Today is a wonderful day! For the first time in a long while, I feel good. I don’t know if it’s the t-shirt flip flop weather, or the fact that I have nothing major to worry about this weekend, but I feel damn good today! I woke up around 10:00 AM, sat in the bed for a while, got up, and took a shower. Went to Subway around 12:00, came back to my dorm room, and watched the movie “Duplex” –the one with Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller. Very funny movie, but a weird ending. OH! Last night, I rented an awesome movie; I know I loose like ten guy points (is there such a thing?) but the movie was just good, “Real Women have Curves.” I think it was a HBO movie last year or something. There were a couple of things I would have changed about the actors, but overall the movie had a wonderful message, sorta up lifting. I think I needed something like that last night.
Well I just wanted to write out the happiness that I’m feeling right now! Until next time…
Thursday, February 26, 2004
This just in...
Rosie O'Donnell has gone bridal.
O'Donnell and longtime companion Kelli Carpenter wed in a quick, private ceremony Thursday at San Francisco's City Hall, becoming the most famous of the 3,300-plus same-sex couples to get hitched there in recent weeks.
The newly minted marrieds, hand in hand and clutching a bouquet and their license, briefly addressed the hundreds of fans on hand to cheer.
"I'd like to thank the city of San Francisco for the amazing stance the mayor has taken, and all the people here who have assisted not just us, but the thousands and thousands of other law-abiding and loving American families who want the rights that every other married couple is entitled to," O'Donnell said to a rousing ovation.
Susan Leal, the city's treasurer and a fellow lesbian, officiated the ceremony. The San Francisco's Gay Men's Chorus provided a soundtrack, serending the newlyweds with "Going to the Chapel" as they exited City Hall.
Earlier, in a statement issued by publicist Cindi Berger, O'Donnell said, "We, too, have a dream of equality for all families. The only way changes are made in society is when people like [San Francisco] Mayor Gavin Newsom have the courage to stand up against injustice."
The couple's visit to the City by the Bay was a brief one. They were to go from City Hall to the airport for a flight back to their home in New York. With four kids, quipped O'Donnell, "there's no time for a honeymoon."
It was a long day for the duo. They awoke in the predawn hours to give Rosie enough time to announce their matrimonial intentions on ABC's Good Morning America before hopping a plane from New York to San Francisco to make a 1 p.m. PT appointment for their marriage license.
During her GMA appearance, O'Donnell explained that she and Carpenter had been wanting to get hitched for months and were ultimately spurred to action by President George W. Bush's call two days prior for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
"I think the actions of the President are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president," O'Donnell said on the program. "I am stunned and horrified."
The couple will join the parade of gay couples who have tied the knot in San Francisco since Feb. 12, when Newsom ordered city officials to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses in defiance of a California law stating marriage is strictly between a man and a woman. Newsom says the law violates the equal protection clause in the state constitution.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has since ordered the state's attorney general to look into the legality of those unions and several California courts have taken up the matter, but so far none has issued an injunction blocking the nuptials.
O'Donnell, who came out of the closet shortly before her daytime talk show folded in the spring of 2002, is no stranger to the culture wars, having lobbied to overturn a Florida law prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting. Now, she says, she's ready for a new fight.
"I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco," she said on GMA. "And I hope they put more people on the steps to marry as many people as show up. And I hope everyone shows up."
O'Donnell and Carpenter, a dancer turned marketing director for Nickelodeon, are going on six years and four kids together--three of whom they adopted and the most recent arriving last year when Carpenter gave birth via artificial insemination.
O'Donnell, 40, and Carpenter, 35, had hoped to wed in New York last fall during O'Donnell's trial with former Rosie publisher Gruner + Jahr USA, but the state currently doesn't recognize such unions.
"We applied for spousal privilege and were denied it by the state. As a result, everything that I said to Kelli, every letter that I wrote her, every email, every correspondence and conversation was entered into the record," said O'Donnell. "After the trial, I am now and will forever be a total proponent of gay marriage."
After leaving the GMA studios, she and Carpenter immediately headed to the airport.
Rosie O'Donnell has gone bridal.
O'Donnell and longtime companion Kelli Carpenter wed in a quick, private ceremony Thursday at San Francisco's City Hall, becoming the most famous of the 3,300-plus same-sex couples to get hitched there in recent weeks.
The newly minted marrieds, hand in hand and clutching a bouquet and their license, briefly addressed the hundreds of fans on hand to cheer.
"I'd like to thank the city of San Francisco for the amazing stance the mayor has taken, and all the people here who have assisted not just us, but the thousands and thousands of other law-abiding and loving American families who want the rights that every other married couple is entitled to," O'Donnell said to a rousing ovation.
Susan Leal, the city's treasurer and a fellow lesbian, officiated the ceremony. The San Francisco's Gay Men's Chorus provided a soundtrack, serending the newlyweds with "Going to the Chapel" as they exited City Hall.
Earlier, in a statement issued by publicist Cindi Berger, O'Donnell said, "We, too, have a dream of equality for all families. The only way changes are made in society is when people like [San Francisco] Mayor Gavin Newsom have the courage to stand up against injustice."
The couple's visit to the City by the Bay was a brief one. They were to go from City Hall to the airport for a flight back to their home in New York. With four kids, quipped O'Donnell, "there's no time for a honeymoon."
It was a long day for the duo. They awoke in the predawn hours to give Rosie enough time to announce their matrimonial intentions on ABC's Good Morning America before hopping a plane from New York to San Francisco to make a 1 p.m. PT appointment for their marriage license.
During her GMA appearance, O'Donnell explained that she and Carpenter had been wanting to get hitched for months and were ultimately spurred to action by President George W. Bush's call two days prior for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
"I think the actions of the President are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president," O'Donnell said on the program. "I am stunned and horrified."
The couple will join the parade of gay couples who have tied the knot in San Francisco since Feb. 12, when Newsom ordered city officials to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses in defiance of a California law stating marriage is strictly between a man and a woman. Newsom says the law violates the equal protection clause in the state constitution.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has since ordered the state's attorney general to look into the legality of those unions and several California courts have taken up the matter, but so far none has issued an injunction blocking the nuptials.
O'Donnell, who came out of the closet shortly before her daytime talk show folded in the spring of 2002, is no stranger to the culture wars, having lobbied to overturn a Florida law prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting. Now, she says, she's ready for a new fight.
"I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco," she said on GMA. "And I hope they put more people on the steps to marry as many people as show up. And I hope everyone shows up."
O'Donnell and Carpenter, a dancer turned marketing director for Nickelodeon, are going on six years and four kids together--three of whom they adopted and the most recent arriving last year when Carpenter gave birth via artificial insemination.
O'Donnell, 40, and Carpenter, 35, had hoped to wed in New York last fall during O'Donnell's trial with former Rosie publisher Gruner + Jahr USA, but the state currently doesn't recognize such unions.
"We applied for spousal privilege and were denied it by the state. As a result, everything that I said to Kelli, every letter that I wrote her, every email, every correspondence and conversation was entered into the record," said O'Donnell. "After the trial, I am now and will forever be a total proponent of gay marriage."
After leaving the GMA studios, she and Carpenter immediately headed to the airport.
Today was the first performance of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.” I have a bunch of different parts in the play. Most of the people didn’t get half of jokes in the play, well keep in mind that most of the jokes are from the 1960’s, so I wouldn’t expect many people from generation y to get them. But that was fun; we have two more performances tomorrow, then I’m done with the show. I won’t have rehearsal everyday, which will free up a lot of time for me.
I have a Sociology and Math mid-term tomorrow. I don’t think I’m going to get very good grades on these mid-terms tomorrow. I have had no motivation to study or anything. I just want to lye in my bed all day, and read the three books that I bought, that I really want to read. Ah, to be able to lye in a bed—sleep, wake up, relax—now that sounds like fun to me.
My diet went no where. I was going to start on Monday, but of course, it ended on Monday also. I can’t seem to get in a healthy drive… I’m all about the greasy, fattening foods right now. I need to STOP!
I talked with Mrs. Frier (newspaper advisor) today about all the issues I’ve been having with stuff. I love vague words like stuff. I mean, they could mean so many THINGS… but only the writer knows exactly what stuff and things mean…
It’s time for sleep…goodnight.
I have a Sociology and Math mid-term tomorrow. I don’t think I’m going to get very good grades on these mid-terms tomorrow. I have had no motivation to study or anything. I just want to lye in my bed all day, and read the three books that I bought, that I really want to read. Ah, to be able to lye in a bed—sleep, wake up, relax—now that sounds like fun to me.
My diet went no where. I was going to start on Monday, but of course, it ended on Monday also. I can’t seem to get in a healthy drive… I’m all about the greasy, fattening foods right now. I need to STOP!
I talked with Mrs. Frier (newspaper advisor) today about all the issues I’ve been having with stuff. I love vague words like stuff. I mean, they could mean so many THINGS… but only the writer knows exactly what stuff and things mean…
It’s time for sleep…goodnight.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Friday, February 20, 2004
SO, someone informed me that my Blog was too depressing. Of course I did my fake laugh and defend my Blog. I told them that my blog was full of happy memories from my senior year of high school, and this first year of college. After the conversation I went back to my dorm room, and of course I started to dig through all of my past entries to see if I was indeed a depressing Blog writer. Sadly, they were right. But there is a reason why most of my entries are like that. For one, most of the time people see me as the happy go lucky person, yes I may look stressed half the time, but usually I have a happy disposition. But what you don’t know, or you may, is that a lot of times I want to go off on someone, or get into a debate and defend my beliefs, but I feel like I can’t articulate what I feel, or I think that I will get out worded. Especially when I go back to Atlanta, and hang out with my friends from high school. I mean, you all are SO freaking smart and intelligent, all of you. Sometimes I feel like a stupid little 5th grader who can’t tell you exactly what there feeling, or how they believe. I think I’ve gotten a bit off topic…but basically, I don’t say things in real life, so I save them for here and usually that happens when some one really pisses me off and instead of telling them that they upset me, I come to type out my thoughts.
With that said, I’m going to try and write a balanced Blog. Happy, sad, and everything in between. So here goes…
Yesterday I FINALLY finished working on the newspaper, and I we were able to send it off to Valdosta to be printed. So we should get the paper back by Tuesday morning. I think this is the best newspaper I’ve done so far. The layout is awesome. I wonder what people are going to say. Hopefully good things. Tuesday at the last journalism meeting, I told the staff writers that I want to run the paper a little differently then what we’ve done in the past. Instead of me giving them all of their topics, I’m going to let them all brainstorm different words that are affecting college students. I told them that I didn’t want the school newspaper to be the “Miguel South Georgia College Newspaper.” So hopefully the next issue will not only look good, but have fun, informative content. OH OH….last week I had a huge test in Dr. Butler’s history class. He is known for giving impossible tests. Well guess who was one of the four people in my class to get an A on the test, ME!!! OH my gosh, I was about to JUMP out of my seat when I found out that I made a 91 on this not so impossible test! That was the highlight of my day!
Well I need to finish washing my clothes….
With that said, I’m going to try and write a balanced Blog. Happy, sad, and everything in between. So here goes…
Yesterday I FINALLY finished working on the newspaper, and I we were able to send it off to Valdosta to be printed. So we should get the paper back by Tuesday morning. I think this is the best newspaper I’ve done so far. The layout is awesome. I wonder what people are going to say. Hopefully good things. Tuesday at the last journalism meeting, I told the staff writers that I want to run the paper a little differently then what we’ve done in the past. Instead of me giving them all of their topics, I’m going to let them all brainstorm different words that are affecting college students. I told them that I didn’t want the school newspaper to be the “Miguel South Georgia College Newspaper.” So hopefully the next issue will not only look good, but have fun, informative content. OH OH….last week I had a huge test in Dr. Butler’s history class. He is known for giving impossible tests. Well guess who was one of the four people in my class to get an A on the test, ME!!! OH my gosh, I was about to JUMP out of my seat when I found out that I made a 91 on this not so impossible test! That was the highlight of my day!
Well I need to finish washing my clothes….
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate people? I don’t care how I nice I am, how giving I am, I still find that people can be COMPLETE ASS HOLES! I am so tired of trying to be the nice person that keeps peace with everyone, I’m sick of it! I pour my heart and soul into being a nice person to everyone, no matter who-what you are. Even if I don’t like you, and if I know you don’t like me, I at least try to give you freakin respect, just for being a person, a human being! It just hurts me to see how stupid and ignorant people can be. I wish that these people I live with could see through my eyes—see what I have to go through every day. I want them to feel the shame and guilt I feel every time I walk into church, just for having feelings about people I can’t help. I want these goddamn dumb ass mother fuckers (sorry, I’m really pist) to UNDERSTAND what I—and countless others—have had to go through, just to live life. They just don’t know, and sadly I don’t think they ever will.
***Sorry for going off like this, this is just the only medium I have to vent my frustrations.
Ok, now moving on to something a bit more light hearted, well, not that light. Today is Valentine’s Day, oh yeah. How fun, Thank You Hallmark. This is just more day that I feel like crap. But luckily I have a billion activities to do that will keep me pretty busy. (Just in case you care, which you probably don’t! Here’s the line up of my day.) Tomorrow I’m going to wake up around 9AM or 9:30AM and go work on the newspaper some more. (My dream would be to get the whole paper finished this weekend, and have the paper go to press Monday—but the prefect world doesn’t exist!) Then around 2:45PM or so, I have to go in and work at the station. Its fun working at the radio station, I don’t do much, but I like sitting back and trying to learn everything as fast as I can. I’m trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can. I’ll be there until like 10PM, and then I’ll come back to school and work on the newspaper some more, and then when I can’t even keep my eyes open, I will go back to the dorms, fall into my bed, and have a peaceful-dreamless-sleep. Ah, what a day it shall be.
Well until next time my educated friends…
***Sorry for going off like this, this is just the only medium I have to vent my frustrations.
Ok, now moving on to something a bit more light hearted, well, not that light. Today is Valentine’s Day, oh yeah. How fun, Thank You Hallmark. This is just more day that I feel like crap. But luckily I have a billion activities to do that will keep me pretty busy. (Just in case you care, which you probably don’t! Here’s the line up of my day.) Tomorrow I’m going to wake up around 9AM or 9:30AM and go work on the newspaper some more. (My dream would be to get the whole paper finished this weekend, and have the paper go to press Monday—but the prefect world doesn’t exist!) Then around 2:45PM or so, I have to go in and work at the station. Its fun working at the radio station, I don’t do much, but I like sitting back and trying to learn everything as fast as I can. I’m trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can. I’ll be there until like 10PM, and then I’ll come back to school and work on the newspaper some more, and then when I can’t even keep my eyes open, I will go back to the dorms, fall into my bed, and have a peaceful-dreamless-sleep. Ah, what a day it shall be.
Well until next time my educated friends…
Sunday, February 08, 2004
I think something is wrong with me. Why am I always tired? I don’t think I can remember a moment where I wasn’t uttering, “Man, I’m tired,” or “You know, I could sure use a break right now.” I always want to just crawl in my bed and sleep for hours! One day I’ll feel all awake and ready to go, and that will be a very dangerous day.
Yesterday I went to the GCPA-Georgia College Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. It was interesting to be around all the other journalism geeks, but I felt a bit out of place. Everyone there looked so smart, like they all were just going to start spouting definitions of big words from the dictionary. While Jonas, Alicia, and myself are walking around feeling really stupid (Jonas-A&E Staff Writer / Alicia-Staff Photographer).
In Douglas—where I go to school—people never see the highway. When you get off I-75 to get to SGC, it takes about an hour to get to the school, so a lot of the people who are students and have lived here there whole life, haven’t been on the highway often. Jonas and Alicia were freaking out in the car when I was driving on the highway—the GCPA convention was in Macon. It was funny to see them put their hands over their faces as I would change lanes or something, that was hilarious! –You had to be there.
Of course, like the over achieving, loving to be stressed out person I am, I ran for Vice President of GCPA. There wasn’t much involved in running, all I had to do was get up in front of everyone and say my name, where I’m from, and what my position is on the paper at school. They announced the winners at the luncheon later on that afternoon—and I’m happy (I think) to say that I won. I don’t have to do much, thank God! I just think this will be good for my resume—and I think it will help our school paper The South Georgian at these competitions. We shall see.
Right now I’m sitting here TRYING to study for my World History test this week. The test is almost next to impossible! This is the first teacher I have ever had who wants us to memorize dates! I. Can’t. Remember. Dates. BUT, I’m going to try. I do like the teacher though; he’s really pushing us to go up and beyond what’s usually expected of us.
The deadline for the paper is this week…that means I start production of the paper this week…fun…nope, not at all. SO basically I’m going to get like 15 articles on m y desk Tuesday and have to go into frantic mode to put the paper together. But this time I’m training some people on how to use Quark—the program we use to put the paper together—so they can start to help with layout, so that should make the whole task a bit better for me.
Well I’m off to TRY and study for World History.
Yesterday I went to the GCPA-Georgia College Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. It was interesting to be around all the other journalism geeks, but I felt a bit out of place. Everyone there looked so smart, like they all were just going to start spouting definitions of big words from the dictionary. While Jonas, Alicia, and myself are walking around feeling really stupid (Jonas-A&E Staff Writer / Alicia-Staff Photographer).
In Douglas—where I go to school—people never see the highway. When you get off I-75 to get to SGC, it takes about an hour to get to the school, so a lot of the people who are students and have lived here there whole life, haven’t been on the highway often. Jonas and Alicia were freaking out in the car when I was driving on the highway—the GCPA convention was in Macon. It was funny to see them put their hands over their faces as I would change lanes or something, that was hilarious! –You had to be there.
Of course, like the over achieving, loving to be stressed out person I am, I ran for Vice President of GCPA. There wasn’t much involved in running, all I had to do was get up in front of everyone and say my name, where I’m from, and what my position is on the paper at school. They announced the winners at the luncheon later on that afternoon—and I’m happy (I think) to say that I won. I don’t have to do much, thank God! I just think this will be good for my resume—and I think it will help our school paper The South Georgian at these competitions. We shall see.
Right now I’m sitting here TRYING to study for my World History test this week. The test is almost next to impossible! This is the first teacher I have ever had who wants us to memorize dates! I. Can’t. Remember. Dates. BUT, I’m going to try. I do like the teacher though; he’s really pushing us to go up and beyond what’s usually expected of us.
The deadline for the paper is this week…that means I start production of the paper this week…fun…nope, not at all. SO basically I’m going to get like 15 articles on m y desk Tuesday and have to go into frantic mode to put the paper together. But this time I’m training some people on how to use Quark—the program we use to put the paper together—so they can start to help with layout, so that should make the whole task a bit better for me.
Well I’m off to TRY and study for World History.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
As you can see, I have not travled during my life, so far. Hopefully when I get over I'll be able to make up for my lack of travel... I'll be able to BUY another country...muhahahahahahahaha....hahaha....haha....ha...h....a
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide