redbird: women's lib: raised fist inside symbol for woman (feminism)
( May. 11th, 2006 05:41 pm)
Having discussed this briefly with D (WINOLJ) and [livejournal.com profile] barberio, I sent the following email to my gym's management:

There is currently a large ad at my home branch, saying "If you aren't here because of a New Year's resolution, you're a Mitchum man." I am a woman who has been a gym member for six years. This ad makes me feel unwelcome. It implies that women who are serious about exercise either aren't coming to your gym, or aren't really women.

Sincerely yours,
Vicki Rosenzweig


As I told D, I don't have a very strong sense of gender identity, but I resent that ad staring at me on the way upstairs from the workout floor. I don't know whether women with strong gender identity will feel more excluded, or just ignore it as obviously not aimed at them.

Other than that, I had a fine long workout. I then met D at Penn Station, and we went down to Veselka for a filling lunch and good conversation. Not so much catching up on news--we've kept each other informed by apa and IM--but chat and being in the same place for a bit. We walked quite a bit, in a vain search for an anti-perspirant she was hoping someone would have on sale. I left D at Sheridan Square, and headed home.

Phenology: honey locust just beginning; lily of the valley were in bloom by yesterday. Many pleasant smells, all of which may be washed out of the air by a predicted heavy rain.

gym numbers, as usual )
redbird: women's lib: raised fist inside symbol for woman (feminism)
( May. 11th, 2006 05:41 pm)
Having discussed this briefly with D (WINOLJ) and [livejournal.com profile] barberio, I sent the following email to my gym's management:

There is currently a large ad at my home branch, saying "If you aren't here because of a New Year's resolution, you're a Mitchum man." I am a woman who has been a gym member for six years. This ad makes me feel unwelcome. It implies that women who are serious about exercise either aren't coming to your gym, or aren't really women.

Sincerely yours,
Vicki Rosenzweig


As I told D, I don't have a very strong sense of gender identity, but I resent that ad staring at me on the way upstairs from the workout floor. I don't know whether women with strong gender identity will feel more excluded, or just ignore it as obviously not aimed at them.

Other than that, I had a fine long workout. I then met D at Penn Station, and we went down to Veselka for a filling lunch and good conversation. Not so much catching up on news--we've kept each other informed by apa and IM--but chat and being in the same place for a bit. We walked quite a bit, in a vain search for an anti-perspirant she was hoping someone would have on sale. I left D at Sheridan Square, and headed home.

Phenology: honey locust just beginning; lily of the valley were in bloom by yesterday. Many pleasant smells, all of which may be washed out of the air by a predicted heavy rain.

gym numbers, as usual )
redbird: closeup photo of an apricot (food)
( May. 11th, 2006 09:40 pm)
I have made my first quiche. I used the basic tart pastry from the Fannie Farmer cookbook, and the asparagus-and-cheddar filling from the recipe [livejournal.com profile] minkboylove posted a few days ago.

In the course of making the pastry, I proved that no, I am in fact not ambidextrous. Unfortunately, I proved this by spilling flour and butter on the counter-top and the floor while trying to use the magic pastry cutter left-handed to spare my right shoulder. This left me with slightly less pastry, and thus a slightly thinner crust, than I'd have liked. The instructions for the filling say to use whatever herbs seem good. Everything I sniffed seemed inappropriate, so I just used a couple of grinds of black pepper and a little tarragon.

Despite the difficulty with the crust, the result was tasty. There's about a third of a quiche left, which will probably be [livejournal.com profile] cattitude's supper tomorrow or lunch Saturday, since it seems an awkward thing to try to take with me to eat on the bus to Boston.
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redbird: closeup photo of an apricot (food)
( May. 11th, 2006 09:40 pm)
I have made my first quiche. I used the basic tart pastry from the Fannie Farmer cookbook, and the asparagus-and-cheddar filling from the recipe [livejournal.com profile] minkboylove posted a few days ago.

In the course of making the pastry, I proved that no, I am in fact not ambidextrous. Unfortunately, I proved this by spilling flour and butter on the counter-top and the floor while trying to use the magic pastry cutter left-handed to spare my right shoulder. This left me with slightly less pastry, and thus a slightly thinner crust, than I'd have liked. The instructions for the filling say to use whatever herbs seem good. Everything I sniffed seemed inappropriate, so I just used a couple of grinds of black pepper and a little tarragon.

Despite the difficulty with the crust, the result was tasty. There's about a third of a quiche left, which will probably be [livejournal.com profile] cattitude's supper tomorrow or lunch Saturday, since it seems an awkward thing to try to take with me to eat on the bus to Boston.
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