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Trying to concentrate on the music monday
Feb. 9th, 2015 10:14 pmLast night Mom found a pretty perfect house for me here. DANA YOU HAVE TO SEE! IT'S THE PERFECT KITCHEN FOR YOU.
I look and the kitchen is painted black. I love it. Mom has finally given up on me being normal and she's embracing the weird. Please look at the pictures because for those of you still not quite grasping where I live and the people around me, THIS house typifies them. RE: duck camo curtains. just saying.
Pros: inexpensive, private with enough property to be nice but not too much to care for, ranch because I'm staring disability in the face in not too many years off in all likelihood. DAD approved if you can imagine that
Cons: Pomeroy. Yep, pretty much if I want a real house and not an overpriced trailer I have to live in a dying town with no prospects, I'll still be HERE, somehow still 30 miles from work and the same from my friends in Athens. SIGH. Could flood, just saying
But the biggest con: Next week the president of the college is coming to give us a doomsday talk about how much our salaries will not be improved this coming contract negotiation and worse, pay cuts will be in the works. I CAN'T make less than I do. I said that and my secretary got snarky. Yes, she makes way less than me but as I pointed out because I wasn't feeling particularly generous, that SHE'S not in debt like I am. Yes, it's one thing to not make a lot. It's entirely another to not make a lot and be carrying the burden of 12 years of schooling on your back. I don't think anyone gets that once my students loans are paid I have less than 1000$ to cover everything.
I won't be able to buy anything if I get a pay cut. I'll be trapped here where idiots reign. Whee.
Enough of that. How about some fun for those who are still with me.
One: Writer's Recharge -find it here I wrote more last week than all January.
bad translations quite silly.
Music Monday - I came across Delta Rae a year or so ago. Three of them are siblings (the really, really blond one). They sing folk music and I found their style and range really impressive.
Bottom of the River was the second song of theirs I came across and even though it's not my usual style I enjoyed it.
Dance in the Graveyard was my introduction to the group and I really loved the song. I thought about giving just the lyric video then decided against it. Some people had a problem with it because the brothers and sister are dressed up a voudon priests. While there are Caucasians who are into voodoo, it's obviously heavily associated with Africa so you can see the problem. If you can look past that there is something of value in this video besides a good song. They have couples of every type celebrating even though death has taken one, young and old, mixed raced, LGBT and that is a very cool thing.
And speaking of LGBT issues, this one is a bit old now but was written in protest to the ugly laws their home state was trying to pass against gay marriage. It's a song about marriage equality, Chain on Love. It's also one of the reasons I think they didn't mean disrespect in the above song. They were well versed enough to know about how it used to be illegal to marry someone of another race and that's in here.
If I loved You has a dark quality to it that appeals to me for reasons I'd rather not think too hard on.
I will Never Die is just another cool song.
I look and the kitchen is painted black. I love it. Mom has finally given up on me being normal and she's embracing the weird. Please look at the pictures because for those of you still not quite grasping where I live and the people around me, THIS house typifies them. RE: duck camo curtains. just saying.
Pros: inexpensive, private with enough property to be nice but not too much to care for, ranch because I'm staring disability in the face in not too many years off in all likelihood. DAD approved if you can imagine that
Cons: Pomeroy. Yep, pretty much if I want a real house and not an overpriced trailer I have to live in a dying town with no prospects, I'll still be HERE, somehow still 30 miles from work and the same from my friends in Athens. SIGH. Could flood, just saying
But the biggest con: Next week the president of the college is coming to give us a doomsday talk about how much our salaries will not be improved this coming contract negotiation and worse, pay cuts will be in the works. I CAN'T make less than I do. I said that and my secretary got snarky. Yes, she makes way less than me but as I pointed out because I wasn't feeling particularly generous, that SHE'S not in debt like I am. Yes, it's one thing to not make a lot. It's entirely another to not make a lot and be carrying the burden of 12 years of schooling on your back. I don't think anyone gets that once my students loans are paid I have less than 1000$ to cover everything.
I won't be able to buy anything if I get a pay cut. I'll be trapped here where idiots reign. Whee.
Enough of that. How about some fun for those who are still with me.
One: Writer's Recharge -find it here I wrote more last week than all January.
bad translations quite silly.
Music Monday - I came across Delta Rae a year or so ago. Three of them are siblings (the really, really blond one). They sing folk music and I found their style and range really impressive.
Bottom of the River was the second song of theirs I came across and even though it's not my usual style I enjoyed it.
Dance in the Graveyard was my introduction to the group and I really loved the song. I thought about giving just the lyric video then decided against it. Some people had a problem with it because the brothers and sister are dressed up a voudon priests. While there are Caucasians who are into voodoo, it's obviously heavily associated with Africa so you can see the problem. If you can look past that there is something of value in this video besides a good song. They have couples of every type celebrating even though death has taken one, young and old, mixed raced, LGBT and that is a very cool thing.
And speaking of LGBT issues, this one is a bit old now but was written in protest to the ugly laws their home state was trying to pass against gay marriage. It's a song about marriage equality, Chain on Love. It's also one of the reasons I think they didn't mean disrespect in the above song. They were well versed enough to know about how it used to be illegal to marry someone of another race and that's in here.
If I loved You has a dark quality to it that appeals to me for reasons I'd rather not think too hard on.
I will Never Die is just another cool song.
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