Go West Young Nerd
Thursday, June 30, 2005
We salute our Locutus of Blog, Abra, as she joins the ranks of the
graduated and begins her life in Seattle. We send her off with open
hearts and our warmest of wishes. Take luck and enjoy your adventures,
NerdyGirl, but remember we are only a blog post away.
Please do not hesitate to call or write. While the miles between us will be felt as you are missed, you will never be far from my heart. *Smooches*
posted by ZEUS @ 9:07 AM, No comment,
HAPPY GAY PRIDE WEEK
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
And does anyone know why we celebrate Gay Pride in June?
Awards for most creative, most thought provoking, and to the first straight person to get it right.
Rules - play nice. My Bigot license is still good!
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Interview Game Part II
Friday, June 17, 2005
Rules can be found here.
1) Jai Rodriguez, Daniel Radcliffe, or Brad Pitt? No, Zeus, you can only choose one. And you must tell the other two why they are NOT being selected.
- At first I only thought you gave me one name, I had to read it three times to find the other two. On well, let's get with the dispensing of the flower. Daniel, I am sorry, truly. Someday you will be a very pretty man and someone will think you are datable. On age alone however, you are the weakest link - goodbye. Brad. Sweet Brad. I know Jim really really wants you to be gay, but you have just been with too many women for me. And I could never be with a man who cheated on his ex. Jai, you are romantic, passionate, good looking, sweet and you have a beautiful sense of humor - will you please accept this rose?
2) You decide to kill RJ. How would you do it?
- Hire the 6 Merry Murderesses of the Crook County Jail to perform the entirity of the cell block tango.
3) Congratulations! You got away with it! What (and/or whom) do you do now?
- See #1.
4) Sadly, the whole lawyer thing just doesn't work out. What do you do with your life and career now?
- Find an organization like the HRC, GLAAD, or even GPAC to hire me and devote the rest of my life to activism. Who knows, I may skip trying the lawyer thing and go straight for this anyway. I think I would also really love being a PAID queer student programmer at a major university.
5) You must move. NOW. Where would you go and who are your neighbors? The good news is that you inherit a modest amount of money, so money is not an issue (but you AIN'T a Kennedy, either, Ms. Thang).
- Ideally, no neighbors. I would buy a nice decently sized cabin in the mountains and use some of the money to buy a helicopter and invest the rest to pay the pilot's salary and upkeep on the copter. Alternatively, I hear Ellen's neighbors are selling their place.
posted by ZEUS @ 9:17 AM, No comment,
The Interview Game
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Here are The Official Interview Game Rules:
1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying "interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person's will be different.
3. You will update your journal/blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Questions from Linus
1) MTA or LD?
- MTA, MTA, MTA... Seriously, the MTA at least do what they are supposed to and do it regularly. While LD are fun, they are a pain in the arse to make work. I still have two LD in my bag that don't function properly after baking twice. MTA are more leisurely, more forgiving, and their paths are more fun to watch. (I wonder what this looks like to someone who doesn't know what I am talking about)
2) The vibrator gets, um...lost. What do you do?
- First you get some lube, the good stuff. Start the Lamaze breathing exercises. Put the lube.. not there damn it, you are getting ahead of me! Here, let me show you. There. Then you've got to stick that... HEY, not so hard you may make things worse! Continue Lamaze breathing. Call midwife. Midwife faints. More Lamaze. Push honey, almost there. Get pliers. Free your toy. Clean up. Revive Midwife. Behold the power of cheese.
3) Choose only one: Emmett, Teddy, or Michael?
- No contest. Michael! He is cute, has a great sense of humor, is always smiling, has a kick ass mom, is still in touch with his childhood in a healthy way, and has a certain nerdy charm. Emmett is too flamboyant and Teddy is just too old and dependent on others.
4) What's the secret ingredient in your favorite bread recipe?
- Tradition. The only bread recipe I can get to do much at all is my mother's. AND it is great as a bread, in cabbage buns, for making cinnimon rolls...etc... you get the idea.
5) Given that we live in the Siberia of the Americas, what is the perfect romantic date?
- First, after calling my brother and him telling me about the weather in North Dakota, I am not convinced that we live in the Siberia of the Americas. However, accepting your premise... I would love to surprised by a rented cabin in the winter (spring break maybe) where we could spend time together, laying in front of the fire while it snows outside, just the two of us. Camping in the summer also ok - but not without a tent.
posted by ZEUS @ 10:12 AM, No comment,
IT'S RAINING MEN.....
Thursday, June 09, 2005
..... I WISH!
3:00 I walk to the Union to take Linus a book. It is drizzling a little so I take my coat, but leave my umbrella.
3:05 I get to the union. My shoes squeak, but no worse for wear.
3:10 I leave the union. It is raining still, but only slightly more so. I call Khristian.
3:11:15 The sky opens up on me. Khristian starts laughing uncontrollably. And says they can "pick me up." By now I am closer to my office than I would be if they dropped me off on the street.
3:12 I take shelter under a tree, water runs off my head and over my sunglasses in such a way that I cannot see.
3:12:45 Sleet
3:15 I make a mad dash for my office. A sprinkler crosses my path. Oh Joy! *heavy sarcasm*
3:20 I am back at the office.
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Paper towels - provided by the job.
New (now rain-soaked) sneakers - $15.00 on sale.
Re-thinking the umbrella while your co-workers laugh at you - Priceless!
posted by ZEUS @ 3:33 PM, No comment,
PRIDE
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Today is the first day of June. However, for me and my "family" it signals the beginning of another month - PRIDE month. I think for as long as I have been out I have heard criticisms about "gay pride." Some of them have even come from me. "How can anyone be proud to be gay, when society frowns upon it so." One voice retorts. Another, possibly even from a former me, echoes, "I am not like those other gays, not flamboyant 24/7, not a slut, not any stereotype really."
About two years ago in June I finally found an answer for those comments. I had something to tell the people making them. Gay PRIDE is not about, necessarily, being proud of being gay, although it can be. Gay PRIDE isn't about being stereotypical, or a good chance to hit 5 bars in one night. One knows that such things can be easier when the town isn't full of people who rarely make the trip. Although, for some, sexual liberation is precisely what they are celebrating as they climb into flatbed floats in nothing but a cowboy hat and a thong.
This leads me to what Gay PRIDE IS. Gay PRIDE IS real. Gay PRIDE comes from deep inside, and thus it is different for everyone. But on a higher level, Gay PRIDE is the same too. Community wide, Gay PRIDE seems to be about celebrating the things we do have. We have friends whom some of us hold closer than our own flesh and blood. We are bound in ways many will never understand. PRIDE is a celebration of what that means to each of us, and how it affects us.
To me, Gay PRIDE is having a sense of pride in who I am. Who I have been, and who I will be. Most importantly the way in which they come together to produce who I AM. I AM a social being. So I will celebrate with friends. I have friends who prefer to celebrate alone. I will miss them. I know straight people. Some of them will join me, others will not.
I will celebrate my accomplishments. I finished a year of law school. I was nominated for the President's Advisory Council on Minority and Women's Affairs. AIDS Walk raised more money than ever before. Grace moved to Laramie. And I was on my first bowling team in almost 10 years. I have a lot to be PROUD of, and I am gay.
posted by ZEUS @ 9:37 PM, No comment,
