So once again, it's been forever since I've logged on here. I was reading over a few of my earlier entries, and I'm debating doing back and deleting them all and just starting over. I'm in a much better place than I was when most of these entries were written, and a fresh start would be kinda nice. The simplest thing would be to just start over with a new xanga, but I'm sort of liking my current username. *shrug* I'll figure it out, and they'll most likely be gone soon.

In other news, the past couple months have been pretty amazing. I got a job at petsmart and actually still like it two months in. This semester is loaded with fail, but I'm kicking my ass to get what needs to be finished done. I guess we'll see how that works out in the next couple weeks or so.

About two weeks ago, I went to DC with a few friends for the Young Women's Leadership Conference, and it was absolutely amazing. Pictures are going up on my facebook soon, and I'll probably add a few here too. Just check back later.

This weekend some other friends and I are going to Chapel Hill, NC to the Unity Conference. I absolutely can NOT wait. The theme this year is Sweet T, with the tagline "Transgressing, transforming, transcending gender & sexuality in the South." I'm willing to bet it's going to be just as good, if not better, than DC's conference.

Honestly, I can't really think of anything else to type about. But I'm seriously going to try to update more this time around.

Stacey Campfield and Dewayne Bunch, members of the Tennessee representatives and senate, respectively, have introduced a bill banning public schools with grades K-8 from providing any instruction or materials related to any sexual orientation other than heterosexuality. The bills both state, and I quote, "(c)(1) The general assembly recognizes the sensitivity of certain subjects that are best explained and discussed in the home. ... (2) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or materials discussing sexual orientation other than heterosexuality." Great. Good job guys. Let's make sure that kids who are growing up in homophobic families, and are being told that "all them faggots are ruinin' this here country. They're all gonna burn in hell, right where they should be" and the like will have no message of tolerance till at LEAST ninth grade, when most beliefs are already ingrained into them. Yep, way to make already homophobic schools into an even deeper hell for LGBT students. I guess I kind of feel about this the way I do about sex education in schools. If parents would actually talk to their children, and tell them the truth, I'd have no problem with it. The thing is, this is Tennessee. I don't know if you got the memo, but this is a VERY Republican state. Many parents who actually do talk to their kids about homosexuality are just going to tell them it's wrong, and to stay away from it. That is, if they talk to their kids about it at all. Homophobia is rampant in Tennessee public schools, especially the ones in the eastern part. Kids need to be taught that there are different types of families, and that it's okay. I'm not saying teach a bunch of ten-year-olds what two men or two women do in bed, but just that no matter who is in a relationship with who, they don't deserve to be treated differently. This bill was brought up by Campfield last year, but was quickly shot down. I'm afraid we might not be so lucky this time, with emotions still running high and guards still up over the election.
What can we do about it? If you live in Tennessee, contact your representative. Their job is pretty self explanatory. They're to *represent* the people in their district. Call and give them your opinion on why this bill should not pass. If we don't tell them, how will they know? I'm including the phone numbers and e-mails for both Stacey Campfield and Dewayne Bunch to make it easy for you to go straight to the source, and I'm linking the websites where you can fine the representatives and Tennessee senators for your area. If you don't know your district, each site has a place to enter your address and it will tell you who is over your area. Please call and tell them what you think. We can't let this bill pass.

Stacey Campfield:
(615) 741-2287
rep.stacey.campfield@capit

Listen to the MUSTN'Ts, child.
Listen to the DON'Ts.
Listen to the SHOULDN'Ts,
The IMPOSSIBLEs, the WON'Ts.
Listen to the NEVER HAVEs,
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child.
ANYTHING can be.
- Shel Silverstein

So yes, this is random, but I have a few different things to say. Oh well.

Last weekend (as in 8-ish days ago) Meghan and I watched Teeth, Idiocracy, and Do I Love You?
Teeth - Amazing. Idiocracy - I've seen it before, but still amazing. Do I Love You? - What the HELL did we rent?! That movie was awful. Bad acting, bad script, bad filming, and I'm not sure there was even a plotline at all. Yeah. But we had fun anyways. I love her to pieces. Then a few nights ago, we rented three Margaret Cho dvds with Alex, and spent two nights disturbing the other people in their dorms. Oooops. Last night we almost got kicked out of her dorm for laughing too hard at 3 in the morning. Oh well. Hahah
I've been really involved with my women's studies group, which is a good thing. My group is awesome. We're doing a perceptions of gender presentation, and from what we have planned so far, it's going to pretty much kick ass. Yeah.
I've learned a few things that people should NOT say when trying to get in a girl's pants. Examples include "I really want to hit it raw right now," "So can I just use your holes?" and "Fetishes? I like watching girls get fucked by animals." C'mon people. Just don't do it. >.<