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[vicarz]

I am contributing to the noise in the signal. This week is lovely and relaxing, but hardly good post material. I am in a week-long training seminar in GWU. I must say, America is not fat. At least, these kids aren't. So, are they just young, or are the wealthy shaped different? I just think everyone looks edible after being in government buildings for so long.

I'm so happy and relaxed. I really studying hard in the class and finding lots of useful information - the class is mostly attorneys. One obersvation - lots of people go to training not to learn, but to show off to strangers what they know.

They give us lunch in the form of cash cards, which can be used anywhere in GW and most of the surrounding restaurants. I wonder if they can tell at a glance I'm not a college kid. I can tell they are. Lots of girls showing off their breasticles, a few show off their tummies too. Yesterday I had a brownie and mint-chocolate chip sundae mmmmm.

This would be the perfect week to go to alchemy, but covenofwhinyants is playing. Bleagh.

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[shesquint.livejournal.com]

You said "breasticles!" A guy I used to work with was convinced that I have breasticles, that they produce the hormone breastosterone, and that's why I was so strong. Thanks for the reminder and the happy start to my morning.

Regarding skinny rich kids - well, their parents can afford to feed them good food. Maybe they have access to more athletic leisure activities that the average person can't afford. OR they can afford the latest image-polishing techniques. Who knows?

In any event, it reminded me that if you're down for a good, novel-length snark, you ought to read Paul Fussel(l?)'s Class.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, the wealthy are shaped different. More money for better access to non-garbage food (when Maria the cook makes all your meals you don't bring home so much McDonalds) and more leisure time to be spent on athletic pursuits (participation in sports like crew or track or lacrosse is integral to the life of the rich youth) means less huge blobs of fat.

Also the fact that being rich beyond the dreams of avarice means you really don't have to be good at anything, so you can spend your time on looking pretty. Of course then my cynical ass will come along and fail you in calc 3 because you can't figure out what a partial derivative is. The circle of life.

JRJA

[cweaselle.livejournal.com]

The brownie mint chocolate chip sundae sounds great. Mint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. I get the local grocery variety most often because it's the best I've ever had. I'm glad that you're feeling more postive and you have time to even consider going to alchemy. I'd love to go but I don't think I could handle a crowd yet.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can handle a crowd right now myself. I'm on an odd kick of looking around and wondering if my life would be different were I bigger.

[cweaselle.livejournal.com]

You don't need to be any bigger. As far as I'm concerned your perfect size. Although I'm the smallest person in my family except for my cousins that are still kids. Even they are almost as big as I am.

Sometimes I do fine with crowds and sometimes I do terrible. I'm not sure what makes the change, but I try not to push it too much so I don't have to worry about it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_blackjack_/]

are the wealthy shaped different?

Yes. Interestingly, though, in the past 100 years, the shapes have reversed. If you look at photos of, for instance, Appalachian coal-miners form the 1930's, it is striking how thin (in an unhealthy way) they are. We may tend to associate obesity with working-class rural culture today, but it's a new development. And kind of an amazing one, when you think about it. Our society is so rich that even the poor can get fat.