The Holidays
I really do mean to either 1) update more often or 2) stop updating period. I hate that whenever I write I have a months worth of things to say and I can never decide what's important enough to post so I usually end up bagging it. But I will really write today :)
Christmas was excellent. I loved being home with my family. I love that they accept Amanda so much. It's odd for my siblings to wholly accept anyone that any one of us is dating. Not sure why. I don't think it's inherent meanness because they've never extremley disliked anyone either, except maybe one girl who thought she couldn't float because her bones were really dense and would sink if she got wet above her thighs. Mostly they're just indifferent, but they seem to really like Amanda. Or perhaps they just hide it really well. Either way, it's great. So, in a nutshell, Christmas was grand.
New Year's was nice too. I got to see some old faces, and man am I excited for all the weddings this summer. I'm jealous too. I want a wedding. But. . . even if it was legally feasible, we probably wouldn't be getting married for a while anyway. Damned school, oh well.
Speaking of marriage, I'm a little irked at my med school right now. Turns out they don't recognize partners as spouses even if you have a marriage certificate. So you're not allowed to live in the houses for couples. Because of the "Catholic tradition". Oh please. That is really lame. I really was not expecting that. I saw that they had an anti-discrimination policy which includes sexual orientation and extends to "all campus programs". I guess housing is not a program. God dammit. I knew that the school was Catholic but all the students said that that didn't mean anything and that nothing on campus is religious at all. It's probably a money thing. They can't let gay people sleep together and still get money from the Vatican. Or whatever. Gah.
It's not the end of the world I suppose, just. . . disappointing I guess. We'll figure it out. Amanda's schools will let us live there if we have some sort of legal documentation establishing our relationship. Like power of attorney or even if we can prove that we pay our bills together. We could live at our separate schools I suppose but. . . well, that would kind of suck. We'll be too busy to see each other and only one of us would have a car. So. . .it's looking like we'll just go off campus. It's not super convenient for either of us, but it's better than being apart or me having to take the train to go to lab. Oh well, we've gone through harder things than this.
And. . . I think that's sufficiently long, I'll leave it there. good night all!!
Christmas was excellent. I loved being home with my family. I love that they accept Amanda so much. It's odd for my siblings to wholly accept anyone that any one of us is dating. Not sure why. I don't think it's inherent meanness because they've never extremley disliked anyone either, except maybe one girl who thought she couldn't float because her bones were really dense and would sink if she got wet above her thighs. Mostly they're just indifferent, but they seem to really like Amanda. Or perhaps they just hide it really well. Either way, it's great. So, in a nutshell, Christmas was grand.
New Year's was nice too. I got to see some old faces, and man am I excited for all the weddings this summer. I'm jealous too. I want a wedding. But. . . even if it was legally feasible, we probably wouldn't be getting married for a while anyway. Damned school, oh well.
Speaking of marriage, I'm a little irked at my med school right now. Turns out they don't recognize partners as spouses even if you have a marriage certificate. So you're not allowed to live in the houses for couples. Because of the "Catholic tradition". Oh please. That is really lame. I really was not expecting that. I saw that they had an anti-discrimination policy which includes sexual orientation and extends to "all campus programs". I guess housing is not a program. God dammit. I knew that the school was Catholic but all the students said that that didn't mean anything and that nothing on campus is religious at all. It's probably a money thing. They can't let gay people sleep together and still get money from the Vatican. Or whatever. Gah.
It's not the end of the world I suppose, just. . . disappointing I guess. We'll figure it out. Amanda's schools will let us live there if we have some sort of legal documentation establishing our relationship. Like power of attorney or even if we can prove that we pay our bills together. We could live at our separate schools I suppose but. . . well, that would kind of suck. We'll be too busy to see each other and only one of us would have a car. So. . .it's looking like we'll just go off campus. It's not super convenient for either of us, but it's better than being apart or me having to take the train to go to lab. Oh well, we've gone through harder things than this.
And. . . I think that's sufficiently long, I'll leave it there. good night all!!