So I'm moving on September 1st. This happens to be a Wednesday. Everybody keeps asking me when I'm moving though, multiple times - as if I wasn't actually going to be moving on the first. It's sort of funny . . . the lease starts the first so that's when I'm moving. Mostly because I have plans the weekend prior to the first and the weekend after. But I like this comment from a friend:

"you a woman of the west like patti, got to get full use of that lease, if it starts on sept 1, u move on sept 1 :-P"

You know my Aunt Aggie lived in D.C. for about five years and has been in Massachussetts for about the last 15 . . . she's been "out east" for 20+ years now. My whole life practically. I never thought of her as "from Missouri" because I was 3 when she moved away, but since I'm living close to her, I've discovered two decades after having left the state, she still thinks of herself that way. Oh, not that she hasn't changed - she has and she knows it. But it's like in two decades, she still hasn't come to think of herself as an East Coaster. She still comments on things to this day that surprise her in the way they are different from home.

Yeeesh!!! What does that say for me?? I guess I better accept the fact that if I don't go home, I'm just going to be a stranger in a strange land forever.

Incidentally, why is the laundry lint always blue? I take that back. In college I used to do one load of lights, one of darks, and one of reds, because I had that much red crap. When I did the red load, it came out red. Every other time, light or dark, it comes out that steel blue color. Why?

So, I have to say, I really regret the fact that my home state made the news today as the first state to ratify a constitional amendment defining marraige as between a man and a woman. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about homosexuality. But regardless, I don't feel like it's the type of thing that merits a constitutional amendment. Somehow I feel like constitutions are supposed to be there to protect people's rights, not limit them.

Do we limit them specifically by defining them? Not really. The U.S. Constitution indicates that all rights responsibilites etc. not specifically allotted to the federal government are reserved for the states. Therefore lack of inclusion in the constitution does not mean a right does not exist. It's up to the states.

So my state decided to come down against it.

See this is where I run into difficulty. I can agree with the conservative side of the fence in saying that I wish we had a more moral country. But at the same time, I do NOT believe in legislating morality into existance. But isn't that what we do with almost all laws? Aren't laws in this country really based on Judeo-Christian morality, like it or not?

Somewhere in a poli sci class the idea was suggested to us young 'uns that "One man's rights end where another man's begin", and that was the basis for law. I really like that definition of law. Unfortunately, you have to stretch it a lot to make it cover much of what our government does, unless you beginning handing out "rights" like candy, and I have to say we need to be careful about declaring everything to be our "right."

*sigh* maybe law school will help me make more sense of all of this