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August, 2006

  1. Have a Blessed Day

    August 24, 2006 by elenamary

    I called my financial aid advisor at a public state univeristy and her voicemail ended with “Have a Blessed Day”. I hate this. I hate it when people have on their work voicemails, particularly their governement operation voicemails, things like “Have a Blessed Day” or “God bless you” or “Have a great day in the name of the Lord”.
    PISSES me off. I have to call Franklin County Department of Job Family Services ( http://www.franklincountyohio.gov/commissioners/jafs/ ) a few times a day, and more times then not the caseworkers have some kind of religious message on their voicemail.

    I believe in God, I believe in Jesus Christ as my saviour. I also believe in seperation of church and state. If you want to say “Have a blessed day” on your cell phone voicemail that is great, go for it but on your government agency voicemail that is innappropriate. It is a failur on their superviors part, as they should tell all employees not to have religious messages in their work voicemail.

    Also what pisses me off, is more often than not it is also ethnic minorities with religous, messages. This is the same message that was used to represe your people and my people, and in a way your message comes off in the same tone. Who are you to bless me? Who is anyone to bless anyone else? If you want to believe, good for you, if you want to discuss it with your friends, family, church go for it, but this is a personal issue, just as personal as me telling you how to raise your children or run your life.


  2. Life and Death on MySpace

    August 18, 2006 by elenamary

    On Wednesday night, a young man, Daymon AKA Racist Joe passed away. He was well known here in Columbus, Ohio, by a diverse group of people got along with the hip hop kids, the punk kids, the political kids really he got along with just about everybody. He was everywhere and hard to miss weighing at least 300lbs and over 6ft tall, he was a teddy bear. Since he passed away his MySpace profile has overflowed with comments.
    MySpace for those of you out of the loop “is an online community that lets you meet your friends’ friends.”. People are sharing information about the wake, his passing, his life, and reaching out to each other and to Daymon. It is odd.
    It is a new phenomena and I wonder what previous generations and future generations think of this expression. I wonder what it means to the grieving process?


  3. elenamary superhero

    August 9, 2006 by elenamary




    elenamary superhero

    Originally uploaded by elenamary.

    Damn, I had forgotton about this picture!


  4. my heart bleeds

    August 4, 2006 by elenamary

    Blah blah I am a bleeding heart liberal. I have got to say it because I know people are going to start bitching at me.

    I don’t believe there should be a minimum wage. I used to be a union organizer. I believe in unions. I do not believe in a minimum wage.

    A few weeks ago Charles and I were at a music festival and someone came up and asked us to sign a petition to raise the minimum wage. I was asked first and informed the signature gatherer that I did not want to sign but that she should ask Charles because he probably did believe in it.
    I was right and he signed her petition and while signing it she said something about how he, unlike me, believed that people should be able to earn a living wage. Now just because I don’t believe in a minimum wage does not believe I do not believe in a living wage, nor do I think that the current minimum wage provides a living wage. I do not believe that double the minimum wage in Ohio, would only provide a single person a living wage, not someone trying to support a family. I believe that increasing the minimum wage will only increase the cost of goods and services and effect inflation. I don’t think increasing the minimum wage will increase the standard of living of the working class. However, I do not have a solution. Do any of you?

    I do think they should tax the hell out of the wealthy.