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My mom arrives in town today - for my staycation I imported my mom.
I'm having a hard time not working. I stayed home a few days and made my place a less obvious disaster area. After working all those months it's really hard not to constantly jump around ADHD running full blast, trying to accomplish measurable results in everything from off-the-clock email exchanges to organizing bookshelves. The nice thing about disappearing into Janna's world is that that urge just fizzles. *thhhptt*
This weekend we went to the Greek Orthodox festival by the classic Greek Church there in Mt Vernon. Funny that the gay district is also the church district - like a little urban texas with churches and titty bars (swap gay watering holes for implants). While Janna warned me love isn't blind after I ate 3 distinct fatty sugary deserts, we saw kids in traditional Greek clothing doing rough attempts at traditional dances. Children in fezzes and tights - in pieces it was things I've worn to nightclubs (if you include a Halloween for the fez). I worried that the fundraising was helping a potential anti-gay force, a church. However, the Greek orthodoxy folks didn't seem like jerks at first blush. Talking to a guy in the church proper we found out they allow priests to marry, and don't require "miracles" to ordain someone a saint. That's kind of cool and logical from a perspective of inspiring behavior. In their world mother Teresa can be a saint without being a liar you can inspire amazing behavior by "rewarding" people who go far beyond the bar in positive behavior (miracles disappeared with the advent of recordable media, so only old, isolated, or lying people can be saints under catholic doctrine). I hope that means they are more reasonable in other areas.
Speaking of other areas, one of the big forces in HEALTH CARE that is involved is the catholic church. They are fantastic on the issue of health care, but continue to push the anti-choice issue. As a compromise, the house bill on health care - while it reportedly got the public option - includes codifying into law that annually renewed bill that forbids any funding of abortions (even though choices provided by private entities) and seems to throw contraception into a bit of flux as well. Catholics - helping heal and feed the poor, but ensuring there are a lot more of them? I'm trying to respect the good things they do with feeding and providing health care while dealing with their anti-choice lunacy and downright bizarro anti-birth control issues. I'm bordering on eugenics with some of my "stop having kids" views myself - so don't call me liberal without including that in your description.
Got into an online accidental argument with a friend about gay and church again. Someone asked our gay-alumni group (can we call gay bi trans questioning curious slut supporting just "gay etc." or something?) if they could meet with "a gay person" to talk about issues of workplace discrimination, because she was assigned to meet with someone "with a significant difference from herself" as part of a management diversity class. So she solicited our group, because unlike gays she is "straight, female, _C_hristian..." I called the creep-out on her, noting that I found something bizarre about her request. In response, a more religiousy conservative gay guy in our group did a huge ultra log cabin liberal thing about how he knows this religious person, family, blah blah and they are gay and xtian blah blah - the usual giant canned retort to someone daring to note taht the general trend of churches is not-so-gay-friendly. However, while I'm admittedly in the knee-jerk reaction against all religion group (but trying to keep my ears and mind open for those that don't suck) I had no such language in my comments. So I pointed out to him the language I used idn't say that, but noted the woman said she wanted to talk to someone "not like herself" and that she was _C_hristian, so it was she who said that religious and gay were separated - not me for quoting her and calling that odd. Neener neener.
Set a Dr appt for my wonky elbow finally, though my injury has a new mutation that is driving me nuts - for some reason the elbow has swolen and there is some part that if touched feels like an exposed nerve, and by that I mean imagine taking the ulnar nerve (that runs down your elbow - aka your funny bone feeling comes from hitting it) and leaning it on a piece of dried corn on a wood block - then resting your entire body weight no that. That stabbing, burning pain? That's what I get leaning on everything from a table to a mouse pad right now. Really hope they can just swap out my elbow with a cv joint or something.
My mom arrives in town today - for my staycation I imported my mom.
I'm having a hard time not working. I stayed home a few days and made my place a less obvious disaster area. After working all those months it's really hard not to constantly jump around ADHD running full blast, trying to accomplish measurable results in everything from off-the-clock email exchanges to organizing bookshelves. The nice thing about disappearing into Janna's world is that that urge just fizzles. *thhhptt*
This weekend we went to the Greek Orthodox festival by the classic Greek Church there in Mt Vernon. Funny that the gay district is also the church district - like a little urban texas with churches and titty bars (swap gay watering holes for implants). While Janna warned me love isn't blind after I ate 3 distinct fatty sugary deserts, we saw kids in traditional Greek clothing doing rough attempts at traditional dances. Children in fezzes and tights - in pieces it was things I've worn to nightclubs (if you include a Halloween for the fez). I worried that the fundraising was helping a potential anti-gay force, a church. However, the Greek orthodoxy folks didn't seem like jerks at first blush. Talking to a guy in the church proper we found out they allow priests to marry, and don't require "miracles" to ordain someone a saint. That's kind of cool and logical from a perspective of inspiring behavior. In their world mother Teresa can be a saint without being a liar you can inspire amazing behavior by "rewarding" people who go far beyond the bar in positive behavior (miracles disappeared with the advent of recordable media, so only old, isolated, or lying people can be saints under catholic doctrine). I hope that means they are more reasonable in other areas.
Speaking of other areas, one of the big forces in HEALTH CARE that is involved is the catholic church. They are fantastic on the issue of health care, but continue to push the anti-choice issue. As a compromise, the house bill on health care - while it reportedly got the public option - includes codifying into law that annually renewed bill that forbids any funding of abortions (even though choices provided by private entities) and seems to throw contraception into a bit of flux as well. Catholics - helping heal and feed the poor, but ensuring there are a lot more of them? I'm trying to respect the good things they do with feeding and providing health care while dealing with their anti-choice lunacy and downright bizarro anti-birth control issues. I'm bordering on eugenics with some of my "stop having kids" views myself - so don't call me liberal without including that in your description.
Got into an online accidental argument with a friend about gay and church again. Someone asked our gay-alumni group (can we call gay bi trans questioning curious slut supporting just "gay etc." or something?) if they could meet with "a gay person" to talk about issues of workplace discrimination, because she was assigned to meet with someone "with a significant difference from herself" as part of a management diversity class. So she solicited our group, because unlike gays she is "straight, female, _C_hristian..." I called the creep-out on her, noting that I found something bizarre about her request. In response, a more religiousy conservative gay guy in our group did a huge ultra log cabin liberal thing about how he knows this religious person, family, blah blah and they are gay and xtian blah blah - the usual giant canned retort to someone daring to note taht the general trend of churches is not-so-gay-friendly. However, while I'm admittedly in the knee-jerk reaction against all religion group (but trying to keep my ears and mind open for those that don't suck) I had no such language in my comments. So I pointed out to him the language I used idn't say that, but noted the woman said she wanted to talk to someone "not like herself" and that she was _C_hristian, so it was she who said that religious and gay were separated - not me for quoting her and calling that odd. Neener neener.
Set a Dr appt for my wonky elbow finally, though my injury has a new mutation that is driving me nuts - for some reason the elbow has swolen and there is some part that if touched feels like an exposed nerve, and by that I mean imagine taking the ulnar nerve (that runs down your elbow - aka your funny bone feeling comes from hitting it) and leaning it on a piece of dried corn on a wood block - then resting your entire body weight no that. That stabbing, burning pain? That's what I get leaning on everything from a table to a mouse pad right now. Really hope they can just swap out my elbow with a cv joint or something.
