Wedding and political discussion!
Sep. 3rd, 2004 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicIt's FRIDAY!
That means I get to see EVERYONE today! My whole family gets in sometime tonight, and my bridesmaids and lots of other friends - RAH! Janet had forgotten I'd requested a half day today (even though it was her idea and actually told me to take the whole WEEK off) and scheduled me until 6:30 today. I told her I'd made plans already, and then she went into this whole guilt trip about having to pull someone else in on their day off. Reality check: everyone else has DAYS off. Many of them request to pick up shifts for more hours, but are denied because we don't have enough money to juggle around. SOMEONE WILL DO IT. But Janet didn't even want to ask anyone, so I have a feeling she's expecting me to work all day. I'll find someone to come in and cover for me, but my ass is out of there at 10:30, and I'm not going back. I know that's not a half day but I have to leave at 10:30 for class and usually I come back at noon thirty but not today SUCKAZ.
I almost forgot to mention the appreciation breakfast. It was in honor of how well the store did during the sale and the previous month. I got a $200 bonus. Everyone got bonuses, but not that big. Jeremy even got $25 though I'm not sure why. But yay. Funny thing is, they gave our bonuses to us in thank you cards - thank you cards that I'd bought and put in my cubby at work to use for wedding gift thank yous. Even when they're giving me a big bonus, they can't do it without rummaging through my desk and taking my shit? I should drop it.
I woke up really early this morning because I'm SO excited. I have a feeling I won't sleep a whole lot between now and Monday. The next time everyone at school sees me, I will have a new last name, and I won't be a virgin anymore! Haha, ok, so I haven't been a virgin for a while anyway...but don't you think about that at weddings? They're gonna have sex tonight...it's particularly intriguing when you've spent the last five months teasing Matt about how he's going to rimfire. Heh.
So classes are good. Two Swatsons and a Wabshire. I love those guys:) I have a research paper for all of them, though...bah. The best part about last year was NO RESEARCH PAPERS. Why was I a history major again? Oh yeah, I love the shit. Research papers and I haven't always been foes. I just wish people would trust me to learn and express my opinion well without writing it down.
Story time. There's this house along the road on the way to Bridgewater from my house, and it's got one of those signs out front that you can move the letters around...anyway they always have these two posters up that say "A Nation that kills its children is a nation without hope," and "If you're pregnant, it's a baby!" Their sign, of course, changes, but is always something pro life. Usually I just brush it off - I mean, I am pro life, but I hate seeing people advertise so heavily that they are because it most likely means they're a proud conservative christian republican - but anyway, yesterday there was a message that really pissed me off. It said: Kerry - the abortion candidate. Grr. Ok, Kerry is not pro-abortion. He is an advocate of the right to choose, although I'm sure under his plans (better sex ed and contraceptive availability), the abortion rate would drop a lot more than if it was just made illegal. I came up with a good slogan for a bumper sticker...well, I like it, anyway, but maybe out of context you don't get it..."Educate me, and you won't have to legislate me." But that is true in almost every situation, I believe. Seriously, what woman is going to choose abortion as a form of birth control if she knows there are other ways? Even if she does get pregnant, if she knows she can find adopters? Anyway I just wanted to write to this family that Kerry may "support" abortion, but he doesn't support the slaughter of thousands of Iraqi and Afghanistani people! I mean, really, if you're going to be pro-life, you have to be anti-war! If you support the war, you're not pro-life! End of discussion.
That's enough, I think. Peace. Really. PEACE.
"We were born on different sides with the same hearts, same minds, but you use words like 'occupy,' and I don't. But I do know you, I know your name, you say you come from the holy land. A man should be a man just the same - you say 'I'm not who you think I am.'" ~Robbie Schaefer, "Holy Land"
That means I get to see EVERYONE today! My whole family gets in sometime tonight, and my bridesmaids and lots of other friends - RAH! Janet had forgotten I'd requested a half day today (even though it was her idea and actually told me to take the whole WEEK off) and scheduled me until 6:30 today. I told her I'd made plans already, and then she went into this whole guilt trip about having to pull someone else in on their day off. Reality check: everyone else has DAYS off. Many of them request to pick up shifts for more hours, but are denied because we don't have enough money to juggle around. SOMEONE WILL DO IT. But Janet didn't even want to ask anyone, so I have a feeling she's expecting me to work all day. I'll find someone to come in and cover for me, but my ass is out of there at 10:30, and I'm not going back. I know that's not a half day but I have to leave at 10:30 for class and usually I come back at noon thirty but not today SUCKAZ.
I almost forgot to mention the appreciation breakfast. It was in honor of how well the store did during the sale and the previous month. I got a $200 bonus. Everyone got bonuses, but not that big. Jeremy even got $25 though I'm not sure why. But yay. Funny thing is, they gave our bonuses to us in thank you cards - thank you cards that I'd bought and put in my cubby at work to use for wedding gift thank yous. Even when they're giving me a big bonus, they can't do it without rummaging through my desk and taking my shit? I should drop it.
I woke up really early this morning because I'm SO excited. I have a feeling I won't sleep a whole lot between now and Monday. The next time everyone at school sees me, I will have a new last name, and I won't be a virgin anymore! Haha, ok, so I haven't been a virgin for a while anyway...but don't you think about that at weddings? They're gonna have sex tonight...it's particularly intriguing when you've spent the last five months teasing Matt about how he's going to rimfire. Heh.
So classes are good. Two Swatsons and a Wabshire. I love those guys:) I have a research paper for all of them, though...bah. The best part about last year was NO RESEARCH PAPERS. Why was I a history major again? Oh yeah, I love the shit. Research papers and I haven't always been foes. I just wish people would trust me to learn and express my opinion well without writing it down.
Story time. There's this house along the road on the way to Bridgewater from my house, and it's got one of those signs out front that you can move the letters around...anyway they always have these two posters up that say "A Nation that kills its children is a nation without hope," and "If you're pregnant, it's a baby!" Their sign, of course, changes, but is always something pro life. Usually I just brush it off - I mean, I am pro life, but I hate seeing people advertise so heavily that they are because it most likely means they're a proud conservative christian republican - but anyway, yesterday there was a message that really pissed me off. It said: Kerry - the abortion candidate. Grr. Ok, Kerry is not pro-abortion. He is an advocate of the right to choose, although I'm sure under his plans (better sex ed and contraceptive availability), the abortion rate would drop a lot more than if it was just made illegal. I came up with a good slogan for a bumper sticker...well, I like it, anyway, but maybe out of context you don't get it..."Educate me, and you won't have to legislate me." But that is true in almost every situation, I believe. Seriously, what woman is going to choose abortion as a form of birth control if she knows there are other ways? Even if she does get pregnant, if she knows she can find adopters? Anyway I just wanted to write to this family that Kerry may "support" abortion, but he doesn't support the slaughter of thousands of Iraqi and Afghanistani people! I mean, really, if you're going to be pro-life, you have to be anti-war! If you support the war, you're not pro-life! End of discussion.
That's enough, I think. Peace. Really. PEACE.
"We were born on different sides with the same hearts, same minds, but you use words like 'occupy,' and I don't. But I do know you, I know your name, you say you come from the holy land. A man should be a man just the same - you say 'I'm not who you think I am.'" ~Robbie Schaefer, "Holy Land"
