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Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Pissing me off... 

i have had minimal contact with people today because i was utterly wiped out this morning and then spent the whole day reading legalese for the move. but the little contact i did have with people today pissed me off. some woman went on a rant about wanting drug users to be sterilized or something. i know people get freaked about the damages that can be done to children exposed to drugs, and i also know that some of these evils have been dramatically exaggerated. before you chew my head off (goodness knows i don't need any of that this week or i might maim somebody) there are some instances that are pretty dire. of course, those children may have had many of the same problems minus the drugs because the mothers lived in such shitty circumstances. the environment is not considered in those studies. but whatever. it sucks but there is no reason to sterilize for that. sheesh. how many other people does she want to sterilize to create a pristine race of people. and in a way she's devaluing the kids that came out of those circumstances as people who never should have existed. but even worse, she wasted my precious time going off on her own little soapbox.

then i just read something where a defense was made that people similar to me should get a pay increase or be considered in the same category as teachers because we make a difference and get crap pay in return. well, similar to the jobs i'll be doing when i get out of here. and this dude slammed it because it was "easy" to get a degree and help people, all people performing a job helped others in some way so therefore everyone should get a pay increase, teaching was considered relatively harder and more valuable than risking your life to help others on a daily basis, and we aren't in any way professional. i hate when professionals (or anyone for that matter) are slammed for helping others and sacrificing the good majority of a decent paycheck they could have received doing something else because nobody really understands what they do, what they go through, and how they help. but i'm too tired to go into it all, and i don't really want to talk about what i'll be qualified for or what i'll be on here since that's not what i represent here. i plan to help people for the rest of my life. that's all you need to know.

P.S. Keep them in your prayers.


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