Journal

three days to new
august 5, 2002 ~ 11:55 a.m.

Jesus, I haven't written all summer. Well there's not much to say, I've been doing absolutely nothing. I tried to find a job but gave up after a while, couldn't take guitar lessons like I'd planned because my brother left his acoustic in North Carolina, and missed the ASL classes at Gallaudet because I thought I'd be getting a job. So the only thing I've done at all is volunteer for Casey Trees, for this inventory of DC's trees they're doing this summer, and now that's over because they've looked at every single street tree in the city. Other than that I've been just hanging out with friends and reading and watching movies. I've read three Shakespeare plays (Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet), 1984, the Harry Potter books, Odd Girl Out, and some others I can't remember right now, and I'm working my way through Leaves of Grass, Fast Food Nation, and The Catcher in the Rye. And I bought a bunch of new books that I'm never going to finish while I'm at school. And I've rented a whole bunch of videos that I've been wanting to see, and I'm working my way through the Twin Peaks series (only five episodes left, I think). It's really odd seeing all these actors I know really well in this show from ten years ago, like Heather Graham, Billy Zane, Alicia Witt, and David Duchovny (in drag, playing the transexual DEA agent Denise).

And speaking of movies, I saw Attack of the Clones, which was way better than the Phantom Menace and connected so much more to the earlier movies, with forshadowing of Boba Fett, the storm troopers, the emperor, and of course Darth Vader (and thank the gods, there wasn't much of Jar Jar Binks in this one). I'm actually really excited to see the last one now.

I just read this really disturbing article at Alternet.org about Bush and adoption. It's basically about how he's promoting adoption but refuses to do it himself, and how his foreign policy is creating more orphans around the world, and how despite the huge number of children in the US waiting to be adopted, he's opposed to gay adoption. He said during his presidential campaign, "I don't support gay adoption...because I believe that society ought to aim for the ideal, and the ideal is for a man and a woman to adopt children." I almost fell out of my chair when I read that! We all know he's dumb, but is he really so dumb that in a desparate situation like this that he would still only accept the "ideal"? Well, no, that can't possibly be true, because I think it's safe to assume that anything that comes out of his mouth is for the benefit of his right-wing constituents, who would rather have millions of children waiting to be adopted than for there to be abortions or gay adoptions. And it's not too surprising that they're even dumber than Bush. Or do I mean heartless? Well, hopefully things will change, and public opinion and legislation will swing our way, because I'm planning on adopting when I've got a steady income and a long term relationship, and I really don't want to see some poor kid have to stay in foster care because people are afraid of letting her or him be raised by two women.

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