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gfrancieI could not fall asleep until about four this morning.
I had to wake up at seven and not even all the concealer in the world could hide the dark dark circles under my eyes.
I was the walking dead through most of work. Fortunatly one of my co-workers kept me entertained by showing me the new issue of Heat magazine. (a british rag that is sooooo trashy) The current issue features famous people at their most awkward. We had shots of Cameron Diaz with her dress slipping and the tit-tape showing. Vericose veins on Sex and the City stars, panty shots, scabbed knees, sweat stains, and butt cracks showing...and a nose picker.
It gave me a few giggles.
Oh yeah and I wrote a haiku about Oprah bringing back her book club.
Classics are hip now
Oprah has discovered them
Steinbeck would shudder
*awaits quiet calm applause*
I think I may make challah this week. I shall post a recipe so you too can pretend you are Charlotte on Sex and the City. A little Challah, a little gefilte fish, and Jackie Mason in the Poconos. Oy vey.
At the moment I am reading a proof copy of this book on American Women through the ages and their historical place in it. Some of it is quite fascinating.
It seems during the early colonial period. The attitude regarding sex was most intriguing. They believed that conception could not happen unless a woman had an orgasm during sex. There was some commentary to the effect of, "It is better to do a thing well, then to do it often." So It was considered the man's duty to make the woman happy, all in the name of procreating. They also believed if you would lay a certain way (i.e. on your stomach or your back) would help aid in conception to get a particular gender for the baby. If you wanted a boy you would lay a certain way, if you wanted a girl...another.
Some also believed if you had sex too often it would make a woman's womb useless.
What I also found most amusing is how ready people were to sue in those days. So one musn't think of the overly litigious nature of Americans as a recent phenomenon. It was something they were keen on doing even when the country was still under the control of the Tudor and Stuart Kings.
The common theme was, in times of great need, woman would join men as equals, but when civilization would approach and peace was at hand. A woman was to be in the background.
I don't know how I feel about the book entirely as I have not finished, but the historical facts are very interesting.
....
At the moment I am working on a few projects. We shall see how they evolve.
Soon, I shall be posting some interviews I am doing with all sorts of people.
I had to wake up at seven and not even all the concealer in the world could hide the dark dark circles under my eyes.
I was the walking dead through most of work. Fortunatly one of my co-workers kept me entertained by showing me the new issue of Heat magazine. (a british rag that is sooooo trashy) The current issue features famous people at their most awkward. We had shots of Cameron Diaz with her dress slipping and the tit-tape showing. Vericose veins on Sex and the City stars, panty shots, scabbed knees, sweat stains, and butt cracks showing...and a nose picker.
It gave me a few giggles.
Oh yeah and I wrote a haiku about Oprah bringing back her book club.
Classics are hip now
Oprah has discovered them
Steinbeck would shudder
*awaits quiet calm applause*
I think I may make challah this week. I shall post a recipe so you too can pretend you are Charlotte on Sex and the City. A little Challah, a little gefilte fish, and Jackie Mason in the Poconos. Oy vey.
At the moment I am reading a proof copy of this book on American Women through the ages and their historical place in it. Some of it is quite fascinating.
It seems during the early colonial period. The attitude regarding sex was most intriguing. They believed that conception could not happen unless a woman had an orgasm during sex. There was some commentary to the effect of, "It is better to do a thing well, then to do it often." So It was considered the man's duty to make the woman happy, all in the name of procreating. They also believed if you would lay a certain way (i.e. on your stomach or your back) would help aid in conception to get a particular gender for the baby. If you wanted a boy you would lay a certain way, if you wanted a girl...another.
Some also believed if you had sex too often it would make a woman's womb useless.
What I also found most amusing is how ready people were to sue in those days. So one musn't think of the overly litigious nature of Americans as a recent phenomenon. It was something they were keen on doing even when the country was still under the control of the Tudor and Stuart Kings.
The common theme was, in times of great need, woman would join men as equals, but when civilization would approach and peace was at hand. A woman was to be in the background.
I don't know how I feel about the book entirely as I have not finished, but the historical facts are very interesting.
....
At the moment I am working on a few projects. We shall see how they evolve.
Soon, I shall be posting some interviews I am doing with all sorts of people.
