Monday, March 12
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
My Sweetie got some work done towards the bathroom tile, mostly setting up the rails that will cover the edges of the tiles when they are installed, and cutting some of the tile.
It is a little nicer outside.
My Sweetie left for work today (he works tomorrow, but leave the afternoon before to get to his apartment). He was able to exchange the horse blanket that was too large for the next smaller size, and hopefully that one works.
I went to town for pottery.
I did go to the bank to get a new bank card, as mine was damaged.
Pottery itself was good. I threw two items and did some glazing (did not finish what I hoped to do, but I can do it next time).
The "representatives" (a person from each "class") met, and discussed issues. I talked with one of them afterwards, and apparently cleanliness in the pottery studio is an issue.
Sigh.
Wow, did this one ever annoy me. I have been going to this pottery studio for years now, and you know what? THEY ARE ALWAYS BITCHING ABOUT HOW THE STUDIO NEEDS TO BE CLEANER.
Always.
It is NEVER clean enough.
So, then they need to start imposing "cleaning schedules" and so on, but it never addresses the reality that only a very few members of our studio are the problem. The same few people, who others likely already KNOW that they are the problem, will not be addressed directly.
No. We will pretend that it is "our problem" and try to make it a "group solution" where "all of us pitch in by adhering to strict cleaning schedules".
And the people who are pigs will keep right on going being pigs. They will come in on their own on days that aren't group class time, make a mess, and go home knowing that no one will know who left the mess.
The woman I was talking with was telling me how she "gets sinus headaches" because of her issues with the pottery studio, and another person also has "allergies triggered by the dust".
In reality, our studio is actually quite clean. Yes, there is a BIT of clay here and there, but it is pretty damn clean.
If there are people who get severe reactions from the dust particles, then maybe they need to wear masks while in the studio, or just realize that there WILL BE SOME DUST in a POTTERY STUDIO!!!!
That's kind of like being upset at a petting zoo for not being clean enough because you have allergies to animals, or a person with food allergies still deciding to go work in a processing plant where that food is produced. Maybe there are times when a person has to just recognize that there are limitations to choosing to be in a place that WILL TRIGGER A REACTION.
I am just so tired of hearing how we need to be cleaner. This comes up over and over and over again, year after year. WE ARE NOT CLEAN ENOUGH!!!
I'm thinking then, that we just appoint someone to clean the goddamn place and give them a free membership that year or something in return.
Anyhow. Then I went and got some groceries, for which I am always grateful.
I learned that when the Columbian Government finally arrested Pablo Escobar, they made him a deal. To reman in prison for five years, but in return the government built a prison that he designed that was more or less a luxury fortress designed more to protect Escobar from assassins or extradition to the United States than to be any form of punishment.
It was situated on three hectares (over seven acres) of land allowing him to view the property where his family lived, to assure that they were safe. He got to choose his own guards.
The story is quite remarkable.
http://airshipdaily.com/catedral/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Catedral
My Sweetie got some work done towards the bathroom tile, mostly setting up the rails that will cover the edges of the tiles when they are installed, and cutting some of the tile.
It is a little nicer outside.
My Sweetie left for work today (he works tomorrow, but leave the afternoon before to get to his apartment). He was able to exchange the horse blanket that was too large for the next smaller size, and hopefully that one works.
I went to town for pottery.
I did go to the bank to get a new bank card, as mine was damaged.
Pottery itself was good. I threw two items and did some glazing (did not finish what I hoped to do, but I can do it next time).
The "representatives" (a person from each "class") met, and discussed issues. I talked with one of them afterwards, and apparently cleanliness in the pottery studio is an issue.
Sigh.
Wow, did this one ever annoy me. I have been going to this pottery studio for years now, and you know what? THEY ARE ALWAYS BITCHING ABOUT HOW THE STUDIO NEEDS TO BE CLEANER.
Always.
It is NEVER clean enough.
So, then they need to start imposing "cleaning schedules" and so on, but it never addresses the reality that only a very few members of our studio are the problem. The same few people, who others likely already KNOW that they are the problem, will not be addressed directly.
No. We will pretend that it is "our problem" and try to make it a "group solution" where "all of us pitch in by adhering to strict cleaning schedules".
And the people who are pigs will keep right on going being pigs. They will come in on their own on days that aren't group class time, make a mess, and go home knowing that no one will know who left the mess.
The woman I was talking with was telling me how she "gets sinus headaches" because of her issues with the pottery studio, and another person also has "allergies triggered by the dust".
In reality, our studio is actually quite clean. Yes, there is a BIT of clay here and there, but it is pretty damn clean.
If there are people who get severe reactions from the dust particles, then maybe they need to wear masks while in the studio, or just realize that there WILL BE SOME DUST in a POTTERY STUDIO!!!!
That's kind of like being upset at a petting zoo for not being clean enough because you have allergies to animals, or a person with food allergies still deciding to go work in a processing plant where that food is produced. Maybe there are times when a person has to just recognize that there are limitations to choosing to be in a place that WILL TRIGGER A REACTION.
I am just so tired of hearing how we need to be cleaner. This comes up over and over and over again, year after year. WE ARE NOT CLEAN ENOUGH!!!
I'm thinking then, that we just appoint someone to clean the goddamn place and give them a free membership that year or something in return.
Anyhow. Then I went and got some groceries, for which I am always grateful.
I learned that when the Columbian Government finally arrested Pablo Escobar, they made him a deal. To reman in prison for five years, but in return the government built a prison that he designed that was more or less a luxury fortress designed more to protect Escobar from assassins or extradition to the United States than to be any form of punishment.
It was situated on three hectares (over seven acres) of land allowing him to view the property where his family lived, to assure that they were safe. He got to choose his own guards.
The story is quite remarkable.
http://airshipdaily.com/catedral/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Catedral
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Date: 2023-03-14 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-14 09:18 pm (UTC)The messy folks just keep being messy, because they already don't care, and yelling at them doesn't change a thing, because even THEY know that the conscientious folks will clean up after them, and there is no direct confrontation.
Society in general works the very same way.