Women: Say goodbye to your right to choose...
We have just taken some terrifying steps backwards leading us to a time of back-alley abortions with rusty hangers. Hopefully the conservative religious right doesn't make it that far. Not to mention the many other rights they so conveniently want to suppress in the name of Jesus Christ. It is an amazing concept that whole separation of church and state bit if only the people rich enough to get elected or appointed into offices actually upheld the ideal. For a country founded by people so desperate to escape religious persecution I still find it absolutely amazing that we proceed on a daily basis as though Christianity is the ONLY religion and any and all laws made in the country need to be made so that they are in accordance with the bible. People can blather on and on about how their personal beliefs will not interfere in how they rule on the bench but I am flabbergasted how someone who has been quoted on more than one occasion (in the past of course) as saying he believes abortion is wrong and would have a problem upholding the precedent can be appointed to the most important and highest court in our country--and a court you are on for life mind you--and we are expected to believe that he would really put aside his past beliefs and comments and rule solely on the evidence? Give me a break. This is one of the most heated debates and most emotional precedents the supreme court has and it has been challenged time and time again so it is fairly certain that with a newly conservative tilt in the supreme court it will yet again be challenged and now folks is when that shift will be felt.
It's not just a woman's right to choose at stake here...
I am also not a crazy idealogical ranting feminist--okay so I'm not crazy at least...
Random
So I was avoiding homework last night-kind of like I'm avoiding work right now-by flipping through Newsweek and they had a little blurb on this blog
PostSecret so I went and checked it out and it is pretty neat. I think I may have seen the book at Barnes but it is an interesting idea and it is bizarre to read the things that people do and think. It makes me wonder how much people make up just to try to sound quirky or whatever to enhance their chances of getting on the site.
Preposterous? I think not.
Yeesh as Stacie would say...
Low and behold my teacher showed up to class last night!!!
I like yeesh Stacie--it's a good alternative to the string of expletives that usually come streaming out of my mouth.
I didn't know The Office was going to be cut short--when does that happen?
Match Point was a damn good movie. Kind of makes you uneasy throughout the whole thing. I kept gaping at the screen and then looking over to Stacie with a WTF look on my face. Every time I thought I had it figured out I was pretty much wrong. Not a bad flick. I would highly recommend it.
My sister is leaving me Abba with me ALL DAY on Sunday. Not that I can't totally handle this but Abba has been super grumpy as of late and I think she may be starting teething. So yeah a whole day with a potentially screaming baby who may or may not be in the process of trying to push enamel through her gums. Nothing spells rip-roaring weekend fun like that!
Shit, nine more weeks of this quarter...
So, last week I was slightly--very slightly--amped to be going back to school. I was beginning to get a little stir crazy with the excess free time and was happy to begin the frantic pace again. What in Gods name was I thinking? Probably not the best way to start out a quarter by having your teacher totally not show up for class. Yes, he just didn't show. Apparently he thought it was on a different day, which in itself isn't so bad, sure we all make mistakes, but then he decides to arbitrarily move the day of our class. While I looked around flabbergasted the rest of the class is grumbling but seems intent on grinning and bearing it; I on the other hand was having none of it. I, as politely as I am capable of after sitting for half an hour waiting for a teacher to show up ask the person who has the unenviable task of relaying this new information to us exactly how this is going to work. Considering we all signed up for a Monday course for a reason; whether that be because of other classes, work, or family but you can't just change it on a whim--the day class starts. I then proceed to say that I need this class but can't take it on the day the teacher has decided is the new class day. Seeing my spirit or perhaps the venom starting to spring from my lips the other students finally decide to get a backbone and stand up for the fact that they too can't come to class at the new time. Most of them have other classes at that time or, like me, have to work. I rearranged my entire work schedule, much to my bosses chagrin, around this damn class, I already have the books and here I am on the verge of needing to drop it because the teacher has a case of the Monday's... Longer story slightly shorter, the teacher relented and kept the class on Monday mostly because I think there would have only been three people in it otherwise. Small victory. The rest of the week was mostly uneventful. My other classes weren't too bad. There, of course, is an obscene amount of reading again and quite a few papers but on the whole it shouldn't be to bad.
