MERRY CHRISTMAS

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preteena - censored

glad I'm not censored like preteena. but I must say - this year I've felt that way more and more. like if I'm being offensive to the general public by enjoying one of the most important times in my year. I feel like in society's effort to be "inclusive" to everyone we have excluded an entire group: Christians and Christmas!

so, I reclaim it for the week and thank all of you who have said it already (especially Hun - who was the first to send me a Christmas card! - talk about being inclusive:)!)


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

(heart) tulip

Wash your hands!!!!!! (a rant)

It amazes me (and absolutely disgusts me) how many people don't wash their hands after going to the toilet. I just passed a girl heading straight from her stall out the washroom door and I had the urge to say "excuse me! aren't you forgetting something?!?"
I surpressed the urge and have settled for a blog rant.

wash you're hands
we are fortunate enough to live in a developed country
this means that healthcare is relatively accessible
but it doesn't negate the risk of disease spread
wash your hands!

healthcare may be "free"
but it certainly is not cheap! (what do you think your taxes are for?)
save yourself the hassle (time and the money) of getting sick!
and don't make others sick!
wash your hands!

so you think your hands aren't dirty because you think you didn't "touch" anything?
that doesn't mean that the person who opened that stall door before you didn't have/do something nasty!
wash your hands!!!

"Hand washing is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of infections." (Health Canada says so!! and it's true!)

grrrrr, tulip

*edit note - you may notice that this was posted at some unearthly hour in the morning. The time is not wrong - it was too early for truly coherent thinking (even now I'm still struggling...)
so I've edited a line or two.

Some thoughts - and the value of money

• there is a guy across from me wearing a sad-looking Santa Clause hat. Probably a dollar store edition. I'm glad he's in the spirit of the season, but gee - the hat's not that merry.

• thought directed to library rats - (you know, like mall rats they're those people who just go to the library to hang out - because clearly they're not there to do work - otherwise, why would they talk to their friend for a *SOLID HOUR* or have an entire(ly too loud) conversation on their cell phone). Do you even go to this school? I don't mind if you just came play games on the computer (I do that sometimes) - but if you've come to talk - and disrupt my work - please go elsewhere!

• thought directed to the person who thought up my chemistry labs: "You're joking right??!!!!.... but no, your not joking are you? you're quite serious."(you really want me to read over 40 pages and spend 15 hours of my life for less than 5% of my mark)

• thought directed at a certain someone: I wrote you into one of my stories.......... you were the villain

I recently dropped a quarter on the subway. a guy in a suit picked it up and gave it to me - he said "it's so hard to come by, you don't want to lose it that way". I was struck by the idea that a quarter is valuable (and that this man knows the value of it). It really is - and yet - I always seem to forget that.. Thank God I can forget it, even for a second. that speaks of the relative luxury of my life. I'm not rich - don't get me wrong (in fact - like many students - I'm in debt!) - but for the past two months I've had two pennies to rub together (literally, I'd find 2 cents in my pocket) - I read somewhere that makes me more fortunate than 2/3 of the world. I have enough food to eat and enough clothing to wear and I can read - I'm rich!

(heart) tulip