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Okay, so dude-face from bipolypagangeek?
He's stopped bitching at *me* (apparently), but unfortunately is still being a sanctimonious, pedantic, denying-and-derailing asshole to everyone else. :-P
Boo. :-P
I thought I'd won. :-P
In other news: I am hungry, but have already eaten all my food.
This is a problem. :-P
What I've been doing food-wise this week:
Lunch = Samosa + tupperware full of berries, grapes, mini-tomatoes, and similar + something like four "servings" (the size of the first joint of your thumb) of cheese.
I also have these tiny little "meal replacement" drinks from PC.
They were cheap and I figured that I could toss one in my bag every morning on the way out the door and call it "breakfast" when I got to work.
But I look at the ingredients and I go "How the hell is this a meal replacement? The main ingredient is sugar, followed by oil. Where is the protein, people???"
Weird as this is, I am trying to avoid having to cook. And by "cook" I mean "Do any kind of prep-work in the kitchen beyond *maybe* cutting something up".
I'm thinking that if I can get my kitchen running so that the day-to-day stuff (endless lunches and dinners and breakfasts) are (A) really healthy[1] and (B) really easy[2], then doing once-a-week cooking events (wherein I make bread, for example, or something desserty, or even just a from-scratch soup) won't seem so daunting and will actually be enjoyable.
Because I like cooking.
But I hate cleaning!
My dishes have reached critical mass and I'm still not doing anything about them. Seriously, part of me wants to just put them all in my bath-tub in groups and tackle them one-at-a-time.
First: Cutlery and pots and other metal stuff.
Second: Cups and glasses.
Third: Other dishes and cookware.
Fourth: Tupperware[3].
That way, I would *have* to clean everything up because I wouldn't be able to take a shower otherwise.
<*Shakes head*>
Oh. And Links:
The Harm of "Seemingly Harmless" Sexist Humor (from Feministing),
AND
Sexist Humour Not Funny (from Being Feminist).
I know I've got at least one folklorist reading this, and more than a couple of anthro geeks. So:
Humour is one of the ways that cultures perpetuate themselves. They are a way of teaching people what "right behaviour" ("right body", "right thinking", "right appearance", "right desire", whatever) by telling them that "wrong behaviour" (and so on) is worthy of derision and mockery.
Like advertisements (porn, pop songs, the WWF, tv shows about home decorating, etc) they reflect and reinforce the norms, mores, values and assumptions of a given culture.
For example: Jokes about Dumb Blondes are really jokes about women. Statements that women are stupid and can/should be laughed at. Statements that specific types of women (E.G.: Actively sexual) are, in particular, laughable and second-class.
Discuss! :-D
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] Really Healthy: Largely fruits and veggies, significantly, though nowhere near entirely, vegan (which is cheap, as well as full of the aforementioned fruits and veggies), lots of raw stuff, and with enough dairy (mmmmmmm yoghurt...) and occasional meat and eggs on top of the plant-proteins that I don't get spacey and weird because of this.
[2] Really Easy: Fingerfood, raw food, stuff that doesn't require prep, stuff that doesn't require dishes (and, as such, washing said dishes). Sadly this includes things like pre-fab samosas or store-bought dips and spreads that - in the case of the dips at least - I can make on my own for significantly less money, as well as pre-cooked grocery-store chickens, for example, which come with bones.
[3] Yes, it's still the same tupperware. I should go through it again and decide how much of it I actually want to keep...
He's stopped bitching at *me* (apparently), but unfortunately is still being a sanctimonious, pedantic, denying-and-derailing asshole to everyone else. :-P
Boo. :-P
I thought I'd won. :-P
In other news: I am hungry, but have already eaten all my food.
This is a problem. :-P
What I've been doing food-wise this week:
Lunch = Samosa + tupperware full of berries, grapes, mini-tomatoes, and similar + something like four "servings" (the size of the first joint of your thumb) of cheese.
I also have these tiny little "meal replacement" drinks from PC.
They were cheap and I figured that I could toss one in my bag every morning on the way out the door and call it "breakfast" when I got to work.
But I look at the ingredients and I go "How the hell is this a meal replacement? The main ingredient is sugar, followed by oil. Where is the protein, people???"
Weird as this is, I am trying to avoid having to cook. And by "cook" I mean "Do any kind of prep-work in the kitchen beyond *maybe* cutting something up".
I'm thinking that if I can get my kitchen running so that the day-to-day stuff (endless lunches and dinners and breakfasts) are (A) really healthy[1] and (B) really easy[2], then doing once-a-week cooking events (wherein I make bread, for example, or something desserty, or even just a from-scratch soup) won't seem so daunting and will actually be enjoyable.
Because I like cooking.
But I hate cleaning!
My dishes have reached critical mass and I'm still not doing anything about them. Seriously, part of me wants to just put them all in my bath-tub in groups and tackle them one-at-a-time.
First: Cutlery and pots and other metal stuff.
Second: Cups and glasses.
Third: Other dishes and cookware.
Fourth: Tupperware[3].
That way, I would *have* to clean everything up because I wouldn't be able to take a shower otherwise.
<*Shakes head*>
Oh. And Links:
The Harm of "Seemingly Harmless" Sexist Humor (from Feministing),
AND
Sexist Humour Not Funny (from Being Feminist).
I know I've got at least one folklorist reading this, and more than a couple of anthro geeks. So:
Humour is one of the ways that cultures perpetuate themselves. They are a way of teaching people what "right behaviour" ("right body", "right thinking", "right appearance", "right desire", whatever) by telling them that "wrong behaviour" (and so on) is worthy of derision and mockery.
Like advertisements (porn, pop songs, the WWF, tv shows about home decorating, etc) they reflect and reinforce the norms, mores, values and assumptions of a given culture.
For example: Jokes about Dumb Blondes are really jokes about women. Statements that women are stupid and can/should be laughed at. Statements that specific types of women (E.G.: Actively sexual) are, in particular, laughable and second-class.
Discuss! :-D
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] Really Healthy: Largely fruits and veggies, significantly, though nowhere near entirely, vegan (which is cheap, as well as full of the aforementioned fruits and veggies), lots of raw stuff, and with enough dairy (mmmmmmm yoghurt...) and occasional meat and eggs on top of the plant-proteins that I don't get spacey and weird because of this.
[2] Really Easy: Fingerfood, raw food, stuff that doesn't require prep, stuff that doesn't require dishes (and, as such, washing said dishes). Sadly this includes things like pre-fab samosas or store-bought dips and spreads that - in the case of the dips at least - I can make on my own for significantly less money, as well as pre-cooked grocery-store chickens, for example, which come with bones.
[3] Yes, it's still the same tupperware. I should go through it again and decide how much of it I actually want to keep...
