Daylight Savings Time!

Yay, extra hour of sleep, means there's an Erin awake and ready to blog! Except for the part where I am still exhausted besides do a whole lot of not much last night. I have refound Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and let me tell you it is going to consume my life. I am already part way through the fifth season, I started with the fourth season last week. But let's be honest, it's so addictive.

Anyway I am clearly failing at this daily blogging business. But it's ok. I have been having thoughts and good excellent conversation.

I am writing a paper about the intersection of pornography and feminism for my 10 page final paper and I am finding it fascinating. I have never thought that porn was wrong or evil or shameful. I mean, it isn't something that I watch, but I always assumed that most people did. I think that because women are so often told not to be sexually active, just to look sexy, that an outlet which shows women actively engaging in sex can be positive and good for people to know about. I know porn isn't the most realistic, but as long as people recognize that it shouldn't be a problem. I watch plenty of movies and tv shows that aren't exactly realistic. Like, I don't assume that there are vampires outside my dorm window just because I watch Buffy all the time. So people should know better than to assume that life is like a porno and I think that most people do. I do recognize that a good chunk of porn supports the patriarchy in that it is men dominating women and that can be harmful, or it can also be separated from reality and recognized as something that is a kink or a sexual act that doesn't have to leave the bedroom.

My professor says that we're not writing argument papers. It makes me kind of sad. I have a strong desire to make a powerful argument for porn. I wonder if I will have to watch porn to do this paper. I doubt it.

I should get back to reading about objectification. Again, yes I know. So much objectification.

a blog post a day keeps bad stuff away

So I was going to blog every day in November, but seeing as it is already the second and I didn't blog yesterday I failed before I even started. Which really is too bad. Because I always have a lot to say. Especially on the subject of homework that I am not doing at the moment.

I am currently in the library with every intention of doing the reading for my FYC and yet here I am looking up when I can give blood again because of the Hurricane Sandy shortage and trying to find the cheapest greyhound bus tickets to get me to my Aunt and Uncle's house for Thanksgiving. Also I just don't want to read 14 more pages on the objectification of women. I experienced it first hand. I get it, it's bad. I am tired of studying the theory, I want to fix it. I want to learn how to fix it. For this reason I am embarking on a 6 week long research paper project type thing in which I get to explore the intersection of sex positivity and anti-porn. I think it'll be a cool paper.

I was also going to try and take a picture every day of November and post them here, but you know whatever I haven't done that either. And I didn't want them to be lame web cam pictures. Not that you don't all love my face...

Also opinions, do I look like a boy or a girl? One of the people employed by the college to glare at us and give us a bad time for trying to steal food from the cafeteria is always messing up my pronouns but I feel really awkward correcting him. I mean he's like 50 and his job title is GateKeeper (granted it was awarded to him  by the student body, but still). Oh wait here's a picture of me, so this question is slightly easier to answer:

I think I may have failed a Spanish quiz just now. But shh, I'm trying not to think about it.

I also played in my first hockey game on Tuesday. I have to tell you, it was awesome. I don't know how to stop, and got in a weird rotation where I was only playing like every ten minutes but it was still awesome. I almost went head first into the opposing team's bench when I crashed into the boards. Also the opposing team was almost all middle aged women. It was good. They beat us 9-2 and gave us brownies afterwards. Also they were way bigger than us. Our hockey team kind of looks like a rag tag band of misfits with like 5 actual hockey players. But it was awesome. And I can't wait to play again next week. I should have played hockey in high school. Oh wait. My high school didn't have a girls' hockey team. I mean there was field hockey but who does that? (besides my cousin... and a lot of other people...)