June 9, 2011
--The Times Argus
The first two stories on the front page of the Times Argus this morning are:
An article entitled "Shumline outlines 'lifeline' loans," with a smaller title above it that says "Flood Relief."
An article below that with a small title saying "Slaughter Regulation Dispute" above a large title that says "Not literally 'farm to plate.'"
--CBS WCAX--the CBS outpost in VT
This morning, did I hear a story lead-in that says "Burlington City workers got raises"? I know that every story at least for the first several minutes was about water and flooding...I didn't have more time to watch than that.
@9:12 a.m.
I took out some of what I wrote here earlier.
Pedophilia is horrific. I still can't believe what's happened over the past year.
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@6:04 p.m.
--I want people to stop talking about my vagina all the time, and about vaginas all the time in general; it's degrading. You don't have to say that vaginas are good or that they're bad; it's inappropriate to talk about them all the time.
--This morning, I was waiting to speak to the manager of the shelter. She drove up, saw me, and rubbed her nose with her hand. When she got out of the car, I asked her how she was. She said "I have the sniffles, like everybody else."
--Last night I saw that I was going to be late getting back to the shelter, so I called on my way. I went into Blockbuster to ask to use the phone. I wouldn't have gone there if I felt that I had a choice because there's been a large, purple banner in front of the entrance for a few weeks that says "5 for $20." The banner, of course, is another corporate reference to the total number of people whom I've said I've slept with in my entire life.
--After looking at the front page of the Times Argus this morning, I thought that today would be a good day for me to stay where a lot of people could see me at all times. I went to the small park in the middle of town.
Getting back to the shelter late last night meant that I got everything else I had to do done late, too, so I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. This afternoon, despite the fact that bulldozers are ripping up concrete in one of the streets that defines the park, I fell asleep.
Without having heard anything distinctive from the bulldozers, I woke up suddenly. I looked over and saw two young men standing about 30 feet away and looking at me speculatively. They were wearing typical clothing for teenagers or men in their early twenties who aren't destitute but who don't do much; I don't mean to disparage skateboarders at all, but it was that style of clothing.
When they saw that I was awake and that I was looking directly at them, they hesitated for a minute and then crossed to the other side of the street. They went behind the sign that's in front of one of the churches and one of them got on his cellphone. I saw a third guy, dressed similarly, walking down the hill toward them.
I kept looking directly at the two behind the sign as the third one passed by them. When they saw me continuing to monitor them, they shuffled their feet for a minute and a few seconds later they were gone.
What I wondered was if they had been trying to assess if they could get away with attacking me in public, in the middle of the small park, in the middle of town.
The park is crossable from any direction in less than a couple of minutes. It has a few trees but everything in it is visible from every direction, also. The park is bounded by sidewalk which is bounded by street, which, today included, is full of traffic all day.
There are churches and other buildings all around. I was the most visible to the most people at once there as I could be anywhere in town.
@6:20 p.m.
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@6:21 p.m.
One of the reasons that my work search has been slow is that I don't want to work for one of the corporations that's been harassing me, but I also am afraid to try to work for businesses that haven't been part of the harassment because of what could happen to those businesses and the other people in them.
At the least, any business I work in will get a lot of attention. I wonder if the government and other harassers would start tracking everything about the business, including the owners, managers, other employees, maybe even customers.. Would all of their Internet activity get watched? Their text messages? Their bank accounts? Their credit cards?
What about the business itself? Say that a small, independent business wanted to hire me; I'm afraid that the government would put the business out of commission before I'd finished my first sentence of protest about it.
Plus there'd be news stories and Internet gossip with code or just stories about my workplace, right? More movies, more magazines, more ads, more corporate harassment, more radio harassment; there's no business that needs that.
@6:29 p.m.
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@9:09 p.m.
Larry Crowne. That movie.....was it made specifically to support the behavior of members of the British Royal Family who are endorsing pedophilia?
How many other movies are being made or are about to be released with the same goal, with the goal of endorsing pedophilia?
@9:10 p.m.
--The Times Argus
The first two stories on the front page of the Times Argus this morning are:
An article entitled "Shumline outlines 'lifeline' loans," with a smaller title above it that says "Flood Relief."
An article below that with a small title saying "Slaughter Regulation Dispute" above a large title that says "Not literally 'farm to plate.'"
--CBS WCAX--the CBS outpost in VT
This morning, did I hear a story lead-in that says "Burlington City workers got raises"? I know that every story at least for the first several minutes was about water and flooding...I didn't have more time to watch than that.
@9:12 a.m.
I took out some of what I wrote here earlier.
Pedophilia is horrific. I still can't believe what's happened over the past year.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@6:04 p.m.
--I want people to stop talking about my vagina all the time, and about vaginas all the time in general; it's degrading. You don't have to say that vaginas are good or that they're bad; it's inappropriate to talk about them all the time.
--This morning, I was waiting to speak to the manager of the shelter. She drove up, saw me, and rubbed her nose with her hand. When she got out of the car, I asked her how she was. She said "I have the sniffles, like everybody else."
--Last night I saw that I was going to be late getting back to the shelter, so I called on my way. I went into Blockbuster to ask to use the phone. I wouldn't have gone there if I felt that I had a choice because there's been a large, purple banner in front of the entrance for a few weeks that says "5 for $20." The banner, of course, is another corporate reference to the total number of people whom I've said I've slept with in my entire life.
--After looking at the front page of the Times Argus this morning, I thought that today would be a good day for me to stay where a lot of people could see me at all times. I went to the small park in the middle of town.
Getting back to the shelter late last night meant that I got everything else I had to do done late, too, so I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. This afternoon, despite the fact that bulldozers are ripping up concrete in one of the streets that defines the park, I fell asleep.
Without having heard anything distinctive from the bulldozers, I woke up suddenly. I looked over and saw two young men standing about 30 feet away and looking at me speculatively. They were wearing typical clothing for teenagers or men in their early twenties who aren't destitute but who don't do much; I don't mean to disparage skateboarders at all, but it was that style of clothing.
When they saw that I was awake and that I was looking directly at them, they hesitated for a minute and then crossed to the other side of the street. They went behind the sign that's in front of one of the churches and one of them got on his cellphone. I saw a third guy, dressed similarly, walking down the hill toward them.
I kept looking directly at the two behind the sign as the third one passed by them. When they saw me continuing to monitor them, they shuffled their feet for a minute and a few seconds later they were gone.
What I wondered was if they had been trying to assess if they could get away with attacking me in public, in the middle of the small park, in the middle of town.
The park is crossable from any direction in less than a couple of minutes. It has a few trees but everything in it is visible from every direction, also. The park is bounded by sidewalk which is bounded by street, which, today included, is full of traffic all day.
There are churches and other buildings all around. I was the most visible to the most people at once there as I could be anywhere in town.
@6:20 p.m.
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@6:21 p.m.
One of the reasons that my work search has been slow is that I don't want to work for one of the corporations that's been harassing me, but I also am afraid to try to work for businesses that haven't been part of the harassment because of what could happen to those businesses and the other people in them.
At the least, any business I work in will get a lot of attention. I wonder if the government and other harassers would start tracking everything about the business, including the owners, managers, other employees, maybe even customers.. Would all of their Internet activity get watched? Their text messages? Their bank accounts? Their credit cards?
What about the business itself? Say that a small, independent business wanted to hire me; I'm afraid that the government would put the business out of commission before I'd finished my first sentence of protest about it.
Plus there'd be news stories and Internet gossip with code or just stories about my workplace, right? More movies, more magazines, more ads, more corporate harassment, more radio harassment; there's no business that needs that.
@6:29 p.m.
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@9:09 p.m.
Larry Crowne. That movie.....was it made specifically to support the behavior of members of the British Royal Family who are endorsing pedophilia?
How many other movies are being made or are about to be released with the same goal, with the goal of endorsing pedophilia?
@9:10 p.m.