what time are we upon and where do i belong?

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on LiveJournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights." If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.


^ From _outercourse. 

(Why don't I have a gay icon on here? Besides my Aziraphale, of course. :-P)

Hey! You know what would be fun? That thing, where like, you leave an anonymous comment, and then I guess who you are. OR that thing where like you leave an anonymous secret and I DON'T guess who you are. How does that one go? I will go find it. 

Ooooh here's one!

I got a whole bunch of stuff out shopping today: some shirts, hairties, two pairs of shoes, a headband, and a ton of Tinker Bell school supplies. :-P My mum made me put back the Tinker Bell scented markers, though. O, woe.

Currently I am trying to fix my CD player so that I can give Rilo Kiley a second chance ("Portions for Foxes" was playing at Einstein's today and I went wait, do I like this song? wait do I? aaahhh I don't know!), ingesting a ridiculous amount of chocolate and Gushers, and having a lot of fun researching Anastasia / Anna Anderson. Seriously, this stuff really highlights how much politics gets tangled in (and corrupts) science. The woman was Anastasia, I have no doubt about that, and I am actually further convinced by her DNA supposedly matching that of Franziska Schanzkowska. Every single member of Franziska's family denied her as a relative (except her one niece, who had never met either the aunt or Anderson); she knew a ton of little details and in-jokes about the Romanov family that it would have been impossible for her to know; she had the same foot condition as Anastasia, the same dental problems as the rest of the family, and her handwriting matched exactly; her ear matched Anastasia's at over sixty different points, which would have been impossible if she weren't Anastasia; and John Knowles thought she was. Come on, how could I possibly disagree with Knowlesy? :-P

I am also two questions from finishing chapter 12, and then on to 13. This I know I must finish tonight, along with hopefully this essay and the map; that way I'll have to do the second essay, the summary, and The Prince + questions in the next two days. Aaagh I'm stupid. Plus I have to finish summer reading. Hahaha. I suck.

And because this is fun:

Leave me an ANONYMOUS comment with one or more:

_an insult
_a secret
_a criticism
_a crush
_a compliment
_a death threat
_a love note
_a song
_a picture
_anything else you want.

Do as many as you want. Then paste this challenge in your own journal.


Heeheehee, I'm a comment whore :-P.


ETA: Due to some biology thing that I can't understand (six- versus ten-point STR? I don't know), the DNA testing of Anderson's intestine that "proved" she was not Anastasia and, later, that she was Franziska, was entirely faulty and can't be trusted. Also every website that I've found against Anna-being-Anastasia was written by grammar-hating kooks, and the book The Fall of the Romanovs only has one paragraph about it that takes exclusively the (faulty) DNA tests into account. Dude, why aren't I in Russian studies? I am loving this story.

ETA: We are now up to twenty-point STR and a legal court today would never qualify six-point as evidence. Also mtDNA testing is totally unreliable; forty percent of people have matching mtDNA, or something like that. I am awesome.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	× I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.  (Never ever ever ever.)
× I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (In theory.)
× I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )





Kristin, I promise, I'm working on it!