologies). All this can be laid on the altar of political expediency.
Instead of the wars with their limited value, we could have sent 554 rovers to Mars, by comparison. I am not suggesting that we do that, but it draws a stark distinction between something of enduring value (this mission to Mars) and wars that leave a questionable legacy in my opinion. And yes, I am a combat veteran.


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In some situations, we may collect sensitive information about you related to your health to ensure that we offer you loans that are suitable for your circumstances, or that we take a change in your health into account when we administer your loan.
If you apply, or enquire online you will be subject to some automated decision making based on criteria such as your age, residential status and credit score.
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Publication Date: 2010
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Technical Adequacy of the easyCBM Reading Measures (Grades 3-7), 2009-2010 Version. Technical Report #1005
Saez, Leilani; Park, Bitnara; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Jamgochian, Elisa; Lai, Cheng-Fei; Anderson, Daniel; Kamata, Akihito; Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald
Behavioral Research and Teaching
In this series of studies, we investigated the technical adequacy of three curriculum-based measures used as benchmarks and for monitoring progress in three critical reading- related skills: fluency, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. In particular, we examined the following easyCBM measurement across grades 3-7 at fall, winter, and spring time-points: internal consistency of the reading comprehension measure, construct and criterion-related validity, and practical utility for classifying student level performance. Data were analyzed both as an aggregated grade-level sample (approximately 3700 students per grade) and within ethnic background, achievement quartile, special education eligibility, and English Language Learner (ELL) status subgroups. (Contains 446 tables and 27 figures.) [Support for this work was also provided by the Center on Teaching and Learning (CTL).]
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Curriculum Based Assessment, Validity, English Language Learners, Special Education, Academic Achievement, Minority Group Students, Student Characteristics, Testing Programs, Reading Fluency, Reading Tests, Reliability, Psychometrics, Educational Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Internet, Educational Technology, Measures (Individuals), Statistical Analysis, Response to Intervention, Federal Aid, Evaluation Research, Multiple Choice Tests, Ethnic Groups
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Are you trying to solve your immigration issue? There are many lawyers available to give their assistance in the completion of the procedure related to migration to another country. The difficulty is in searching the best immigration law firm Toronto who can handle the issue and give you the most appropriate solution. You have to look at their features and judge whether their ability matches your expectations or not. Everyone will try to portray the best part on their end but you cannot afford to make any mistake in this crucial step of selection of Otis & Korman law firm.
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When you search for the famous lawyer in the matters of immigration, your search should be supported by the review of the past clients and even the ratings are given on different Internet portals. There will be helpful data available to provide some way to your search. The reviews by specific clients assist you in understanding these lawyers who specialize in the procedure of migration. If he has solved similar cases in the past, it shows his hard work. You can trust him as his success rate in similar immigration cases is high. Make sure that the lawyer should be available at the time communicated by him to take up your matter.
- Is he an active lawyer of the immigration law firm?
There are law firms with many specialized lawyers working as a panel. You can approach them to get the advice of the expert. It is one of the efficient ways to get the procedural work done from a firm of lawyers. Even the charges are affordable and standard. They do not overcharge their clients. The experienced lawyers have the objective to satisfy the clients by their honest advice. Many visitors take consultation from the professionals so that mistakes are avoided in the paperwork. Only if the documentation is valid, the process can move further. Their active number of years sum up together shows how diligently they complete all the formalities on behalf of their clients.
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The study from a recognized law school gives the lawyer in-depth knowledge of the law and the legal system. He practices in the environment where many other legal fraternities work. So he gets the updated news about the change in any policy or terms. As he starts working on immigration cases, he is able to apply his teachings practically. He gets acknowledgment for his precision and sincerity in work. You can consider the number of years of practicing immigration law at the time of selection. A visit to the office of the lawyer can give you a clear idea of his prestige and his thoughts.
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India scripted history as they topped the medals tally in an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) competition for the first time. India finished the World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage at Guadalajara Mexico, with four gold medals, one silver and four bronze, a total of nine medals. However, in the last event of the World Cup, three Indians in the men's skeet competition failed to reach the podium with Smit Singh shooting 116 in qualifying to finish at the 15th spot. Angad Bajwa shot 115 to end in 18th, while Sheeraz Sheikh secured the 30th spot with a score of 112.
Two time Olympic champion Vincent Hancock of the US won the men's skeet. Hancock, who had won gold in men's skeet at the Beijing and London Olympics, had gone into a bit of a slump after winning the 2015 World Championships and completed a comeback of sorts into the winner's circle with this win here.
He did it in style by first topping qualification with a sublime 123 out of 125 and then followed it up in the final, with a world record equalling 59 out of 60. He was however matched by Paul Adams of Australia and finally got the better of him 6-5 in a shoot-off for gold and silver.
Italy's Tammaro Cassandro settled for the bronze with 49 hits in the final.
India have emerged triumphant in a global event for the first time courtesy the exploits of young guns like Shahzar Rizvi, Manu Bhaker, Akhil Sheoran, Om Prakash Mitharval, Anjum Moudgil and Mehuli Ghosh. Apart from them, senior stars like Jitu Rai, Ravi Kumar and even Sanjeev Rajput shot well to just miss out and finish fourth.
(With IANS inputs)