I am currently enjoying listening to Amy Winehouse this afternoon after only recently discovering her a few days ago. After doing some researching online for more juicy tidbits about her, I have read several to quite a few derogatory remarks made about the Jazz singer’s alleged promiscuity. “Whore” “Skank” “Slut” “Nasty.” If it were a guy sleeping around then he would be lauded and given a pat on the back as some kind of ‘Don Juan hero. Just one of my more cynical views and feelings about the double standard with regards to sexism in modern America. Sultry would be a better word to describe Ms.Winehouse rather than skank.
First Full Day is a Charmer…
My director handed me my new key to the walk-in parts closet and the main room of the computer lab when I got to work volunteering this morning. I was excited and upbeat – ready to get started. I even washed and dried a clean shirt just for the occasion.
“See if you can get any of those older computers working, please,” she said with her fingers crossed and I am sure hoping for the best, but expecting the worse.
Out of about six junked computers, I got three working again. My director was elated as was I to be so helpful to use a quite subdued term as the budget at the literacy center isn't exactly stellar. I scavenged parts from the older computers (mainly hard drives) to get the newer ones working. I live for this kind of stuff. My grandfather was a tinkerer as well.
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I don't think it's Amy Winehouse's sexuality that caused some people to hate her. For awhile, she was in the tabloids and celebrity gossip blogs because of her heavy drug use and relationship problems. You could see her degrade from this very pretty girl to a too-skinny girl with dirty-looking hair and, at one point, a missing tooth.
But I haven't read those gossip blogs in a long time because the people who comment are vicious. And I actually like some of these people that they're snarking on (Winehouse included). So maybe something else popped up.
Berryvox is correct. Amy suffered from alcoholism and heroin addiction.
Her former husband admitted to getting her addicted. She has since divorced and is clean.
Ms Winehouse is Jewish, like me.
Wow, I'm really impressed that you got those computers working! That's amazing to me, I barely know how to use one let alone put one together from bits and pieces! Awesome!
Awesome job! And this could also be a great home business for you too.
Yeah I was sickened about all the talk about Brittney Spears when she shaved her head. Obviously the girl had issues!
Hammer them machines together, I use one that is made from the best parts of several computers, a stable system.
Addiction is sad and destroys lives and reputations. It rolls over anyone that gets in the way.
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