posted 2005/04/13 at 23:31
Conservative Groups Plan "Day of Truth" to Counter Day of Silence (thanks to Penny for the link)
Here's reality for you: If you were real Christians, you wouldn't put aside that whole "Love Thy Neighbour" stuff as soon as you saw a GLBT person, you uptight bigoted self-sanctimonious un-Christian fuckheads. (Yeah, can you tell I'm in a bad mood right now?)
Part of the reason for that bad mood is because Thackeray's, that local bookstore I wrote about a few weeks back, closed its doors yesterday. I was there for the final hours they were open, but the lines were stretched to the back of the store (they were selling everything at 35% off) and I didn't find anything I wanted that would've been worth that long of a wait. However, I did find lots of stuff I thought that maybe Christina or Milena or Penny might have wanted -- a boxed hardcover set of the LOTR trilogy, a boxed hardcover set of the first six Harry Potter novels -- and I wish I'd known about them ahead of time so I could have asked my friends if they wanted me to pick something for them. (Not that I'm not interested in either of those, but studying for UT's MA in English exam kind of usurps my reading time.) I swear, I don't know why some conservative somewhere doesn't just draft legislation to give Walmart control over every retail business in the US and have done.
Getting back to reading for a second, I am doing some more interesting reading right now, in preparation for the first couple of proposals I'm sending out to academic English conferences. This is a big step for me in terms of acting like a real English grad student, although recently I've been having doubts about whether or not I want to continue on to my Ph.D. after I'm done getting my Masters. At this point I'm more inclined to see myself do something like go to work at a community GLBT centre after I'm done with school, or something like that. I still have time to think about it, though, and once I start teaching in the fall I think I'll have a better idea of whether or not I want to continue on in academia.
Just to close with even more GLBT talk, Spectrum's elections are tomorrow night. I'm running for President again, and I don't know who else is running. I just hope I get elected, because I really think that things will work out best, both for myself and for Spectrum, if I'm in charge again. I have more I could say about that, but let's see how I'm feeling tomorrow night before I say anything more.
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