Little Johnny
(4:34 P.M. US Central Time/Wednesday/library outside of Downtown)
[imood mood at time of entry: happy]
Things are going well for me as can be expected. There aren’t any life-threatening diasters trying to kill me, and that’s good. *laughs* I greatly anticipated this Hurricane Season. I wished and prayed and begged for it to come. It came, and it brought a storm with my name on it. My very own storm! *jumps up and down* Yea! But it also brought the three storms that have hit Florida, so far, and the next one that may be on the way to hit it again. God, someone up there should give them a break.
Anyway, I was watching In The Life, as I do every month when it comes on PBS, and wrote an entry while listening to the gay marriage debate. That’s below.
I have been getting pretty good feedback about my Draco/Lucius fic. After all the whining, cry, and bitching I did about it, I suppose it should get me something. *lol*
I have been at my aunt’s house most of yesterday (Tuesday, September 7, 2004), and I was not angry the way I usually am about the situation. I rather enjoyed myself actually. Quite a surprise to me. That was until my mom got there and ruined my perfectly peaceful mood.
Here’s the entry:
(Note: Sorry if lots of strong italics/bolds/underlines get to you. There are a lot of them here.)
I wonder why it is that some things are OK, and other things are not. When a woman marries her house, she’s Primetime News. When a woman marries herself, via a mirror, she’s a strong, empowered female. But if Johnny prefers to kiss the boy-next-door instead of pounding the boy-next-door’s sister through the floor, all of a sudden, there’s something wrong. I truly can’t fathom the exact level of ignorance that the majority of our World actively decides to live in. Frankly, I would like to know what’s so immoral about one man loving another man (or one woman loving another woman, if that’s the case) enough to want to make a public proclaimation of their love. Hell, some women would kill to have one man proclaim any type of long-term commitment to anyone; yet, here we have two men not only agreeing to tell the World that they love someone, but eager to do so. I’m surprised that we’re not just glad to have that, instead of the scary ass “men” who’ll fuck anything and be anything but a man and marry the women they knocked up.
So that’s that entry. I’ve been doing some online reading today and I’m utterly convinced, once again, of my inept ability as a writer. I need practice!
I am going to do some typing now. I am going to be starting a new story soon, and I have some drabbles to type up. Ciao.
Danielle
Ha, I have finally made it too comment here. If two people want to be together I don’t believe in stopping it. Everyone says how dysfunctional they are. How they raise more gay kids or screwed up kids. I dont’ buy it. I used to live in the town I go to school at now. One of my good friends was being raised by his gay uncle becaquse his dad killed himself. I guess it was pretty messed up. Rod woke up in the middle of the night when he was like 6 or 7 and found his dad hanging from a tree thumping on his window.
Anyhow, his uncle had a "husband" in quotes because it wasn’t then and isn’t now legal to have a gay couple here. So they raised Rod as their own. Yeah he had issues but that was to be expected with happened with his dad. But he was one of the most caring, kind, loving people I have ever known. He would over backwards for everyone. His uncles were incredibly kind to everyone of us younger people too. They’d let us stay there all the time. They were great interior decorators too (moot point I know).
I sometimes take it personally when people say how horrible these gay couples are and it was a gay couple that showed a bunch of misfit kids the only love they have ever had. When you insult gay couple it’s like you’re insulting Rod’s uncles. You know?
I applied for the job with the juvi kids just for shits and giggles mostly. I wanted to see what the interview was like and what kind of bull shit they would spin. I won’t take the job if they offer it to me.
At least you guys have a good public transit system there that even if you dont’ drive you still have options to get to your work place. You get to specify how far you are willing to travel too for work. Even if it limits you it might still give you options for a little while to tide you over and maybe get your foot in the door for a permanant type job.