Shut up and drink your gin!

I'd forgotten what a good musical Oliver was. Also I had forgotten almost the entire plot of Romeo & Juliet. Two school plays, two nights, I'm shattered but impressed. There hasn't been a time all week when I haven't felt like falling into an endless slumber.

So... a celebrity came into the shop! The highlight of my working week! Jessie Wallace, otherwise known as Kat from Eastenders... with her baby Tallulah Lilac. Incredible. Naturally my boss had no idea, he spends his time counting his money, not watching Eastenders. I'm bored of my job now. I'm beyond the stage of hating it, it hasn't been too bad, just exhausting. I'm ready to move on, and to break through the minimum wage so that I can save some money. I love the uncertainty of next year. I love people's reactions when they hear I'm not going to uni, and how they pretend they think having a gap year sounds like fun whilst failing to grasp the entire concept. I love having money.

My dad was completely engrossed in "Fox In Socks" this evening, and I'd forgotten how beautiful Dr. Seuss books were, they are utterly mesmerising. "Not in a box. Not with a fox. /Not in a tree. You let me be! / I do not like green eggs and ham! / I do not like them, Sam-I-am!" Now that's perfection. No one else can write poetry like that. Not to mention the amazing journey to Solla Sollew, "on the banks of the beautiful river wahoo, where they never have troubles, at least very few". Dr. Seuss just captures the harshness of reality so comically and so tenderly. You wouldn't expect so much powerful insight into human emotions from a children's book. He's a lyrical genius.

Following a strange debate I had, Tammy Wynette is perhaps not as much of an anti-feminist as people claim. Of course she strives for a conventional, male-dominated (albeit happy) family, and the lyric 'stand by your man' appears to represent the opposite of female liberation. However her songs are about striving for a better life, and 'stand by your man' is more about being faithful than being helpless; 'after all, he's just a man' implies that having a faithful wife is not an entitlement but a priviledge. When you listen to 'woman to woman' it becomes obvious that the emphasis is on positivity and solidarity rather than imprisonment. Dismissing her for an anti-feminist is completely missing the point, anyway: Wynette was renowned for her passionate country ballads and not for her unradical but thoroughly unoffensive choice of lyrics. Modern pop innuendo has done more to hinder the feminist movement: portraying women as sexual objects is much more damaging than emphasising their lack of independence.

*End of country music rant*

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