A good one... A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, andsympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
-- Arnold H. Glasow
  ¶ 10/27/2004 04:27:00 AM 0 comments

  Just some other stuff Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
 Abraham Joshua Heschell (1907-1972)

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
 Michel de Montaigne

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
 Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet
  ¶ 10/22/2004 04:37:00 AM 0 comments

  A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
-- Unknown
  ¶ 10/20/2004 04:16:00 AM 0 comments

  Sick Okay...why is it that when you are the first person sick, that you are always the last person to get better? My roommate got sick after me and he is almost fully recovered, and so is my boss. Oh well. I am headed home early today...need to get some time to chill and recuperate so I can be a little more productive at work. I have already realized that my tolerance level is just about shot and I am getting a little more worked up on things than normal...and that is never a good sign.

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that neverwere; and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
(just saw this one today...I knew I liked him for a reason)

Okay, now I am starting to rethink my Halloween costume...I was going to go with blue body paint, but I just discovered that they have some with aurora borealis coloring...that would be really kewl and kinda be like the light refracting through icicles. Well, sorta. Anyway, I think it would be really different. Wonder if I need to rethink the hair thing or still stick with the white. I need to do my eyebrows too and get the ears. I wonder how pointed my ears should be. I need to be demonish, but perhaps since I am going to be a little more colorful maybe I can add some elvish blood to me. Hell, I already have a point to my ears anyway...just need a little more and I would be elf. Just kidding.

Okay, so I have been listening to Hilary Duff's new CD on repeat for most of the morning. I really like her song "Fly". But the one that really strikes me is "I Am". In just 3 minutes or so, she manages to list everything that describes a person...."I'm an angel, I'm a devil, I am sometimes in-between".."I'm someone filled with self-belief, and haunted by self-doubt". I think we all feel that way at some point in our life. But that is what makes us unique...we have so many facets to us that sooner or later, once the dirt is wiped away, we shine like the clearest diamond. Okay...that was just....freaky.

Okay...time to go...lata!
  ¶ 10/18/2004 10:58:00 AM 1 comments

  Politics Okay...I always say that I am never going to get involved or comment on politics. I think this one time I am going to go against my normal rule. I have had a lot of people coming up to me asking me if I am going to change my mind about who I vote for in the elections this year. Granted, we don't have the best choices this year...it is kinda choosing between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Apparently Kerry has angered a few people with a comment that he made regarding Mary Cheney and her being a lesbian. The question...Do you think being gay is a choice. The answer was "If you ask the Cheneys' daughter, who is a lesbian, she will tell you that she is being herself." And he goes on to compliment her parents for being strong people in learning how to deal with it and how it had altered their mindscape towards discrimination. But somehow people have found that extremely offensive in how Mary has been dragged into this. Honestly, he might have made a faux pas in mentioning her, but it should not be pulled this much outta proportion.
Gay families have been made the core of the election this year. Bush's camp has stated emphatically that we should not be allowed any rights and is doing it's best to stomp on us all that they can, even going so far as to attempting to amend the Constitution to stop us from marrying. The Constitution was written to help prevent discrimination. If we amend it, won't that be going against everything that stands for? I never quit understood that. Marriage is defined in religion. Our forefathers originally wanted the country to have a separation of state and religion. Don't think that worked out exactly as they planned.
All I want is to be recognized as a person. I want to be able to walk down the street, hold my boyfriend's hand or even be able to kiss him in public. I do that now, but I would love to be able to do that without having to be stared at like I had grown an extra head outta my ass. :-) And I want the government to realize that AIDS and HIV is a valid disease and not something that was made up. That would be really nice.

Okay..that is my two cents. Oh, and I will still be voting for Kerry. He might not fully be supportive of us, but he has shown more support and knowledge regarding the LGBT community than the GOP and Bush.

Happy Elections!
  ¶ 10/15/2004 01:34:00 PM 0 comments

  Just me Feeling sick today and ready for the day to end. But I am curious on this...why does the rain always drag you down in the morning, yet if the sun comes out in the afternoon, you never perk up? And why does the clock always seem to never move when you are at work, yet when you get home, it passes you by so fast? Someone please help me, I seem to be losing my mind. :-)
  ¶ 10/15/2004 11:06:00 AM 0 comments