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I'm gonna quote firecat here.

the_ogre explains "I think this is supposed to measure if one is 'spoiled' or not." I find it a very odd list. It leaves out a lot of things that "upper class" people tend to do or have (e.g., "belong to a country club" or "are on the board of one or more organizations") and includes a lot of things that regular folks do (like go to Mall of America, go on a cruise, get their nails done) but not a lot of things that certain professional class people have or do ("car that costs more than $40,000", "designer furniture", etc.) Of course my examples are probably full of caca too. Class is a weird thing in the US.

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Two lovely evenings in a row.

Last night, golden_c_turtle called while I was preparing dinner. Now, if you've known me very long, you know that if you call around dinner time and you're within ten miles of me, I'm gonna invite you to dinner. Well, golden_c_turtle is the kind of spontani-chick who will take a person up on it, so she and serpentdove (I sure hope I'm getting that username right) came over for veggie sloppy joes and stuff, and we had a nice time seeing them.

Tonight, after my last day at The Best Temp Job Ever and a couple of hours of goofing off, I made eeyore_grrl's peanut butter cookies (or tried to, from memory, and may have gotten them wrong, but they came out fine). Then someotherguy and I went for a walk in the pouring rain and got soaked and happy. Then we came home and had simple comfort food (pinto beans, salad, freshly-baked cornbread).

Also part of the loveliness were nice talks with my mom and Munchkin The Elder, and some fun playing with my new software, and a really wonderfully relaxing chat with some of the most interesting-to-me people on the rec.food.cooking IRC channel.

Also on the rfc chat, I got new material for the Goddess Wall, and there's another post in there. I think I've lost my stash, and thinking about it makes me cry. I found sistercoyote's and redbird's contributions, because they were in hard copy, but I think I've lost the CD I burned that contained several of your contributions: firecat, kightp, etc. I'm still looking, and I will be heartbroken if they're gone, but I will console myself by groveling again for pictures. Now I shall go compose a post about the rfc/goddess-wall experience that has made my heart burst and my desire to create soar.

goddess wall stuff

So I was talking in the rec.food.cooking chat channel on IRC, and something really beautiful happened. I will try to tell it without messing with anyone's confidentiality or anything, so forgive any vagueness.

Anyway, there's this really nice woman on rfc with some body issues (quick: name me ten women with NO body issues! No fair using dead women.). She's straight/married/monogamous-as-far-as-I-know, and very sweet. Anyway, she said to me out of the blue that she was going to send me a nude photo of herself. I said Wow, thanks, and if I can use it for the goddess wall, I'll be your best friend. She was happy/flattered, and then others in the channel asked if *they* could be on the wall, to which I of course said YES. [Important note: Goddess-wall pics don't have to be nudes, nor even photos -- sistercoyote sent some of her art. They just have to be something that says to you "I am a goddess." Yes, men, you're excluded. Get over it.]

Then someone else entered the chat channel, and the conversation went something like this:

Sweet woman: Hey, [newcomer], we're sending nudes of ourselves to Serene. Wanna join us?
Newcomer: Why would I want to do that to Serene? I like her!
Sweet woman: Well, I have some serious body hatred going on, and Serene's gonna help me get over it. I figure if someone other than my husband can look at my body and appreciate it, that's a good first step.

And then. THEN. A room (fsvo "room") full of women started talking about how bogus it is that society wants us to starve ourselves, and how hips are really nice looking, and how having a good attitude at any size can make a woman beautiful, and on and on and on. I wanted to hug them all. I wanted to hug myself! I wanted to just sweep them all up and caress away every mean, body-hating thing anyone ever said to them.

So.

The Goddess Wall is back on, in honor of this sweet woman, who made me remember why it is I am "out" about being happily fat. I could just cry. Aw, hell, there I go.

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Sex/love survey gakked from firecat:

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