hello everyone, i've decided to start posting again, but it will be mostly friends-only from here on out.  so comment on this post if you want to be added to my friends list.

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my neighbor's house is on fire right now.

i woke up at about 3:30 a.m. to a loud bang, noticed something glowing out my window, opened it and saw 10 ft. flames coming out of my neighbor's backdoor. i totally freaked out. i tried to find shoes as i was calling 911. apparently firefighters were already arriving as i was calling.

i watched the fire completely melt off the tin on her back porch. it was really creepy. i've never seen a house fire.

i feel terrible for her because this year she has lost both her husband and one of her daughters. now this. i can't imagine.

i've learned that firemen in the south are country as shit. i couldn't understand anything they were saying, and i grew up around hick-speak. well i take that back, i could understand the word "fucking" that was grunted every other word.

my entire house smells like smoke, i'm not really sure how to get rid of it.

weird random post, i know.

today i got really mad at a certain chain store and retaliated. and i'm still not feeling bad for it.

i wanted to buy a trunk. there were two of the kind i wanted, but both of them were damaged. i asked the manager if there were any others i could purchase or if it was possible to at least mark down the damaged one... as paying full price for it wasn't fair. he rattled off this long blurb about paperwork and damaging it out

and it would be ready in 4 days.

so, i decided i would pay full price for the trunk and get all 4 of the trunks inside it for free because beaurocracy pisses me the fuck off.

so i checked out, knowing that all the workers there get paid minimum wage, don't give a damn about their jobs, and sure as hell weren't going to check inside to see if there was anything in there. it worked.

i got 5 trunks valued at $117 for $42.

i'm sure i'll feel guilty later, but now i'm still in the fuck you mode. it's nice.

if you click this, i will love you a lot.
if you click it more than once, i will love you forever.

hi.

i'm home.

it feels weird. and i don't really have the words.

but i promise to try and find them if we talk.

and i'd like to talk cause i missed arkansas and all of you.

i'm going to vino's tonight to eat pizza and stuff.

you should come and say hi.

k, bye.

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Gay Activists Arrested


Tuesday March 27, 2007 1:46 AM

By DYLAN T. LOVAN

Associated Press Writer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Members of a gay rights group were arrested Monday after staging a sit-in at a Baptist seminary whose president is drawing criticism for his comments on prenatal treatments that would influence a child's sexual orientation.

The group, Soulforce, attempted to meet with the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's president, the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., an influential evangelical leader.

Twelve were charged with criminal trespassing - a misdemeanor - and booked into jail, Louisville police said.

The sit-in in front of Mohler's office lasted about two hours, said Jarrett Lucas, a co-director of a Soulforce tour that is visiting Christian colleges.

The group did not contact officials at the private campus in advance of the visit, said Lawrence Smith, the seminary's vice president of communications. Smith said a small group left when they were asked by police to leave, but the others stayed.

"As far as I could tell they were not unruly," Smith said. "It's my understanding that they did not resist arrest, but they refused to leave the campus when they were asked to leave."

An Associated Press reporter was escorted off the campus.

Lucas said the 12 who were arrested were expected to be released by the end of the day.

Smith said Mohler was not on the campus during the demonstration.

Other members of Soulforce were joined by the Fairness Campaign, a Louisville gay rights group, at a protest later Monday on a sidewalk off campus. About a dozen people carried signs and sang during the two-hour demonstration.

Mohler irked gay-rights supporters by asserting in a recent article that homosexuality would remain a sin even if it were biologically based, and by his support for a hypothetical medical treatment that could switch an unborn gay baby's sexual orientation.

Mohler has said he wrote the article "intending to start a conversation." Lucas said group members wanted Mohler to rescind his comments and publicly apologize.

"Some of us were raised in a southern Baptist tradition, so for him to deny his own constituents simply a conversation - we wanted to go have him hear our voice - and we were denied that," Lucas said.

Soulforce, a nonprofit organization based in Lynchburg, Va., has organized several national tours to religious and military colleges to protest their attitudes about homosexuality. Members also were arrested earlier this month during demonstrations at Oklahoma Baptist University.


find me at my blog www.equalityride07.blogspot.com from here until may-ish.

i'll be back in 2 months!

i'm leaving today for the equality ride...so bye everybody!!!

thanks to all who have supported me and the ride either financially or by expressing your support to me. you are invaluable, so thank you. thanks to all of those who came to the fundraiser, and thanks to all the donators. you all rock.

and thanks to my kitty sitters!!

i'll be keeping a blog, for personal reasons, and as part of my thesis project, about my experiences on the ride. so check on that once in a while and read about all the fun things i'm doing. www.equalityride07.blogspot.com

love you all
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Hi all,

I'm leaving for the Equality Ride March 1-May 1, and I am desperately seeking someone to take my dog, Fidget, for those two months. I will of course pay for all the food and such. She's super sweet (a tad hardheaded) and very loyal. She's an outside dog, so she needs a fence!

Any takers?

In March, I will be taking a two-month bus journey across America to
schools that ban the enrollment of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students. There are currently over 200
colleges and universities in the U.S. that have policies prohibiting
these students, most of which are private religious or military schools.
I will travel to these schools with approximately 25 other young adults
bringing a message of hope and healing to the students there, both queer
and straight.

Many of these colleges are living nightmares for LGBTQ students who are
forced to hide their identities, go to harmful "reparative therapies,"
or be expelled. Many cannot reconcile their faith and sexuality and
commit suicide on the very campuses that cannot accept them.

I am writing to ask for your support, be it any kind that you have. If
you do not have money, that's ok! But, your blessing and words of
encouragement would mean a lot to me. My presence on the Soulforce
Equality Ride will cost $3,500. I am seeking donations to help pay for
this cost. You can visit my rider page at
http://www.soulforce.org/amanda_harris and make an online donation if
you are able.

Also, be sure to check out my blog to read updates about my journey. I
am writing an Honors Thesis comparing the Freedom Rides of the
1950s-1960s to my own journey, so blogging will help me remember
everything. I encourage you to read and reply:
http://www.equalityride07.blogspot.com

So... money link: http://www.soulforce.org/amanda_harris
Blog link: http://equalityride07.blogspot.com
Equality Ride: http://www.equalityride.com

WE NEED A PLACE TO HAVE THE BEST PARTY ON EARTH.

Does anybody have a house in Conway where we can throw our infamous Queer Bash?

The Queer Bash is a once-a-semester party for Queers and their friends, designed to be a safe space for everyone to dance, makeout, drink, get their freak on, whatev.

If you've been, you know it's a blast!

Help us find a location! Write me back!

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i don't really care that everyone thinks i'm crazy! in theory, it's ludicrous, proposterous, illogical.

in practice, it's the only option.

just humor me and share my joy. even if you don't get it.


i'm finally following my heart <3

i haven't been this happy since i don't know when.

ask me about it before you jump to conclusions. i don't want to lose any friends.

i love you all.

i love my life right now.


peace is every step.

absolute worst day of my life.

please be a dream.

i'm a wreck.

i think it's neat when you email people you don't know and they write you back and are actually really personable (as personable as one can be on the internet).

i've been emailing this guy:


his forte is being the world's largest collector of lesbian vintage pulp novels, and he's only in his early 30s.

a rather amusing story about this can be found here:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A100645

"A Devil Food is Turning our Kids into Homosexuals"

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327


oh, how i love right wingers <333333

today i decided to start a new hobby: collecting vintage lesbian pulp novels.

i just bought my first work:

Whatever Wanda Wants

boy is it hottttt ;)

i feel like shit. i stayed up all night working on a presentation for class at 8:00 a.m. this morning. (though I did make a christmas mix while doing so).

when i finally presented, i had a lot of trouble with the t.v. and dvd player because the secretary forgot about it until about 15 minutes before class started.. and the t.v. in the room was literally, not kidding.. at least 20 years old. so i couldn't figure anything out. and my prof makes a comment about how i'm not making a good impression. i think he was playing?

so i did the presentation, and it wasn't formal.. because i hate formality. i always feel like a corporate schmoozer when i do formal things. so i tried to make it conversational and informal. afterward he said, "it was good, but you could be more polished."

everyone else got compliments. :(

so i felt like complete crap wanting to cry (why? because i'm such an academic perfectionist) all through my next class.

i get home and he e-mailed me an apology saying he was impressed with my project and he was sorry for coming off as a jackass basically. it wasn't until then that i actually cried.

ugh.

Yard Sale time!

Saturday, November 4, 2006
8:00am - 1:00pm

Amanda's House
1929 Caldwell
Conway, AR

Come by and pick up some fun stuff:

-women's clothes, jeans, shirts, jackets, etc.
-home furnishings
-shoes
-random gadgets!

and best of all BICYCLES!!!

several bikes for sale including mountain bikes, cruiser bikes, road bikes! fair prices, of course.

come early, or you will miss out!

of going to see lucero on the 27th at the new venue in little rock, the village.

tickets are pricey, but i haven't seen them play in a while, plus i'd like to see how they turned a giant movie theater into a music venue.

anybody wanna go?