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All Quilty, all the time.This sure is a great forum for my narcissism. I can talk about myself all I want and nobody can tell me to shut up. Well, you can, but I'll just ignore you. HA! So there.
First things, first and then I won't talk about it anymore. I am DONE with community college! Last night, I took my French 3 final and it was assez difficile but I think I might actually manage to pull off an A, or at least a B. I don't care too much at this point. It was my last class this semester and the last test of my lower division career. Besides, I'm still magna cum laude and that's more than I've ever done before. The best part is that I have completed all of my lower division work and now that that's behind me, I get to take awesometastic upper division classes in subjects I actually care about. Community college was an interesting experience. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to go back to school but doesn't want to go into hock to take a few classes.
Next, and more importantly, my baby boy will be here tonight. He's enroute as we speak. I can't wait to see him again. His girlfriend is heartbroken right now, but I am happy. I hate that my happiness comes at the expense of someone else's misery. I remember that lovesick, heartbroken feeling and had pangs of it just from talking to her briefly. But, I get to see my boy again! Spiky lips and all!
Speaking of spiky lips, I have my own opinion and I am going to defer to Mr. Q on this anyway, but I wonder what the internets' finest thinks. When going to family functions, do you think it's proper to insist that spiky lip piercings be removed? I think it's fine for young people to express themselves, but when visiting grandparents, say, I feel quite strongly that out of respect for them, facial piercings should be left at home. It's not like they are easily shocked, and of course they love their grandkids, but to me piercings are kind of like a big f-you to mainstream society. Or they were at one time. To go to grandma's house with an f-you on your face seems disrespectful. I could argue for and against and think of many justifications either way, but this is my initial response and it's purely gut level. What do you think?
posted by Anita at
1:15 PM
4 comment(s):
I have a tongue ring, which is less conspicuous, but I refuse to remove it except for professional settings (i.e. in clinic with kids -- not even at work with adults).
Its not a statement, its not rebellion, its simple -- I may not like the top you're wearing because I think the violent orange is hideous, but I don't ask you to remove it. Because it is all about self expression.
I don't know, that's just my opinion.
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Anonymous, at
9:44 PM
But let me say what Aubrie won't say: Her tongue-ring is a fight my parents have given up on.
Which leads to my answer to you: Do you think he'll take it out unless you make a scene about it? If you have to make a scene about it, is it worth it?
I don't pretend to know the answers... just throwing them out there.
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Anonymous, at
10:29 PM
Of course they gave up on it - because for once in my life, I refused to back down! And had it hurt anyone? No. Hell, most of my patients at the hospital don't even realize I have one!
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Anonymous, at
7:38 AM
Thanks you guys! I needed that perspective. I had my tongue pierced too, in my 20s, and I wouldn't have dreamed of taking it out because someone else wanted me to. But mine was more for a bit of rebellion/shock factor. In the early 90s, it wasn't quite as common as it is now.
J will totally give me no grief if I ask him to take out the lip ring. He did it for graduation. I just think a few hours with the grandparents would be nicer if they weren't distracted by the spikes. If he only had a ring in his lip, I probably wouldn't be so uptight about it. It's the spikes that freak me out.
Thanks for the input.
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Anita, at
9:36 AM
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