California can stay.

Dailykos advises us to read page 36.

Proposition 8 reasonably must be interpreted in a limited fashion as eliminating only the right of same-sex couples to equal access to the designation of marriage, and as not otherwise affecting the constitutional right of those couples to establish an officially recognized family relationship.

If that's not a "fuck you, h8ers" from California's Supreme Court...

It's more slyly dismissive than "here's one in the eye", and will be crushing to the people who want it to be legally called "marriage". But from a human rights standpoint, oh yes baby. Oh yes.

Reception.

It took a while, but I made a sensible decision regarding the reception issue in my apartment. For those not familiar, I have approximately a spherical foot (more or less, often less) of reliable reception in my apartment. This has resulted in me adopting a peculiar elbow-on-desk pose to hold my phone in the right place without moving, which is really an unwise choice for conversations that can easily take an hour.

My brain finally caught up with the rest of me, and then it was only a matter of finding something of the appropriate height, and figuring out where my headset was.





Upon examining the bottom of what has been known as "the fish" since sorcha007 first produced it as a vessel in which to hold laundry quarters, I realized that I had in fact been classifying it incorrectly since Day 1. "The fish" is not, in fact, a vase. It is a (plastic, American) yard. This does much to explain why it is so extremely fucking ugly. (I've grown attached to it, for whatever reason. I'm unsure why.)

I did manage to call my best friend on Sunday, immediately after I accomplished my feat of telephonery. He was, however, watching a movie with his parents; he called back somewhat later, and we had a cheerful chat.

Guide Dog Aunt has successfully quit her job with the puppy daycare, and is now launching out into business on her own. Her first official client is an agoraphobic Dalmatian. This made it into the conversation, and we came up with several bad phobias for particular breeds of dog to have. (Warning, these are not even bad puns; they're just very lame.)

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On marriage

leora has a request, one that I fell down on:

Give marriage to the people, not the churches.

70 tweets for 2009-5-27

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Tuesday, 2356: So it turns out my aunt has a small ulcer! Good to know!
• Tuesday, 2356: I'm at Pacifica - http://bkite.com/07SzG
• Wednesday, 0907: I like seeing email subjects "Fight back for marriage" that really mean "let people get married dammit".
• Wednesday, 0911: Aunt schooled me in in taking Sharp Park Road, Skyline Blvd, 280, and 92 to get to San Mateo from Pacifica & avoid 101.
• Wednesday, 0912: I was briefly jdn on the Dreamwidth support boards http://qdb.zhzh.org/dw/172 (screened answer, not approved, triumvirate ded of LOL)
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