Me? Nervous? Uh....
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selenayIn less that twelve hours, I will be on a plane to England. Squee!
I'm sort of packed. There's stuff in my case and I've got some odds and ends to add to it (toiletries, medication, that kind od thing) but I'm sure that I'll find I've forgotten something. Definitely not socks, though. I've got lots of socks.
My hand luggage is a small stack of stuff on top of the case that I will sort out when I get home. I'm slightly concerned because, despite having an iPod, iPad and Kindle, my collection of chargers seems smaller than normal.
I'm working today, which is good because it prevents me unpacking and repacking my case a billion times.
I am, admittedly, a little dense sometimes. Things go past me and I wonder what I've missed. However, could someome please explain this to me.
Where is the logic in saying that gay marriage is wrong because you want to encourage and support monogamous relationships. WTF?
My brain boggles every time John Setamu opens is mouth. Seriously, if you're all about monogamous committed relationships propping up society then supporting gay marriage is a no-brainer, I would have thought. Does he honestly not get the fact that a gay marriage is going to be as monogamous and committed as a straight one?
I'm...I have no words. There is so much logic fail that I can't properly express how badly this argument breaks my brain.
Last week, my boss commented that it must be nice to be a morning person. I almost laughed hysterically at him. Morning people get up and are cheerful and happy to see times that exist before 8am. They are coherent and capable of basic tasks shortly after arising.
I mainly communicate in grunts and moans until I've had my first cup of coffee (or three) and the reason that I always put the coffee pot together before bed is because I am so incredibly incapable of basic tasks before my caffeine fix. You would not believe how many ways I've found to screw up the coffee maker. Waking up is a bitch and I need two seperate alarm clocks just to get me awake enough to stumble out of bed.
Me, a morning person? *laughs hysterically*
This conversation arose because we were discussing a proposed change to my hours that I am hoping will kick in when I get back from my vacation. I'll be starting half an hour earlier, finishing a few minutes later and getting every other Friday off. I'm not a morning person, I just don't want all my extra time to be done in the evening and eliminating all my free time.
I am so psyched about this alternate Fridays off thing.
Plan for tonight is to get home and hit the exercise bike for 45 minutes then have a quick shower and finish packing everything. I've got some stuff out for supper that just needs popping in the oven and some veggies nuking so hopefully that will all be done and cleared away well before my ride to the airport arrives.
Due to panic and craziness, I'm getting to the airport nearly three hours before my flight even though I will have checked in online the moment I get home. Hopefully that means I'll be there before the bar closes so that I can get a glass of wine. I'm currently experiencing a phase that I call Total Insomniac Who Only Sleeps Four Hours A Night so I doubt that I'll sleep on the plane, but I'm sort of hoping that the wine might help me doze a wee bit.
Oh god, this day is so long.
Ways to tell the Avengers thing is getting out of control: despite the trashing it got in the comic reviews, you have the first two issues of the Black Widow prequel on your iPad (thank you Comixology) and got overly excited at the prospect of a Hawkeye comic starting in August.
I'm sort of packed. There's stuff in my case and I've got some odds and ends to add to it (toiletries, medication, that kind od thing) but I'm sure that I'll find I've forgotten something. Definitely not socks, though. I've got lots of socks.
My hand luggage is a small stack of stuff on top of the case that I will sort out when I get home. I'm slightly concerned because, despite having an iPod, iPad and Kindle, my collection of chargers seems smaller than normal.
I'm working today, which is good because it prevents me unpacking and repacking my case a billion times.
I am, admittedly, a little dense sometimes. Things go past me and I wonder what I've missed. However, could someome please explain this to me.
Where is the logic in saying that gay marriage is wrong because you want to encourage and support monogamous relationships. WTF?
My brain boggles every time John Setamu opens is mouth. Seriously, if you're all about monogamous committed relationships propping up society then supporting gay marriage is a no-brainer, I would have thought. Does he honestly not get the fact that a gay marriage is going to be as monogamous and committed as a straight one?
I'm...I have no words. There is so much logic fail that I can't properly express how badly this argument breaks my brain.
Last week, my boss commented that it must be nice to be a morning person. I almost laughed hysterically at him. Morning people get up and are cheerful and happy to see times that exist before 8am. They are coherent and capable of basic tasks shortly after arising.
I mainly communicate in grunts and moans until I've had my first cup of coffee (or three) and the reason that I always put the coffee pot together before bed is because I am so incredibly incapable of basic tasks before my caffeine fix. You would not believe how many ways I've found to screw up the coffee maker. Waking up is a bitch and I need two seperate alarm clocks just to get me awake enough to stumble out of bed.
Me, a morning person? *laughs hysterically*
This conversation arose because we were discussing a proposed change to my hours that I am hoping will kick in when I get back from my vacation. I'll be starting half an hour earlier, finishing a few minutes later and getting every other Friday off. I'm not a morning person, I just don't want all my extra time to be done in the evening and eliminating all my free time.
I am so psyched about this alternate Fridays off thing.
Plan for tonight is to get home and hit the exercise bike for 45 minutes then have a quick shower and finish packing everything. I've got some stuff out for supper that just needs popping in the oven and some veggies nuking so hopefully that will all be done and cleared away well before my ride to the airport arrives.
Due to panic and craziness, I'm getting to the airport nearly three hours before my flight even though I will have checked in online the moment I get home. Hopefully that means I'll be there before the bar closes so that I can get a glass of wine. I'm currently experiencing a phase that I call Total Insomniac Who Only Sleeps Four Hours A Night so I doubt that I'll sleep on the plane, but I'm sort of hoping that the wine might help me doze a wee bit.
Oh god, this day is so long.
Ways to tell the Avengers thing is getting out of control: despite the trashing it got in the comic reviews, you have the first two issues of the Black Widow prequel on your iPad (thank you Comixology) and got overly excited at the prospect of a Hawkeye comic starting in August.
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Date: 2012-05-18 04:48 pm (UTC)Ways to tell the Avengers thing is getting out of control: despite the trashing it got in the comic reviews, you have the first two issues of the Black Widow prequel on your iPad...
I don't read the reviews, so I wasn't aware of it having had a trashing. :-) The second issue arrived yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading it at some time. :-)
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Date: 2012-05-18 04:56 pm (UTC)I don't read the reviews, so I wasn't aware of it having had a trashing. :-)
The reviews were mostly commenting on how the first issues played into some of the more unfortunate stereotypes and wasn't suitable for young girls who wanted more Black Widow, which is why I'm ignoring them. Those same reviewers didn't like the first issue of Avengers Assemble because it opened too many questions and didn't resolve everything by page 22. I liked that issue and have got the rest to read so I think their opinions may be invalid.
Mostly I ignore reviews of stuff unless it gives me reason to think I'll get squicked.
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Date: 2012-05-18 09:06 pm (UTC)Could you be using the same charger for multiple items and that's why it seems like you have fewer than you should? (And were you the one I was having the discussion with about a new Kindle having come with a power cord but not a USB cord? Because not long ago I was unplugging my power cord and the plug end pulled off and turned out to have a USB connector underneath -- a dual-purpose cord, for data or power.)
I like coming back to the premise that a lot of the people who feel that gay marriage is a threat to marriage as an institution are the ones with a really strongly conservative heteronormative view of what marriage means, where the wife should be at home tending the kids and doing housework (or at least should be making sure her paid employment doesn't interfere with her wifely duties along those lines) while the husband is there to provide financial support, discipline, and leadership for the family unit. And the inherent threat is that a same-sex marriage proves that two adults can create a lasting relationship of equals, deciding how to manage home and finances and raise children and handle crises as a team, assigning tasks and duties based on personal tastes and abilities rather than as part of strict gender-based roles -- and everything can work that way, everyone can be happy and the kids are no more screwed up than the kids of straight parents, and it's not actually damaging society. And that's scary because they're having a hard enough time keeping their wives and daughters in those roles without giving them ideas of how things could be different.
But that's me having found a structural framework of ideas that I like. In some homophobes there's closeted self-hatred or a squick factor at what they imagine homosexuals do with each other -- or applying a gender-essentialist view of human sexual behavior and buying into the idea that men are naturally inclined to promiscuity and need the bonds of marriage to tame them into domesticity, in which case what hope do two men have to creating a stable monogamous partnership without that civilizing influence of a wife (and children)?
Bigotry depends on ignorance. These tend to be the viewpoints of people who really don't know any gay couples IRL (that they know of) and don't "know" anything but what they've told by people playing on fear and hatred to steer people with.
I still need to sit down and actually make use of my Marvel digital subscription -- so far I've had it for several weeks and only sat down to read comics with it on a single evening.