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Ugh.
Ever had a hangover?
I haven't. But this morning I'm bleary-eyed, achey, tired, and not thinking very well. From everything I've read about hangovers, all I need is nausea and I'd be there.
I'm reading The Jewel In The Crown for the first time, and Blue Oyster Cult's "Vengeance: The Pact" is on eternal repeat for no particular reason that I can think of.
I suppose I should write something, but my brain isn't working very well. Some random stuff:
Why do people say that Obama is post-baby boom? He's 46. I'm 43, and I was born in the last year of the baby boom - 1964.
Yes, I'll be at Arisia. Sorry to have made such a fuss. Now I feel stupid.
I'd like to write something about writing (fiction)...maybe later.
Someone at work suggested that Obama was likely to be assassinated. I answered that if he was, he'd be our next JFK...but if he wasn't, I feared that he'd be our next Jimmy Carter. And not the saintly post-Presidency Carter, but the relatively ineffective and compromising Carter of 1976-1980. I hope I'm wrong.
If there was a candidate who was promising a 4-day workweek (of eight hour days), they'd have my vote. Why isn't any candidate running on giving US workers the same amount of time off as workers in Europe?
I want sleep.
Just in case you were wondering, this is stream-of-consciousness journal writing.
I had this conversation with Teri while we were driving, and she said I should put it in my journal. I was dubious. Let's see who's right.
She wondered if there were straight male prostitutes who were forced into the work by pimps. I suggested that straight male prostitution was probably more likely to be found in the high end of the social scale, where the managers would be unrecognizable as pimps, and physical force would not be a factor - in other words, that there was likely to be some measure of consent. Why? The physical factor. You can force a woman to be a prostitute, but forcing a man is a much trickier proposition - simply because in order to satisfy a customer all a woman has to do is lie there (I recognize that this is a simplification) while a man has to have an erection. It's awfully difficult to force someone to have an erection against their will!
Teri pointed out that the pimps could force the males to take viagra (or whichever medication lasts for 48 hours; that would be best, I suppose).
I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if it's happening? Probably.
What a stupid world this is.
I haven't. But this morning I'm bleary-eyed, achey, tired, and not thinking very well. From everything I've read about hangovers, all I need is nausea and I'd be there.
I'm reading The Jewel In The Crown for the first time, and Blue Oyster Cult's "Vengeance: The Pact" is on eternal repeat for no particular reason that I can think of.
I suppose I should write something, but my brain isn't working very well. Some random stuff:
Why do people say that Obama is post-baby boom? He's 46. I'm 43, and I was born in the last year of the baby boom - 1964.
Yes, I'll be at Arisia. Sorry to have made such a fuss. Now I feel stupid.
I'd like to write something about writing (fiction)...maybe later.
Someone at work suggested that Obama was likely to be assassinated. I answered that if he was, he'd be our next JFK...but if he wasn't, I feared that he'd be our next Jimmy Carter. And not the saintly post-Presidency Carter, but the relatively ineffective and compromising Carter of 1976-1980. I hope I'm wrong.
If there was a candidate who was promising a 4-day workweek (of eight hour days), they'd have my vote. Why isn't any candidate running on giving US workers the same amount of time off as workers in Europe?
I want sleep.
Just in case you were wondering, this is stream-of-consciousness journal writing.
I had this conversation with Teri while we were driving, and she said I should put it in my journal. I was dubious. Let's see who's right.
She wondered if there were straight male prostitutes who were forced into the work by pimps. I suggested that straight male prostitution was probably more likely to be found in the high end of the social scale, where the managers would be unrecognizable as pimps, and physical force would not be a factor - in other words, that there was likely to be some measure of consent. Why? The physical factor. You can force a woman to be a prostitute, but forcing a man is a much trickier proposition - simply because in order to satisfy a customer all a woman has to do is lie there (I recognize that this is a simplification) while a man has to have an erection. It's awfully difficult to force someone to have an erection against their will!
Teri pointed out that the pimps could force the males to take viagra (or whichever medication lasts for 48 hours; that would be best, I suppose).
I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if it's happening? Probably.
What a stupid world this is.
Baby Boom
(See: http://www.tweeners.org/).
There is a definite difference between the experiences, culture and position of folks born in those years.
Re: Baby Boom
Well, and Sebastian. I gave him the complete DVDs of both series for Christmas.
People who lived their childhood in the late 60s have a sensibility like no one else, I think. Warped.
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On American's work habits, well, I saw a bit on a late night ABC news show with an old news story from the seventies about how work hours would go down. Part of the problem is companies not wanting to hire more workers, part is workers preferring to work and make more money rather than take time off, and part is maybe a culture egotism where Americans think that Europeans are wimps and never mind that Brits now have a higher average income than we do.
There are a whole lot of ways to "force" somebody to do anything; blackmail, threats against family members, getting them on drugs. And, uhh, just because some guy is servicing a woman under threat of violence doesn't mean the parts won't work; heck, I recall reading something eons ago about guys who were raped by women who basically threated to remove their Naughty Bits and gosh if the goodies didn't just work fine. Also note that, uhh, there are other ways to pleasure a woman that don't involve erections. Mind you, that's mostly off the top of my head; I've not exactly done research on straight male prostitution.