commentaries in government

Jess on October 27, 2004

i kind of feel like the category for this one should be political opinions but it began as journal. so i guess we’ll just keep it that way.

i’m in government and we ere looking at this “portrait of the elections” that talks about what percentage of men and women vote etc. so anyway. freeman was like “now it puts over the words male and female the word ‘sex’ and we all know that sex is something you do.. so maybe we’ll just call it gender.” and that got me off of livejournal and into the conversation. so i say “no. sex refers to the physical aspects of what a person is born. purely the anatomical parts that the body possesses and gender is what you consider yourself. so it would be nearly impossible to categorize gender. which is why they use sex in statitistics.” and everyone laughed. but he was like “okay then. we’ll use sex.” me: “thank you.” it kind of creeps me out that i answered thank you to my prof saying we’ll use sex. but nonetheless i’m glad that i granted knowledge to the class people and that i got my way. even if i am fairly sure it was just an avenue of appeasement.

“When people my age got married we got married for all the traditional reasons, but we, we didn’t know any better.” (is someone’s government prof bitter about his divorce?)

heres to hoping curses persevere

Jess on October 26, 2004

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how easy do you think it would be to turn my old Nomar voodoo doll into an Martinez voodoo doll? (and then revert it back when the yankees get pedro next year)

creatures from the trees

Jess on October 23, 2004

i’m in washington dc. and i’m in mourning for the yankees. what the fuck. who is up 3-0 and loses the ALCS to the motherfucking red sox? i mean. christ. who DOES that? the yankees definitely should not have done that. i’m still pretty much in shock about the whole ordeal really. i mean i understand that some days the yankees have to lose by why 4 days in a row. and why to the red sox. and just why. the yankees should be in the world series tonight instead of the damn red sox and the cardinals. what the fuck? at least i could’ve cheered for the ‘stros. but i can’t cheer for the cards. except i really have no choice. fuckers.

other than the loss washington dc has been great. i got to see erik a few nights and that was a lot of fun. his parents are in town now for parents weekend though so i don’t really get to hang out with him for the rest of the weekend except for maybe before i leave on sunday. i’m not sure how that’s going to work out though. he’s a cool kid.

the death cab for cutie show is tonight and i’m still not sure if i’m going. i lost my purse (it got returned though, but like after i was at the airport) so i don’t really have much by way of id. i mean my student id which means that i can fly but i don’t have any other id. so that’s lame. and my creditcard/checkcard was in there and i think i need that to willcall my tickets. i don’t really know. so i’m going to see what i can do and if it works out then i’m going to the show and if it doesn’t work out then i’m not going to the show. i’m really happy that its so late because that means i keep the rest of my day/evening.

i went to the holocaust museum on thursday. and the natural history museum. the holocaust museum is so powerful though. its just absolutely insane. i can’t really put it into words. they have a “Deadly Medicine” exhbit about all the eugencis shit the nazis did and it was really terrifying. like that’s probably the most unsettling thing there. but there was this woman there with her children and she was explaining to them why it was so bad that the nazis did the eugenics experiments and tried to create a master race. that was so cool. i think the world would be so much better off if parents would eloquently explain the failures in our history.

the dinosaurs were a nice break from depressing things.

yesterday i went to RAINN to talk about a campus project for washburn. i’m so excited about it now. i have a list of speakers i want to try to bring to campus and a bunch of awesome outreach ideas. probablyf or april but theres no reason we can’t start planning now. its just amazingness.
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je ne veux pas travailler

Jess on October 20, 2004

for the record i’m extremely hostile that i’m going to be flying out during game 7 and that the yankeescouldn’t just win it in 4 like i intended for the to do. fuckers. i’m so tired of these tied games or the waiting until the 9th to lose the lead. they won like 19-6 the other night and haven’t picked up anything. bleh. goddamn derek jeter. and a-rod’s ball-slapping episode of last night. wow that sounds bad. anyway. i just don’t know. its so awfully terribly and i’m starting to stress out a little bit about baseball. nothing much that i can do about it but try to remind myself that baseball is supposed to be a stress reliever.

i leave for washington dc in like 2.5 hours. oh-mah-god. i can barely control myself. i’m waaaay too excited. its just absolutely insane. fuck man. i mean. growl. i finally get to see erik. yesterday we were on the phone and he was just like “see you tomorrow.” and i realized that he actually will. its amazing. and i’m so excited about it.

unknown

Jess on October 18, 2004

i find words that associated to you so long ago and remember the true beauty and innocence of what we have, what we had. i’ll never believe something so true fades.

they are only words

Jess on October 18, 2004

i cleaned out an old bookbag today in order to have the biggest one available to pack in for wednesday. i found at the bottom of it the notebook that i toted around for parts of my junior year in highschool. it has such a huge expanse of time and so many long stories. i really like the style i use in it, but my love for it is much deeper than that. its everything i wrote while falling in love. i think the best poetry comes from the pain of staying silent when you have something you want to joyfully scream.

speak

Jess on October 17, 2004

i heard you so clearly this time. and responded so favorably with more kisses and what, did you, just say?. you repeat and i melt a little. it’s like those walls are still there but every day they sink and i think you could climb over them and live here with me,

rockout like whoa.

Jess on October 14, 2004

i’ve recovered from being upset but not from the cramps i had earlier today. goddammit. i talked to will from across the hall and he was incredibly wonderful and understanding. i really like all these kids from school. they just completely rock my face off. like whoa man.