I act muy differente around my Masonites than I do around Rae- with Rae, I'm everything that I've ever wanted to be-- if I'm hyper, she'll understand and be hyper too. If I'm annoyed, and explain it to her, chances are she'll understand why. (Unless it's about an intermediate who's not living up to his/her/its potential, in which case she will most probably defend the intermediate, and probably with good reason.) If I'm joyful, even if she's not there, she shares in my joy. Or something like that.

But with hyperness at Mason.. I get weird looks. Or weirder theories.

Me: -grinning hugely and chattering swiftly about the trip to Tennessee-
Shining: -refers back to previous entry- You talk like you're in love with her and everything. You know, you're going to turn out to be, like, a lesbian or something.
Me: Murr. -_-;;;;;;

It's not so much something against them (I have NOTHING against female blueriders-- trust me on this one!) but I know exactly how heterosexual I am. And I am 100% goldrider-straight.

Besides, what annoys me is that platonicity can't be left on its own; if we obsess about platonic love too much, then it becomes true love, and nevermind heterosexuality. What's WRONG with platonic bonds (no, not that kind of bonds) and the idea that we can love someone without lusting after them?

JUST BECAUSE I THINK THAT RAE UNDERSTANDS ME BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE I'VE EVER MET DOES NOT MAKE ME A LESBIAN.

Now that /that's/ out of my system..

My day was great. I've never actually felt so alive before. And I *was* alive. Every centimeter of me soaked in the sunlight, delighted in the murmurs of the crowd, pushed back when someone pushed against me, and stood tall to every single inch of my 5'5.5"-ness.

I don't think I noticed any specific things about my day that was great, though. It was great in general, very, very broad terms.

Now.. since everyone seems to be taking a stand on the presidential debates thing, let me insert my own two cents, little though they matter (and this is based on what I've read in Annie's blog, because I was too busy spending time down in Tennessee to catch any presidential debates):

I would vote for Bush if I could, just because of that whole Medical Bill thing that Kerry has going for him, and the apparent emptiness.

HOWEVER.

I feel that Kerry has several good points, INCLUDING the whole viewpoint on homosexual marriages and abortion. And since I'm basing this on Annie's blog-stuff, why not just take it directly from the source, and quote from her as well?

"..wait til they get to issues that deal with moral standards/codes. Do you realize that Kerry would:
1. Support legal abortion

All right.. here's my stand on legal abortion (taken partially from Peter David's Knight Life, where I feel he got a really good point going). People are going to abort, regardless of whether it's legal or not. People're aborting NOW. And I don't care what they say about "Oh, it's a little life being discarded.. blahr blahr blahr." I KNOW it's a real life, however little. I KNOW. But better that a life be discarded than let it come into the world unwanted.

And regardless of what you say about adoption, I KNOW. That's why some people, when they get an unwanted pregnancy, don't abort, and carry the baby to term. And then they send them out to an orphanage.

That's damned sad, people. I know that I'd rather die than grow up with total strangers as my parents, and realize, eventually, that somewhere out there, there was someone who saw me, and thought that I wasn't worth keeping. I would rather be dead than realize that there's a maternal bond out there whose bonds are completely adrift.

But hey, that's just me. Maybe you'd enjoy being loved by strangers, hated/resented/uncared-for by the one who is your flesh and blood.

2. Not pick Supreme Court nominee justices who disagreed with legal abortion

That's sensible. If I were president, I would hardly be stupid enough to pick people who disagreed with my policies. I don't CARE what they say about having an equal view-- unanimity is more efficient than an equal view. People who are equal inevitably disagree at some level. That's why inequality was so hard to get rid of- the people at the top were the bosses, the people at the bottom were slaves, and both were too used to it, ingrained into their habits, to understand the betterness of equality.

3. Oppose a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriages"

Same-sex marriages sound perfectly A-OK to me. I want to believe in reincarnation. So sometimes the Deity Up There maybe gets a little ironic and puts a guy-soul into a girl-body (or vice versa). And puts his lover into another girl-body (or just of the same gender as the vice versa). That's not their fault, if that happens. Why shouldn't they be allowed to get married if they want to? It is NOT unnatural (and don't you give me that clever little rhyme about Adam and Steve); it is okay.

At least-- and here's my real opinion on it-- it's okay, as long as it's not happening to me.

As long as no lesbians propose to me, I am perfectly happy with the idea of same-sex marriages. Got meh?

Because I don't believe in true love. And having both sexes to choose from would considerably widen your chances of ever finding one. So that's a good thing, in my opinion.

And nowww.. time to go find Annie and pick a fight. :P