Don't you get me wrong! Don't you get me wrong!
Okay; tickets are apparently selling really fast for JCS, so I'm going to buy the tickets tomorrow: Hanna, Danielle, Ben, Cathleen and Megan for the Saturday evening show. Sara? I need to know ASAP if you're going...or you won't be. I guess I'll see about buying yours on Friday.
This evening we went to a spaghetti dinner at Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School in New London where my mom teaches 8th grade English (for some reason I don't think I've ever mentioned that). All the middle schoolers seemed really enthusiastic--they all rushed over and fought over who'd be the one to serve us. I guess the students my mom normally talks about weren't there. A teacher said I look like Elijah Wood. Score!
Yesterday was diversity day. The theme this year was homosexuals. The film class showed four documentaries they had made. I looked so stupid in Vira's documentary, in which she inverviewed me, Calvin, Josh Wiesbach and Mr. Fergison. Do I really say "like" that much? Calvin and Josh seemed so much more coherant then me. Oh well. I agree with Helena's anti-political entry, which coincidentially was posted yesterday. Politics is just devisive. People got really annoyed because they said in the assembly that if you were against gay marriage you were homophobic, and said afterwords that they weren't hobophobic but that they didn't support gay marriages. Yelling ensued. I need to stop trying to argue with the conservatives; I don't know why I keep doing it; it's just tiring. However, I know that gay marriage will prevail because slavery was abolished, women sufferage was legalised, segregation has ended, and interracial marriages are commonplace: Equal rights always prevail! And I've come around on the whole "civil union" thing too as an intermediate step: if you get civilly unionised, or whatever the termanology may be...just take whatever the government offers and call it a marriage. They can't force you to not call it a marriage. And pretty quickly, they'll realise that they're being stupid and just cave in completely. Also, people brought up that though there are no openly gay students at Williams, some have come out to their friends but they shouldn't feel obligated to put their sexuallity on display, because people don't stand up and say "I'm straight", which I never thought of. But I just think it would be incredible if a guy took another guy to prom or something (which is where people do, in fact, put their sexuallity on display), because then for the first time in the history of Williams, there would be a precident set, and we'd know how the community would react and more people would be comfortable doing so and the school would be that much more open.
I found my W2 and filled my tax return last night. *pats self on back* That should help next year, though I still need to find a job. I picked up an application at Kohls, but they said they're only looking for nights. That'd still be a good job though. Mom suggested Mystic Pizza II. So greasy, but hey. I sort of wonder who eats there...
This evening we went to a spaghetti dinner at Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School in New London where my mom teaches 8th grade English (for some reason I don't think I've ever mentioned that). All the middle schoolers seemed really enthusiastic--they all rushed over and fought over who'd be the one to serve us. I guess the students my mom normally talks about weren't there. A teacher said I look like Elijah Wood. Score!
Yesterday was diversity day. The theme this year was homosexuals. The film class showed four documentaries they had made. I looked so stupid in Vira's documentary, in which she inverviewed me, Calvin, Josh Wiesbach and Mr. Fergison. Do I really say "like" that much? Calvin and Josh seemed so much more coherant then me. Oh well. I agree with Helena's anti-political entry, which coincidentially was posted yesterday. Politics is just devisive. People got really annoyed because they said in the assembly that if you were against gay marriage you were homophobic, and said afterwords that they weren't hobophobic but that they didn't support gay marriages. Yelling ensued. I need to stop trying to argue with the conservatives; I don't know why I keep doing it; it's just tiring. However, I know that gay marriage will prevail because slavery was abolished, women sufferage was legalised, segregation has ended, and interracial marriages are commonplace: Equal rights always prevail! And I've come around on the whole "civil union" thing too as an intermediate step: if you get civilly unionised, or whatever the termanology may be...just take whatever the government offers and call it a marriage. They can't force you to not call it a marriage. And pretty quickly, they'll realise that they're being stupid and just cave in completely. Also, people brought up that though there are no openly gay students at Williams, some have come out to their friends but they shouldn't feel obligated to put their sexuallity on display, because people don't stand up and say "I'm straight", which I never thought of. But I just think it would be incredible if a guy took another guy to prom or something (which is where people do, in fact, put their sexuallity on display), because then for the first time in the history of Williams, there would be a precident set, and we'd know how the community would react and more people would be comfortable doing so and the school would be that much more open.
I found my W2 and filled my tax return last night. *pats self on back* That should help next year, though I still need to find a job. I picked up an application at Kohls, but they said they're only looking for nights. That'd still be a good job though. Mom suggested Mystic Pizza II. So greasy, but hey. I sort of wonder who eats there...