Not all traditions are worth keeping.

Thanks to Tracie for showing me this. It just goes to show that people arguing against homosexuality "because the Bible says it's wrong" and that keeping gays and lesbians from marrying "protects the sanctity of marriage" should stop and think about what they're saying. The divorce rate in this country keeps growing, people get married out of wedlock and because they're forced to--how is that protecting the "sanctity" of marriage? And, like the video pointed out, premarital sex is not only accepted, but expected; a large majority of people don't wait to have sex until they're married, but churches don't freak out about that detail.

I really just don't understand how you can deny someone his or her happiness. So gay marriages are nontraditional. So what? A wedding with a seven-months-pregnant woman isn't traditional, either. And don't try to argue that a civil union is the same thing as a marriage; the government doesn't value them equally, and there are 1,138 rights denied gays and lesbians who can't marry. How is denying happiness okay?

Lipstick has a way of leaving more than just a mark on my sheets.

1. I get all of my information from Facebook. When Prop 8 was upheld, I wasn't informed via newspaper or television; I went on Facebook and saw everyone's "Fuck California" statuses and then checked CNN.com. I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good thing, but we're in an age where Facebook and Twitter are being used for more than just keeping in touch with people (even the Cutler Majestic Theatre has a Twitter/FBook for advertising purposes). I guess as long as I'm getting news, the way I'm getting it doesn't matter. Right?

2. Molly's lending me her "Practicing to Take the GRE General Test" book and I started reading it. I'm still not 100% sure if I want to go to grad school, but I should be prepared, just in case. I need to talk to more people about it; the ASB advisor has been giving me advice and has been a lot of help, and I need to make a final decision. I'm probably going to freak out about this like I did with the SATs, and like I do with just about everything else. I kind of liked taking the SATs. I don't know why. And yes, I know how weird that makes me.

3. Even though I have a huge stack of books to read (which just doubled because I went to the library and checked out books to use for thesis research), I'm buying Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach, and The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible, by A.J. Jacobs. We had to read one of Mary Roach's books in the Death Class I took in the fall (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers) and I loved Roach's writing style; informative and witty, always interesting. And something (Jessa, I think) told me about someone who tried living exactly how the Bible dictates, just to prove how ridiculous it is to try to do so, so I'm excited for that one. I was raised Catholic, but one of the biggest problems I have with the Catholic church is how much people pick and choose what to take from the bible. Specifically in terms of condemning homosexuality.

4. I took a bunch of online quizzes and found that I: am Piggy from Lord of the Flies, am a Pomeranian, am Elmo, should live in Paris, should have majored in computer science (ew), am Carrie Bradshaw, am a mix of Monica Geller and Rachel Green, and a bunch of other things I can't remember right now. Great use of time.

5. Forty days until the Hey Monday concert and Blink 182/Fall Out Boy/Panic at the Disco a little less than 2 months after that (tickets haven't gone on sale yet, but we're going, I think).

6. I've taken a break from Game Show Network to watch the first season of MTM.

I ordered a free sticker and it told me to say this.

Dear friend,

After a lot of years of devastating setbacks in the fight for marriage equality, it seems like we're finally moving in the right direction. With marriage legal in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and Maine, and the fights going strong in New Hampshire, New York and California, this movement is gaining more momentum every day, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

To that end, I wanted to let you know that CREDO Action is giving away some awesome stickers about supporting gay marriage - I think you'd really like them. I just got mine - if you have a minute, click this link to check out the stickers and get one of your own (for free!).

https://act.credoaction.com/stickers/?r_by=-2050076-.S01cHx&rc=fb.connect

Thanks!


Really, though. Free sticker, free shipping, and purchasing additional stickers will help support gay marriage. It's going to be a long, tough fight for equality, and all the little things add up.

Go on, grab your hat and fetch your camera. Go on, film the world before it happens.

1. New obsession: Game Show Network. Jessika came over on Friday and we watched 7 or so hours of GSN, with two random hours of Food Network in between. Word games and Family Feud are the best shows because you can yell answers at the TV.

2. Dollhouse is getting better, like I knew it would. SO MANY people were quick to make judgment during/after the pilot, forgetting that Whedon sometimes takes a little while to sink into a story. The first few episodes of Buffy weren't amazing. Whedon himself said the show wouldn't start picking up until a few episodes in; I'm on the fourth or so episode and the story is definitely getting better.

3. The Real Chance girls on Charm School are annoying and I'm glad one of them went home. The Rock of Love Bus girls are bitchy, sure, but at least they don't scream.

4. Target is having a TV on DVD sale and I picked up S1 of I Love Lucy and S1 and S2 of Mary Tyler Moore.

5. Saw a Harry Potter preview last night. Freaked out. Still trying to reread the books; almost done with Chamber of Secrets.

6. Also saw a preview for My Sister's Keeper. Still wicked angry that Cameron Diaz is playing Sara. Ugh.

Update

Real Housewives of NJ: love it. Hysterical. I love that three of them are related because for some reason, that makes it very Jersey-esque for me. Daisy of Love: also love it.

Finishing up Season 2 of Dawson's Creek and Season 1 of Six Feet Under. I finished S1 of Ellen and S9 of Friends (just because), have slowly been catching up on Dollhouse, and am waiting for the DVR to record the last of Real Housewives of NY.


Last week I fell asleep in a window. Two days ago I fell asleep on the roof.

Adorable.

Molly and I went to BoYo tonight because it just opened, and it was fantastic. The decor is adorable and fun--pink and orange with lots of dots. There was only frozen yogurt when we went, but they're going to sell gelato and smoothies as well. We tried the BoYo Berry flavor; I had chocolate chips on mine and Molly had Cap'n Crunch. Delicious. The kid's size with one topping cost $3.83, but it was pretty big for a kid's size.

Speaking of adorable, I just started working at Copley Flair. Yesterday was my first day at the Boylston location, which is bigger than the School Street location, and it's really cute. There's some touristy Boston stuff, and a lot of cards and gift/party supplies. There's also a lot of other cute things, like books and Ugly Dolls (I want one) and Vera Bradley bags (also want one of those). Plus, my manager is really pretty and really nice.

:)

"That man is on stilts! Oh wait, those are just his legs."

The EVVY Majestic show is tomorrow. Production week has flown by, and I'm not as tired as I was on Tuesday and Wednesday. The safety meeting was on Monday, and of course, as one of the managers of the Majestic is emphasizing the fact that we CANNOT eat or drink anything, even water, in the house, Kevin Bright strolls across the stage, drinking a bottle of water. (That sentence had a lot of commas in it, sorry.) Dave said that that was going to be the only funny thing KBright did all week, and sure enough, later he made a Friends comment that even I groaned at.

Tuesday was load in and I think it was the fastest load in of the EVVYs. It was the fastest one I've ever been a part of, anyway. We had most of the equipment in place by the first day, so Wednesday was a lot of running cables and making sure things worked. The tech team is awesome and there are so many innuendos that come out of running cable ("Just push it through the hole." "Come on, I just need a few more inches!") and with tech in general (there's some kind of audio thing that's called a butt plug), so having down time sucked but doing actual work wasn't too bad. We also get to use $900 walkie talkies, so we look badass running around the Maj and the Tufte building. On Wednesday I fell asleep in one of the windows on the 9th floor of the Tufte building. Oops. It was Jake's birthday on Wednesday, so we had Boston Market in the Common for lunch and had a cake and sang happy birthday to him...over walkie. I love tech nerds.

Our "tech office" is one of the dressing rooms in the Maj, and we've taken over the group dressing room across the hall and set up Guitar Hero. I think we played for six hours yesterday.

"My TV has the ability to go back in time."

Carts + equipment + baked ziti + cheesecake + college Jeopardy + freaking out about frame rate + House + 7:15 call time + estimated 11 pm end time = tech team.


But my badge says "all access," which is pretty cool.

Random.

Painting the roses red. I’m painting my toenails pink, does that count? My hair is a tangled wet mess, pinned up by hair sticks I bought in London. I was told they were made of bone; I didn’t ask what kind. I don’t like how the pink looks. I’d much prefer red, because it’s smoother and looks more realistic on me. The pink sticks out like plastic, an attempt at something fake and cheerful when all I really want is the color of blood on my toes. I handled cables today, let them slide through my fingers. We speak in acronyms; BNC, XLR, EDC, TRF. I’ve never lived with anyone for longer than a couple of months, and the only child in me is screaming right now. I went on the roof for a little while so I wouldn’t have to hear live voices, but the breeze and odd angle of sun rays covered my skin in goosebumps. Now I’m back in my room with Six Feet Under playing just loud enough to block out other things going on inside and outside the apartment, because I can’t actually be alone right now. So apparently I’m never going to be able to live with anyone for an extended period of time, because I go through phases in which I can’t deal with anyone but myself. If that, even, because “myself” for the past few days has been an inconstant ebb and flow of feelings and oddities, ranging from random excitement over the rainbow snake of BNCs to sobbing before I fell asleep last night. I’m self absorbed, typical only child, and don’t like when things don’t go how I want them to. I’m going home tomorrow, thank god, and will be able to sit at the pond by myself and read or drive somewhere for as long as I’d like. The only people I want to see right now are home friends, for whatever reason, although I was fine around EVVYs people yesterday and today. I just want to cook my Ramen, pack, maybe dance, and then pass out early so I can wake up at 7. I need to get out of Boston, even for only a day.

Random thing I love:

Jews. I love really Jewy people. I still don't think Seinfeld is funny, but I enjoy big Jews.


Sometimes my Boston accent slips into Long Island Jew, which makes no sense because I'm not from Long Island, nor am I anywhere close to Jewish.

Dreams

"So I had a dream last night where I actually wanted to read Twilight."--Allison
"I dreamed I was pretending to be Jesus."--Heather
"...yours wins."--Allison

Two quarters and a heart down.

I'm trying to figure out how many seasons of television I watched this semester. Let's take a look.

1 season of Arrested Development (I don't remember which...I think S2?)
S1 of Dawson's Creek
3 seasons of Friends (I know we got through 5, 6, and 8, but in total it probably came closer to 4 seasons because we watch it so often)
S1 of Gossip Girl
S1 of Life
S1 of Lost
S2 of Lost (finished last night...yess...that's what she said)
S1 of My So-Called Life
S1 of The OC
S1 of The Office
S1 of Tru Calling (and almost all of S2. I have 2 or 3 episodes left)
S4 of Will and Grace

And then The Real World: Brooklyn, Rock of Love Bus, the last season of Real Housewives of Orange County, and the first season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. I Love Money 2 is almost over, and I think Real Housewives of NY might be as well, plus I got through a little more than half of the first season of 30 Rock.

That's respectable, right? I've only read six books, not counting books for class, but whatever.

Because I really like Noteworthy and because it reminds me of Gob Bluth.

Nerd alert.

I checked out more books from the library in order to add a few things to my Queer Film and Video final, and am really liking one of them because I'm a huge nerd. So I went on Amazon and searched for the author and there are a few more books that I now want because I like learning about TV and because I'd like to buy books to use for my thesis research (so I can color in them). Now I want to forget about buying food and just buy more shows and a lot of books.


I'm going to need like 12 bookshelves when I'm older to hold all of these things.

Allison

"I kind of thought Dawson's last name was Creek."

"He's the DEVIL!"

The EVVY Awards Dinner Show is tonight. Production Week, aka Hell Week, started Monday, as did the last week of classes. We're all exhausted; the tech team, production staff, and talent have been working hard all week, trying to get stuff done while juggling classes and everything else. I spent almost all day yesterday on campus (a little after 9 am to almost 11, and came home for a 2ish hour block around dinner time) and I don't know how long I'll be there today. But for whatever reason, I really like doing this. I like being involved in the preproduction instead of the tech team, and I like working as an AP for people. I just wish I could spend tomorrow resting and relaxing instead of writing the two papers.



Now I have to call the hosts and correspondent and tell them that their call time is now half an hour earlier than we thought.