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I am the Temple of Doom bi-atch.

Jaspenelle
by Jaspenelle
Thu
2
Aug
2007
8:15pm
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I would make this a private post too but heck, I am just going to say, if you don’t want to know massively to much information, do not read this. Menstrual sexual talk ahead. Ladies I just need to know I am not the only one who feels this way.

You have been warned.

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Seriously I warned you.

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Do you ever get massively horrible cramps that makes you want to do the whole Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom thing but rather the rip out a heart – rip out your uterus?

Not that you could because you are so drained that you can barely think far enough past CHOCOLATE to use any part of your brain more cerebral then that? – Unless of course you are counting the sex drive part of the mind – because in spite of being a horribly Niagara blood Falls goopy mess and having cramps from HELL you are hornier then a succubus who hasn’t gotten any in a year and yet too exhausted to act on it?

Not that you could get far enough to have sex of course because you are so mindlessly BITCHY that you would probably choke you partner to death if he kissed you the wrong way? Naturally you would be laughing psychotically at the same time while your body temp is hot cold hot cold hot cold…

And OMG is that dirt on the floor?! *Cries!* I just cleannnned!

Do you remember a couple months ago when I was talking about the sacredness of menstruation and getting in touch with my inner goddess and all that? I still believe that believe it or not, I have a very spiritual time meditating this morning and the raven came to visit in it. But still – wow my inner Goddess is a warrior who wants blood sacrifice at the moment. A politician would do.

I am now doing to heave my bloated oozy body off the couch and go to the store to replenish the CHOCOLATE and Midol stash so that there are no Death by PMS headlines tomorrow.

My Gas Boycott

Jaspenelle
by Jaspenelle
Wed
16
May
2007
11:52am
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The bike rack at my work.

Background: I refuse to get a car or drivers license while I live in the city. Michael has one so if we need to get out of town (out to Elk, WA most commonly) we use his and he drives. Still he was picking me up quite often and I wanted to get off the bus, since that too uses gas (and stinks in more ways then one.) I started riding my bike on April 16th.

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Now: I have been riding my bike to work for a month now, except for 3 days when I took the bus and twice when Michael picked me up (we have a bike rack for the car.)

At first it took me 38 minutes to get to work (going from my apartment at 29th and Perry, down Southeast, across Sprague and to my work at Howard and Riverside – downtown.) As my stamina has improved I have cut that time to 24 minutes, about double the time the bus takes going down Grand I believe.

I know I was originally planning on going down Grand or Bernard but that proved somewhat suicidal, it would be shorter but they are very busy streets. SouthEast is through residential neighborhoods though and has a nice bike lane that not too many #$%@ cars park in (I can call the city to get them towed though.)

As anticipated, I bought a charge value card for the bus, I ride it back up when I get off work, at 8pm. I am still not completely comfortable riding at night and my stamina is not yet there to get all the way back up SouthEast (big long hill.) I tried the other day and got 3/4 of the way there before waiting for the bus. (My poor muscles…) Still I have cut my bus cost in half.

I am using my husband’s bike at the moment since mine was cheep and not made or riding every day. I would like to get one like his (which cost about $300) but shorter. (Michael is a foot taller then me and has a Giant bike.) I stop at the store almost every night (it is about 4 blocks from our apartment) and pick up fresh produce for dinner and then ride home. Once every week or two we drive down and pick up heavier things (flour, canned food etc.)

I feel I am doing pretty well, after the first week I have not had a problem getting motivated to ride. Michael is starting to think about riding as well, so he will be mostly free of his car during the week. His route to work has a lot of construction detours though so we will see, they are tearing up the roads. If he starts riding, I will need a new bike sooner then I anticipated, but that isn’t so bad since we will be saving gas money.

Since I have begun this ride to work, I have inspired 3 other people to start riding at least 3 times a week. On Thursdays (when I work early in the day) I meet up with a couple people en route and we ride downtown together, safety in numbers. It feels really good to know you can inspire people to change. Which is why I wish to share this update, I feel Mother Earth is thankful of my efforts.

My body is grateful too! I have lost 3 inches on my waist!

Gas Boycott is a lot of hot air.

Jaspenelle
by Jaspenelle
Tue
15
May
2007
8:17am
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In response to all the emails and myspace notes I have received stating that I should not buy gas today…

Michael drives a small car, he won’t be filling up today, not because of the boycott, but because he filled up this weekend and won’t need to for several days.

I will not be buying gas either, I am boycotting gas and have been doing so for awhile. I ride my bike to work every day. I don’t have a car or drivers license, I live and work in the city, I don’t need one. That is a true boycott, not this skipping the filling station for a day nonsense.

Starting with the claim that this has worked before, in April 1997, it hasn’t. Government stats can easily disprove that and I trust them over a chain letter or MySpace page. I would love someone to show me one shred of credible proof that it happened. IF it really happened wouldn’t there be some before and after photos around? Some big news stories?

The problem with this whole idea is that none of these letters are asking people to drive less, some of the emails even suggest topping off the tank on May 14th and waiting to May 16th to fill up again. Therefor people will drive just as much – we are not cutting consumption – we are not cutting anything. A boycott involves giving up something, by shifting the date of purchase to tomorrow, you are not giving up anything, therefor it is not helping. All it accomplishes is giving people false hope and making them believe by doing nothing, they can invite change.

We need to incite change, not wait for it.

Now if any of these emails had said, don’t buy gas and don’t drive you car. Yes it might have made a difference but they did not. Gas prices are only going to be effected by a long term national effort to reduce our fuel consumption. We need to in fuel efficient cars as well as find alternate means of transportation. Car pool, bus, subway, bike etc. There is someone in our apartment complex who drives to church every week, (no handicap sticker), her church is less then 300 feet from our building, it is literally next door. People like this are the people we have to change.

If we truly want meaningful long term change we should invest in long term solutions not things like this gimmicky “gas out”.

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In other news:

OMG The Golden Compass has been turned into and movie and is coming out in December. *Le squee!*