I am king of the (sniff) mole people

[vicarz]

In a more distant friend's fb ran into good old fashioned ribbing about "short people suck," and overtly stated preferences for height. It's not a protected class, but really? I am US cultured enough that I genuinely think you should not have preferences for things people cannot control. Maybe I've just fallen for the myth perpetuated by the rich who have every advantage and then get the poor to blame themselves. I mean the short.

Inexplicably I'm sick again - 2nd time in a row. I thought after getting sick I was over it - so safe I could lick handrails in public transportation. But no, I'm fighting some sinus crap. Allergies? Whatever it is I'm exhausted, coughing until wheezing, waking up (coughing), and sore (from...youguessedit).

That said, I dragged my sorry carcass to the gym today and set a personal record. It's a good and bad record - I DL 425 for 2, which means it isn't my max. It also means I'm still not quite there with my form, but I'm working on it. I'm trying to learn to engage my hammys without doing this romanian dance on the way down to the bar.

Sick or no, I've passed a personal 1k. If we count 425 DL, 345 Sq, and my meh bench of 235...I'm at 1005. That's one goal reached.

But I'm still short so I guess it don't mean nuffin.

(not really sad - just making a scene and pissed off about being sick right now)

Comments

[turbogrrl.livejournal.com]

i mean... there is always surgery.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

They usually say that for bigger and I don't have the water balloon fetish. Perhaps I have a real fetish.


Mmm boobs. Heck I like mine! Wait, is that also hypocritical?

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

Hence the "really".

But seriously? You'd advocate *surgery* just to make yourself more attractive to a subset of individuals? What happened if your next partner preferred larger boobs? Get 'em put back?

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Dear god no. Nope.

[turbogrrl.livejournal.com]

sorry, sarcasm doesn't translate well. though I've actually long considered surgery, just because it would be nice to have less shoulder/neck pain. but I'm pretty avoidant of anything surgery, so haven't actually pulled the trigger. a friend did, and then got a staph infection, so I think I'm still ok with my decision. otoh, she's still good with her decision, so who knows.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Sadly I had a friend who did lessbooburgery; they wouldn't operate until she lost weight to ensure she wasn't just fat. She lost the weight, got lessboob, and then gained so much weight she got her boobs back and more.

Yeah that's a complicating factor. There is no reason to get more, but many reasons to get less.