Another geolical age has passed, so I'll update

Work and vegetation (the state of, not the flora) has dominated my time recently. I've been working around 40 hours a week the past couple months (excluding my vacation in Puerto Rico, which was glorious) and my shift tends to be either from 2 to 10 or from 3 to 11, i.e. primetime for socializing. Oh well, I'm making good money, and being at work also means I'm not spending money. It was kind of an awkward shift--going from being a bum to working 40 hours a week is pretty crazy.

Bianca had her puppies the other day. They're cute but they'll be cuter when the do more than just nurse, sleep, and poop, which is what they're doing now.

This is the only politically-themed post I will ever have (probably)

Like, well, apparently everybody in the country at the moment, it seems I'm required to have an opinion on Gay Marriage (capitalized for its significance.) Since that's apparently the most important issue in the country right now when we've been occupying an unstable country for years, AIDS is fucking over Africa, and several different nations are arming themselves with nuclear weapons. While I'm glad that the Federal Marriage Amendment predictably failed in the US Sentate (but not in the PA House, but that still needs a bunch of procedural crap to get it going) I do have a very specific opinion in the issue.

This must be the stupidest fucking issue in the country right now. I've lost all ability to really care about it. The contraversy about it has been going on for so long that nobody even cares about what the issue is supposed to be about. The conservatives have no valid argument that doesn't have a religious basis (i.e. marriage is between a man and a woman). Rather than use this against them, the liberals allowed the conservatives to completely change the context of the issue. Rather than having anything to do with rights or protecting gay families, Gay Marriage is now a semantic issue about the word "marriage." The conservatives essentially won already because they've completely distracted everyone from what the issue is realy about. And, because the word "marriage" has become everything the issue is about now, the liberals blew their chance for the more reasonable compromise of civil unions; that way the fundies supporting the conservatives could have their precious word, and the homosexuals that the liberals decided to champion would have the assosiated rights.

A few years ago I would have pushed out the "separate is not equal" rebuttal to civil unions, but that was foolish politiking. Both sides had a chance for compromise, and they blew it because the conservatives can make everybody thinking that legitimizing homosexual couples is an attack on marriage, the word moreso than the institution. So, in essence, I don't care about Gay Marriage because it isn't about anything real anymore. It's about words.

What dreams may come?

I had a really weird dream about an old flame last night. It started off relatively normal, I suppose. He came up from behind me and gave me a kiss, then he asked if I could do something. I said no, but I'd be around later. Then came the weird part. I, erm, threw a Pokeball at him and caught him and took him around with me in the Pokeball. o_O

I guess one "interpretation" would be that the time and place were wrong for us when I was seeing him, but I'm still "carrying him around" so to speak. Or it could mean I'm a huge dork.

This is what I get for having freinds with photoshop skills...

Random note.

I should probably see a doctor about my big toe.

Here we go again...

Well, another semester come and gone. I'm staying in Bloomsburg till Friday even though my last final was yesterday and I handed in my last paper this morning. It was a gorgeous day today. I was walking to sell my books back and hand in my paper and I noticed that the sky was REALLY blue. I dunno, maybe it was that this huge burden of school has disappeared and I can appreciate the little things now. I dunno. Bloomsburg has a collective seasonal affective disorder. Since it's rainy and cold for about 80% of the school year, everyone's always depressed and gloomy for that portion of the school year. Then when the sun comes out and the boys start playing football shirtless on the lawn outside my dorm, everything's fine again, except this semester I've been too stressed over personal stuff and too worried / stressed about getting my school stuff back on track to really appreciate it. Ironic that this semester I was doing the least amount of extracurricular stuff ever yet I had the hardest time getting my act together. I guess it's the sophomore slump. Either way, it's over now.

I need to scramble to find a job as soon as I get back in New Hope. I hate looking for jobs, but I really need money right now.

Jordan and Jill are graduating. I really just can't fathom it. It's weird. It reminds me that graduating is coming closer. Blech. I don't want to be an adult.

Wonder Woman roxxors

As you all SHOULD know, I've become a big Wonder Woman fan in the last year, but I signed on right about when Diana started having a pretty rough time. First off, right before I started reading, she was attacked by the Gorgon Medousa at the behest of the witch Circe. In this process, Diana was forced to blind herself in order to avoid getting turned to stone. An unfortunate casualty (one of many) in this battle was the son of one of the men who works at her embassy. This battle was also part of a coup organized by Athena, Diana's patron goddess, to take the throne of Olympus from her father Zeus. Diana was pressed into further conflicts among the gods, including descending to Tartarus to rescue Hermes from Hades, which subsequently put Ares, Wonder Woman's old foe, in charge of the Underworld. On the bright side, in this process, Diana regained both her sight and the life of the boy Medousa turned to stone.

Shortly after this is where things get even stickier. Wonder Woman was attacked by a mind controlled Superman, and was forced to kill the villian responsible, which was then broadcast to the entire world, making it appear as if Wonder Woman killed a civillian in cold blood. The responsible heroine she is, Diana answered for her crimes, submitting herself to incarceration and trial at the Hague. Before her trial, a legion of killer Cyborgs attacked her home island, Themyscira, in an attempt to get to her. The Amazons responded by unleashing a death ray against the attackers, killing the innocent hosts inside the cybernetic shells. Diana then told the amazons that they must again withdraw from Man's world, and the island was hidden from the world again, leaving Diana alone to face her attackers. Without a country, she was now a fugitive, and her embassy closed, and her gods abandoned the world. And then she faced her greatest foe ever...

Cancellation.

I was a little bummed, since the only other DC book I read (Flash) was canceled as well. New volumes of each start in the summer, but they'll probably be drastically changed in DC's new "shake up the status quo to sell more comics" crossover. Diana's come along way from her bondage queen sex kitten origins, and I'd be upset if she's not represented well. We'll see, I suppose.