{"id":3617,"date":"2005-08-19T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2020-09-25T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T03:42:08","slug":"i-have-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3617","title":{"rendered":"I have time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Class is over for the summer.  Call me overconfident, but I think I got another 4.0 under my belt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come up with a plan to stop procrastinating with the server administration side of my job, and it seems to be working.  Yay for progression and pay!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having this surge of self-confidence.  I wonder if I&#8217;ve been infected by some sort of alien.  Maybe it&#8217;s the approach of Fall semester and freshmen.  Maybe it&#8217;s actual, honest-to-goodness self-confidence.  Whichever.  I&#8217;m certainly enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, angered Apple users <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/08\/16\/computer.frenzy.ap\/index.html\">will stampede<\/a> when gathered in a herd.  Thanks to <lj user=\"stardox\"> for the link.  Not that I wouldn&#8217;t mind a $50 iBook&#8230; but it&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/powerbookg3\/\">my favorite<\/a>.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Sorry to hear about your dog, <lj user=\"sarrath\">.  :(  You can come over and hang out with my dog (also named Buddy) any time, though it is a bit of a drive.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only 400 entries behind on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/childe\/friends\">my friends page<\/a> now.  Now THIS is accomplishment.  Heh.<\/p>\n<p><lj-cut text=\"Serious Thoughts\"><!--StartFragment --><br \/>\nThanks <lj user=\"alendark\"> and <lj user=\"faerykin\"> and <lj user=\"ravensden\"> and <lj user=\"velvettnrbt\"> and <lj user=\"repillager\"> and <lj user=\"kirkt68\">.<\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.<\/p>\n<p>I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.<\/p>\n<p>I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.<\/p>\n<p>We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.<\/p>\n<p>I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.<\/p>\n<p>I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.<\/p>\n<p>I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in<br \/>\nanother year I will probably be able to walk again.<\/p>\n<p>I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.<\/p>\n<p>We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.<\/p>\n<p>I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.<\/p>\n<p>I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.<\/p>\n<p>I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.<\/p>\n<p>I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.<\/p>\n<p>I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.<\/p>\n<p>I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.<\/p>\n<p>I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.<\/p>\n<p>I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn\u2019t have to always deal with society hating me.<\/p>\n<p>I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don&#8217;t believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.<\/p>\n<p>I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.<\/p>\n<p>Repost this if you believe that homophobia is wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class is over for the summer. Call me overconfident, but I think I got another 4.0 under my belt. 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