Thursday, June 27, 2002

that was fun! it takes a bit of looking to actually recognize anything in the photos if you arent familiar with looking at overhead satellite pictures, and those pictures were taken apr. 22, 1994. They have images of where gary and i live now from 1991, but to be honest, i don't recognize anything at all from them, so i can't show you all a nice little red circle outlined picture of our ghetto home :( i know...youre all disappointed...sorry -gigglesnort ..oo..i peed a little aheh
6/27/2002 12:45:38 AM | immortalize me | 21 comments

Well, thanks to Terra Server, I can share with you all a bit of my life, in fuzzy image form :)

this is a picture of the house my dad lives in, and which I lived in from Christmas of 1987 to June of 1990, and again from April to October 1994

this is a picture of the apartment i lived in from October 1994 to October 1997

and lastly, this is a picture of the super market i worked at from the summer of 1994 to sometime in 1996 (it's out of business now, thank god)

6/27/2002 12:41:26 AM | immortalize me | 21 comments

Monday, June 24, 2002

ugh...ok first, lemme say whoop!@ Rosa's come back to us...welcome back, punkin we wubba u :)

now onto the unpleasantness....this subject has been talked about a bit on the forums but here, i can totally let loose cuz this is mine so there :p

as some of you may or may not know, Southwest Airlines publicly announced their long standing, very quiet, policy of charging "people of size" extra cash for another seat or a seatbelt extension.

first, let me address this whole 'people of size' thing....don't apply your misguided, lame attempts at political correctness to me, pal! I am not a 'person of size'! I am 'fat'...I have earned the right to be 'fat'....I earned that right through the countless years of torture in school, the nameless, ultimately faceless people who have come into my various places of employment over the years, gotten pissed at me and called me a fat fucking bitch. I have paid for that priviledge every time i try to squeeze my girth into a chair obviously constructed to seat a barbie doll, everytime i try to pour myself into a booth that noone with a bra size over a small B could hope to sit in in a dignified manner! I am finally starting to get to a place in my life, and inside my own head, where thinking of myself as 'fat' is not the most terrible thing in the world. And with that will hopefully come the strength of character to change that finally, for myself, for gary, for my family. And then you wanna go and rip that badge from me and label me with your politically correct garbage!?!? FORGET IT!!! I earned the right to be fat, to call myself fat, to have my FRIENDS refer to me in a goodnatured way as fat in the same way that all black people have earned the right to call each other nigger...or niggah...or how the hell ever they wanna spell it. you will NOT take that away from me! And don't try and feed me that sludge about 'people of size' referring not only to fat people, but tall people as well cuz that's just a load of horse pucky.

If you would like to catagorize me, don't say 'person of size', say 'elastically challenged', or something. At least make it obvious that you are making fun of me, like the guy in the store today who called me a stupid cunt and a fat fucking bitch who made him sick.

now, to play the devil's advocate...yes, i understand the whole reasoning behind it, both for the airlines, and my fellow travellers who will undoubtedly be disgusted by having to travel next to the wolly mammoth that is me. "you mean i hafta sit next to that behemeth?? well if she is going to be taking up half of my seat, i better not be expected to pay full price!"

but, being that something like 61% of americans are concidered overweight, i would be willing to bet that SWA's estimate that only 1% of their customers will be affected may be a little askew. so, going along with the obvious profit driven motive they are going for here, wouldn't it be advisable to cater not to the skinny minnie's of the world, but rather the one's who can sit on you and cause considerable pain if provoked? i mean really, since we are all just a bunch of lazy lard asses, is that thought really so far fetched? by the time we are done trying to argue the discrimination point with the ticket clerk, we will probably want nothing more than to have a seat. besides of course the foot long hoagie we would undoubtedly produce from one of the many folds of our moo moo's as a small snack.

as with so many other subjects of debate today, there is no easy answer that will satisfy the masses. but maybe the first step the airlines should take is educating their employees, and releasing not only their policy to the public, but exactly how it will be enforced. because to say that it's a judgement call on the part of the ticket clerk is just plain silly. what if he/she's having a bad day and you piss him/her off? well, buddy...you'll be paying for my lunch break interuption in pounds. and to say that they should have some airplane seat model (in the same way that have that thing u hafta put your carryons into before getting on the plane) to see if people will fit in the seats is also just plain silly. after all...as someone in another forum said, i am not paying for your seats...if i were, i would not be paying cuz the seats suck. no, i am paying for transportation. period. by their logic, if i hafta pay extra because i will take up more space, then shouldn't someone who takes up less space pay less?...i realize they have child fares, but what about really skinny, small adults?...or people with only one leg?...or people with no legs? will they be required to pay less? and how much less?...what if one person takes up half the seat, but someone else's feet don't even touch the floor? will they pay the same price? and what about the really really tall, lanky guys who are all knees and elbows (who always get hit by the drink cart on its way past, wedding planner wtg me!)? you hafta draw a line somewhere, i realize. and i also realize that airlines are privately owned operations, but they are in the public domain. how do you draw a line on the public without pissing someone off? one of the only things that alex has ever said that i have agreed with (maybe the only thing) is that one person's freedom ends where another's begins. how much is that freedom worth to you?...cuz i can pretty much guarantee that it'll be less than someone providing a service is going to charge you for it.

now, i know that SWA is not the only airline to have this policy in place, but they ARE the only one braindead enough to actually announce, and enforce it.

and what about pregnant people?...just a few short weeks or months from the time of departure, they would probably not have to pay for the infant to fly, yet because they are still inside the same body you're gonna charge the mother-to-be extra for a seatbelt extention?

i have lost the ability to think and type coherently (as if i ever had it) so im gonna stop for now...just food for thought...

food...hmmm...think i'll eat a small cow. it's time for a snack.
6/24/2002 03:59:43 AM | immortalize me | 21 comments