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colourofsaying !!!!May. 6th, 2009
Newsflash: Maine Is Cool
May. 6th, 2009 10:11 amThis Just Popped Up On My Radar.
Congratulations, gay people in Maine: you can has legal marriage now! I just...I...three states. THREE STATES IN A MOTHERFUCKING MONTH. Two through the legislature! Do you remember five years ago, when that would have been political anathema?
New Hampshire's waiting on their governor's signature. New York has started the process. New Jersey's talking about it. The Maine governor who signed used to be against gay marriage, but said today that he has ben forced to reconsider and change his mind. Washington, DC voted yesterday to recognize gay marriages performed in other states.
FUCK YOU CALIFORNIA. But you know, Prop 8, as awful as it was, turned out not to be the end of the world. Who would have thought on Nov 4 that things could change so quickly?
Congratulations, gay people in Maine: you can has legal marriage now! I just...I...three states. THREE STATES IN A MOTHERFUCKING MONTH. Two through the legislature! Do you remember five years ago, when that would have been political anathema?
New Hampshire's waiting on their governor's signature. New York has started the process. New Jersey's talking about it. The Maine governor who signed used to be against gay marriage, but said today that he has ben forced to reconsider and change his mind. Washington, DC voted yesterday to recognize gay marriages performed in other states.
FUCK YOU CALIFORNIA. But you know, Prop 8, as awful as it was, turned out not to be the end of the world. Who would have thought on Nov 4 that things could change so quickly?
If I stepped out of my body I would break
May. 6th, 2009 08:26 pmHalfway through the Week of Midterm Hell, and starting to see the light on the other side. I gave a presentation on Tuesday that went as well as presentations in a foreign language ever go - I think the only thing I really screwed up was inexplicably forgetting how to count people. Cause we haven't known how to do that for a year and a half. But I talked coherently about clubs at Stanford for three minutes, I didn't pause awkwardly too much, and I remembered to work in a lot of the new grammar stuff. Our midterm exam is tomorrow - all the stuff from chapter one of the Intermediate Japanese book (-- ばｔかり、ようになる、ことにする/なる、--てはじめて、-- にくい/やすい、 -- らしい、all that good stuff), plus a bunch of review stuff from last term, like transitive/intranstive, keigo, etc. Our sensei said it was pretty easy, so I'm not too worried - an hour or two of studying later and I should be fine.
Shocking to no one, I was up all night writing the draft of my second lit paper. Since this is my Writing in the Major class (ugh ugh why don't they have a prose option for this? Hate you, English department!), I have to turn in my papers a week before the due date and have a paper conference before I revise it. Draft was fairly rubbish - my main points are all there, and I think my analysis is okay, it's mostly that it doesn't have a conclusion or an introduction, mostly because I ran out of time and didn't want to risk submitting late. So not looking forward to paper conference. But at least it's in, and the revision will be a lot less stressful than writing a paper from scratch like the non-majors will be doing.
I am so unbelievably grateful to my religions prof for moving the due date of our midterm paper back to Monday. I'm pretty sure trying to get another paper done this week would have killed me - especially since I have work tomorrow, so I wouldn't even be able to start not-working on it until I got home at 10.00. Ew. I'm actually kind of looking forward to writing this paper - the topic's pretty nifty - but not tomorrow night. Professor B = Bestest prof ever <3333
I know Poetry Month is over, but that should never be an excuse not to post poetry! I wrote the first half of my paper last night on this poem, mostly because I have an enormous crush on the last two lines.
A Blessing by James Wright
Just off the Highway to Rochester, Minnesota
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.
Shocking to no one, I was up all night writing the draft of my second lit paper. Since this is my Writing in the Major class (ugh ugh why don't they have a prose option for this? Hate you, English department!), I have to turn in my papers a week before the due date and have a paper conference before I revise it. Draft was fairly rubbish - my main points are all there, and I think my analysis is okay, it's mostly that it doesn't have a conclusion or an introduction, mostly because I ran out of time and didn't want to risk submitting late. So not looking forward to paper conference. But at least it's in, and the revision will be a lot less stressful than writing a paper from scratch like the non-majors will be doing.
I am so unbelievably grateful to my religions prof for moving the due date of our midterm paper back to Monday. I'm pretty sure trying to get another paper done this week would have killed me - especially since I have work tomorrow, so I wouldn't even be able to start not-working on it until I got home at 10.00. Ew. I'm actually kind of looking forward to writing this paper - the topic's pretty nifty - but not tomorrow night. Professor B = Bestest prof ever <3333
I know Poetry Month is over, but that should never be an excuse not to post poetry! I wrote the first half of my paper last night on this poem, mostly because I have an enormous crush on the last two lines.
A Blessing by James Wright
Just off the Highway to Rochester, Minnesota
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.