Accepted!

I got into Vassar! Insider information, heheh. Hope I don't get in trouble like those Harvard applicants who followed a hacker's instructions, and found out that they'd all been rejected. To be more specific they followed a loophole into the system, found out their admissions decisions, and having dones something illegal were immediately struck off the list by Harvard. I think I'm in the clear though.

Right, today why don't we do things a little differently? We'll just have a nice dialogue right here instead of me rambling on as usual. Whaddaya mean you can't have a dialogue with just one voice? We're having one right here, aren't we? No, no this is no monologue! There's interaction here, can't you see? Anyway let's get on with it.

I don't wanna do one of those things where I just recount my entire boring day. Why don't we focus on one little thing:? Well, in History class today... WAKE UP! Be nice. Don't be rude. So, we were discussing the following question: "Analyse the role and status of women in Maoist China, Soviet Russia and 21st Century Malaysia". I made up the last bit. Isn't it just fascinating?? No really, I get so touched with what "those damned Commies" were prepared to do. Just on the side of women, their aims were to liberate women from the oppressive subjugation of mankind. How? Break the chains of the kitchen by providing food in large communal canteens, free them of having to take care of children by providing daycare, cut gender inequalities in pay, education etc. And this wasn't just propaganda. They tried to get this started. Sadly it cose way too much. They also tried to break women out of the enslavement of the "bourgeois institution" of marriage. I'd challenge that since it's much more deeply entrenched than just a bourgeois institution but the idea is sound - you can still see how wives are subjugated, even if it's a mild form, to husbands and their families, and the reverse is less true. The Communists really set things out fairly - divorce was free to both sides, all you needed to do was to request it, and the partner just needed to be informed. Gets rid of the mess. Sure it could be abused but it also is a good thing in some ways. No more illegitimate children, just show that you were living with a man for at least one night that would account for the child's birth and he is the lawful father. Cohabitation is synonymous with marriage.

Everything does not work in practice. Sad huh? At least they tried. Stalin OTOH betrayed it when he needed kids to grow up and die as soldiers - offering medals for mothers with 9 children etc.

Now, wasn't that... FOR CRYING OUT LOUD YOU COULD AT LEAST NOT HAVE SNORED!


Just out of curiousity, why don't I ever have days like this?