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busy times and red states
Feb. 11th, 2006 12:28 pmi just disappeared yesterday. it was great. i needed it. i didn't go to class, i slept in, i took a huge nap during the afternoon, and then chris and i hit the casino to play some poker. i played a little 3/6, a little 5/10, and i left the casino with 90 bucks more than i arrived with...so it was pretty shiny. i wasn't nearly productive enough, i had some intentions of trying to get work done yesterday, but that didn't happen at all. guess i have today and tomorrow to get everything else done for the week that i need to, since next week is a really long week.
no more updates on the job interview front of any substance... i found out that two of the three firms i hadn't heard back from have picked their interviewees, so i got dinged...eh well. if they don't like me, the heck with them anyway. :) i'll be shiny and snazzy for the ones who love me. i'm still waiting on one firm, reinart and rourke...who i really, really hope i get an interview with. they needed more materials this week, so they aren't releasing their picks until next week. i just want to get through these interviews, and do well at them, and find out about the pd's office, and find out about these jobs...i want to get this all set up.
other than that...so little going on. so little fun to talk about, since i've got so much to do on the fronts of school, job hunting, and mock trial. that's my life.
i did have a couple of Red State Moments on wednesday, though, when i was shopping. one was at the st. louis mills outlet mall. i was in the ladies' room, and there was a machine. it was clearly a condom machine--it wasn't a pad or tampon machine, it was a condom machine. but, it didn't contain condoms at all...it contained laffy taffy. i found that really, really disturbing! no birth control for you! here, have some candy!
then, on the way back from shopping, there was a billboard. it was a disturbing billboard. it was this billboard, except it says Feb. 25:
billboards? on the road? for ex-gay ministries? it's so disconcerting. apparently they are having some sort of conference here. it boils my blood, but i realised the futility of going to such and event and yelling back when i was in college. one of the christian groups, intervarsity or campus crusade or someone, brought an "ex-gay" to campus my third year of college to discuss how jesus turned him straight. it was heartening in the sense that there were more queers and allies there than people who believed in anti-homosexuality ministry. still...it's really hard to do anything to turn a person away from self-loathing in the clothing of religion, with the threat of hellfire hanging over their heads. they have to find out for themselves. i can't say that i can officially speak for God, because saying that would be horribly presumptuous on my part...but i have trouble believing in a loving supreme being who will eternally punish someone for sexual orientation, such a natural thing. the idea of these ex-gay ministries pains me...it seems like a way of using religion as a vehicle to co-opt people who are in a difficult place in their lives, coming to grips with being queer. it seems...disingenuous, like they're taking advantage.
and, on another note...my gosh. is it just me, or does she still trip your butch-dar? just a bit? don't tell me she doesn't look out there and still appreciate a nice pair of boobies.
now that i've sent myself to hell for the day, i'm done for now.
no more updates on the job interview front of any substance... i found out that two of the three firms i hadn't heard back from have picked their interviewees, so i got dinged...eh well. if they don't like me, the heck with them anyway. :) i'll be shiny and snazzy for the ones who love me. i'm still waiting on one firm, reinart and rourke...who i really, really hope i get an interview with. they needed more materials this week, so they aren't releasing their picks until next week. i just want to get through these interviews, and do well at them, and find out about the pd's office, and find out about these jobs...i want to get this all set up.
other than that...so little going on. so little fun to talk about, since i've got so much to do on the fronts of school, job hunting, and mock trial. that's my life.
i did have a couple of Red State Moments on wednesday, though, when i was shopping. one was at the st. louis mills outlet mall. i was in the ladies' room, and there was a machine. it was clearly a condom machine--it wasn't a pad or tampon machine, it was a condom machine. but, it didn't contain condoms at all...it contained laffy taffy. i found that really, really disturbing! no birth control for you! here, have some candy!
then, on the way back from shopping, there was a billboard. it was a disturbing billboard. it was this billboard, except it says Feb. 25:
billboards? on the road? for ex-gay ministries? it's so disconcerting. apparently they are having some sort of conference here. it boils my blood, but i realised the futility of going to such and event and yelling back when i was in college. one of the christian groups, intervarsity or campus crusade or someone, brought an "ex-gay" to campus my third year of college to discuss how jesus turned him straight. it was heartening in the sense that there were more queers and allies there than people who believed in anti-homosexuality ministry. still...it's really hard to do anything to turn a person away from self-loathing in the clothing of religion, with the threat of hellfire hanging over their heads. they have to find out for themselves. i can't say that i can officially speak for God, because saying that would be horribly presumptuous on my part...but i have trouble believing in a loving supreme being who will eternally punish someone for sexual orientation, such a natural thing. the idea of these ex-gay ministries pains me...it seems like a way of using religion as a vehicle to co-opt people who are in a difficult place in their lives, coming to grips with being queer. it seems...disingenuous, like they're taking advantage.
and, on another note...my gosh. is it just me, or does she still trip your butch-dar? just a bit? don't tell me she doesn't look out there and still appreciate a nice pair of boobies.
now that i've sent myself to hell for the day, i'm done for now.
