Brave new mayo world

Had my second to last day at work today. It is a weird feeling. I've never had an opportunity to EXPLORE things before. Like NEVER. It was always, school school school, work, school, work, school, work, work, work, work. Its an odd feeling. Security without the security.

I digress.

Story of the day: The Hempstead shirt story out of Georgia.

Big up to Long Island - the marijuana island.

There are no words for the ridiculousness of this world sometimes.

OK, second story of the day - some school in maine is banning any food with nuts or beans from being sold OR brought from home. This includes fruits like apricots and anything that would be found in any ordinary vending machine.
I'm going to take a stand here and say that sometimes political correctness and activism and all that crap goes too far. Clearly, this child should not be in a public school. And there is nothing wrong with that. The town should be focusing on placing this kid in a place where he would be aok. This doesn't mean that no one should be bothered or asked to change their activities for the good of the population. NO. But there is a point when people (ie, school officials in both these stories) just get so looney that they lose common sense. Maybe it's a fear of a lawsuit, maybe it is a lack of folo through thought. Why would they force him into public school? Why take the chance that someone could BREATHE on this mystery kid the wrong way and he could die? Why would a parent take that chance? Cause they want him to have a normal childhood? A normal childhood would be one where he DIDN'T DIE. We have progressed as a society to the point that we have like 15 different types of toilet paper for however you like to wipe your ass...but they can't put this anonymous kid in a school that he'll be safe in?

I think I'm tired of people not standing up for themselves, or things they care about, or things they question. The above story had not gone to a board for a vote. But I don't think that would have mattered. Everyone's so scared of offending anyone. Everyone's afraid of sounding "insensitive." I think its way more insensitive to expect a kid to fend for himself and depend on the actions of hundreds of other people for his well being.

Not to MENTION the point alex just brought up - that the world is cruel. The world doesn't bend to your wishes. Personally, I fell UP the stairs on the subway and AT Subway in one day. Do you think one person asked if I was ok? I was bleeding, on the floor, both times. NOT ONE PERSON came by to help me up. I couldn't walk without training for a few days. Don't people realize that the sooner their children realize this world is cruel, the better they will be?

Ok, i'm off the soap box for now.

On to happier matters.

New thing of the day - My friend TERESA and i have come up with an ingenius party (wait, stop me if you've done this before).

We're going to have a "return to childhood" sleep-over.

We're going to have a sleepover where we will bring over sleeping bags, do each other's hair, get the "Peewee's playhouse" box set (whenever it comes out), or maybe Fraggle Rock, or even Muppet Babies or Garfield, get some crayola crayons and coloring books, get our Jem/Barbie/Cabbage Patch/Rainbow Brite/Strawberry Shortcake/etc etc memorabilia, put on some Debbie Gibson/Milli Vanilli/Tiffany/Good Michael Jackson/MC Hammer/The Cure/Aerosmith jams, unearth some "Girl Talk", snap bracelets, bubble neclaces, Fun Dip, ring pops, and more, and get in our pajamas and have our very own "I love the 80's/early 90's" sleepover experience.

We were so giddy on the phone talking about it we couldn't stop yelling out things we have to include.

Question of the day: What do you miss most about your childhood? Material or emotional?