I'm dreaming of a Geek Christmas... hee hee! Look! A Mountain Dew Christmas tree! Geeky boys are too cute.
29.11.03
When I rule the world I'm outlawing scales. The only ones who can have them are doctors and nurses and other healthcare professionals for whom it is a necessity to weigh a patient in order to know how much medicine or anasthetic to administer, or how much blood or plasm they can give, or the other millions of reasons doctors and dentists and other medical type folk who actually need to know the physical mass of a patient.
I'm also making it so women's clothes have to be sized the same way men's clothes are, by measurement. So one won't be a 12 in this store, a 16 in that store, a 14 in that store, and effing crazy by the time one has finished shopping.
Physical education in schools will be fun and educational and interesting and a range of approaches to physical fitness will be taught, so the kids who think they are total losers because they can't run around the school gym fifty thousand times will find something else they're good at, like maybe they're really flexible and yoga is more their thing. They'll also learn the importance of weight-bearing exercise and how to build muscle for strength and endurance. In addition to phys. ed., kids will take classes on nutrition. It probably won't stamp out all dieting and obsessive behaviours related to yet more frigging numbers, but it should give a clear idea of how to eat a balanced diet and take care of oneself, including the important lesson that "holiday meals, birthday cake and the occasional hot fudge brownie never made anyone instantly fat".
Imagine if I did get my way. Diet companies would shrivel up and die. They'd have to stop selling those ridiculous supplements and eensy-weensy stupid little "nutrition bars" and those bottles of "48 Hour Hollywood Diet". Scales would only be bought and sold through professional companies to other largescale places instead of available at every major retailer. Maybe people would learn to get out more, enjoy the outdoors and go for walks and play in the park and enjoy hiking and realise that running is really fun if you're not chained to a treadmill. They might talk more and dress comfortably and be open to the idea of just living life in a healthy, active way instead of looking for every possible loophole in order to lose weight.
I think a side of ham just flew right past my window.
I'm also making it so women's clothes have to be sized the same way men's clothes are, by measurement. So one won't be a 12 in this store, a 16 in that store, a 14 in that store, and effing crazy by the time one has finished shopping.
Physical education in schools will be fun and educational and interesting and a range of approaches to physical fitness will be taught, so the kids who think they are total losers because they can't run around the school gym fifty thousand times will find something else they're good at, like maybe they're really flexible and yoga is more their thing. They'll also learn the importance of weight-bearing exercise and how to build muscle for strength and endurance. In addition to phys. ed., kids will take classes on nutrition. It probably won't stamp out all dieting and obsessive behaviours related to yet more frigging numbers, but it should give a clear idea of how to eat a balanced diet and take care of oneself, including the important lesson that "holiday meals, birthday cake and the occasional hot fudge brownie never made anyone instantly fat".
Imagine if I did get my way. Diet companies would shrivel up and die. They'd have to stop selling those ridiculous supplements and eensy-weensy stupid little "nutrition bars" and those bottles of "48 Hour Hollywood Diet". Scales would only be bought and sold through professional companies to other largescale places instead of available at every major retailer. Maybe people would learn to get out more, enjoy the outdoors and go for walks and play in the park and enjoy hiking and realise that running is really fun if you're not chained to a treadmill. They might talk more and dress comfortably and be open to the idea of just living life in a healthy, active way instead of looking for every possible loophole in order to lose weight.
I think a side of ham just flew right past my window.
27.11.03
ALRIGHT! There's going to be another "Mole". Admittedly, it's another Celebrity "Mole", but that's good enough for me. The last one was pretty awesome. "Celebrity Mole: Yucatan" will begin airing in January, 2004, on ABC (cross fingers). They're going to have Stephen Baldwin and Corbin Bernsen again... I wonder why they put Bag O' Hammers and the Grump back on? Were their hijinks really that great? Oh well, still excited.
And to my American friends, happy thanksgiving. (The turkey and the homemade cranberry sauce at my in-laws were particularly yummy, and my mashed potatoes rocked, as ever. I'm not trying to be immodest - I just follow the recipe and they're great.)
And to my American friends, happy thanksgiving. (The turkey and the homemade cranberry sauce at my in-laws were particularly yummy, and my mashed potatoes rocked, as ever. I'm not trying to be immodest - I just follow the recipe and they're great.)
