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It's winter and it is cold.
Nov. 9th, 2008 10:19 amI left the house yesterday intending to pick up my prescription and get groceries.
Instead, I picked up my prescription and took myself to breakfast at Daniels where I had eggs over easy, very crunchy hash browns, limp bacon, and a hot cup of earl gray tea with honey and cream.
While I waited to be served, I read Brisinger, which one of my students lent me. I am hoping to finish it by Tuesday, but it is a very long book. Sigh, He has told me there is character death in the book, so I am afraid. I have not looked to the end to see who bites it, but it damned well better not be Murtaugh. He is my favorite and he hasn't been in the story at all so far.
When i entered Daniels (which is a mom-n-pop restaurant in Kasson for anyone who is interested in knowing), I was amused to see several pairs of boots sitting in the entry way. It was then that I had intense regret for not having my camera with me. NOTHING says "small town, rural America" like several pairs of boots sitting in a restaurant's entry way and a half dozen or so men of various ages eating eggs and drinking coffee in their stocking feet.
It was so adorable--i wanted to go over and hug them all and say, "Do you know just how dang adorable you all are?"
I don't know why--but i have a feeling of such tenderness for all of my fellow members of mankind right now. I think it is the Obama victory, in part. I am just suffused with this feeling of HOPE. It is such a good feeling after eight years of the crushing stupidity of the Bush administration--and the last days of the campaign--looking at the very real possibility that freakin' sarah palin could be a heart beat from being the leader of the so-called free world--well....damn. If that had happened, I would have abandoned all hope entirely, I think.
I am disappointed with the vote that went against same-sex marriage. I really hate the term "gay." It cheapens and dehumanizes, i think. Like this is just a passing fancy for the people who are attracted to the same sex instead of an inborn, most likely genetically coded preference.
I reject the idea that God hates homosexuals every bit as much as I reject the idea that black people "bear the mark of Cain" and are cursed by God into servitude. Bullshit.
i would still like someone to show me specifically HOW same-sex marriages have a negative impact on opposite-sex marriages. I just don't see it.
My mother says voted for McCain Palin on two issues--gay rights and abortion. The other reason--that Obama is a black man and secretly a Muslim in league with terrorists because his name is OBAMA which sounds so much like OSAMA that they HAVE TO BE connected in some way--she did not speak to me.
My mother is not a bad person--in fact she is mostly a good person. Mostly. But she is ignorant. Not stupid--she is very intelligent. But she doesn't KNOW any black people nor does she know any gay or Muslim people. Therefore they are all the dark and scary OTHER to her. All the minions of Satan in her fundamentalist charismatic religious mind.
Sigh.
I hope that Obama can unite most of the people and make this country what it should be again. I want to feel like I am one of the "good guys" again, instead of an invader and an oppressor by association.
i hope the ones who are ignorant now are enlightened soon.
i hope i am able to do my part well to make the United States of America great again.
Instead, I picked up my prescription and took myself to breakfast at Daniels where I had eggs over easy, very crunchy hash browns, limp bacon, and a hot cup of earl gray tea with honey and cream.
While I waited to be served, I read Brisinger, which one of my students lent me. I am hoping to finish it by Tuesday, but it is a very long book. Sigh, He has told me there is character death in the book, so I am afraid. I have not looked to the end to see who bites it, but it damned well better not be Murtaugh. He is my favorite and he hasn't been in the story at all so far.
When i entered Daniels (which is a mom-n-pop restaurant in Kasson for anyone who is interested in knowing), I was amused to see several pairs of boots sitting in the entry way. It was then that I had intense regret for not having my camera with me. NOTHING says "small town, rural America" like several pairs of boots sitting in a restaurant's entry way and a half dozen or so men of various ages eating eggs and drinking coffee in their stocking feet.
It was so adorable--i wanted to go over and hug them all and say, "Do you know just how dang adorable you all are?"
I don't know why--but i have a feeling of such tenderness for all of my fellow members of mankind right now. I think it is the Obama victory, in part. I am just suffused with this feeling of HOPE. It is such a good feeling after eight years of the crushing stupidity of the Bush administration--and the last days of the campaign--looking at the very real possibility that freakin' sarah palin could be a heart beat from being the leader of the so-called free world--well....damn. If that had happened, I would have abandoned all hope entirely, I think.
I am disappointed with the vote that went against same-sex marriage. I really hate the term "gay." It cheapens and dehumanizes, i think. Like this is just a passing fancy for the people who are attracted to the same sex instead of an inborn, most likely genetically coded preference.
I reject the idea that God hates homosexuals every bit as much as I reject the idea that black people "bear the mark of Cain" and are cursed by God into servitude. Bullshit.
i would still like someone to show me specifically HOW same-sex marriages have a negative impact on opposite-sex marriages. I just don't see it.
My mother says voted for McCain Palin on two issues--gay rights and abortion. The other reason--that Obama is a black man and secretly a Muslim in league with terrorists because his name is OBAMA which sounds so much like OSAMA that they HAVE TO BE connected in some way--she did not speak to me.
My mother is not a bad person--in fact she is mostly a good person. Mostly. But she is ignorant. Not stupid--she is very intelligent. But she doesn't KNOW any black people nor does she know any gay or Muslim people. Therefore they are all the dark and scary OTHER to her. All the minions of Satan in her fundamentalist charismatic religious mind.
Sigh.
I hope that Obama can unite most of the people and make this country what it should be again. I want to feel like I am one of the "good guys" again, instead of an invader and an oppressor by association.
i hope the ones who are ignorant now are enlightened soon.
i hope i am able to do my part well to make the United States of America great again.
