Lists

Things I am happy about.

1) Falwell dying
2) Seeing Kaye in five days
3) Finals (almost) being over
4) Getting to go to graduation this year
5) Not doing anything tremendously stupid this semester. I know, it's not much, but it's kind of an achievement for me.

Things I am anxious about.

1) Moving
2) Transferring
3) Financial aid
4) Final projects

Things I am sad about.

1) Having to say peace out to Potsdam
2) The fact that I'll never see my parents as much as I have for the past 20 years
3) Missed opportunities, but that's always the case
4) Shitty GPA

Dental

I was feeling around my mouth with my tongue (I know, Kaye should do it, but she's sadly absent at this point) and I feel something strange. Unfortunately there's a rather nasty black hole in my upper left wisdom tooth. I know they've caused problems for other people, but I've always been proud of how well-behaved mine have been so there's a tough of deservedness with this. There's just this big, black, gaping hole in my tooth now.

Also, no health insurance of any sort, much less dental coverage.

Mitchell claims to be able to rip it out and do some gum cutting and I'm so distraught at this point that part of me is considering it. A very small, very quiet, and very much ignored part.

YouTube Problems

So I'm trying to upload my attempt at the 'Blasphemy Challenge' in which us uncloseted atheists are challenged to say so on the public domain of the internet. That's fine. I'll deny the holy spirit all day long. What I won't deny is the pain-in-the-assness of trying to get the shitty video editing software that came with my webcam to sync up with YouTube's uploading software. Any tips would be welcome, but I may just say fuck it and hope that the fact that "rationalist" is one of the most common tags on my blog will speak loudly enough about my belief system.

A Link!

Lorna Dee Cervantes

That is a link to her personal blog. She also has a professional blog and a "daily poem" blog over on MySpace. Her reading today was fantastic and a real pleasure to be in the audience for. Her MySpace profile is ridiculously entertaining and I was not expecting there to be quite so many quizzes and surveys on there. Check her out. Buy her book.

Nontheistic Senator in California

Story Here

This is an interesting step in politics, but unlikely to change anything. Besides the representative being in one of the most atheistic-friendly states in the country, his record of getting re-elected consistently, and the fact that he is a non-theistic Unitarian and not a full rationalist, it's only a baby step to having, say, an atheist president.

Baby-steps are good though. I imagine it would help considerably if world leaders were motivated more by worldly concerns, like the economy and war for example, instead of sucking up to their invisible friends.