Roe v. Wade, Gym Jerks, Diving, and a Survey!

 If that’s not the most unusual post title ever I don’t know what is.

Today is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and as the token feminist on campus I wanted to give those individuals who fought for me to have a safe, legal abortion (if I ever need one) a virtual shout out and and incredibly large THANK YOU.  Now, I was not always pro-choice. To the contrary I would have argued with you all night about the issue in high school, “But why not just have it and give it up? Isn’t that more noble?” However, this is the same me who pined over an emotionally abusive boyfriend for years, obviously my head wasn’t screwed on straight. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, obviously, and mine happens to be that I don’t believe it’s morally right to take away the right of a woman in order to give a right to a potential person.  So that’s where I stand on that.

Ok, next item on the agenda.  Through my university I get a free Y membership (yay!) and I’ve recently started upping my visits (double yay!) and I also misplaced my membership card (b00). I’ve been super busy this week, classes, TA-ing, homework, blogging (hehe), and of course moaning in my car to practice for the Va-Jay-Jay Monologues; so suffice it to say I haven’t found it yet. The past two days it hadn’t been a problem, they just gave me a visitor card and told me to look for it. However today the front desk clerk told me they don’t give out visitor cards (maybe YOU don’t blondie, but the chick here yesterday did) so I had to hitch an elevator ride with another lady. Not so bad, I can deal. So I did my workout and gathered my stuff and walked down the 5 flights of stairs to the exit….and noticed I forgot my purse upstairs. Ugh! I ran back to the elevator and asked a man stepping out of it if he’d be so kind as to swipe his card through so I could get back upstairs. He shook his head and walked away. I was in shock. I would have taken 5 seconds of his time and he flatly refused. Whenever things like this happen I’m always more affected than I should be. I barely ever ask anyone, not to mention strangers, for any type of courtesy and this type of response is why. I remember wondering where the hell Karma was. I can remember  3 tasks I’ve done in the last week for perfect strangers, including finding cranberry juice and bringing it to a woman in line at the checkout! Oh well, I guess I just need to find that card.

On the brighter side, I finally got to see my brother dive in competition today. It was fun to watch him do some of the same dives I did in high school (and do a few I didn’t). He’s tall and lanky and still hasn’t gained control over his limbs. He’s all arms and legs going into the water. Every time he dove I flinched, he looked so close to the board from the angle I was seated at. He came in third, which is respectable for a freshman. I’ll be hanging out with him tomorrow and the next day at rifle matches. Maybe I’ll see if I can give him some pointers on not looking like a dying duck as he goes into the water.

One more tidbit before I turn you over to Survey-Bliss. I had my first Vagina Monologues rehearsal today, moaning and all, and I thought it went pretty well.  My “surprise triple orgasm moan” was longer than usual, but actually I thought it could be a little longer. One of my directors told me I should try to cut it down a bit because it might people uncomfortable. Isn’t that kinda the point? To make it over the top so women don’t feel uncomfortable moaning?

On to the Survey, I was tagged by Jamie.

Here are the rules:
Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Share six (6) non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
Tag at least 3 people at the end of your post and link to their blogs.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. 100 calorie bags of kettle corn usually function as my night-time snack of choice. Sweet and salty, and portioned controlled, what more could you want?

2. My youngest brother buys everyone socks for christmas and always gets me the coolest pair, this year it was yoga girls in various poses, I’ve also received tootsie pop socks, daisy duck socks, invisible socks, and “lucky socks”.

3. I’m ridiculously lazy when it comes to household responsibilities. I just don’t care enough to bug my landlord again about the loose and falling out tiles in my shower. The water still works, and I don’t really care about how it looks so why bother?

4. I have to pee before I go to bed, even if I just went. Otherwise I can’t get comfortable.

5. I’ve been watching ER since it came on years ago when I was in elementary school. I used to watch it with my mom and we’d eat soft pretzels. Now I still like to watch it if I can, it’s one of the constants in my life and part of the reason I love Thursday.

6. I’m a pack rat by nature, but I love the clean simplistic look of minimalism,  this irritates me to no end. Every so often I do a clean sweep and get rid of knick knacks and stuff I haven’t used in years and the very next week an opportunity to use it will arise. It never fails.

I’m tagging three bloggers I admire, Chelsea, Eleanor, and Nerd Girl.

Go check them out, if you get the chance!