The Kat's Journal

Two things I like right now:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29050187/ - Watch the first video. GO GET 'EM!

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/7159275.html?#cutid1 - Batwoman in Detective Comics? Oh indeed.

It amuses the hell out of me that this incoming administration had fic communities and just the whole gammut of geeky fandom things that happen.

I see a lot of people on my friend's list talking about how it is over and how we won and how the world is a better place this morning. I think this is partially true. I see a lot of people griping bitterly about how everything will be just the same as soon as Obama becomes President and he'll disappoint and all of that.

Well.

I have a little bit to say about that.

Of course he'll disappoint some times. He's human and a politician - this means that he'll be angering or disappointing someone with pretty much ever decision he makes. He can (and has already started to, I might add) change the way this country is seen around the world. That's a big deal. I have hope for the way things are going to go in the White House.

Here's my big point, though. This is not over. It is not simply time to say, "Okay, we elected this great guy, he's going to fix all of our problems." No. This is when we roll up our sleeves and say, "What next?" This is the antithesis of the moment, when after 9/11 we asked "What can we do?" and we were told we could go out and shop. If you want change, you have to MAKE IT. It takes work and dedication to change the world. It takes fighting the good fight, the hard fight, for years.

Last night we elected a black man as President. We also banned gay marriage and/or adoption in three and Prop 8 is looking bad in California. While we're patting ourselves on the back for starting to step away from racism, we're just transfering the intollerance and hatred to a new group of people and in no way is that acceptable. The economy looks to be slowly stablizing but it still needs a lot help. We still have tons of work to do on alternative energy, saving the environment, and, you know, those two wars we have going on.

So, no. It isn't over.

This is just begining.

Get out there and volunteer. Donate your time or money to a cause that needs it.

Oh my God.

I....

Wow.

Never before have I given money to a campaign.
Never before have I volunteered as much as I have for this.

Oh ...... I can't even tell you how this feels right now.

Now, I'm just worried about Rossi.

So, I'm a jittery bundle of nerves today about tomorrow. That and I seem to be feeling .... a wee bit feverish. These two things together are making me not feel so very great today.

What is getting me through is watching West Wing bits on YouTube.

If anyone knows where I can watch entire episodes, I'd be appreciative.

I like this. It makes me smile. I've got 200 people who read my journal. I think I have more than five covered.

http://www.politickerwa.com/bryanbissell/2381/dems-pounce-ellensburg-lecture

(I know this isn't Rossi specifically on the tape. These opinions seem to be echoed, if veiled by the campaign.)

Why are people planning on voting for this guy? Really. He's a slick jerk who thinks that minimum wage jobs are things that only teenagers have, that 'I'm not running on that issue' is a valid response to abortion and gay marriage questions and runs a race in Eastern Washington telling them 'not to let Seattle steal the election' all while planning to do NOTHING to help them out when he's elected.

I understand that Gregoire didn't to a great job. In fact, the thing that sticks out the most in my memories of her term is the waffling on what to do with the Viaduct but damn, Rossi is so not the answer.

It was a good weekend. There was lots of walking and some shopping and hair dyeing and all sorts of lovely things. The weather was fantastic all weekend. Saturday was close to perfect - breezy, a little bit of a bite to the air but still warm in the sun. I love it when I get a chance to have some time in a day like that.

My boss, his boss and a whole fleet of other people are heading out to Korea and Japan on Wednesday. I can't explain how jealous of them I am. Still, a week after that I'm heading to New Orleans, so it isn't all bad, now is it? I'm hoping to have a good time where I can just breathe and not worry too much. Right now the weather looks like upper 70s and thunderstorms which sounds about like every other forecast I've had for flying in to that town.

On the BPAL front, it looks like the Yule scents are up. I'm most certainly slowing down in my BPAL purchasing. There are a lot of neat scents listed but there are only a few I'm really interested in at all. I might well have more than I'll ever be able to wear right now as it is, so....

I'm not going to get all ranty about politics right now. It is better that I not flip out about how bastardy some people can get.

I'm reading Desire of the Everlasting Hills, which makes me think about religion and Judaism and Christanity and a lot of other things. There are a lot of awesome parts of a lot of religions out there. I find that I am most often turned off by the followers of those religions more than the tenants set forth by the religion itself. It is also interesting that this book started with Alexander and then went right into the era of Jews performing epispasm *twitch* in order to fit in at the gymnasium with all of the other naked Greeks.... It grounded me in a world that was very familiar to me. It is sometimes too easy to forget that Christianity began then since it has been such a fixture in my life - sometimes a point of contention and sometimes a point of solace.

On a sort of related note, we're kicking back up into movie watching season. Here is what I'm looking forward to for the next few months:
City of Ember
Max Payne
Sex Drive
Changeling
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Quantum of Solace
Bolt
Australia
Fanboys
The Tale of Despereaux - Which I would love to see with Mike, Leigh and David if possible.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I probably wont see all of them but it pretty much boils down to seeing anything that isn't Twilight. And if that weren't enough, there are like 8 games coming out in that same time period that I want to play. I think I'm instituting the holiday no buying phase a little early. Just to save my sanity if nothing else.

Okay. Enough updating. More work.

Tomorrow is the last day that Washington State residents can register to vote - 30 days before the election. I reserve the right to try to persuade you to my way of thinking at least once if we are not aligned but ultimately, I do not care who it is you vote for as long as you participate.

IF YOU ARE in Washington State, please go HERE to register.

IF YOU ARE ANYWHERE IN THE US, you can use THIS site to register, request to vote absentee or find your polling location.

DO IT!

DO IT NOW!

And I am CERTAIN, I will have something to say about the training I went through this evening but my brain is currently about the consistency of lumpy pudding. I'll be putting that together some time later.