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Apr. 24th, 2008 12:01 am- 08:19 @coffeechica By that time I had already left for work anyway! #
- 09:07 Caved to air conditioning. Maybe now I can sleep. #
- 17:54 @thette yes it is! #
Daily randomness of Miss Lunatic
Apr. 14th, 2008 11:56 pm- 04:49 Her Nibs is *glowing* at me in the living room. (Nibiki-chan is to be spayed later today, and is angry in the cat-carrier.) #
- 05:36 Exhausted like a hammer to the head. Cat still mad, but with dawn comes less disconcerting glowing. Have nightgown, ice bottle, bed. #
- 14:37 Post-taxes, got scolded by roommate for not doing taxes sooner. Getting refund in any case, yay! #
- 15:01 @afuna is there not a 'choose items randomly' checkbox on your iPod sync screen in iTunes? There is in mine... #
- 15:50 Have looked into queue. Queue has looked back. #
- 16:09 I am stubbornly refusing to cave to air conditioning, despite 80°F+ temperatures. We'll see how long this lasts. Ice water ftw. #
- 18:50 @afuna I enjoyed www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ & read it for entertainment during slow moments at work. #
Plasma took three hours, more or less. I left here by 10:30, scorching my shorts-clad seat on the seat of the car, and playing hot-potato with the Arizona sunlit steering wheel. I had neglected to set up the Car Fondue properly, alas; I'd been planning on setting a container of chocolate chips in the car and leaving it there all day, but I somehow lacked the general energy to do that. There was an hour wait at plasma for screening, then my pulse was too high, so another fifteen minutes, and then by the time I was properly settled in the bed for plasma, I was almost out of Magic's Promise. The alternative was watching Dodgeball. I started in for an immediate turn-around of a re-read. I didn't start off for home until 1:30, which was not at all in my schedule for the day. Turns out that the nice mid-thirties phlebotomist fellow who kids around with me, the stocky pale guy with the small beard who works the lab, up front, and the floor, not only had a recent birthday, but is also a gamer. One of us, then. *grin* We geeked a bit. That was fun.
The car had gotten grungy from sitting around under places where birds perch, and in Phoenix with pollen and dust in general. I stopped in the parking lot at the designated car wash point and gave the thing a good hose-off. (Did I mention my apartment has a place and hose designated for car wash? How cool is that?) This got my shoes soaked and muddy, and me just plain soaked.
( My plans for a relaxing but productive afternoon had been delayed... )
The car had gotten grungy from sitting around under places where birds perch, and in Phoenix with pollen and dust in general. I stopped in the parking lot at the designated car wash point and gave the thing a good hose-off. (Did I mention my apartment has a place and hose designated for car wash? How cool is that?) This got my shoes soaked and muddy, and me just plain soaked.
( My plans for a relaxing but productive afternoon had been delayed... )
(unfinished, unsent letter to congressman)
Sep. 1st, 2004 11:59 pm2004 Sept 01
Dear Congressman Shadegg,
The tone of your letter in response to my feedback on the proposed Constitutional amendment in "defense" of marriage erroneously assumes that I am opposed to same-sex marriage.
I have gladly accepted and have been prepared to honor the idea of a marriage between any couple willing to commit themselves to each other as long as I have comprehended what marriage was. This includes a marriage between members of the same sex.
As the devoted "aunt" and full-time guardian of an eight-year-old child, I can tell you from personal experience that it is love, time, attention, devotion, and serious commitment that are required to raise a happy, healthy, and morally upstanding child. The mere perpetuation of the species requires a man and a woman, but in no way requires the social and financial contract that is marriage.
If you truly wish to defend marriage, look to the divorce rate. Why deny same-sex couples the possibility of boosting the sacred institution that 43 to 50%* of opposite-sex married couples are fleeing? Marriage is a powerful commitment that should not be entered into lightly, and no one realizes that more powerfully than the same-sex couples who are denied it.
I do agree that children need to be raised in a stable household and taught right from wrong. I am happy to report that our household started out with a broke single mother and a broke college student and a toddler in 2001, and now features nearly a 100% rise in income, reliable --
* statistics courtesy of www.divorcereform.org
(Letter goes on to next page at this point; next page is somewhere missing)
Dear Congressman Shadegg,
The tone of your letter in response to my feedback on the proposed Constitutional amendment in "defense" of marriage erroneously assumes that I am opposed to same-sex marriage.
I have gladly accepted and have been prepared to honor the idea of a marriage between any couple willing to commit themselves to each other as long as I have comprehended what marriage was. This includes a marriage between members of the same sex.
As the devoted "aunt" and full-time guardian of an eight-year-old child, I can tell you from personal experience that it is love, time, attention, devotion, and serious commitment that are required to raise a happy, healthy, and morally upstanding child. The mere perpetuation of the species requires a man and a woman, but in no way requires the social and financial contract that is marriage.
If you truly wish to defend marriage, look to the divorce rate. Why deny same-sex couples the possibility of boosting the sacred institution that 43 to 50%* of opposite-sex married couples are fleeing? Marriage is a powerful commitment that should not be entered into lightly, and no one realizes that more powerfully than the same-sex couples who are denied it.
I do agree that children need to be raised in a stable household and taught right from wrong. I am happy to report that our household started out with a broke single mother and a broke college student and a toddler in 2001, and now features nearly a 100% rise in income, reliable --
* statistics courtesy of www.divorcereform.org
(Letter goes on to next page at this point; next page is somewhere missing)
