In Coffee Spoons

Waiter: Would you like some coffee?
Woman: Yes, please.
Waiter: Just say when. (Starts to pour.)
Woman: There. (He keeps pouring.) That’s fine. (He pours.) Stop! (She grabs the pot; there is coffee everywhere.)
Waiter: Yes, ma’am.
Woman: Well, why didn’t you stop pouring?
Waiter: Oh, I wasn’t sure you meant it.
Woman: Look, of course I meant it! I have coffee all over my lap! You nearly burned me!
Waiter: Forgive me, ma’am, but you certainly looked thirsty. I thought you wanted more.
Woman: But -
Waiter: And you must admit, you did let me start to pour.

(From Until Someone Wakes Up, a play written by Carolyn Levy and a group of Macalester College students)

@ Feminist Law Professors, thank you Smeg for the link.

As Kairi pointed out, the longer you put off making your big "This is what's been going on" journal update, the harder it gets. Rambling ho!

School is going...well, it's going. Just a few more weeks left and then I can start worrying about fall semester, which I have to cram a lot of credits into. At least I will no longer be laboring under a flaky teacher whose typos skew the entire course, or a flaky teacher who signs all her correspondence "Peace, love and laughter".

Redoing the outside of the house is pretty much finished. I believe. I hope. I sincerely hope. Looks good. Pics forthcoming.

Went to Mackinac with Mom and Erin, pics also forthcoming. Three guys sitting behind us on the ferry were doing the boat song, so that was stuck in my head all day. We went for the Lilac Festival, but the problem with planning a festival around nature is that nature does not always get the memo. It's been a terrible year for lilacs everywhere. Good times were had anyway. Horses, sunshine, seaside, ice cream, ridiculously expensive gift shops, good times.

Ashley and I both celebrated 25 years without fatal accidents!

( tastypics )

My fancy-ass camera makes me look like a much better photographer than I am sometimes.

Holly and I are planning a kickass party for the 4th and if you're reading this, chances are pretty damn good you're invited. As kickass as this party is going to be (it is going to be kickass), I'm really just excited to be celebrating Independence Day for the first time since I was a kid. I actually feel patriotic. Not ironically or post 9-11 bandwagony, but genuinely thrilled to see an amazing president turning our country around and making it into something to be proud of again. (President Obama, you are so invited to our party.)

Ummmmmmmm um um. That might be it. For now. I've been reading a lot but I'll save that list for its own entry. I have a lot of random pictures to post. And some memes. Later. Woo.

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I was really unsure of whether he'd get Michigan, so all of my voting friends rock.

Double rock because both Proposal One and Proposal Two passed, and I was not expecting Two at all.

Oh my god yes.

P.S. This song is pretty much how I've felt since last night.

For those of you who haven't been watching the Sarah Palin interviews, here's a summary:

Pat Buchanan, always very much a voice of reason, has weighed in on Obama's speech.

My favorite part:

"First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known."

WAIT WHAT I'M SORRY WHAT?

Oh my God.

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Aaaand Mom got in touch with me from work today to tell me that she slipped on the ice in the parking lot, and sprained her wrist, which is now in a brace identical to mine.

Come on, this is just getting ridiculous. I think that's the first time Mom and I were cracking up over a hurt family member.

So we're now one away from a fully matched/braced set. Watch out, Erin.

Clinton-campaigner Geraldine Ferraro:

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position...He happens to be very lucky to be who he is."

And immediately after, as sane people everywhere began to flail their arms and cry WTF:

"They're only attacking me because I am white."

"I will not be discriminated against because I’m white."

Oh my GOD.



(I got online intending to do a longer post about how awesome it was to see my friends and how my dad's doing and all, but oh my GOD.)