Judecorp.

There was a post on strangeland.net recently about Brokeback Mountain which sparked a conversation, of course, on the morality (or lack thereof) of homosexuality. At one point, the original poster answered a comment and stated that he believed homosexuality is wrong (which is fine) and that it should be re-criminalized. And I was just so stunned.

Even though I know it's ridiculous to make the comparison, I always become sad when people equate same-sex relationships with murder and pedophilia. I just don't see how someone, even someone that doesn't know me more than what I do for a living and some of my political leanings, can compare me to a murderer or want to make me a criminal.

It just breaks my heart. Maybe I wouldn't care as much if morality and being a good person weren't so important to me, but I can't help it. I'm heartbroken.

Strangeland article is up, finally. I think most people on the site tend to post their articles in the morningish. Imagine if I had copious amounts of computer time - how productive I could be!

Part of me thinks I would go completely batshit crazy if I had an office job, but there's a teeny part of me that wouldn't mind tooling around the internet all day keeping tabs on all of you. I could IM people and make plans and keep up on world events and read TWoP and find fun events to go to and all of that. Instead, I run around town like a loon all day and evening, come home and try to play "screen time catch-up" when I don't even particularly like screen time.

To think I used to be an Internet Maven, now I can barely answer my e-mail in any sort of timely fashion. I /need/ an office job so I can resume my life as Queen of LiveJournal. In my spare time, I can take artsy photos and amass a bigger Fan Club.

I don't know if I had any real goals in 2005 other than to finally go to the dentist and to get legally married, but in 2006 I vow to get back to Previous Levels of Cool.

The people I babysit for are driving me a little bit nuts. I used to babysit for them every Tuesday, but they said that Tuesday wasn't going to work for them anymore because one of the parents had to teach a class. Well, my schedule isn't the free-est or most flexible thing in the world, so after a lot of deliberation, I decided I would try to make it work because I enjoy babysitting my little friend and I can use the money. They said that any other day would be fine, any day but Tuesday.

My schedule was like this: Monday volunteering, Tuesday babysitting, Wednesday work late, Thursday Survivor, Friday Date Night, Weekend No Way (not weekly anyway). I decided, after asking them if it would be okay, to switch babysitting and volunteering. This is actually quite difficult for me, since I have a visit until 5:30 on Tuesdays, which means I need to drive to volunteering, which means I need to pay to park. But hey, we all have our crosses to bear. They said Monday was great, and I went to babysit tonight.

They got home tonight and asked me if I had any other days, because Monday isn't the greatest for them. This is quite a challenge.

I'm reluctant to switch my late night at work to babysit on Wednesday, because a) it would be a big hassle at work and b) Jen works the early shift on Wednesdays and I don't want to lose that time with her if I can help it. She closes on Mondays and Tuesdays so working until 10 or so on either day doesn't take any time away from us. And I'm so not switching to Survivor night, which is what they would like, because I made Jen tell work that she couldn't work late that night ever, and therefore it is our Survivor night. Also, I'd like to start having people over to watch or something so we can make something at least minimally social out of my nerdiness.

Gosh, I hope they don't end up having to end Mondays, too, because then I'm really in a bind - eff up my life and schedule, or lose the extra bit of cash that has come in quite handy the last couple of months.

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I have to think of something to write my Strangeland post on. Where have all of my ideas gone??!?!