Ponderings of a Gladiatress

For the most part anyone reading this can agree with me that our government is corrupt and the primary problem when it comes to wars and ordering our military to do "bad" things. But in order for those things to get done someone has to do them. The politicians certainly aren't going to. In come the soldiers. They voluntarily sign up to give away their rights as a person to do the biding of the gov't. Many have honorable ...

I was born with Microtia which is a congenital ear deformity. I have it on my left side and it is Grade 3 (http://www.microtia.net/overview.htm) I am also deaf on that side. I remember being teased about it in elementary school a lot. I always wore my hair so that it covered my left ear. It became my trademark to an extent. One girl in particular used it against me so that I'd be her friend, and I didn't want the ...

I first saw V for Vendetta when I was 14, almost 15 and I was mesmerized. It brought tears to my eyes and a part of my heart went out to the character V, even though the viewer I never saw his face, and only heard his voice. If you've never seen the movie you absolutely must. To be brief, it is about a masked vigilante who wears a mask that is modeled after the historical Guy Fawkes (who I will get to shortly). ...

Memorial Day…a holiday that I have a hard time understanding and one that has become incredibly corrupt in this country. It is supposed to be a day that we remember the soldiers who gave up their lives for us. Instead many of us throw a party for the purpose of BBQing and drinking and virtually forgetting to remember. We go shopping to get the best sales deals, which exist for no other reason than perpetuating our ...

For those that do not know me I'd like to start off by stating that I do not consider myself to be Liberal or Conservative, or a part of the Left or the Right. I am me. And IF I must put myself in to any category it would be Voluntaryist with maybe a touch of Libertarian left simply because I still have a hard time wrapping my head around some of the Voluntaryist aspects. But that may require a whole ...

Today I went to my first "town-hall meeting," "open-discussion," whatever you want to call it. I originally wanted to go talk to "my" house representative, Jonathan Singer, because he was having one this evening. I sent out a message on FB to all the people I knew who live in the same town as me asking that they go. I received a message back from my best friend's dad, Jeff, saying that there was another meeting going on the same night, tonight, but with two Senators who hadn't voted on the bills yet so our energy may be better spent there. One of them, Matt Jones (whose home phone number is 303) 666-7032 if anyone wants it...)) My boyfriend and I decided that made sense, and sent my dad a text ...

Today is the last day of the first weekend in January of 2013 and I have not written a blog in incredibly too long. The biggest news, fortunately, in my life right now is that all of my music was deleted off of my iPod and I have been, for the last couple of days, trying to recover as much as I can through CDs and purchases on iTunes. I am treating it like a much needed "music cleanse." There was a lot of music on there that I really did not need either because it bore me or brought back unpleasant or unnecessary memories or feelings. Way to start the new year off right, right?! I have many resolutions like I have in the past...I never really follow through and it leaves me feeling ...