HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Today is my man's b-day. Say HEY!
posted by ZEUS @ 4:33 PM, No comment,
Somebody.. please.. get me out of here!
This last weekend I did something for only the second time in my life, which I wish I had never done even once. I went to a bar in my home town. Some of you may not think this is a bad thing, until you realize that my home town was never a place I really felt like I fit in and that there are ant hills with greater populations than my home town. But, my brother is going through a bad breakup, so we went out to find him someone to hit on and more importantly toss back a few bottles. Here are the things I saw that I cannot unsee:
1) A all male band who plays ok, but can't carry a tune in a tune carrying bucket. Their first song of the evening was "Proud Marry." I especially LOVED the do do do do part where one of them was off key and the drums sped up.
2) I got to stand up against my brother's masculine ass-ness in a bar where HE not I had friends. That is always special.
3) I managed to see just about everyone I know from HS whom I am not sure graduated.
4) I may have hit on a guy in a small town bar - unintentionally - and trust me I didn't want to. Can we say "awkward?"
5) My brother spread eagle, passed out, on the floor level cot thing at grandma's so as to keep his bed from spinning.
6) My cousin's wife's wired pink top on the floor in what was to be MY bedroom.
All in all.. I did manage to have fun though!
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October
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Warning: because pop-up blockers and blogger don't get along, this is a second blog. The first cannot be replicated, and was (of coarse) better!
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With the beginning of the semester comes a terror so frightening it can be called only one thing - THE LAST MINUTE PLANS THAT SPRING UP REGARDING QUEER AWARENESS MONTH! I know, from having done this for the last 5 years, that during the month of September any combination of the following events will happen. (1) Someone will drop the ball on an event that is supposed to happen in 2 days leaving me holding the bag. (2) A performer will call with a problem with the payment, contract, or some other tiny detail that was overlooked until the night they show up.. or better yet.. they'll be late. (3) Someone will call, email, and/or randomly find me with a great idea for a brown-bag session that they want to do NEXT WEEK. (If the time is any shorter I draw and quarter them on the spot) (4) Or in general, some idiot will schedule the homecoming game for the weekend after National Coming Out day, making any programming I wanted to do for that Friday completely meaningless. (but hey.. we get to march in a parade!?!?)
I think someone needs to make a horror movie about this. I have seen people run screaming from what seems to be the ever increasing amount of things that NEED done to book a programmer. (Wouldn't it be nice if all ya had to do is call them and write a check?) The thought of even maybe having to say anything to more than 5 friends causes some people to shiver with abject terror. We could even paraphrase the Exercism of Emily Rose... "There are no injections against the [activism]."
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ummm.. yeah.. that
Thursday, September 08, 2005
So today Spectrum received what I believe to be the mother of all the - OMG that has to be the stupidest scam in the world - emails. Now I am sure most of this plays out much like the "I know the ex-wife of the brother's sister's niece's great-second-aunt-twice-removed of the Under-Minister of Nosehair Macrame and we have $5bill to send you in confederate currency" emails. However, this one seemed special enough to share.
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ATTENTION: Grant Beneficiary,
This is to bring to your information that your email has been randomly selected and approved as a charity grant beneficiary of THE DIANA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.You are awarded a grant sum of £2,598,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred And Ninety Eight Thousand Great Britain Pounds) and for further instructions on how you are to put claim to your grant, you are to FORWARD a copy of this notice to our International Grants Officer as well as give him a call via contact details below:...
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On being a victim
Friday, September 02, 2005
WARNING: The material in this post is extremely personal, and I am not convinced it makes sense or even comes close to dealing with what I am trying to say. I just needed to get it off my chest.. and I did.. SO THERE.
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It is amazing sometimes how something from your past can mix with the present and bring back feelings you don't entirely understand, or even know how to put into words. Such is the case with me, right now, and the things I am doing in my Domestic Violence class meshing with my life. Not only am I thinking about the lines between where Domestic Violence starts and ends, but something about right now is causing a lot of old relationship/friendship stuff to come to the surface in my psyche as well.
I (like many, I assume, because I like to think I am normal) have had several friendships, relationships in which people have told me to either "be careful" or "get out" because they didn't necessarily like the way I was being treated. This makes me wonder how much about someone's victim status is really self identified, or self assumed. I have never identified as a victim, or even a survivor for that matter. I guess the thing for me is that while my trust in others has caused me to let go of some power, I have never felt like I couldn't take it back. That I didn't take it back, or that it was ever inherently theirs. More thinking required.....
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