Victory!!!

Huge victory for LGBT rights today in California!! Prop8 shot down by Judge Walker, who ruled the amendment unconstitutional!!!! WOO HOO!!! In your face, bigots!! Now off to the Supreme Court, which I predict will uphold the ruling under Article IV - Full Faith & Credit Clause. We're on our way!!

Independce Day Prayer

I just want to take a minute to praise Jesus for freeing us from the British 200-something years ago and blessing us with sovereignty over all the other God-less nations of the world. And thank you, Lord, for helping us invent nuclear bombs before the Russians. And thank you for the freedom of religion in this great Christian nation. Amen. (Yes, I've been drinking)

Sidenote: If you didn't sense the sarcasm dripping out of your computer screen, you are an idiot.

Sexual Assualt Prevention Tips

These are guaranteed to work so share them with your friends, print them out and post them at the library, slip into pornography magazines at the convenience store, etc.

1. Don't put drugs in peoples' drinks in order to control their behavior.
2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone!
3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!
4. NEVER open an unlocked door or window uninvited.
5. If you are in an elevator and somone else gets in, DON'T ASSAULT THEM!
6. Remember, people go to laundry to do their laundry, do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.
7. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! If you are unable to stop yourself from assaulting people, ask a friend to stay with you while you are in public.
8. Always be honest with people! Don't pretend to be a caring friend in order to gain the trust of someone you want to assault. Consider telling them you plan to assault them. If you don't communicate your intentions, the other person may take that as a sign that you do not plan to rape them.
9. Don't forget: you can't have sex with someone unless they are awake!
10. Carry a whistle! If you are worried you might assault someone "on accident" you can hand it to the person you are with, so they can blow it if you do.

-Retrieved from thefword.org

Fucking brilliant.

In Recognition of African American History Month

Compromises & Separations

Ah... I will be surprised if I still have any readers left after my long hiatus. I just haven't been particularly inspired to "blog it out" these past couple of months. I have been quite busy and once I do get some down time, trying to write something clever and smart for my adoring fans (er... fan) just doesn't sound appealing.

I am going to give a brief synopsis of events that have transpired since I last left you, in bullets so I don't ramble (as we know I can tend to do when given the opportunity to talk about myself).

• Birthday: beers, Katamari Damacy, more beers, low-key, now closer to 30 than 20 (I have even seen a decline in my getting carded for booze and cigs... And my best friend gave me eye cream for my b-day...)
  
• Holidays: *shudder* Moving on...
  
• School: finished one semester, started another last week. This is going to be the best semester ever. I can feel it. All is going so well. Both of my presentations (one paper, one poster) were accepted to regional Psych conference. This news deserves an entry of its own when I haven't had a couple beers. I'll just go on and on about it and what a wonderful mentor Dr. A is and what an honor it is to work with him and how brilliant I think we are and what a badass I think I am and blah blah blah. ;)
  
• Found community of stepmums who blog, tweet, and otherwise express all of the feelings and thoughts that I had thought I was alone in thinking and feeling. What an enlightening experience it was to discover this and then become a part of that support system for such a confusing and unique experience that only we stepmoms truly understand.
  
• I cried after the Cowboys lost to the Vikings last week. I am not over it yet, and won't be until spring training starts back up. Even then, I think this one may have hurt the worst yet (Fucking fire Wade already, jebus crust).

Now, on those last couple of notes, this will be my last personal life-themed blog at this url. My identity is compromised (another excuse for my absence) and I no longer feel safe being completely candid here (which is the only point of this type of personal blogging, really).

I will forward my new url to my new stepmum readers, my academic readers, and other anonymous readers who do not know my friends and family personally. Any others interested in keeping up with me and my academic pursuits (manuscript frustrations, applying for grad schools, moving, etc.) as well as other personal matters (stepparenting, married living apart once I start grad school, my not-so-secret affair with Keith O, etc...) may email me for the new address (though if you know my stepsons or DH's babymama personally, you probably shouldn't bother. No offense meant.)

I will keep political sexpot open for just that, politics (and sex, of course) but there will be no more personal updates on this forum.

Anyway, I am taking American Foreign Policy this semester and god only knows the primaries are going to have me a-rantin' & a-ravin' so this isn't good-bye so stop your crying (or champagne pouring...)

:)

Live long and wear a rubber,

Me