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prof_pangaeamy kitty is floppy. i think this is because wisconsin suddenly noticed that it's the middle of june and decided to start having some summer weather. yah i was wearing a sweater a few days ago.
good times were had last weekend at pridefest. i volunteered on saturday with FORGE and ended up offering free gay hugs to people who were upset/annoyed with the anti-gay protesters. i actually got to see their entire activity for the day -- they rolled up about quarter after 3 with a bunch of signs and leaflets and such. oh by the way i fucking love anyone and everyone involved in PFLAG. when i went to pride for the first time last year i was standing in line and a PFLAG counter-protester greeted me and i totally teared up a bit, cos she was there because she had a gay son and she wanted everyone to feel welcome and loved, and it was a really wonderful thing to feel that, especially cos of how rough things were for me at the time. if my mom was still alive i know she'd be one of those people. although she might have had a hard time not getting into a fight with the anti-gay protesters.
anyway! protesters rolled up, PFLAG peeps made sure to stand near them. i and my co-volunteer offered free gay hugs and it was good times. around an hour after the protesters showed up hand-painted signs started appearing in their midst, saying things like "SKORTS - SKIRTS OR SHORTS - DECIDE!", "RHUBARB - VEGETABLE OR FRUIT?" "SOCKS THEN SHOES!!", "EAT CHEERIOS - GOOD FOR CHOLESTEROL" "FISH SANDWICH - GIVE ME YOUR FISH!" after only about a half an hour of the ever-multiplying signs and slogans (everyone with the nonsense signs was VERY vociferous in yelling out their very important messages about breakfast cereal and socks and such) the anti-gay protesters finally just gave up and sort of confusedly retreated. i offered gay hugs to the protesters as they departed but only one person took me up on my awesome offer! she said i was funny. then she tried to tell me how jesus really loved me, to which i replied, "thanks, i know he does, that's why i'm here."
the other highlight was my friend jesse telling the mayor about how i'd been beat up earlier in the week. heh.
speaking of, my face is much better! bruising seems to be gone, and the swelling. still hurts a little when i open my mouth wide but that's it. don't seem to be getting the pain-induced headaches anymore either. hurrah! i got the compensationform from crime victim services a couple days ago as well. now i just need to actually, er, fill it out. yes.
btw, who is no one watching In Treatment? IT IS AMAZIN
*back to writing stuffs*
good times were had last weekend at pridefest. i volunteered on saturday with FORGE and ended up offering free gay hugs to people who were upset/annoyed with the anti-gay protesters. i actually got to see their entire activity for the day -- they rolled up about quarter after 3 with a bunch of signs and leaflets and such. oh by the way i fucking love anyone and everyone involved in PFLAG. when i went to pride for the first time last year i was standing in line and a PFLAG counter-protester greeted me and i totally teared up a bit, cos she was there because she had a gay son and she wanted everyone to feel welcome and loved, and it was a really wonderful thing to feel that, especially cos of how rough things were for me at the time. if my mom was still alive i know she'd be one of those people. although she might have had a hard time not getting into a fight with the anti-gay protesters.
anyway! protesters rolled up, PFLAG peeps made sure to stand near them. i and my co-volunteer offered free gay hugs and it was good times. around an hour after the protesters showed up hand-painted signs started appearing in their midst, saying things like "SKORTS - SKIRTS OR SHORTS - DECIDE!", "RHUBARB - VEGETABLE OR FRUIT?" "SOCKS THEN SHOES!!", "EAT CHEERIOS - GOOD FOR CHOLESTEROL" "FISH SANDWICH - GIVE ME YOUR FISH!" after only about a half an hour of the ever-multiplying signs and slogans (everyone with the nonsense signs was VERY vociferous in yelling out their very important messages about breakfast cereal and socks and such) the anti-gay protesters finally just gave up and sort of confusedly retreated. i offered gay hugs to the protesters as they departed but only one person took me up on my awesome offer! she said i was funny. then she tried to tell me how jesus really loved me, to which i replied, "thanks, i know he does, that's why i'm here."
the other highlight was my friend jesse telling the mayor about how i'd been beat up earlier in the week. heh.
speaking of, my face is much better! bruising seems to be gone, and the swelling. still hurts a little when i open my mouth wide but that's it. don't seem to be getting the pain-induced headaches anymore either. hurrah! i got the compensationform from crime victim services a couple days ago as well. now i just need to actually, er, fill it out. yes.
btw, who is no one watching In Treatment? IT IS AMAZIN
*back to writing stuffs*
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Date: 2009-06-20 07:28 pm (UTC)*paints and holds up a sign reading AWESOME!* :-D
My mom who almost never watches television at all is completely addicted to In Treatment, but I haven't been watching 'cos I don't have HBO. I want to Netflix it, it sounds really good.
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:09 pm (UTC)YOU REALLY SHOULD. i've only seen the current season so far (been watching with the roommate) but i am definitely going to go back and watch every episode EVER because it is so good. why is no one on livejournal talking about it?
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-20 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-20 08:27 pm (UTC)See previous comment above.
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:33 pm (UTC)anyway, people write fox news slash. FOX NEWS. surely there is room for a fandom for a handsome therapist with a Tragic Childhood who gets into weird semi-romantic entanglements with his patients and generally fucks up his life in various ways?
SURELY THERE MUST BE. D:
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-20 08:48 pm (UTC)*is a bit fond of time and space travellers*
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-20 09:02 pm (UTC)and i understand, because very few books/movies/television shows actually give me a fannish urge at all, even if i love them. i mean, i would never write "in treatment" fic. i doubt i would even read any. i wouldn't write "crime and punishment" fic either -- i just really like it, admire, would want to talk about it. i'm just surprised i haven't even heard anyone talking about it -- i mean, i've heard people talk about shows like "big love", so why not? (somebody made a "big love" joke on the meme yesterday, saying nick briggs was the star of a show called "briggs love" and we were all married to him. obviously i was not against the concept of this show).
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Date: 2009-06-20 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:36 pm (UTC)And good for you for offering free gay hugs and telling that protester that Jesus does love you. I admit I know virtually nothing about the New Testament, but wasn't this Jesus guy all about treating others the way you would like to be treated? You'd think that more of his followers might have figured that out by now.
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-20 08:45 pm (UTC)ILU
as far as i've ever been able to tell, jesus was very much about loving everyone no matter what. not only that, he never said a word against gayness, although he said a lot about things like poverty. and since he freed christians from having to follow jewish law anything said about it in leviticus not only doesn't apply, that implies that jesus thinks that anything mentioned there is indeed okay, and not a sin.
anyway, i tihnk more and more people are figuring that out now. and we didn't have a bunch of neo-nazis this year either, so that's another improvement.
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-20 08:46 pm (UTC)*hugs you back*
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Date: 2009-06-20 08:55 pm (UTC)I AM SO GLAD YOUR FACE IS BETTER.
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Date: 2009-06-20 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-21 02:00 am (UTC)And I'm also glad to hear your face is getting better! Non-hurty face = win.
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Date: 2009-06-21 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-21 03:16 am (UTC)And I'll just agree with everyone that those signs sound awesome.
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Date: 2009-06-21 04:28 pm (UTC)and yes.
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Date: 2009-06-21 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-21 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-21 04:30 am (UTC)J is currently watching Dr. Who and it's super bizarre. They keep whispering Dr.
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Date: 2009-06-21 04:29 pm (UTC)i'm trying to remember an episode where everyone was whispering "doctor". um... did he then turn into a blue floaty tinkerbell doctor?
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Date: 2009-06-22 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-06-21 04:02 pm (UTC)Oh, I love it when that happens! When good-natured insanity wins out over violence and hate.
don't seem to be getting the pain-induced headaches anymore either. hurrah!
Huzzah! \o/
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Date: 2009-06-21 04:30 pm (UTC)