Ranty

This just disgusts me on so many levels I don't even think I can go into them all:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060424/ap_en_ce/hip_and_pregnant

I frequently go off on my feelings about children as fashion accessories/status symbols. This panders to the worst of those feelings in me. Worthless people filling up a dying planet with unnecessary life which they in turn use to fill their gargantuan SUV's which make decent, good-hearted people like ME have to pay three dollars a gallon for gas. Fuck them all, I say, hard in the ass with a big rubber dick. You can't get pregnant from being fucked in the ass, but in the case of the above described kind of person, let's use a rubber dick just to be sure.

You might be thinking "but der Überreiniger, what's wrong with a woman feeling beautiful about herself while she's pregnant?" Well, nothing. But there's a certain tone to this article and some of the women quoted in it which I just find to be, well, vain and ego-centric. And frankly, the notion that it's "hip to be pregnant," in addition to its destructive ecological and sociological implications, seems incredibally disrespectful to the countless generations of women who came before for whom pregnancy was a frequently lethal occupation.

And then THEN we get the quote "not since Jesus has a baby been so eagerly anticipated." I tell you, I could listen to every Slayer and Cradle of Filth album I own for days on end, (and frequently do,) and never hear something as sickengly blasphemous as that. I'm hard to offend that way. Real hard. But that little quote struck a nerve, if nothing else then for its implication that anyone does or should care about what comes slithering out of Angelina Jolie's cooter at all.

That said, yes, I think women should feel beautiful and sexy in their pregnant bodies, just for crying out loud, keep it in some kind of perspective, people. Although maybe I should be a little more lenient in that regard too, because as we all know, pregnant chicks are hot ;)

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I haven't felt much like LJ'ing the last few days. Frankly, I've been very focused on writing and haven't wanted to spend my computer time keeping up with the blog. But then I get days like today where I want to update, update, update.

Yes, I have been writing a lot. Working on the novel again, working on AW. Maybe I just ought to leave the novel alone, but I think it genuinely does improve each time I revise it. I figure each agent/pusblisher I submit it to I've got one chance with and I've got to make it count, you know? Anyway, I'm sick of sitting on the thing and want it out of my hands, hence I work on it every day like I should have done all along. Besides, ghaidin ate a lot of grapes this past New Year's Eve to make my first publishing happen and I owe it to her.

From what I understand, the fate of our contract at work will be decided this Friday. Best case scenario is we get to move over to the company's new building, continue our job, and maybe get a switch to daytime hours for me. Worst case scenario... well, worst case is we lose it and I don't get placed at another site, which probably means moving into megiloth's spare room and racking up thousands of dollars in debt to him, even as I mock him for being a faggot-fuckin faggot. (Don't worry kids, it's an inside joke between us.)

I'm really not worried about the outcome at all, honestly. Which is strange, considering how much I stress about finding a new job to replace this one altogether. But this is something completely out of my control and I can gain nothing by worrying about it, hence I don't. I'm still really hoping I get the job which yaqui tipped me off about. The wait is driving me crazy.

Anyway, that's pretty much it right now. Attention ghaidin and cygny: I don't trust e-mail things off my comp since we still haven't fixed it. Would you like me to try and post some AW onto LJ? I don't really like using LJ for fiction given that it's too easy to scroll past things and forget about them. For that reason the apocalpse_woman blog felt like a big failure to me. But for you ladies I'll make an exception :)

And now...

( meme because I was tagged. )