Um, why don't you have a driver's license yet, missy? I thought everyone in the United States - except for New York City - had their license by the time they were 16 like I did. God, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't drive when I travel.
The only saving grace about Indiana...or Michigan...or Illinois...or any of those in-between states, frankly, is that they are so much fun to drive in!!!
I'm licensed to drive - I can walk into WA state or Alaska and just tell them I lost my license somewhere, take the written, and go home happy.
But here, because states are stupid and their systems don't talk to each other, I have to re-take the driving exam *and* the written exam, and I'm too lazy to do that.
Also, I'd need to borrow Jenn's car. And coordinating our schedules is a bitch.
I keep thinking I'll just go back to WA state for Christmas and get my folks to take me to the local DMV and just give them my parents' address and get a damn lisence. It's proved to be really annoying not to have one.
P.S. In case anyone's curious, no I'm not dead, my blog's just broken.
I foolishly tried to switch to Blogger beta, and now I'm locked out of both accounts. I've already lodged a complaint with Blogger, but you know, it's a free service, so I don't expect anything to be resolved until next week...
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Labor is hard work. Forcing
women to labor against their will -
is slavery.
"I'm not afraid of storms,
for I'm learning to sail my ship."
-Louisa May Alcott
"No person is your friend who demands your silence."
-Alice Walker
"I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it."
- Voltairine de Cleyre
"The vote means nothing to women.
We should be armed."
-Edna O'Brien
"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection
to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths
ever created by the human mind."
-Mary Ritter Beard
"They sicken of the calm that know the storm."
-Dorothy Parker
"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle.
It wasn't mine."
-Rita Rudner
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
-Amelia Earhart
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." -Grace Hansen
"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex." -Katharine Hepburn
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow
talent to the dark place where it leads." -Erica Jong
"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."
-Margareth II, Queen of Denmark:
"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things.
I don't do any thing. Not one single thing."
-Dorothy Parker
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." -Mary Tyler Moore
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin
"No more tears now; I will think about revenge." -Mary, Queen of Scots
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the
thing which you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Muriel Strode
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." -Rebecca West:
"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain.
You are confined by your own repression."
-Toni Morrison
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." -Delores Ibarruri
"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow." -Maria Mitchell
"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes."
-Hannah Arendt
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."
-Toni Morrison
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."
-Ingrid Bergman
"We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do.
That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs."
-Gertrude Stein
"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." -Gloria Steinem
"It's all make believe, isn't it?" -Marilyn Monroe
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems
without signing them, was often a woman." — Virginia Woolf
"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
-Elayne Boosler
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.
If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.'
They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"
-Clare Boothe Luce
"Soon they'll be telling you you can't be Batman, Shakespeare, President, or God.
Little fat baby, going on schoolgirl, you can be anyone, but it won't be easy."
-Marilyn Hacker
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons...
but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
-Gloria Steinem
"Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our
capacities by seeing that other women have been strong."
-Judy Chicago
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
those who work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group;
there was less competition there."
-Indira Gandhi
"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it."
- Alanis Morissette
"Nothing will work unless you do."
-Maya Angelou
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
-Cheris Kramare and Paula Treichler
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and how are you supposed to fly if you can't take your insulin with you?
Bloomington! Tibetan food! One hour drive!
I was foolishly going to ask, "What's in Indiana?"
But I found the answer: Big Things.
Bloomington!
Tibetan food!
Would be great!
If I had a lisence!!
Um, why don't you have a driver's license yet, missy? I thought everyone in the United States - except for New York City - had their license by the time they were 16 like I did. God, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't drive when I travel.
The only saving grace about Indiana...or Michigan...or Illinois...or any of those in-between states, frankly, is that they are so much fun to drive in!!!
I'm licensed to drive - I can walk into WA state or Alaska and just tell them I lost my license somewhere, take the written, and go home happy.
But here, because states are stupid and their systems don't talk to each other, I have to re-take the driving exam *and* the written exam, and I'm too lazy to do that.
Also, I'd need to borrow Jenn's car. And coordinating our schedules is a bitch.
I keep thinking I'll just go back to WA state for Christmas and get my folks to take me to the local DMV and just give them my parents' address and get a damn lisence. It's proved to be really annoying not to have one.
Do you even need to take the written?
In WA or AK, no, probably not, just report it "lost."
::sigh:: I really gotta get on that.
P.S. In case anyone's curious, no I'm not dead, my blog's just broken.
I foolishly tried to switch to Blogger beta, and now I'm locked out of both accounts. I've already lodged a complaint with Blogger, but you know, it's a free service, so I don't expect anything to be resolved until next week...
Don't we all? Just 'cause mine's wearing a hat and a coat....
Annnnnnddd...
My delete function as gone the way of of the dodo now that I'm locked out of my blog.
Wheeee!
THIS BLOG IS NOW DEAD!!!
Cause blogger sucks.
I've moved to the uber-inspiring address:
http://kameronhurley.blogspot.com/
See you all there!!
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