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Jun. 20th, 2014
I seriously do not have much free time and the To Do List is more like a To Do Novel. So what am I doing? Being silly on LJ. Because that's... apparently how I roll.
*nudges laundry out of sight with my toe as I type*
Summer starts this weekend, yay! We have our pool open and I'm finally past all the post-surgical waiting period on swimming and have been enjoying floating around in my floaty chair. I tried to swim and, erm, yeah... not yet. Gotta let the pectoral muscles heal a little longer. But I have started to really *exercise* again, which feels both wonderful and awful. Wonderful because it feels good to, well, feel good, and awful because all that walking and stretching and bending and lifting has made me a little stiff and sore.
I've been gorging on berries right now. Everything is in season and I never can get enough! My breakfast every day is fresh blueberries, raspberries, and french vanilla yogurt topped with Kimberley's Bakeshoppe granola I get at Sam's. Nom!!
( Fangirl Friday... )
*nudges laundry out of sight with my toe as I type*
Summer starts this weekend, yay! We have our pool open and I'm finally past all the post-surgical waiting period on swimming and have been enjoying floating around in my floaty chair. I tried to swim and, erm, yeah... not yet. Gotta let the pectoral muscles heal a little longer. But I have started to really *exercise* again, which feels both wonderful and awful. Wonderful because it feels good to, well, feel good, and awful because all that walking and stretching and bending and lifting has made me a little stiff and sore.
I've been gorging on berries right now. Everything is in season and I never can get enough! My breakfast every day is fresh blueberries, raspberries, and french vanilla yogurt topped with Kimberley's Bakeshoppe granola I get at Sam's. Nom!!
( Fangirl Friday... )
This seems timely, given that I've declared Friday to be "Fangirl Friday" here on my LJ:
This was written specifically for an upcoming Sebastian Stan appearance this weekend, but it really is sound advice for how to behave at ANY celebrity appearance. I've seen pretty much all kinds of behavior, from good to bad, at the various celeb events I've been fortunate enough to attend (mostly baseball athletes, to be honest, since there's not a lot of celebrity appearances in my neck of the woods), and sometimes the behavior of fans is so outrageous that it really does make me very uneasy going to things like that, and when it's at its worse, can make me ashamed to call myself a fan at all.
Of course, there's a LOT of teens on tumblr... and they're all going mad for Seb Stan right now. It's... seriously berserk over there, which is both fun and, at times, a little scary, especially when these people forget that, hey, Sebastian is a real person and might not be comfortable with what you say you intend to do with his man-parts. I hope it's all just in fun, and I'm sure 99% isn't said with any intent toward carrying it out, but seriously... I can't help but think if roles were reversed and Seb Stan was making the kind of comments toward/about women that women make toward/about him, there'd be sweet-Jesus hell to pay. It's a double standard that really, really bothers me, that attitude some have that "we girls can say anything we want about men, but if a man even looks at me... IT'S THE PERPETUATION OF RAPE CULTURE." Misandry should have no place in our girl talk any more than misogyny should with the men. Respect humans, regardless of gender.
So, yes, fangirl away, but do so with dignity and respect.
Anyway, didn't mean to go on a rant but that's been bothering me for ages. I was very glad to see a voice of reason and maturity over there.
This was written specifically for an upcoming Sebastian Stan appearance this weekend, but it really is sound advice for how to behave at ANY celebrity appearance. I've seen pretty much all kinds of behavior, from good to bad, at the various celeb events I've been fortunate enough to attend (mostly baseball athletes, to be honest, since there's not a lot of celebrity appearances in my neck of the woods), and sometimes the behavior of fans is so outrageous that it really does make me very uneasy going to things like that, and when it's at its worse, can make me ashamed to call myself a fan at all.
Of course, there's a LOT of teens on tumblr... and they're all going mad for Seb Stan right now. It's... seriously berserk over there, which is both fun and, at times, a little scary, especially when these people forget that, hey, Sebastian is a real person and might not be comfortable with what you say you intend to do with his man-parts. I hope it's all just in fun, and I'm sure 99% isn't said with any intent toward carrying it out, but seriously... I can't help but think if roles were reversed and Seb Stan was making the kind of comments toward/about women that women make toward/about him, there'd be sweet-Jesus hell to pay. It's a double standard that really, really bothers me, that attitude some have that "we girls can say anything we want about men, but if a man even looks at me... IT'S THE PERPETUATION OF RAPE CULTURE." Misandry should have no place in our girl talk any more than misogyny should with the men. Respect humans, regardless of gender.
So, yes, fangirl away, but do so with dignity and respect.
Anyway, didn't mean to go on a rant but that's been bothering me for ages. I was very glad to see a voice of reason and maturity over there.