MegaForte84

In college, I spent a lot of time around someone who BARELY missed getting US citizenship with her parents and the rest of their children. Because we delay immigration paperwork like that. She remembered where she was born but everything formative was here.

This week is just reminding me why I believe the nature of that cutoff should change. Because not even the US has the paperwork trail the US expects. Because we are notorious for dragging our citizenship process out even in the best case. Because accepting US citizenship means the IRS is forever.

Our ballots got here, so at least in some parts of the Boston area delivery for ballots going to voters has not been screwed with and is running remarkably fast. Earliest mail date was Oct 1, and I had confirmed that night on the MA Sec Of State's website that mine had entered the USPS system.

We will be educating ourselves on (HOW MANY!?) ballot initiatives before filling them out and dropping them off at our convenient local early voting location, which is a municipal building that puts the drop box within the full protection of whatever outside security went up after 9/11.

I would have way too much fun with the fact reality is, I can frame my motivations for a lot of my stances on things in ways extremely racist religious conservatives will nod along to right up until my conclusion is revealed.

Like how I'm very concerned about safe access to healthcare as a cis woman... and that means I'm raging at the fact I have been sexually assaulted when female medical staff made assumptions based on themselves but I'm still assumed to see other women as safe and preferable instead of dangerous.

I would have way too much fun with the fact reality is, I can frame my motivations for a lot of my stances on things in ways extremely racist religious conservatives will nod along to right up until my conclusion is revealed.

Like how I'm very concerned about how immigration policy affects my access to healthcare... which I access via a local predominantly Haitian taxi service that is clean and well-driven and I don't want the nice men who helped me during two cancer scares in two years to have to flee or worse.

'Mommy, why are you calling it a parade if there aren't any floats?' Me at over 40: still thinks the inauguration day parade the day Reagan stopped being president deserved floats, fireworks, a couple of county high school marching bands, the works. And then at the end of the year, Berlin Wall.

"There is no medical reason to eat sugar" and because I had a family history of Type II he forced me to agree with him before he'd hand over the ER discharge paperwork. I had eaten 8fl oz of full-sugar Jell-O before coming in, thinking the might-be-appendix pain was from not eating the day before.

I had barely eaten for weeks, but I was still 5lbs over BMI 'overweight' so time to disbelieve the patient & discourage caloric intake. Also that hospital system inputs all blood sugar as fasting, so being barely over range under two hours after eating that was OMG HIGH BLOOD SUGAR EAT LESS.

When I was a freshman in high school, a new store opened near my house. Mom was there on opening day during the Beanie Baby frenzy and completely on impulse bought me a purple bear without processing what she had. As of this Christmas, Princess will have been my adventure companion for 28 years.

I really wish some of them would also be aimed explicitly at adults, though. Matrix-style planners would work great with my brain, but the companies that print them assume the user is too young for weekend responsibilities including religious (even when made for high schoolers, who aren't).

A comment someone made tonight reminded me that in the church I grew up in, it is currently 5 months until the next guaranteed mention Mary even existed at all and 6 months since the last one. (The crucifixion passage with her in John didn't really get used.)

Cutting that song doesn't mean that much for you, and the lyrics have a few issues for you. But the day before I left for the TEC, it was over half of anything of her I didn't fight to scrape together myself. It was the only thing about her my grandmother had, and we searched so hard for that CD.

A comment someone made tonight reminded me that in the church I grew up in, it is currently 5 months until the next guaranteed mention Mary even existed at all and 6 months since the last one. (The crucifixion passage with her in John didn't really get used.)

A decade ago, I basically dropped off the Internet other than what was needed for wedding planning. I went to bed very late in the night crying bc I'd lost two people I should have known but never had the chance to meet to known or presumed homophobic violence outside gay bars.

I still don't have the online support community I had when I was closeted in the mountains, and it was destroyed by a bunch of people with rainbow icons telling me I couldn't understand pain I was BORN INTO. Right around 10 years after my godbrother went missing after walking out of a gay bar.

A decade ago, I basically dropped off the Internet other than what was needed for wedding planning. I went to bed very late in the night crying bc I'd lost two people I should have known but never had the chance to meet to known or presumed homophobic violence outside gay bars.

Now that I've made a fool of myself mistaking Yep for Yolen. Devil's Arithmetic was the Holocaust book technically no one made me read but if I hadn't already on my own before I hit Night as an assignment in 8th grade I don't think I would have gotten as much from it.

Dad made me keep Owl Moon. That and Rylant's When I Was Young In The Mountains were the best he had to offer when I was a little kid on what living up against nature felt like when he was a little kid.

It's almost 90° degrees. The AC meters are officially not running so the system is definitely down. We are barely keeping inside temps even with outside. I just had to check The Weather Channel's temp map to make sure I was in the same reality as the It's Nice In MA chorus in World Cup threads.