Glenn's little ugly blog

I sat down to write a post this evening and couldn't think of what to write about. So I posted the question on facebook and got a few responses:

Wool

I wrote a post about wool over on the Liberation BC blog. Wool can be tough to write about, especially since I think it's wrong to exploit animals even if we aren't causing them any immediate pain. It's the system of exploitation that is wrong, the whole system that's been built over thousands of years to push animals into the shapes that we want them to be, into the spaces where we want them to live.

Writer's block

I get writer's block a lot, but it might just be because I don't really have a lot of things to say.... I overcome it by picking something at random or by playing a game to choose a topic. Once I have a topic that is manageable I can just sit down and get to work.

Procrastination is another story. I am a terrible procrastinator, and picking a topic is only a small part of the bigger battle of getting something actually written.

I like the game of posing the question on facebook and letting other people decide for me what I should write. But then I end up writing a pretty boring post about wool.

I should mention that when I was at Farm Sanctuary I really liked the goats, but wasn't a big fan of the sheep. It's hard to get to know the sheep. They are so scared, and they spend most of their time moving around as one big group. Some of the sheep were nice, but goats are really neat and I was drawn more towards them than almost any other animals.

Your first highschool dance

I don't remember my first highschool dance. Likely I went with my best friend and we danced, but not with any girls, then hung out on the bleachers. I was short and nerdy, and not confident at all. Dances were not terribly fun.

There were some dances though, where we had lip-sync competitions. I really loved doing those, since we got to dress up and do some crazy performances. I am afraid to see any pictures from back then because I had the worst hair ever. Even worse than yours.

What would you do if you won the lottery

If I won the lottery (which I actually hope doesn't happen since studies have shown that people who win the lottery often end up less happy than they were before they won the lottery – plus I NEVER buy lottery tickets) I would start a sanctuary, give almost all of the money to that sanctuary, put some in the bank for retirement, donate the rest of it to charities, and then go back to work.