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Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Yes, I have not been here in a while. I've been busy with school, watching the Olympics (I take a week off work to do so every time they are on!) and working on the BBW of Austin webpage I've been following the case of Jennifer Portnick, a 240 pound aerobics instructor who was turned down by Jazzercise due to her appearance - not her skills. She's currently in mediation with Jazzercise as San Francisco law prohibits discrimination based on weight. (See news story.) What I don't understand is why some people are so angry. And I guess I never will get it.
Here's Jennifer's website.

posted by Kelley Saveika on 7:41 PM |

Friday, December 14, 2001

Finished my last final and turned in my last two programs today. Yay me. I think I might have studied a bit much. Shimmer woke me up at 6 am playing with something and I woke up thinking that I needed to write a function to determine where the noise was coming from. Right now I am going to go collapse.

posted by Kelley Saveika on 7:51 PM |

Saturday, December 01, 2001

Well, today is World Aids Day and time for link and think. So I interrupt your peek into my mundane yet somehow melodramatic life, and bring you my thoughts on AIDS.
I remember living a world where no one had ever heard of AIDS. When I was in high school, we only worried about getting pregant and getting herpes. (Although the AIDS epidemic had started by the time I graduated in 1985, it was not widely talked about.) What a difference 20 years make. At least people are somewhat less judgemental about it now, unlike the early days when it was thought to be a "gay disease." I was watching Rudy Galindo skate today. He lives (and competes) as an HIV-positive skater, to show that it isn't necessarily a death sentence. We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.
Austin has a yearly AIDS walk - why not see if your community does, too? This disease isn't going away by itself, and though people are living longer with it now, we still need to find a cure.

posted by Kelley Saveika on 8:30 PM |

Thursday, November 29, 2001

I got not one, but two mud code bases running on my home machine - SMAUG and ROM. So exciting, and so very cool. *Must try to keep it from distracting me from school*. And I went to the physical therapist and have gained 13 degrees of motion in my foot. All in all, great day:)

posted by Kelley Saveika on 5:45 PM |

Monday, November 26, 2001

Why do men online act so ....repulsive? Here's my lamer of the week. I'm just sitting here minding my own business and this guy messages me, and here is the text of our conversation. (This is R-rated - you have been warned).
Do men walk up to people in the street and say things like this? What makes them think this approach would possibly work?

posted by Kelley Saveika on 4:30 PM |

Saturday, November 24, 2001

Cool! I just found out that Cat, of Cat-a-Blog fame, is one again sponsoring the Holiday Hooligans!
Why not go check it out and join her?:)

posted by Kelley Saveika on 8:25 PM |

I moved my foot today. Yay, me. I am sure to most people it doesn't sound like much, but it was the first time I'd moved my foot on my own since September. My physical therapist is going to be happy, and I know I am.
Oh, and I am leaning towards he likes me not. In case you were keeping score.
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posted by Kelley Saveika on 6:10 PM |

Friday, November 23, 2001

For some reason, 35 hit me a *lot* harder than 30. I went for many years *knowing* I didn't want kids. Now, I'm not so sure. I need a lot of alone time, but lately I've been thinking how nice it would be to have a child. I was reading a magazine article about adoption in my doctor's waiting room on Wednesday and almost started bawling. I've been looking at an adoption website and reading one woman's story of becoming a single adoptive mother. Interestingly, it seems that girls are hard to adopt - she says the overwhelming majority of adoptive parents seem to prefer girls. Perhaps they think they will be less trouble? It seems also that single parents get the kids no one else is willing to adopt - she says "Enter reality. In most cases, singles are offered the waiting kids that married couples don't apply for. Understandably, social workers prefer to give their waiting kids a mommy and a daddy whenever possible. But this sets up the strange situation whereby a single parent who, by definition, lacks the built-in help a married couple enjoys, is left to parent the most difficult and challenging children alone."
Egads. I'm not sure if I am ready for all that. But it is nice to know that it is an option.
I am bored! I should be studying, but I don't want to. Even after reminding myself I *really* want to make games - I still don't want to. Did get a little studying in javascript done today; unfortunately, that doesn't help with the C++.
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posted by Kelley Saveika on 8:01 PM |