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Vermont Legislature Overrides Gubernatorial Veto: and becomes the first state to legalize gay marriage through the legislature rather than the courts - taking the wind right out of the sails of the ACTIVIST JUDGES OMG!!!! whackjobs. Congratulations!

And congratulations to Iowa for getting rid of their marriage ban last week - Iowa! Iowa is doing better than motherfucking California!  - and apparently since they have a much more rigorous standard for constitutional amendments there, it is much more unlikely it will get overturned by ballot like it did here. Go them.

And congratulations to DC, which decided today not to legalize gay marriage, but to recognize gay marriages performed in other states. The lack of respect for the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution in regards to gay marriage is sickening and hypocritical, and DC finally owned up and tossed it out. Go them. It's a good step, even if it's not good enough.

California may have been epic fail this year, but more and more it feels like they voted on the losing side of history - gay marriage, thank the goddess, is starting to look like an inevitability. Which is good - I do not want to live in a country that treats a whole huge group of people like second class citizens.

PS: Weed Smells Awful

My room smells like weed. Which is quite odd, since neither I nor roommate smoke it. Dear Other Person In My Dorm: if you are making other people's rooms smell bad, you are SMOKING TOO MUCH WEED.

Just found out that roommate is not going with her parents to China for a week, and I am very disappointed. It would have been nice to have the room to myself - and even nicer not to have her friends coming over all the time and bugging me.  But hey, what can I do? I can hardly kick her out and shove her on a plane just so I can get a little privacy.

Bah, I think I've got some kind of virus or something - I don't feel bad so much as off. Just...headachey and wobbly and really worn-down and just not right. I decided last night I was feeling bad enough to skip class today, which was probably a good choice, because I ended up sleeping for fourteen hours - went to bed at 10.30 and got up at 12.30! - so I think I maybe needed the sleep. And I didn't do anything at all today - just went to lunch and then bummed around reading all afternoon - and I still want a nap. D: I think I'll go to bed early again tonight, maybe that will get me back to normal.

Why Yes I Am Twelve

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I could only call her name

by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Since in Karu lived my wife,
I wished to be with her to my heart's content;
But I could not visit her constantly
Because of so many watching eyes--
Men would know of our troth,
Had I sought her too often.
So our love remained secret like a rock-pent pool;
I cherished her in my heart,
Looking to after-time when we should be together,
And lived secure in my trust
As one riding a great ship.
Suddenly there came a messenger
Who told me she was dead--
Was gone like a yellow leaf of autumn
Dead as the day dies with the setting sun,
Lost as the bright moon is lost behind the cloud
Alas, she is no more, whose soul
Was bent to mine like the bending seaweed.

When the word was brought to me
I knew not what to do nor what to say;
But restless at the mere news,
And hoping to heal my grief
Even a thousandth part,
I journeyed to Karu and searched the market place
Where my wife was wont to go!

There I stood and listened
But no voice of her I heard,
Though the birds sang in the Unebi Mountains;
None passed by who even looked like my wife.
I could only call her name and wave my sleeve.