So one of the things, MANY things, I like about running outside is being able to have al fresco pee breaks. I had one in the Don Valley a few days ago and in a moment of lighthearted madness decided to pull down my running skirt to take care of business, instead of simply pull the crotch to one side (an action which in itself is one of the principal benefits of running skirts - they're a sort of portable private loo). The upshot was an arseful of poison ivy. Well, one arse cheek, anyways. You know what? It hurt.
Hurting slightly less is that my trip to New York this weekend is off due to flooding upstate cutting off the Amtrak trains. I'm fine with it. I was having to run around too much and beginning to count off people here I want to see that I was not going to be able to see. Also I've already told La New Yorkaise I think her new husband (I was gonna be down for the wedding) is a right sack of shit, so it would be one of those weddings. It sucks I won't get to see her this year, but the odds are good when I see her next year it will be sans that cockchump, since she is the sort who tends to see the light eventually.
Also, she picked a shitty week for the party, it being the 10th anniversary of the thing that happened there 10 years ago. The city is going to be fucking crawling with presidents and former presidents and private security and police and roadblocks and basically too many edgy fuckers with guns. The odds are against another Menezes episode, but probably less against them than against the repeat explosive performance the city seems to be arming up for, and I'm too swarthy to be comfortable with those sorts of odds.
Also, I don't want to hear people there talk about it. I don't want to hear them saying how that day changed everything, I don't want to hear any soul-searching, I don't want to know, basically. Not with all those thousands of dead people being used as an
excuse to extend the war on the developing world that most Americans
hadn't realized they were waging, and still don't, and hundreds of thousands more dying as a consequence. Ugh. No please. Parlez vers la main. That's unfair, of course, especially since the people in New York I'd be hearing talk about it are the people who actually need to be talking about it, since it happened to them and people they were neighbours with and all. Nonetheless, I just don't want to fucking hear it. So it's just as well I'm not going.
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You're killing me. Just one more reason to be thankful that I don't run, I'm not allergic to poison ivy and, that I am blessed to be able to handle most of my activities standing up.
Oh man.
I couldn't agree with that last bit either. Can you think of a better example of collective mental problems than these constructed National Days of Emoting.
Pretty soon there gonna have to have an award shows for these various Remembrance Events.
Should be I couldn't agree MORE...
Don't forget the toes turning black and the intimate chafing. Although I don't run ambitiously enough for those to happen to me, I don't think.
Better example of collective mental problems . . . hmmm. Sex In the City fans supporting the franchise enough for six seasons and two movies?
This national day of mourning has gone a little too far for too long I think. People die in terrorist attacks and wars we've started every day .. but I guess they're not mourned like ours because we're worth more in GDP per capita.
I guess it's human nature to get more upset over the deaths of people one finds it easier to identify with. Nevertheless these organized national cry-ins smack of the manipulation of emotions - and of emotional correctness - in the service of the state.
Yes .. serves politically quite well.
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