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My film from the solstice got a light leak. So far I just have negatives. This is the best of what I could salvage. Not very exciting, but interesting in a kind of impressionistic way. This is the lot of us (minus me) throwing rocks and hanging out around the beach near Deception Pass Bridge.
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Have you seen me? Name: ARJ
Eyes: Green and cross-eyed
Hair: Brown, uncombed
Height: 5'7", stooped
Age: 24, with gray hairs already starting
Last seen with WeirdArms, purchasing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (do not follow link, evil ahead!). In extreme danger of purchasing a chainmail bikini. If found, remove game controller from her hands immediately.
Picked up Mr Wiggins from the airport on Thursday. Took Friday off of work as well. The weather was pure crap until Sunday. We stayed inside playing Baldur's Gate for waaaaaaaay too many hours.
Feeling introverted, withdrawn. Feeling negative about work. People keep sending around stupid forwards, like hissy fits about the Pledge of Allegiance and how soldiers salute W because he says he believes in Jesus on TV. Gah, can't stand that kind of BS, especially at work. Sometimes I wish I didn't work for a Christian company. I once had a coworker tell me that birth control pills were "like an abortion." For the record, I 1) am a protestant Christian of the Methodist persuasion; 2) think that church and state should definitely be well separated for numerous reasons, and therefore it's completely legitimate for the Supremes to call the Pledge on its hypocrasy; 3) think birth control and family planning are vital and necessary in this overpopulated world, and biologically speaking, can't see how the pill is "like an abortion." </political rant>
Related tangent: Interesting sermon at church last Sunday. Leslie Ann talked about this country's tendency to keep religion quiet, a tacit agreement not to proselytize (an assessment I both agree with and disagree with). Most people probably don't like an in-depth discussion of religion in the US. This is fair enough-- fanaticism is definitely bad. But Leslie Ann brought up that it's easy to slide from disapproval of religious fanaticism to a state where religion no longer matters because it's too controversial. This state is philosophical and intellectual death. We can talk about beliefs and belief systems without proselytizing or "selling" our point of view. This is a vital discussion. b!X's post on abstaining from saying the Pledge is powerful testimony to this. AKMA is, too.
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