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lydamorehouseSeen the Samuel L. Jackson video, "Wake the F*ck Up!"?
Well, I did.
I woke the f*ck up just now, quite literally, in a cold sweat. My stomach was in such a knot, I actually felt vomit at the back of my throat. When I went to bed, there was no clear winner for US President, and I fell asleep to begin with only because I'd only allowed to look at the results once yesterday. Unfortunately, that was when Romney was in the lead and... well, I honestly just decided to shut down and hide until it was all over.
All I can say?
OH THANK GOD!
And, fingers crossed, here in Minnesota both ammendments appear to have been defeated and, if God(dess) truly loves us, Bachmann will lose her seat in the recount. But, OMG, I'll take Batshit Bachmann if I can have all the rest.
It's probably hard to express how sick I've felt all day today. For reasons having entirely to do with the marriage proposal, this election felt very, very personal to me. My state was attempting to legalize discrimination -- they wanted to change the state constitution of Minnesota so that it was okay to NEVER, EVER recognize a marriage other than the heteronormative ones.
And it's been far, far too close.
My god there are a lot of haters out there. And they hate *me.* But it seems as though we may have taken back our state senate as well, and, again, if that turns out to be true, and we really have defeated this amendment, there is a small glimmer of hope that eventually the state ban on gay marriage could be overturned in my lifetime (and possibly even within some decent amount of time, like say five years.) In which case, I invite you all to our wedding. I never planned on marrying Shawn. I'm so old school that I never (in Shawn's words) felt we needed to "ape the patriarchy." And, my thought is, after twenty-six years, if it "ain't broke, don't fix it." Some of the automatic rights would be phenomenal, but Shawn and I have done our legal best to do what we can with the system as it exists today. But Mason has asked us to do it if such a thing should ever become legal. It's important to him that his non-traditional family not be quite so damn non-traditional any more. He wants to be able to say, "Yeah, my moms are married. Just like your mom and dad." (Though, the heck? Plenty of "normal" kids can't say their parents are still married, or ever married....) But, the point is, we promised to get married for Mason. Let's hope this is one step toward that goal.
Ugh, I could still puke at the thought. It hasn't made quite as bit a stink as the marriage amendment here, but the voter ID ammendment, also on the ballot in Minnestoa, was, most certainly, defeated. I was worried that with all the focus on marriage equality that this one might slip by people's attention. Minnesota has historically had some of the best voter turn out in the nation. That would have changed, and given some of the margins by which we've won (and lost) some seats, every single vote counts here. Think: Al Franken. Pray: Michele Bachamann.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to go back to bed, despite what appears to be good news all around. I have a bunch of projects that could use the extra hours of my attention and I may just give up and give in to writing my proposals for the Loft classes I might like to teach, as well as getting a jump start on today's NaNoWriMo count. There's also my Captain America in space proposal that's been languishing while I geared up for NaNo, and I chatted with my agent yesterday about sending some of my previously rejected Tate proposals elsewhere and now I'm charged with dusting those off and seeing if any of them are worth doing that with.
That's plenty to keep me busy until the family wakes up at 6 am. Plus, from what I gather from my Facebook feed, all y'all have been up this whole time. We might as well ALL be crispy and exhausted when the work day starts, eh?
Well, I did.
I woke the f*ck up just now, quite literally, in a cold sweat. My stomach was in such a knot, I actually felt vomit at the back of my throat. When I went to bed, there was no clear winner for US President, and I fell asleep to begin with only because I'd only allowed to look at the results once yesterday. Unfortunately, that was when Romney was in the lead and... well, I honestly just decided to shut down and hide until it was all over.
All I can say?
OH THANK GOD!
And, fingers crossed, here in Minnesota both ammendments appear to have been defeated and, if God(dess) truly loves us, Bachmann will lose her seat in the recount. But, OMG, I'll take Batshit Bachmann if I can have all the rest.
It's probably hard to express how sick I've felt all day today. For reasons having entirely to do with the marriage proposal, this election felt very, very personal to me. My state was attempting to legalize discrimination -- they wanted to change the state constitution of Minnesota so that it was okay to NEVER, EVER recognize a marriage other than the heteronormative ones.
And it's been far, far too close.
My god there are a lot of haters out there. And they hate *me.* But it seems as though we may have taken back our state senate as well, and, again, if that turns out to be true, and we really have defeated this amendment, there is a small glimmer of hope that eventually the state ban on gay marriage could be overturned in my lifetime (and possibly even within some decent amount of time, like say five years.) In which case, I invite you all to our wedding. I never planned on marrying Shawn. I'm so old school that I never (in Shawn's words) felt we needed to "ape the patriarchy." And, my thought is, after twenty-six years, if it "ain't broke, don't fix it." Some of the automatic rights would be phenomenal, but Shawn and I have done our legal best to do what we can with the system as it exists today. But Mason has asked us to do it if such a thing should ever become legal. It's important to him that his non-traditional family not be quite so damn non-traditional any more. He wants to be able to say, "Yeah, my moms are married. Just like your mom and dad." (Though, the heck? Plenty of "normal" kids can't say their parents are still married, or ever married....) But, the point is, we promised to get married for Mason. Let's hope this is one step toward that goal.
Ugh, I could still puke at the thought. It hasn't made quite as bit a stink as the marriage amendment here, but the voter ID ammendment, also on the ballot in Minnestoa, was, most certainly, defeated. I was worried that with all the focus on marriage equality that this one might slip by people's attention. Minnesota has historically had some of the best voter turn out in the nation. That would have changed, and given some of the margins by which we've won (and lost) some seats, every single vote counts here. Think: Al Franken. Pray: Michele Bachamann.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to go back to bed, despite what appears to be good news all around. I have a bunch of projects that could use the extra hours of my attention and I may just give up and give in to writing my proposals for the Loft classes I might like to teach, as well as getting a jump start on today's NaNoWriMo count. There's also my Captain America in space proposal that's been languishing while I geared up for NaNo, and I chatted with my agent yesterday about sending some of my previously rejected Tate proposals elsewhere and now I'm charged with dusting those off and seeing if any of them are worth doing that with.
That's plenty to keep me busy until the family wakes up at 6 am. Plus, from what I gather from my Facebook feed, all y'all have been up this whole time. We might as well ALL be crispy and exhausted when the work day starts, eh?
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Date: 2012-11-07 01:17 pm (UTC)May it happen soon! :)