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floatingleaf) wrote2010-12-07 10:20 pm
floatingleaf) wrote2010-12-07 10:20 pm
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a quick newsflash and a movie-related rant
Had a lovely time with mellacita. I love that feeling of ease and familiarity with someone you've never actually talked to before.:) Only happens with online friends, though.;)
Then I decided to try and find the Italian restaurant where we are having our company holiday lunch this coming Thursday. I thought I knew the area, since I used to live nearby, and that spotting a restaurant close to a huge shopping mall should be easy. Hahaha. I probably wasted about two hours driving around in useless circles.:/ I found about 15 OTHER restaurants, thank you very much - just not this one. Finally I spotted a roadside sign that included the restaurant's name, among others - but I still don't know which particular building it's in, since there was no sign on the wall/above the door anywhere. So it's going to be fun trying to get there on time Thursday morning.:/ (There's a company meeting first, for which it's not acceptable to be late, and then the lunch.)
I feel drained now, even though I barely did anything today. Must be the weather. The below-freezing temperatures have hit, and that always depletes my energy levels. Plus, endless driving makes you sleepy. And just the thought of getting up early tomorrow and going back to work makes me want to curl up with my back to the universe, LOL.
In better news, I received a holiday card fromdissonant_dream today. It's sparkly! ;) Thank you, dear. *hugs* Fresh snow is so beautiful to look at when you don't have to be outside driving in it.:P
Also, I feel like I should watch The Road again, but I just don't have the emotional fortitude to handle it. I mean, it's a beautiful film, and why on earth did I buy the DVD if I am not going to watch it - but... you know. I swear the older I get, the more weepy I am during movies. It's kind of embarrassing, actually. Which is why I mostly watch movies by myself. For example, I just saw Rabbit-Proof Fence last weekend - based on a true story of Australian Aboriginal kids being taken away from their families to be raised among white people. There was this government program designed to assimilate the so-called half-castes (native children who happened to have one white parent) into white society, in order to maintain "racial purity". Now, just hearing the term "racial purity" makes me boil with rage - what a nonsensical concept in today's world, if not ever - but when you add to it forcibly tearing screaming children away from their mothers and calling it doing them "a favor", I just... well, I can't even. By the end of the film, I was sobbing and shaking and just so terribly, unbelievably ASHAMED of being a white person. Of that disgusting, sickening arrogance that somehow allows us to think we are something better. In what way, I ask? Why have we been so concerned, throughout history, to keep our white genes intact? It's not like we are better looking than other races, for one. We often have pasty skin, plain features and limp, mousy hair. What's so damn superior about that? Dark-skinned people are so beautiful. Why on earth would they want to look like us?... Oh, that's right: because we treat them like shit if they don't.:/ What gives us the gall to call them "savages", or to refer to their native language as a "jabber"??? Just because their culture is different from our own? It's just... mind-boggling, when you stop to think about it. Anyway... there was this 12-year-old "half-caste" girl (true story) who escaped from a government-run orphanage and WALKED THE 1,500 MILES BACK HOME. While hiding from the authorities and carrying her younger sister on her back much of the way. It took months, of course, and they were occasionally fed and sheltered by random people along the way. That's what the whole movie is about. Can you even imagine the fortitude and strength of spirit this must have taken?... I wonder if white kids would be capable of such a feat. Not that it's their fault if they aren't - but what's so superior about our culture compared to that?... Just saying.
Gotta go now. I'm wiped. Early bedtime tonight, methinks.;)
mellacita. I love that feeling of ease and familiarity with someone you've never actually talked to before.:) Only happens with online friends, though.;) Then I decided to try and find the Italian restaurant where we are having our company holiday lunch this coming Thursday. I thought I knew the area, since I used to live nearby, and that spotting a restaurant close to a huge shopping mall should be easy. Hahaha. I probably wasted about two hours driving around in useless circles.:/ I found about 15 OTHER restaurants, thank you very much - just not this one. Finally I spotted a roadside sign that included the restaurant's name, among others - but I still don't know which particular building it's in, since there was no sign on the wall/above the door anywhere. So it's going to be fun trying to get there on time Thursday morning.:/ (There's a company meeting first, for which it's not acceptable to be late, and then the lunch.)
I feel drained now, even though I barely did anything today. Must be the weather. The below-freezing temperatures have hit, and that always depletes my energy levels. Plus, endless driving makes you sleepy. And just the thought of getting up early tomorrow and going back to work makes me want to curl up with my back to the universe, LOL.
In better news, I received a holiday card from
dissonant_dream today. It's sparkly! ;) Thank you, dear. *hugs* Fresh snow is so beautiful to look at when you don't have to be outside driving in it.:P Also, I feel like I should watch The Road again, but I just don't have the emotional fortitude to handle it. I mean, it's a beautiful film, and why on earth did I buy the DVD if I am not going to watch it - but... you know. I swear the older I get, the more weepy I am during movies. It's kind of embarrassing, actually. Which is why I mostly watch movies by myself. For example, I just saw Rabbit-Proof Fence last weekend - based on a true story of Australian Aboriginal kids being taken away from their families to be raised among white people. There was this government program designed to assimilate the so-called half-castes (native children who happened to have one white parent) into white society, in order to maintain "racial purity". Now, just hearing the term "racial purity" makes me boil with rage - what a nonsensical concept in today's world, if not ever - but when you add to it forcibly tearing screaming children away from their mothers and calling it doing them "a favor", I just... well, I can't even. By the end of the film, I was sobbing and shaking and just so terribly, unbelievably ASHAMED of being a white person. Of that disgusting, sickening arrogance that somehow allows us to think we are something better. In what way, I ask? Why have we been so concerned, throughout history, to keep our white genes intact? It's not like we are better looking than other races, for one. We often have pasty skin, plain features and limp, mousy hair. What's so damn superior about that? Dark-skinned people are so beautiful. Why on earth would they want to look like us?... Oh, that's right: because we treat them like shit if they don't.:/ What gives us the gall to call them "savages", or to refer to their native language as a "jabber"??? Just because their culture is different from our own? It's just... mind-boggling, when you stop to think about it. Anyway... there was this 12-year-old "half-caste" girl (true story) who escaped from a government-run orphanage and WALKED THE 1,500 MILES BACK HOME. While hiding from the authorities and carrying her younger sister on her back much of the way. It took months, of course, and they were occasionally fed and sheltered by random people along the way. That's what the whole movie is about. Can you even imagine the fortitude and strength of spirit this must have taken?... I wonder if white kids would be capable of such a feat. Not that it's their fault if they aren't - but what's so superior about our culture compared to that?... Just saying.
Gotta go now. I'm wiped. Early bedtime tonight, methinks.;)