Confusion, Calendars, and Rants.
Jan. 14th, 2004 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteOkay, so Mike is supposed to help me TOMORROW night. I guess I am kinda jumping the gun (again), and it's leavin' me a mite bit confused... They ask about Hours Employed at Richter's... does that mean total, or weekly, or what? I estimated it at around 96 total. As for AMC, well, the hours change every week there, and total hours... well, I'm still working there! So...
Plus I have to write/find a personal statement. I had a bunch written up a long time ago, but I'm not sure if I have them anymore. And since I'm trying to get into the Journalism program, whatever I say better be good-- concise, eloquent, and screaming "me." But I tend to babble, as you all know...
Still, I also leave things out. Like today, I hung out with Steph and Tobey. We all met late, since I had to get the transcripts and such. Of course, I forgot to swing by the post office, so grrr... I should wake up and leave extra early tomorrow to swing by the Fillmore branch or something.
We saw Calendar Girls at the Metreon; it was pretty funny, but I suppose I should have seen it with my mom, since it wasn't an "obnoxious teen" movie so much as a "nostalgic senior movie." And very British, might I add. I didn't know that-- I thought York meant NEW YORK. Ha. Ha. Shows how much I know. But it was good. Cute, even. Much with the angst-ness.
We went to Blondie's for lunch, and swung by the mall post-flick to grab snacks (well, dinner, by that time) at the food court; I had an overpriced Snapple and a bagel (I realize that I've been eating bagels on a rather regular basis for nearly 8 years now, isn't that kinda sad?) from that Sagafredo place. o_O Two of them within a 4 block radius, that's kinda Starbuck-sy of them, ain't it?
Huh. Joe just came over. Mostly talked about FFXI for several minutes, then he left. Yep. o_O Talk about bizarre.
Oh yes:
I don't know much about the possible ban on gay marriages, but I do have something to say to it, regardless of whether it actually happens or not.
If I were making a public speech in Washington D.C., it might go something like this:
Nearly 230 years ago, the forefathers of this country drafted a Constitution to regulate --not control-- this country's citizens. A government's job is to SERVE its citizens, not to control them-- but a Constitutional ban on gay marriages would do just that. Or make the attempt, anyway.
The First Amendment of the United States says: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...' and yet, by coming up with the idea to ban gay marriages, the government wishes to impose the beliefs of a prominent religion on the entire country! It is NO ONE'S place to play God, least of all the government's. And whether there is a higher being, spiritual power, heavenly male or female-- it shouldn't come into play when allowing two people in love to marry.
A marriage, by definiton is 'Any intimate or close union.' Some dictionaries like to throw in 'man and woman,' in there, but the whole point of marriage (do correct me if I'm "wrong") is that two people LOVE each other, want to spend the rest of their lives together, and make each other HAPPY. Who says that those two people have to be the same gender? No one. No one dictates who you can and cannot fall in love with, and it's simply not right to say that just because two people are of the same gender, they can't celebrate their love, a union of their feelings, by getting married.
A hundred years ago, it was frowned upon for people to marry out of their social class, let alone their religion or race. But nowadays, people get married to millionaires (heck, we have TV shows on that very subject!), princes marry teachers, Roman Catholics marry Jews, and Asians marry African-Americans-- the possibilities, the combinations are endless!
So if we don't bat an eye or raise a brow to people marrying out of their class, their race, or their religion, why should we even think to care when people marry INSIDE their own gender? Marriage, after all, isn't [supposed to be] about money or getting a Green Card, it's about two people making each other happy, complementing and contrasting one another, loving and caring for one another, REGARDLESS of the circumstances.
Is it not enough that, through the government, we've given ourselves the "right" to kill others, but now we're considering having the "right" to ban one's feelings for another? This is sheer ludicrousness.
I'm hungry, but there's seriously nothing I'm craving at the moment. So I probably won't eat, and what does that end up doing to your body? Euch.
Plus I have to write/find a personal statement. I had a bunch written up a long time ago, but I'm not sure if I have them anymore. And since I'm trying to get into the Journalism program, whatever I say better be good-- concise, eloquent, and screaming "me." But I tend to babble, as you all know...
Still, I also leave things out. Like today, I hung out with Steph and Tobey. We all met late, since I had to get the transcripts and such. Of course, I forgot to swing by the post office, so grrr... I should wake up and leave extra early tomorrow to swing by the Fillmore branch or something.
We saw Calendar Girls at the Metreon; it was pretty funny, but I suppose I should have seen it with my mom, since it wasn't an "obnoxious teen" movie so much as a "nostalgic senior movie." And very British, might I add. I didn't know that-- I thought York meant NEW YORK. Ha. Ha. Shows how much I know. But it was good. Cute, even. Much with the angst-ness.
We went to Blondie's for lunch, and swung by the mall post-flick to grab snacks (well, dinner, by that time) at the food court; I had an overpriced Snapple and a bagel (I realize that I've been eating bagels on a rather regular basis for nearly 8 years now, isn't that kinda sad?) from that Sagafredo place. o_O Two of them within a 4 block radius, that's kinda Starbuck-sy of them, ain't it?
Huh. Joe just came over. Mostly talked about FFXI for several minutes, then he left. Yep. o_O Talk about bizarre.
Oh yes:
I don't know much about the possible ban on gay marriages, but I do have something to say to it, regardless of whether it actually happens or not.
If I were making a public speech in Washington D.C., it might go something like this:
Nearly 230 years ago, the forefathers of this country drafted a Constitution to regulate --not control-- this country's citizens. A government's job is to SERVE its citizens, not to control them-- but a Constitutional ban on gay marriages would do just that. Or make the attempt, anyway.
The First Amendment of the United States says: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...' and yet, by coming up with the idea to ban gay marriages, the government wishes to impose the beliefs of a prominent religion on the entire country! It is NO ONE'S place to play God, least of all the government's. And whether there is a higher being, spiritual power, heavenly male or female-- it shouldn't come into play when allowing two people in love to marry.
A marriage, by definiton is 'Any intimate or close union.' Some dictionaries like to throw in 'man and woman,' in there, but the whole point of marriage (do correct me if I'm "wrong") is that two people LOVE each other, want to spend the rest of their lives together, and make each other HAPPY. Who says that those two people have to be the same gender? No one. No one dictates who you can and cannot fall in love with, and it's simply not right to say that just because two people are of the same gender, they can't celebrate their love, a union of their feelings, by getting married.
A hundred years ago, it was frowned upon for people to marry out of their social class, let alone their religion or race. But nowadays, people get married to millionaires (heck, we have TV shows on that very subject!), princes marry teachers, Roman Catholics marry Jews, and Asians marry African-Americans-- the possibilities, the combinations are endless!
So if we don't bat an eye or raise a brow to people marrying out of their class, their race, or their religion, why should we even think to care when people marry INSIDE their own gender? Marriage, after all, isn't [supposed to be] about money or getting a Green Card, it's about two people making each other happy, complementing and contrasting one another, loving and caring for one another, REGARDLESS of the circumstances.
Is it not enough that, through the government, we've given ourselves the "right" to kill others, but now we're considering having the "right" to ban one's feelings for another? This is sheer ludicrousness.
I'm hungry, but there's seriously nothing I'm craving at the moment. So I probably won't eat, and what does that end up doing to your body? Euch.
