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Happy Halloween or Samhain to everyone doing something for either today. :)

The Irish language/culture/music group I am part of is having a ceili (dance) tomorrow night, and I am currently home with a nasty cold of some sort, so I am resting enough to be able to go and drum in the band at least. No dancing though. Tired. I think making chicken soup this afternoon will help things. I am missing a teacher work day (no regular school) - or rather, not missing the boring meeting but I do wish I had some collaboration time with other teachers this afternoon. *sniffle, wheeze*

West Wing eps were on tv this morning, which made my groggy morning somewhat nicer.

My daughter's costume didn't get finished due to her mama feeling like crud, so Ren-Faire costuming came in handy, but I made the character's silver moon necklace and she approved with a grin as she put it on. She's going as Eilonwy from Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles. An older girl she knows gave her a plastic Dyrnwyn sword complete with the writing on the scabbard ("Draw Dyrnwyn only thou of noble blood") and everything, but she can't bring that to school - maybe it it's not raining, there will be a little trick-or-treating...or not. (listens to thunder)

Protecting Human Rights

No on 8 in California meme...

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Seriously, people...if the only reason to object to two people of the same gender marrying is religious, it can't be in a constitution - no one religion for this country. Are they going to object to my marriage 'cause it wasn't in a church, next? Go back to interracial marriage being illegal? (see the no on proposition 8 vid on youtube at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b675rX1Oh9E

Chilling.

I'm not threatened by anyone expect these bigots; my marriage is fine, thank you. They use fear and now they're using blackmail and illegally using children's images without parental permission for advertisements. So much for "do unto others..."