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Feb. 7th, 2005 08:44 amI don't have chlamydia! As February 14th approaches, aka VD or "Single awareness day," I'm happy to announce that I lack chlamydia. That's totally going to be my new pick-up line. I'm going to go to bars, walk up and go "Hey, how are you doing? Can I buy you a drink? Yeah, I don't have chlamydia!"
What inspires this outburst? Well, when I was sick they gave me antibiotics because I had a sinus infection. I looked up the prescriptions because they were making me feel sick as well, and one of them was a generic amoxicillin - which it turns out is used to cure chlamydia. Yeah! I'm chlamydia free! Totally ready for the holiday!
I don't hate the 14th. I kinda don't like it, more because a lot of people get hurt over the holiday. I don't feel the need to celebrate it (with who anyway?) nor do I feel the need to trash it, though I will call it VD. I love the fallout - TONS of half-price chocolate on 2/15 if you can stand the red wrappers.
Today I walked into work and said "Ask me a question about ethics. Come on, I dare you. I double-dog dare you." Someone did, and I said "Oh, oh, I've got an answer! I don't know!" I'm so happy. Hey look - I'm on the clock doing LJ! Whee!
On a more important and less disgusting note last night I caught the end of Chocolat. I love that movie, and highly recommend it to everyone. You won't often hear me say that about a movie that lacks martial arts, zombies, fucking, or ninja zombies fucking. Seriously, it's a really sweet movie where each and every character has flaws that they are dealing with. The 'bad guy' isn't really a bad guy, even the worst thug, while a horrid man, is in some ways reacting to his own frustrations and trying to do what he thinks he is supposed to on some level. There is no shining good, there is no pure evil - just people in different places dealing with the hand they were dealt.
The end has a lovely sermon, well actually an awful sermon, but the preacher makes note that he's tired of running on about the suffering and sacrifice of christ. He wanted to talk about the joy and the tolerance he showed. The preacher says that we shouldn't judge how good we are by how much we suffer, what we deny ourselves, or who we exclude. We should be judged what what we create and who we include.
I preach the same sermon. You don't get healthy by not-eating, you aren't good by not-doing-evil, you're not better than that which you criticize. You can only grow by doing, you can only experience what you reach for - and only by making mistakes can you learn. I don't know where I came up with my sermon, though I know I saw this movie. I wonder if the movie had a big impact on my life, or if it arrived at the same time I was learning that lesson. Did it just help me crystalize my thoughts, or is it nothing new? I don't care - it's a wonderful line of thought wherever the origin, and hell you just can't go too wrong with a movie that includes fancy chocolates. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241303/
What inspires this outburst? Well, when I was sick they gave me antibiotics because I had a sinus infection. I looked up the prescriptions because they were making me feel sick as well, and one of them was a generic amoxicillin - which it turns out is used to cure chlamydia. Yeah! I'm chlamydia free! Totally ready for the holiday!
I don't hate the 14th. I kinda don't like it, more because a lot of people get hurt over the holiday. I don't feel the need to celebrate it (with who anyway?) nor do I feel the need to trash it, though I will call it VD. I love the fallout - TONS of half-price chocolate on 2/15 if you can stand the red wrappers.
Today I walked into work and said "Ask me a question about ethics. Come on, I dare you. I double-dog dare you." Someone did, and I said "Oh, oh, I've got an answer! I don't know!" I'm so happy. Hey look - I'm on the clock doing LJ! Whee!
On a more important and less disgusting note last night I caught the end of Chocolat. I love that movie, and highly recommend it to everyone. You won't often hear me say that about a movie that lacks martial arts, zombies, fucking, or ninja zombies fucking. Seriously, it's a really sweet movie where each and every character has flaws that they are dealing with. The 'bad guy' isn't really a bad guy, even the worst thug, while a horrid man, is in some ways reacting to his own frustrations and trying to do what he thinks he is supposed to on some level. There is no shining good, there is no pure evil - just people in different places dealing with the hand they were dealt.
The end has a lovely sermon, well actually an awful sermon, but the preacher makes note that he's tired of running on about the suffering and sacrifice of christ. He wanted to talk about the joy and the tolerance he showed. The preacher says that we shouldn't judge how good we are by how much we suffer, what we deny ourselves, or who we exclude. We should be judged what what we create and who we include.
I preach the same sermon. You don't get healthy by not-eating, you aren't good by not-doing-evil, you're not better than that which you criticize. You can only grow by doing, you can only experience what you reach for - and only by making mistakes can you learn. I don't know where I came up with my sermon, though I know I saw this movie. I wonder if the movie had a big impact on my life, or if it arrived at the same time I was learning that lesson. Did it just help me crystalize my thoughts, or is it nothing new? I don't care - it's a wonderful line of thought wherever the origin, and hell you just can't go too wrong with a movie that includes fancy chocolates. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241303/
