Observations (mmm..but some folks calls it a rant)

OK I live in the supposed ‘snow belt’ right along Lake Erie where we get more snow that the rest of the area….sometimes that does happen. You live up here you get used to it, right? WRONG!

I noticed that when I drive into work those friggin’ idiots driving those honking-gas-guzzling-this-is-why-we-have-a-war-for-oil SUVs can’t drive their friggin’ Tonka trucks. Now look folks if I am going to own a Tonka truck then I had #1) better damn well be able to either drive that Tonka truck LIKE a Tonka truck or, #2) not be AFRAID to drive the Tonka truck like a Tonka truck – I see these meek-and-mild soccer moms hunched behind the wheel and they don’t have a friggin’ clue – but then I get the feeling they would not have a friggin’ clue if it came up and bit them in the ass…

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So now apparently it is OK to torture people? To get info out of them? NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ had an interview with Senator John McCain last nite and he talked about the time he was tortured (because like a good human he is breaking ranks about this issue) – he basically said that getting information this way does nothing in the way of helping a cause. In fact, he said when his captors wanted names he gave them names all right – he gave them the names of the starting line-up of the Green Bay Packers (way to go John!)
Further has it occurred to anyone (uhm especially our government) that the last time we ‘coerced’ information out of a prisoner it turned out to be FALSE????


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So I am given a room each week where I teach my Tuesday night Yoga class – I was told at the outset of this that I could have the room from 5:00 PM until after 6:00 PM. Well it turns out that now I will be lucky to get into that room at 5:30 PM. Why? Because apparently there is a lecture going on in that room and they need a question and answer period. Now…I try not to be upset by this – but yet again I find that Yoga is taking the ‘back seat’ to other practices – even though I have a LEGITIMATE department backing this up – we end up getting treated like red-headed step-children. I have to be able to get into said room and clear it of the chairs – it takes me a good 10-15 minutes to do so – therefore unless I want to ask my students to help me clear the room – the class is not going to start until about 5:45 PM – and I don’t know about you, but if I am going to go to a Yoga class after I get off work – I don’t want to wait for 45 minutes to go to that class. I am so tired of fighting for Yoga like it’s some sort of clandestine operation (the world should be so lucky – just imagine it Yogis and Yoginis as secret operatives – man we’d so win that war *giggles*) – and I’m tired of being made to feel like I’m in the wrong here. So now, once again I have to be the one to ‘rattle cages’ so my students can get what they paid for…it’s all so stupid and bureaucratic.