Happy Mardi Gras Everybody

God I wished I had me some King Cake right about now. I'm spending my Fat Tuesday in my room studying my ass off and trying to mantain my GPA. I got three months until school is over and I go back home to Louisiana. I Can't wait.

Today was my presentation in Women's Studies class. Some of the questions we had to answer were: (What are your religious beliefs?)(How do you feel about the abortion controversy in the US and what is it really about?) and What are your political beliefs? Yeah, I pretty much got slammed. I'm an Roman-Catholic, pro-choice, liberal. That's not what people want to hear! I hate that, what is supposed to be a Women's Studies class, is turning into an abortion-debate class. The majority of the class seems to be pretty anti-choice (I refuse to use the term "pro-life" here, because I am not seeing individuals against the taking of human lives, but instead against reproductive choice) but there a few other pro-choicers in the room. I expected the kind of response I got. After the first two days in class, and hearing so many students strongly agree with the statement “Abortion is murder�, I didn’t have much hope for my own speech! It was very tense. I hate tension. I really do. But I’m not backing down from my beliefs just to keep the peace. I think that we, as adults, should be able to calmly and rationally discuss our own views and hopefully grow and learn from one another. Unfortunately, it seems that everyone is just getting angry and leaving the room with all these negative feelings towards one another, the instructor, and the class itself. I hope to see an improvement in this by the end of the year. Debate is good. Resentment and anger are not!

A New Picture Of Troy from Sunshine

I just want to big a big juicy thank you to Gia for the picture. Thank you very much.
Gia has a cool site and runs the Sunshine production as well.
Gia's Blog
Sunshine

My Anti-Love Anthem Mix

1 The Rolling Stones - Love is A Bitch
2 Marvin Gaye - When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Lovin You
3 The Buzzcocks - Ever Falling In Love
4 Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
5 The Cure - Pictures Of You ( Come on people you have to have The Cure)
6 Marianne Faithfull - Why’d Ya Do It ?
7 Liz Phair - Divorce Song
8 Erykah Badu - Green Eyes
9 OMD - If You Leave
10 Richard & Linda Thompson - Walking on a Wire
11 The Roxy Music - Just Another High
12 The Beatles - I'm Looking Through You
13 Joy Division - Love With Tear Us Apart
14 Ice Cube & Yo-Yo - It's A Man's World
15 The Afghan Whigs - When We Parted(Before Troy Garity there was Greg Dulli)

This Is my first Valentine's Day alone since I broke up with my ex-boyfriend Martin last year. Martin and I were together from my Freshman year until April of last year. Martin got pissed off because I didn't want to go to Southern University where he was going and applied for out of state Universities. It ended in this big unnesscary arguement and it was a trully painful breakup. This is us in happer days.

My Valentine's day is going to be without a fella. Which is okay by me SORTA!! I got alot of teddy bear and choclate crap to smooth me over for the day. So I guess it now all bad...





I had a really cool weekend. It sorta kinda involved Troy(I know enough with him already). My Political Science teacher invited the whole class to a Outland event this saturday. Outland is this group on campus that deals with Lesbian issues. The event was about Transgender issues and alot of transgengerd and other people talked about their experiences and stuff. It was very quite informative and long as hell. Anyway we all watched Beautiful Daughter and near the end of it they showed Troy sitting in the audience next to Paz de la Huerta. I was so happy to see his face. I was sitting through this film thinking alright already I get it they want to be woman and loved and treated equal, who cares(of course I cared but the night was very long people). Then Troy's face appeared on screen and it was all worth it. The event in the film was from January 2004 Vday show. I actually have a picture of Troy and Paz with Calpernia from the event.



My favorite person in the film was Valerie Spencer. Valerie was so self-assured and had a wonderful loving family and friends.

I spent the whole weekend in Washington D.C. with Kara from my Creative Writing class. Kara had her 21 birthday at her parents house saturday. I didn't drink anything I swear. I also went to a superbowl party the next day. Which was boring as hell. The first picture is of me and Kara and the other is me and her brother Gerald. Alot of the people at the party went to Howard. I had to go back to braids, because of my laziness and the fact that it's easier to manage that way.



I bought the new Jenny Lewis and Wastson Twins CD and the new Catpower CD. I am really addicted to the both of them.


I'm also reading two books right now.
Coraline by Neil Gaimen (which is a children's book, but I love Neil Gaimen)
The Bostonians by Henry James