Two Truths and a Lie
Aug. 8th, 2009 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephone
Well, the results are in...
The Truths:
I wouldn't mind getting fired. I mean, people get fired all the time, but all the jobs I've lost are ones I walked away from. Sometimes I need things to shake me out of my rut a little, and being fired would definitely do that. I've been laid off - but when laid off from the Excalibur after September 11, I worked more OT than when I was a full-time employee. When I got fired by the County, I wasn't fired long enough for things to really sink in. What shook me up more was being unfired, and I still haven't quite recovered my equilibrium from that. Now, though, I hate it and sit there wishing that they'd fire me again. Then I could also find out what it feels like to be indignant & resentful towards an employer who has fired me unjustly.
I also love raw meat, at least beef, lamb, some game meats and fish. No matter what Alton Brown says about trichinosis being eliminated due to modern farming practices, I would not pick at a raw pork chop - pork is not a favorite meat of mine. I will eat uncooked bacon, though - and salt pork. No poultry, either - although I've had medium-rare duck and goose. I don't think I could sit down and enjoy an entire steak tartare, especially not with a raw egg on top (I don't care much for cooked eggs, let alone a raw one), but I will pick at raw hamburger meat while I'm cooking it. I don't know why or how I developed a taste for raw meat.
As for a hemp allergy... it's more of a half-lie. I am about as allergic to marijuana & hemp as I am to mulberry, olive and every other plant on the face of the planet. Everything organic has the potential of making me itch, sneeze, wheeze and beg for Benadryl. Hemp clothing is irritating, but it's definitely not as severe as I tend to let on. I usually tell people I know to be potheads that I will go into anaphylactic shock if they smoke it around me because honestly, I can't tolerate people who are stoned. They go way over my stupidity boundaries. I can't take it when people respond to almost any question asked of them with, "..... uh ...... uh ...... wait ..... what?" I'm also not a big fan of the odor of pot. It has virtually no effect on me whatsoever - I've never gotten so much as a contact high. I hate the attitude that goes along with staunch defense of pot smoking. It has commercial and medical merit, but beyond its use as a renewable resource or a pain-killer, that's about as much as I would support.
The Truths:
I wouldn't mind getting fired. I mean, people get fired all the time, but all the jobs I've lost are ones I walked away from. Sometimes I need things to shake me out of my rut a little, and being fired would definitely do that. I've been laid off - but when laid off from the Excalibur after September 11, I worked more OT than when I was a full-time employee. When I got fired by the County, I wasn't fired long enough for things to really sink in. What shook me up more was being unfired, and I still haven't quite recovered my equilibrium from that. Now, though, I hate it and sit there wishing that they'd fire me again. Then I could also find out what it feels like to be indignant & resentful towards an employer who has fired me unjustly.
I also love raw meat, at least beef, lamb, some game meats and fish. No matter what Alton Brown says about trichinosis being eliminated due to modern farming practices, I would not pick at a raw pork chop - pork is not a favorite meat of mine. I will eat uncooked bacon, though - and salt pork. No poultry, either - although I've had medium-rare duck and goose. I don't think I could sit down and enjoy an entire steak tartare, especially not with a raw egg on top (I don't care much for cooked eggs, let alone a raw one), but I will pick at raw hamburger meat while I'm cooking it. I don't know why or how I developed a taste for raw meat.
As for a hemp allergy... it's more of a half-lie. I am about as allergic to marijuana & hemp as I am to mulberry, olive and every other plant on the face of the planet. Everything organic has the potential of making me itch, sneeze, wheeze and beg for Benadryl. Hemp clothing is irritating, but it's definitely not as severe as I tend to let on. I usually tell people I know to be potheads that I will go into anaphylactic shock if they smoke it around me because honestly, I can't tolerate people who are stoned. They go way over my stupidity boundaries. I can't take it when people respond to almost any question asked of them with, "..... uh ...... uh ...... wait ..... what?" I'm also not a big fan of the odor of pot. It has virtually no effect on me whatsoever - I've never gotten so much as a contact high. I hate the attitude that goes along with staunch defense of pot smoking. It has commercial and medical merit, but beyond its use as a renewable resource or a pain-killer, that's about as much as I would support.
