Diary of a Camgirl Offline
I’m taking a non-working weekend vacation for the next few day so you won’t see me around on skype or yahoo til Monday night, but I hope each of you are having a thoroughly wicked weekend in my absence:) I’m having an amazing time thus far, catching up with my parents who I don’t see nearly enough and enjoying the divine mixture of sun, excellent company and blueberry vodka.
I know this may sound stupid but I’m actually pretty damn pleased with myself right now…some of y’all know how difficult it is for me to actually step away from work and enjoy a (horror of horrors) unproductive day and while initially the process of ‘de-workolizing’ myself was fraught with anxiety it turns out that the world doesn’t stop turning when I take a day off. It still feels odd but I’m getting used to it. I sat in the sun for two full hours today doing nothing but talking geo-politics with my mom and petting kittens and my ever-present mental ‘to do’ list didn’t emerge even once. Twas an extraordinary and pleasing experience. 😀
On the local politics note, I’m sure some of y’all have read about our pathetic excuse for a mayor lately…ever the buffoon apparently now he’s been caught on video smoking crack. Charming. What I found even more interesting about this alleged recording is that while he smokes crack he refers to the ‘fucking minorities’ he coaches as the leader of a football team yet the fact that he has a crack pipe between his lips whilst doing so is the main focus of attention. I’m also somewhat surprised that this latest episode of questionable behavior somehow trumps his history of homophobic and racist slurs, domestic assault, conflict of interest and chronic alcoholism. I guess somehow these latter activities are somehow acceptable to the suburban middle class that elected him, in that this pattern of behavior was fairly common knowledge far before he was ever granted leadership of our city? Real talk, smoking crack (if true) is the least offensive thing Ford has done while in office thus far, so I find it telling that the one act people are most upset about is the one (use of crack) that’s typically (stereo-typically) associated with lower income racialized people. Like it took this act to reveal to suburban whites how far gone he’s been for a long while now? LOL
I dunno, on the one hand all I can do is shake my head and laugh at the fact that T.O. voted in the leadership it apparently deserves, but on the other it frustrates me…this could be such an amazing city if it was actually run by intelligent leadership that actually appreciates what needs to occur in order for communities (and a city is essentially a collection of communities) to thrive and how to effectively balance competing needs and interests. Instead we get an anti-intellectual redneck who wouldn’t recognize logic is if was stashed in the bottom of a shot glass and a dysfunctional council that makes the US congress look like an episode of Mr. Rogers. Raise a glass to wasted potential, I guess?
Ugggh, enough of that rant, back to the fun stuff!!! I’m gonna get back to the kittens, wicked company and sun so catch me online on yahoo and skype when I return on Monday. Also check out my blog here to read up on how my ridiculously dope skype playmates sent me off en vacance in style 🙂
Peace and Love,
Jesse