We will not judge your breasts now

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Want to know what's really not fun?

Riding your bike through torrential downpour while still suffering from the post cold sniffles and in a jacket that is mistakenly labeled as waterproof. So here I sit in the unnecessarily air conditioned computer lab with a lovely post nasal drip and pants and sleeves that are completely soaked through and really uncomfortable. I also probably have mascara running down my face, but I lack the energy to actually verify that.

Sorry updates have been sparse. I've had a bit of a cold. Nothing that two days of drinking only tea and leaving the bed only for steam baths didn't fix though.

The Dutch dance funny 😊. I did manage to go out a few nights in the past week and hit up a dance club called Melkweg and a jazz club called Jazz Alto. The Amsterdamian clubgoers have a very different way of dancing than their American counterparts. In America, the dancing seems to revolve around the hips. Lots of swaying, gyrating, etc. Here, all the dance moves seem to be based around the....shoulders? It seems like the people just kinda throw their shoulders around and the body follows. It's......interesting. But the dance atmosphere is a lot more relaxed. It's more about bopping around and not caring if you look ridiculous than trying to attract the attention of the opposite sex.

I also really want to spend some time Wwoofing in Costa Rica. How amazing would that be? Living in a rain forest, eating bananas rice and beans for every meal, and learning Spanish from locals while promoting ecologically sound living and using howler monkeys as alarms??? That sounds like heaven. I don't know when I'm going to do it, but it will be done.

So while I'm here I'm on a quest to have frites with as many toppings as possible. So far I've had them with ketchup, with a ketchup/spicy mayonnaise blend, and with peanut sauce. The peanut sauce was actually quite enjoyable.

I also took a trip to the Sex Museum as part of my class. I'm not really sure what I think about it. It was entertaining, informative, and disturbing all rolled into one. The only part that I actually disliked was sexist take on bestiality. The supposedly scientific description of it was something to the effect of "Since the beginning of time women have been coupling with every single animal imaginable. According to the Kinsey report, even as late as the 1950's, bestiality was still a practice that women held dear to their hearts. While men find the practice degrading, women think of it as a part of sexual experimentation." It basically made women out to be these oversexualized beasts who completely lack control of their urges and enjoy having sex with pigs and donkeys while men are evolved and too superior to perform such a dirty act. It was the only section I had misgivings about though. The Museum was definitely worth the 3E and was a fairly enjoyable way to spend an hour or two.

Now I'd like to share some quotes from my super non PC professor. Hopefully you find them as funny as I did, but maybe you had to hear them in context. Imagine a very proper old school professor (think tweed coat with suede patches on the elbows) with white hair and a Dutch accent saying these things...

On Ethnicity
Him: "You're Asian. Do you like rice?"
Girl: "I like all types of food."
Him: "No no no. You are Asian. You like rice. I am Dutch. I like potatoes."

On Canine Companions
"A dog is a dirty animal."

"You only need to eat half a dog."

On Life Philosophies
"There is NO BOX!"

"The box can be a circle too."

On...Breasts?
"Sometimes I do not button my shirt so I can show off my breasts to the girls."

"We will not judge your breasts now."

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Comments

[Stephanie]

I think mine is a circle
Lauren! I went to look at the cool house- in echo park/silverlake area- which ended up being really cool for two reasons: 1-the house was awesome, but kinda wierd location (I could see us being murdered there)---and some people are already starting to rent it and will probably keep it through the year :( 2-the owner of the house was really awesome too---we chatted for a pretty long time----he is an Ocupational Therapist and has all these other degrees and traveles for months at a time . . . wow. I hope you WARM UP!!!! I LOVE THE professor quotes---classic! AND WOMEN ARE OF NO SUCH SORT! GOsh---!!!!!! Love ya!

[Judith (cousin)]

Love the professor quotes. Did he really been breasts or his chest? My friend from Switzerland, sometimes uses nouns differently than we do. Note: Fabrics labeled waterproof are not, and those labeled water resistant are waterproof (keep you dry). Don't know why. But, when I went to Costa Rica in the summer of 2004 my water resistant jacket kept the camera dry and the rest of me. I think the research is skewed re: beastiality. It was probably run by men. The power of hormones relates a different story than the research at the sex museum.