#5 Ten Minute Blogs

Did you ever have one of those highschool teachers into far-out or avant garde teaching techniques? Mr. Ursilak, my junior high school teacher was like that and then there was Mr. MacKenzie. Now, years later, I guess I should somehow atone for all the times I thought or muttered under my breath what wackos they were... Karmically, or even better Karmacomically, I am now of that persuasion as I attempt to get across even simple things to the Taiwanese children I teach/babysit. But I digress, looking at the dates of my last entry until today, I realized I'd been avoiding my glob, but I couldn't put my finger on why, exactly.

It seems that I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my writings. Obsessively so, some might complain, especially those that know me and have had me chase them away when I'm writing or bitch at them because I can't finish a simple sentence the way I like. So, I'm forcing myself to write 10 minute globs with as little editing as possible so I can get used to the fact that people are going to criticize my writing/opinion, etc. Basically, if it's not pertinent to the topic I'm going to try not to worry about it ie, grammar, spellings, exact references, etc.

Once, during a brainstorming session with LC, the only person who could ever stand to write with me, he remarked something about the fact that too many ideas get stalled at the "I should write an article about that" stage not for lack of effort but that they get forgotten or sidetracked or just plain ignored... Of course, this must seem like common sense, but what I propose is that if I can ignore them great, but if someone wants me to expand on a short idea I lay down or headline I create, then they can say so and I'll take the initiative from there... In the last few days I've had these:

1) Diapers for women. I mean pads of course, though this seems so common sense that the article writes itself, n'est pas?
2) The movie Sideways has an actress called Suzanne Oh, which I thought was a pretty cocky name(pun intended). Further, she is Oriental-looking(I'd say Oriental, per se, but perhaps she classifies herself by Origin not looks and she feels Canadian/American, etc.) The point of this is that after living in Asia for a while I've come to the conclusion that Asian women are anclimactic, that is, totally without concept of what a female orgasm is. Further, a friend, fuelled by a few beers, challenged me to give reasons why any man would want to change this ignorance on their part... indeed, "Why inform women about their inherent ability to orgasm?" Suzanne Oh, indeed.
3)Most of my Taiwanese vacations, with Taiwanese people that is, have been like acid trips. This would be a compare and contrast piece...
4) A piece dedicated to ex-girlfriends. ("End is the only part of the word that I heard, call me morbid or absurd." Cake lyric)

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ciao