I have a great many buttons on my bookbag, some political, some decorative. As I was waiting in line for my coffee this morning, a woman behind me said how much she liked my Pro-Choice button. I turned around to say thank you, and as I turned and she saw my belly, she [...]
Thank goodness!
I’ll admit to being in the puzzled camp over this one. I don’t really see that he’s done enough yet to deserve it. I have great hopes that he will deserve it eventually, but I just don’t see it yet. Ah well.
I know, I know, moral high ground and all that, but damn it, this is just fabulous.
Apparently the jury selection lists are several years old, since the county decided to send my jury summons to my maiden name at my parents’ house. I called them up and got it corrected though. I thought about deferring until after January 1, (my service date is December 22) but decided against it. [...]
You probably have to be an Oregonian to understand the warm, fuzzy feeling this gives me.
The issue of gay marriage has suddenly become very personal to me since I got married. This is not to say that I didn’t care about equality before, but that it matters to me in a personal way now that it didn’t really connect to before. I’m a woman, and I fell in [...]
On the bus this morning, there was a man asking everyone where they were last night, and how they’d been celebrating. He asked me if I was excited, and I told him that I’d barely been able to stop crying, and that I was afraid to go to sleep last night because I was [...]
I’m crying so much I can’t type well. Oh my god. Oh my god.
I am so tired of being a cynic. I want to be able to believe in this.