Sunday, May 13, 2007
This weekend was as extravagant as it deserved to be. It involved stuffing my face and drinking like a fish and doing cool stuff.
In July there's a Network of Women Students conference that goes for a week. I would have to take a week off, and that would be extrememly detrimental to the IGSMF, but hey you only live once. Kuba truly believes that 1. Adam and Eve existed 2. Eve came from Adam's rib, and 3. Women are therefore inferior to men, and belong at home. I asked him if he was kidding, and he said yes, but then he kept saying it, and I realised he was quite serious.
I saw some nuns today. They were both wearing brown. I must be a closet christian, because I couldn't help sending a smile their way. The first time I walked past them they gave me these concerned looks as if silently commenting on my short black dress and black boots and the fact that it was Sunday morning. Or maybe it was just in my head - I imagined what a chaste anti-feminist christian puritan (?) would make of my appearance and general demeanour. But I say, if being a christian makes you a genuinely nice person and morally upright (I mean being kind to people not morals about women and sexuality) then I'm all for people being christians.
Oh the weekend. Yesterday Kate took a photo of me reading the Saturday paper, and it turned into a little 'art' project where she took about 20 photos of me in different places reading the paper, including in a tree, and behind a large tree root, on the 'crapper', sitting on a bench next to a bum, and standing next to the psycho preacher outside Woolies. The bouncer at our hotel said not to go near him coz he was psycho, which spurred us on even more of course. So I walked straight up to him and read the paper keeping a totally straight face and the Psycho Preacher continued as if I wasn't there. He lives in a delusional fairy world, so what difference would it make for a person to come up to him and start reading the paper. If Kate emails me the photos I'll post them on the blog. Yay. ¶ 11:03
In July there's a Network of Women Students conference that goes for a week. I would have to take a week off, and that would be extrememly detrimental to the IGSMF, but hey you only live once. Kuba truly believes that 1. Adam and Eve existed 2. Eve came from Adam's rib, and 3. Women are therefore inferior to men, and belong at home. I asked him if he was kidding, and he said yes, but then he kept saying it, and I realised he was quite serious.
I saw some nuns today. They were both wearing brown. I must be a closet christian, because I couldn't help sending a smile their way. The first time I walked past them they gave me these concerned looks as if silently commenting on my short black dress and black boots and the fact that it was Sunday morning. Or maybe it was just in my head - I imagined what a chaste anti-feminist christian puritan (?) would make of my appearance and general demeanour. But I say, if being a christian makes you a genuinely nice person and morally upright (I mean being kind to people not morals about women and sexuality) then I'm all for people being christians.
Oh the weekend. Yesterday Kate took a photo of me reading the Saturday paper, and it turned into a little 'art' project where she took about 20 photos of me in different places reading the paper, including in a tree, and behind a large tree root, on the 'crapper', sitting on a bench next to a bum, and standing next to the psycho preacher outside Woolies. The bouncer at our hotel said not to go near him coz he was psycho, which spurred us on even more of course. So I walked straight up to him and read the paper keeping a totally straight face and the Psycho Preacher continued as if I wasn't there. He lives in a delusional fairy world, so what difference would it make for a person to come up to him and start reading the paper. If Kate emails me the photos I'll post them on the blog. Yay. ¶ 11:03
