Right season?
Sep. 28th, 2005 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcWell now. Just thought I'd check with everyone - this is late-September isn't it? I mean, it isn't, say, June and everyone's been too polite to mention this to me?
Follow with me this little timeline.
Monday (Queen's Birthday holiday): Glorious sunny day, the kind even I can't complain about. Sun shining, big clusters of... yellowy-creamy flowers scenting the air, other wildflowers like kangaroo paw going strong. Big wattle trees, humming with bees (BEEESS!!), all round pleasant day to be out and about.
Tuesday (the very next day): Step out the door, it's raining slightly, but the wind gusts are driving
enough to collapse brolly inwards, driving the rain into me. The air is cold and scouring, like shoving an iceblock up into the back of my nose. Did I mention I caught a slight cold on Friday? Throat-tingle really, of little consequence. Until Tuesday.
So, I took today off - to sleep. That's been my main problem, getting to sleep over the weekend (didn't need any help last night though! Was out almost as soon as my head hit the pillow). So, the moral of our story is "don't try to work - the weather will change to get you!" It's almost October, it should be well and truly spring by now, instead, at least two more days of rain and wind.
And from all over: When you see this, post a quote from Firefly.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right.
River: It's the popular theory.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan.
River: He takes so much looking after.
This one from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ozreison:
Chances are people you don't even know are being introduced to your journal every day, either randomly or through someone else. In addition to recent entries, people can get to know you better by what you posted in the past. With that in mind post a link to your entries on this day exactly six months ago, nine months ago, a year ago, and two years ago. If there was no entry on that day, link the closest date.
Six months ago: It sounded like ACA was introducing us to... Batman.
Nine months ago: It was very very humid.
One year ago: The prophetic AvP/Federal Election post (thanks for handing support to johnnie, Mark!)
Two years ago: I didn't have an LJ back then. It'd be a long wait until the journal burst into existence the following July.
Anyone else keep putting or leaving out the hyphen from the "wrong" tag when doing lj user or lj cut tags?
And this one is going around:
Some reasons given against gay marriage:
1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behaviour. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans
As others have noted, not quite as far from reality as it might appear - even taking the different country names into account *sigh*... and some nice works of sarcasm in there ;)
Follow with me this little timeline.
Monday (Queen's Birthday holiday): Glorious sunny day, the kind even I can't complain about. Sun shining, big clusters of... yellowy-creamy flowers scenting the air, other wildflowers like kangaroo paw going strong. Big wattle trees, humming with bees (BEEESS!!), all round pleasant day to be out and about.
Tuesday (the very next day): Step out the door, it's raining slightly, but the wind gusts are driving
enough to collapse brolly inwards, driving the rain into me. The air is cold and scouring, like shoving an iceblock up into the back of my nose. Did I mention I caught a slight cold on Friday? Throat-tingle really, of little consequence. Until Tuesday.
So, I took today off - to sleep. That's been my main problem, getting to sleep over the weekend (didn't need any help last night though! Was out almost as soon as my head hit the pillow). So, the moral of our story is "don't try to work - the weather will change to get you!" It's almost October, it should be well and truly spring by now, instead, at least two more days of rain and wind.
And from all over: When you see this, post a quote from Firefly.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right.
River: It's the popular theory.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan.
River: He takes so much looking after.
This one from
ozreison:Chances are people you don't even know are being introduced to your journal every day, either randomly or through someone else. In addition to recent entries, people can get to know you better by what you posted in the past. With that in mind post a link to your entries on this day exactly six months ago, nine months ago, a year ago, and two years ago. If there was no entry on that day, link the closest date.
Six months ago: It sounded like ACA was introducing us to... Batman.
Nine months ago: It was very very humid.
One year ago: The prophetic AvP/Federal Election post (thanks for handing support to johnnie, Mark!)
Two years ago: I didn't have an LJ back then. It'd be a long wait until the journal burst into existence the following July.
Anyone else keep putting or leaving out the hyphen from the "wrong" tag when doing lj user or lj cut tags?
And this one is going around:
Some reasons given against gay marriage:
1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behaviour. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans
As others have noted, not quite as far from reality as it might appear - even taking the different country names into account *sigh*... and some nice works of sarcasm in there ;)
