Posts by Amy Gale
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Emma Hart,
But this was my first professional colour, so the first time I'd been in the salon for two hours. My tweets became increasingly desperate.
I cannot emphasise strongly enough that no matter how good the salon's espresso machine is, you should UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES drink coffee the entire time. Not unless you enjoy buzzing round like a toddler who has just had its very first raspberry popsicle while your friends laugh hysterically.
Also, hair salons tend to have way better trashy magazines than dentists.
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Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Does that mean I am _actually_ performing one of the aforementioned alien weddings?
Oooo! Must put Poor Boy on playlist!
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Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to TracyMac,
It’s not just people from east Asia who refer to foreigners as “aliens”. Our lovely neighbours on the northeastern side of the Pacific do the same. Charming.
I even have an "alien number", to go along with all my other UIDs. It has nine digits - I guess they are planning for the volumes that will eventuate if aliens from other planets start wanting to get in on the non-stop party that is interacting with USCIS.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Female age 65+ who is interested in fishing, baseball, and formal wear, apparently. I won't be preparing for my new computer overlords any time soon.
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En route to visiting me in small town USA, my mother emails to say that she will be sorry to miss the rugby and is there any way I can help with that.
Not off the top of my head, as it happens. I do, however, start to imagine packing her off to a sports bar filled with antipodean graduate students. The thought of her eating buffalo wings and drinking Rolling Rock from the bottle is worth a bit of effort, so I start to make inquiries.
For yes. I have fortuitously just met a local young NZer, a rugby player even. Picked him out of the crowd at Beer Fest by his pounamu, to the astonishment of his friends and mine. Furthermore, despite our both having festivated extensively, had the presence of mind to extract contact details.
How does one watch the rugby world cup, I ask him. Like this, this, or this, he replies. I check out the options and figure out what will work, and emerge triumphant. Best daughter ever. King of the lab.
Except it turns out that what she reeeeally wants to see is Warriors v. Sea Eagles.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Moz,
So, what do you do when one kid says “condoms are not allowed by my religion, so my parents use the rhythm method. How does that work?”
I sit on my hands to stop them gesturing, and I bite the inside of my cheek really really hard in the hope that I manage to not say "well, here you are".
[blah blah disclaimer planned child blah]
That question can actually be a springboard to all kinds of interesting discussion. For example:
- What is the difference between "the rhythm method" and "Natural Family Planning"?
- There is a stereotype that some religious affiliations come with particularly large families. Is there a relationship between this and the rhythm method?
- Religions that prohibit condom use tend to also prohibit sex outside of marriage. If someone decides to do the latter anyway, why wouldn't they do the former? Is this standpoint reasonable? Responsible?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Louise,
He loved the book I got, and especially liked ‘the purple swimming things’.
I definitely recall forming the impression that paisley fabrics were representational in this regard. I also recall expressing this in formations such as "the tie with the sperms on". What I don't recall is having my plural corrected. Parents as first teachers my foot.
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[Garth George commenter]
I remember sex ed when I was and there was little in the way of really learning about anatomy, the birds and the bees etc.
Ok technically? Technically this was true of my school, in that we learned about anatomy and reproduction in science class. If the commenter is using a similar technicality…I guess I wouldn’t exactly be surprised.
Don’t remember learning anything about birds or bees, though. Maybe if the curriculum had been a bit richer in those areas we’d be better positioned to deal with colony collapse now.
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I will never again be able to even think about shearing without remembering David's bus story.
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Is this whole thing really because We As A Nation have never fully workshopped our feelings about Sesqui?