Pack Light Bag Lady

Nod to Erykah Badu!

I’m not at home so no audio today – Maybe I will invest in a travelling mic. And also I am not going to ever try to read shit word for word anymore because I always think of other things to say as I read.

You know what I realized – I never joke about anything cancer-related. Rarely do I even say the word. It’s likely because my mom never wanted to hear it and she never spoke directly about her illness. Almost like, “If I don’t speak of it, it will go away.” And even saying the word makes me feel slightly uncomfortable. But that’s better than being wholly uncomfortable.

I can easily make jokes about the Trinity, death, sex work, necro/pedophilias and other “dark” shit – cancer should be cake! There’s this tiny part of me saying, “Sam, if you talk about cancer you’ll get it!” I don’t feel I’ll become homeless or do awful dark shit and I talk about those things all the time.

BTW: I wonder if any group is working to remove disorder from pedophilia in the DSM-5? Remember when people thought being gay was synonymous with child sex abuse? Enough still do.

And if pedophilia wasn’t a disorder anymore what would that mean for the protection of our children? Oh! I just caught myself assuming that all men/women with the condition are dangerous sex offenders. Sorry! I don’t know enough to know if that’s true. As we learn more about the diversity of human sexuality we can’t just smack “disorder” on a thing and criminalize it in hopes it will go away like we did with the gays. “The gays” – lol.

I had a work assignment looming over my head but I finished it today – Hooray. All kinds of thoughts were swirling – I could have much sooner finished but was overthinking the whole thing. Overthinking as a form of procrastination? When I come back from vacation I have a date with my IT guy – we gonna talk about Teams configuration. Oooh Sexy!

Next time you hear from me I will be where I’m going!

Wed Jul 12, 2023

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