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10/02/2007 11:48 #41450

living arrangements
Category: life
I've decided I'd like to live with either a puppy or a guy. Since I don't think the "living with a guy" thing will work out soon... I kind of like the thought of having a puppy. Maybe if I find a place that allows animals or something.


jenks - 10/02/07 19:55
Peter I agree that if a dog's whole life is spent locked in a small crate that's no good- but at the same time I think that when used properly and responsibly, crate-training is a good thing for a dog. Especially in multi-dog households.
metalpeter - 10/02/07 18:45
I say go for both. It would be great. When one of you isn't home the other one can walk the dog, maybe the dog wouldn't be as lonely since there would be people there at different times of the day.

To (e:jenks) I agree that if you're living arangements make crating or caging then there is no sense to have a dog it is cruel to the dog. If someone thinks it isn't take the dogs body size and see how many times it can fit in the crate then take that number and times it by the size of you and make a cage that size for your self and stay in it all day. If you where using it just for kinky sex then fine but to live in it is cruel. Dogs have to be active and have some freedom just like any other animal.
jenks - 10/02/07 13:00
I am dying for a dog, but leaving it home in a crate while I work 80/wk wouldn't really be fair... but the second I have better hours, I am getting a puppy/dog. Until then, I live vicariously through others. I stop and pet and coo over every random mutt I see in the street, and yes, I "happen to" wander into the dog park "by accident" on occasion- I'm sure I look like a crazy lady but I don't care.

I say go for it. Men may come and go, but a dog will love you for life!!!
carolinian - 10/02/07 12:07
They both get into lots of trouble, scratch themselves, and destroy cherished things. I guess it depends on which you find easier to train. ;)
james - 10/02/07 11:56
By night Washington park is full of Hookers and drug dealers.

By day it is full of puppies, puppies, puppies!

I missed having pets when I lived in Albany and would go down to the dog park and play with other people's dogs. It was really pathetic of me, but it made me super happy. So, if you get a dog, take him there.

09/29/2007 21:11 #41410

another post
Category: life
(e:Jenks) gave me some good advice about something, and it helped me out a lot. It made me see things in a different way than I had been. I appreciated having that perspective from someone who was willing to say it like it really was.

It hurts about what has happened over the past few months, but there's very good things that came about as a result of that hurt.

Work hasn't been going that well. I can't get into the situation on a public forum like this..but it's definitely not the best. I have been enjoying my classes (though the workload is very stressful). I especially like my state and society seminar. We get guest speakers each week from the department who introduce us to different fields and specialties. It's fun to have new professors every week. I still don't really know anyone that well. Most people are nice, but they are mostly just people I talk to about school stuff. Hopefully, that will start to change. I think they need an albany estrip or something.

Aaron's coming up next week, and we're going to see Dylan and Costello! I'm so psyched, it helps me get through the drugery of the days. Then, the next week, my sister and her boyfriend are coming up for a visit.







museumchick - 09/30/07 14:54
Thanks:).

I would definitely be interested in reading your book, though. hehe.
libertad - 09/30/07 00:16
I really like your current user pic. Truly I understand not wanting to talk about work. I censor so much of what I would truly want to talk about on here. Work is one of them. Really it is not appropriate for me to talk about the people I work for. It would be fun to write a whole book about the good the bad and the ugly of what I do. Seriously, it really would.

09/27/2007 13:14 #41358

anti-democracy crackdown in Burma
Category: news


I guess not much in the news is shocking anymore, but it chilled my spine to think of soldiers going into temples and beating/killing monks.
fellyconnelly - 09/30/07 09:55
seriously (e:james)... you should keep your free thinking to yourself. or at least don't spout your commie crap round these parts!
ajay - 09/29/07 22:23
(E:james) , (e:james), (e:james) ... don't you know you're supposed to DEMONISE Iran ?? What are you doing injecting fact and reason into the public discourse??? Ignore the fact that in Saudi Arabia you (or any non-muslim) can KILLED for just venturing into the holy city of Mecca. Or that as a woman you can be divorced for just LOOKING at a man in a TV show. Or that as a woman you aren't allowed to drive. Or even go out of the house with any male other than your husband, father or brother. Because Saudis are our "allies".

See, Iran isn't an "ally". As an "ally", you can fuck your people, gas them, torture them, stone them, do whatever the fuck you want. But if you're not an "ally", God have mercy on your people, for sure as hell we won't!

Just listen to your President, citizen! And do as you're told. Stop thinking for yourself before you get into trouble....
museumchick - 09/29/07 21:16
I never knew about Iran having a permanent Jewish representative in their parliament- that's cool.
james - 09/27/07 13:58
Did you know Iran has the second largest Jewish population in the Middle East after Isreal? Did you also know that their parliament has one permanent Jewish representative?

Makes Iran sound much nicer than the dictatorship in Burms (fuck Myanmar, it is a name made up my the military government)

09/26/2007 09:49 #41336

i thought this was kind of cool...
Category: life
Scientists find new species in Vietnam 1 hour, 23 minutes ago

HANOI, Vietnam - Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Wednesday.

The new species were found in a remote region known as the "Green Corridor" in Thua Thien Hue province in central Vietnam, it said.

"You only discover so many new species in very special places, and the Green Corridor is one of them," Chris Dickinson, WWF's chief technical adviser in the region, said in a statement.

The new snake species, the white-lipped keelback, generally lives close to streams and eats frogs and other small animals, WWF said. It has a yellow-white stripe along its head, red dots over its body and can reach a length of 31.5 inches.

The new butterfly species are among eight discovered in Thua Thien Hue since 1996. One is a "skipper," a butterfly that flies in a quick, darting motion. It is from the genus Zela. The other is from a new genus in the subfamily Satyrinae.

Three of the new orchid species are leafless, which is unusual for orchids, WWF said.

The other new plant species include one in the aspidistra family, which produces a black flower and can subsist in low light, and an arum, which produces yellow flowers surrounded by funnel-shaped leaves, it said.

"It's great news for Vietnam," said Bernard O'Callaghan, Vietnam program coordinator for the World Conservation Union. "The jungles and mountains of Vietnam are fascinating places and they continue to surprise scientists."

All the new species are exclusive to tropical forests in Vietnam's Annamites mountain range, which offers unique habitats.

All species in the area are under threat from illegal logging, hunting and development.

Many threatened species live in the Green Corridor, including the white-cheeked crested gibbon, one of the world's most endangered primates.


ladycroft - 09/26/07 17:33
ooh. a low light black flower. that's my kind of plant!

09/22/2007 16:28 #41252

Yom Kippur
Category: religion
Things I regret over the past year:

1. All the fights my mom and I had. I think we've worked things out, but I'm sad for all the time that we lost. We both apologized to each last night and had a long talk, but I want things to be better year round.
2. Not being there for certain family members when they really needed someone. I wish I had done more to be there for them.
3. I wish T. and I wouldn't have gone back and forth so much about things. If I could have understood better his point of view, maybe it would have made things easier for him.
4. Not calling my dad enough.
5. Losing touch with friends I've always cared deeply about.
6. Making excuses for things that I should have done, but didn't.


Last year on Yom Kippur, a friend of mine was battling advanced brain cancer. It looked as though he was going to die. Somehow, he not only lived, but is now doing much better. His inoperable tumor is almost all gone, and he's healthier than he was before he had cancer. He's starting a part-time job and is moving back out west with his friends.

I don't believe that God is behind what happens to us in our lives. I want to, especially when I see things like that happen to my friend. But then I see all the terrible things that happen to people for no good reason. I can't believe the people who say that bad things happen for a purpose. There's so many terrible, random things. Maybe I'd like to believe that God is the force behind those rare good things that happen. Sometimes I feel like an agnostic, but I'll see the sunset, and i feel that I can't just look at life through a materialist point of view. At those moments I feel there has to be something outside of ourselves. I haven't figured this out at all.
jenks - 09/25/07 16:17
re: #3-
I don't know the scenario, but don't make excuses for him... if he treated you badly, that is his fault, and not because you didn't see things from his point of view.

(I say this from experience, and not to be a bitch. It's a lesson I'm still trying to learn myself.)
ladycroft - 09/22/07 17:55
yah, it's hard to swallow why good things happen to good people, or that there is a reason. sometimes i catch a ride on the 'why me' train. sometimes i can look past that and say 'i'm glad it was me and not someone else'.
metalpeter - 09/22/07 17:53
I'm not going to say that this is going to give you the answers you seek but It is a suggestion that might be an answer or might make you think.

God doesn't control things or people and the devil doesn't either. Bad things happen in the world for what reason I don't know. But things that we judge are bad happen because people have choice. That is the same reason good things happen is because people choose to do something good. In terms of the term sin that is when someone does something that based on the bible is wrong. That doesn't mean that it is wrong. But based on what the church or bible teaches it is wrong. If we assume that god is all powerful and that he could control everything and make everyone good then there would be no choice, and with no choice we couldn't really worship him/her because we wouldn't be free. We would just being doing what he made us do (like a slave kinda). So since god is to be worshiped or praised then there has to be freedom to do that. But along with that freedom we can chose to do the wrong thing. One could even argue the point that if there is an all good being then there must be an all evil or at least opposite force some people refer to him as the devil or even "The beast". Some people believe that to be true and also think that both he and god to contribute to things that happen on earth. There is no way to cover what everybody thinks but some people do believe in angels or at least guardians who are there to protect you. Ok back to the thing about things being a choice that could be backed up by the Adam & eve story where Adam decides to pick the apple when he knows he shouldn't.

Ok off the religion answer. Sometimes bad times don't happen to make us see how good the good times are. But what if everything in life was good. If we didn't have the bad would we feel the good stuff as good? I think we might but everything would be kinda bland and the great stuff would only feel good. Beside if everything was good there would be no balance and that just isn't right.

If what I said was a help or made you think then cool, and if not sorry.