Muslim =/= evil.

What is wrong with you people?

I am having to take fierce measures to deal with my attention span this afternoon.

Before I get back on the internet, I must at least get through page 315.

Damn it. I was going to print out my writing samples, but they're on my laptop. Which is currently dead and will remain so until I get my fucking power cord from Toshiba, which still apparently HASN'T SHIPPED IT.

>:O

I have apparently gone through yet another power cord. This one lasted me approx eleven months.

AND apparently we voted down the FIRE BOND. Are you KIDDING ME? We voted down giving necessary equipment to FIREFIGHTERS? Who the fuck votes against FIREFIGHTERS? I know we're a little strapped for cash right now, but ... firefighters!

BAH. I am putting on my last year's election T-shirt to sulk over former sanity from my local voters and going to class.

I do not even understand. How are we as a nation so overwhelmingly bigoted that we aren't ready for this? I'm used to thinking of legislatures as the last to get around to doing what's right because taking political risks is so frightening for them. I'm really upset about Maine, and also, even though I am pretty sure 71 is going to pass, I am really upset about the shape of the electoral map in Washington. How is this so close? How are so many counties voting to reject the measure by over 60%? Over 70%? How can an area which prides itself on its cranky independence of spirit and noninterventionist re: government be so willing to try and strip away the rights of other people who aren't doing them any harm?

What's really nauseating is that this vote isn't even on marriage. It's on civil unions rendered separate but equal rather than marriage for second class citizens. Washington has laws preventing discrimination on basis of sexual orientation and state constitutional protections for gender and this isn't even their precious spiritually laden word, their much-vaunted "institution". Voting against Referendum 71 is nothing more than an embrace of unthinking bigotry and hatred. And 60% of my county did it. My county, which went blue in the national election last year.

And that makes me sick. Because no one has ever, ever been able to give me a rational explanation of why gay marriage is wrong. Nobody has ever been able to give me a reasoned argument that explains why it is not okay for same sex partners to commit to each other in a civil ceremony in a nation that constitutionally embraces the separation of church and state.

I mean, I'm obviously really disappointed in Maine, and I know it is stupid to pull defeat from the jaws of victory. It looks like 71 will pass 51% to 48%. I'm just shocked by how close it is to call, and by how if it weren't for Seattle and Bellingham the entire state would be fucked. I really expected, if not a landslide, at least a strong victory. And I expected better from Spokane. Because we turned out the vote for change, but when it came to social justice, we just didn't give enough of a shit to fill out a ballot and pop it in the mailbox.

Eastern Washington liberals: too lazy to vote even in a state that doesn't make you leave your house.

Things I have accomplished today:

(1) Attended class.
(2) Picked up mail from vacation hold, organized bills.
(3) Paid Visa bill.
(4) Paid Macy's bill.
(5) Made car appointment for Wednesday at 10 AM.

I have also filled out my ballot except for the city council race which ... I have no idea who to vote for. Must actually look into who the hell these people are. I need to do trial advocacy prep for tonight and to check the syllabus for what the hell is going on in Federal Indian tomorrow morning...

Why will semagic not let me turn overtype off? Very upsetting!

In other news, I have the first disc of Supernatural waiting for me to watch it now. I am not sure whether to be trepidatious about this or not!

This morning the world looks wreathed in frost and it's still really dark. I woke up for no reason about two and a half hours ago and have been tossing and turning and dozing since. I feel really sort of ill and stressed and I don't even know what about -- I really want to just crawl back into bed and stay there until the icky feeling goes away. Instead, I am stumbling into my clothes and heading to my single solitary morning class. I've missed too much already and if I get a free license to skip agency & partnership every time I feel like shit in the morning, well...

I didn't even stay up late last night, is the aggravating thing.

I had big plans to spend this morning studying after class but I think it is going to be spent napping instead. I guess that afternoon RPing I was going to do will have to get shunted aside as well...

You know, I don't get twitter. Why do I need ANOTHER place to inflict my complete inanity on the world?

It is thirty two degrees right now.

>:

Well. My interview for the Court of Appeals locally is October 14th at 2 PM.

I am going to try not to spend the intervening nine days panicking.

Man, I hate waking up when it is still dark out.

Very strange dreams. Do not know what Ellen was doing in a room with President Obama. Nor do I know why he would be hitting on her.

In a word, WTF.

I am fighting a two-front war -- digestive tract and bronchial tubes.

If my cycle proves as regular this month as the last three ... it will soon be a three-front war.

My dad wants me to start exercising with him again. Oof. I was healthier when I was working out regularly. I should probably agree. But mannnnn. In my present condition it feels like the worst idea ever.

Things I have learned this weekend:

- It is easy to spend too much money when someone is in from out of town, even if it is my brother and I just saw him a month ago. We stopped and ate sushi on the way home from my picking him up from the airport. This was totally unplanned. Ow.
- Even when he is in town for Rosh Hashanah so we only spend money on the first day and a half of his visit prior to the holiday starting.
- Silver Age Sub-mariner comics are still completely amazing even when you can only read them in black and white. (Although Amazon did not have the Marvel Essentials book until several weeks after it was published, they charged me considerably less for it than I would have paid at the comic book shop. Why? IDK, but I'm not complaining.)
- Ultimate Alliance (the first one -- I am always centuries behind the gaming curve0 has pretty awesome co-op, but when one of your controllers does not have dual-shock capabilities, there are some IMBALANCE ISSUES in the party.
- Also, Arcade is a fucking jerk.
- I love comic books. Not really a new lesson so much as a reaffirmance.

You will note very little on this list that has anything to do with agency & partnership, international law, Federial Indian or trial advocacy. Hmmmm. Although I do keep trying to apply international law lessons to things such as, y'know ... relations between Atlantis and the United States. Or S.H.I.E.L.D. ...

I need more comic book icons. Also some breakfast. I'm hungry.

"If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck--"
"Why are you suing a duck?"
"Well, that's a question more lawyers should probably ask, right?"

You know, as much as weekends are insufficiently long, waiting to go to bed on Sunday night until after midnight does not actually help that much.

Damn it.

Fashion issues. My shirt is red and black, my skirt is black, my nylons are black and my little boots are black. My bag is ... very purple.

Er.

CAN YOU BELIEVE I HAVE EVEN TYPED THE ABOVE?

I've gotten a little behind in Federal Indian, so I need to get caught up before the next class on Thursday. In the meanwhile, the only class I have tomorrow is agency and partnership in the morning, so I'll take care of that reading first.

Except I just looked it up and it looks like I've already done that reading, so I guess I will move on and just work on Federal Indian today and International tomorrow. It's kind of mind boggling to me to have this much available time to do homework. I only got a little behind in FI because I failed at pushing myself to actually do the work yesterday.

So, my plan right now is to take a quick catnap, plow through as much of the Federal Indian as I can get through until my brain starts to shut down, then take a hot bath and read comics, and RP. Lindsey and I have started playing Kingdom Hearts II, but she has one of her Up With People friends around today so we probably won't be doing any more of that until tomorrow.

I ate delicious saag paneer and okra masala for lunch, and I have leftovers of both in the fridge to share with the stepmother when she gets home. And whatever she doesn't want I will eat later. Also there is still plenty of soup left. Next time I make that soup I am making sure to buy freaking tupperware of some kind.

Memo to self -- that's the off button, not the snooze button. It was the snooze button on the old phone. On the new phone, it is the off.

So, I overslept a bit and therefore have missed my first agency & partnership lecture.

Also, holy shit, Disney bought Marvel for four billion dollars.