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It was a hot, busy day, although there's not really a lot of variety in my photos. Unfortunately, lots of them were blurry or the composition was boring so this is the cream of the crop I had to work with. Oh well, there's always next year and version 5.0.

You can view the whole set here.

Have you heard of this? It started a few years ago, but I think I'm the only person who's still doing it and as such, I've decided to make it the first Satuday in May so it's easy to remember.

I just think it's kind of cool to document "a day in the life" to see where you are and remember where you've been. Here's where I was last year.

You should do it. All you have to do is take one photo every hour that you're awake and create a set or album to share. I usually take several each hour and then choose my favorite. You'd be surprised how much creativity you can muster from such mundane things as laundry or grocery shopping.

Anyway, that's what I'm doing this weekend. I hope you will too!

Some of them, anyway. :-)

The wonderful Ann Bartow tagged me as a "Thinking Blogger" and since it's quite flattering to have someone else toot my own horn for once, what else can I do but spread the love?

It's difficult to narrow it down to five and I haven't really been following this meme in the feminisphere so I apologize if I'm duplicating anyone. These are just the blogs I click on obsessively throughout the day, hoping to be enlightened and emboldened by their brilliance:

1) Amy at Feminist Reprise
2) All of the contributors at Ilyka Damen
3) Jenn at Reappropriate
4) Amananta at Screaming Into the Void
5) Pretty much anything Sam writes anywhere. She doesn't blog in the "traditional" sense, but she certainly increases the quality of comments all over the feminisphere.

They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children. 

--Ann Richards

If you're looking for reasoned analysis, read no further.

I'm too fucking tired. I think I'm just going to take to my fainting couch and have a case of the vapors. I'm going to gather my lovely children around me, and instruct them in the gentle, moral arts, so that both my daughters grow up to be fine mothers, who recognize that despite their intellects, their ambitions, and their dreams, when push comes to shove, (and a lady never shoves,) their jobs are about putting their children above all.

The fate of Western, elite, white society depends upon it.

All else is pure selfishness.

You can call me paranoid, but I don't think that it's accidental that at the same time that we have a virtual war going on against women in the United States (and that war is spreading throughout the West) --just one example among many--over the right to privacy, at the same time, another assault has been re-launched. It's all part and parcel of the same meme: women are selfish creatures. We cannot be trusted.

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