Retiring Comcast for a While

Financially, with running back and forth to school and the cost of gas, and the cost of everything else, I have to cut back. So, I'm cutting the cable bill.

That means I have to disconnect all the Comcast equipment and turn it in tomorrow morning on my way back to school.

I can use that $100/mo for gas and food. Right now, the costs have eaten up everything I have coming in, so there isn't money for anything frivolous, like cable.

The mortgage, car insurance, gas, utilities - I can't do any more. So, I won't be posting or even paying attention to the e-mail on weekends any more.

I hope my friends understand all this. Maybe I can find a hot-spot unit that won't cost too much given the limited usage it will get.

Chance to Share

I'll be telling my story on Wednesday, Sept 26, 8pm at the Munsey Counseling Annex of the Munsey Church in downtown Johnson City - the Women's Meeting.

Hope to see some of my friends from Knoxville there.

Reality vs. Perceptions

The reality of the situation is that I'm in school and it will take 2 years for the Bachelors, and 3.5 years for the Masters. A masters allows me to teach and pay off the student loans, and I don't need school to write. However, going to school gives me access to test subjects and volunteers so that my projects can be completed. Reality also includes a book of original essays I'm in the middle of editing, and getting ready for publication.

My perception is that I'm running out of time. I'm concerned about the political climate, and finances, and my health. My health is the only thing I can control, and it's the one I'm focusing on when I'm not doing homework or attending class. I'm trying to eat better, walk more, and exercise a bit. I'm still eating too much and getting too much salt in my diet. I'm making little adjustments as I go to address the diet, and I'm doing as much as my legs will allow.

I hope my books will get published, that my words will be heard and that somehow they will impact the greater global female population and be the catalyst of a new thought about women's lives. I hope women all over the world will begin to honor themselves and stop allowing men to tell them what they are allowed to think, or learn, or do with their bodies. If men can take potentially harmful libido-enhancing drugs, or those that promote hair growth, why can't women take something or do something to prevent or promote reproduction? Why can't women everywhere take care of their health, feed their brains, exercise their senses, and develop into someone they would like to know and be? Who says that keeping a house is what women are supposed to do?

I'm wondering what December 21 2012 will bring that will change the perception of all the inhabitants of the globe that will "end life as we know it."  Will that be ET, Jesus, a change in climate or earth's tilt, or what? Will we stop ruining this planet? Will corporations be shown to not be citizens, but instead just another -particularly deadly- scam? Will it bring about the end of patriarchy?

The world is in trouble, and I don't know if it's going to end or not. I don't really care. I just miss my cats - they are at home 120 miles away - and I want to finish my work. If "the rapture" is going to take me away, I want to go with my cats. If the world ends in a firey flash, I want to be with my cats. But if the world doesn't end, and I do, I want my work to be done, first.