one brings celebrating, and one brings grief
1. GREAT news!! Maine's governor has signed the bill that allows same-sex couples to marry. BBC news says, "Maine will be the fifth US state to allow gay marriage, after Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa and Vermont. A number of other states, including New Hampshire and New York, are also due to consider proposals to legalise it." and in Washington D.C., the council overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
2. Johanna Justin-Jinich, a 22 year-old college junior, was shot and killed this afternoon in the Wesleyan college bookstore. "Johanna Justin-Jinich ...was killed around 1 p.m. today when someone entered the Red and Black Cafe, inside Broad Street Books at the intersection of William and Broad streets, approached Justin-Jinich and fired multiple shots. Police say they are still searching for the gunman."
my prayers go out to her family and friends. (sorrow/scary/fucked up)
I have been in Broad Street Books many times; it is Middletown's only retail bookstore (although more and more taken up by Wesleyan) and just two blocks away from the building my dad and brother work in. one of my coworkers is dating a man who works there. my brother says that after the shooting their building locked down for the afternoon.
I have other things to post about, but this has wiped me out for now.
2. Johanna Justin-Jinich, a 22 year-old college junior, was shot and killed this afternoon in the Wesleyan college bookstore. "Johanna Justin-Jinich ...was killed around 1 p.m. today when someone entered the Red and Black Cafe, inside Broad Street Books at the intersection of William and Broad streets, approached Justin-Jinich and fired multiple shots. Police say they are still searching for the gunman."
my prayers go out to her family and friends. (sorrow/scary/fucked up)
I have been in Broad Street Books many times; it is Middletown's only retail bookstore (although more and more taken up by Wesleyan) and just two blocks away from the building my dad and brother work in. one of my coworkers is dating a man who works there. my brother says that after the shooting their building locked down for the afternoon.
I have other things to post about, but this has wiped me out for now.