So THANK YOU ALL for the wonderful comments on my debut solo set! You really made me feel extrordinary - and absolutely reinforced my joy in being a part of this community. I tried to respond to everyone's comments, but if I missed you than accept my apology and know that you made me smile.
I did a fun photo shoot last night with a local band, kind of glam/punk - fun guys, great music, and free booze. Can't really beat that. They don't have their site up yet, but when they do I'll link it up and there may even be pictures of me on it. At least I got invited to the album release party and met some awesome people. Good night overall.
And in case you haven't seen the lovely Palo featured on the cover of the Weekly Dig you should definately check it out - she is radient.
School starts next Monday, and I haven't done any work on my thesis (any of them....). I started class at a law school two weeks ago, which is, as I had imagined, quite a bit of work. It's a great class: Law and Religious Freedom - something always complex and interesting. It seems as though we're going to be focusing mostly on the Establishment Clause though, which is slightly disappointing because in comparison to Free Exercise jurisprudence Establishment Clause precedent is fairly setteled. Ever since the court under Rehinquist overturned the Sherbert test (mostly) in the Smith 2 decision, Free Exercise has been a (pardon the pun) free-for-all in terms of understanding what is protected by it, and how it is to be applied as a constitutional guarantee. Really fascinating stuff which I can't wait to get to.
But without being overly bitchy about it, I'm floored by how disinterested these students are. It's a second year seminar, so you'd imagine that the students are at least fairly dedicated to the study, but everyone in the class sets up their laptop and IMs the whole class. And the few that do pay attention....well....let's just say I'm unimpressed. The professor posed one of the dissent's arguments in a case about prayer in school to the class and asked for a response. The argument was: the majority of people want prayer in the schools. Her question to us: why can't we give the majoirty what they want? Ok, so anyone who has read any constitutional decisions at all would immediately jump to tyrrany of the majority over the rights of the minority, which is basically why we have constitutionally protected rights in the first place. It's obvious. But the first person to answer said, and I kid you not: "I think it's kind of a sad argument, because it means that people who supposedly have this deep religious devotion, like, need to be reminded of it all the time by having other people lead them in prayer, and that's just really sad." Ok, what?! That doesn't even address the question! I was hoping that in law school I would be a little more stimulated by my peers...
So as Kelli's deployment date approaches I find myself more and more lethargic. Her leaving Boston was like having my heart torn in half. Everything is less - everything means nothing - there is a void that shadows my everyday. Although I believe she will come back, I know that truely she will never come back. Not as she is now, not as she was. Not as my Kelli. She will be changed, how can she not be changed after being at war? I will always love her, but I won't even know her anymore. I keep praying something will keep her from being deployed and she will get discharged like she was supposed to in February.
And finally, because you were good enough to read through this, here is the latest picture from the shoot I did a while ago with ChristopherLee:
I did a fun photo shoot last night with a local band, kind of glam/punk - fun guys, great music, and free booze. Can't really beat that. They don't have their site up yet, but when they do I'll link it up and there may even be pictures of me on it. At least I got invited to the album release party and met some awesome people. Good night overall.
And in case you haven't seen the lovely Palo featured on the cover of the Weekly Dig you should definately check it out - she is radient.
School starts next Monday, and I haven't done any work on my thesis (any of them....). I started class at a law school two weeks ago, which is, as I had imagined, quite a bit of work. It's a great class: Law and Religious Freedom - something always complex and interesting. It seems as though we're going to be focusing mostly on the Establishment Clause though, which is slightly disappointing because in comparison to Free Exercise jurisprudence Establishment Clause precedent is fairly setteled. Ever since the court under Rehinquist overturned the Sherbert test (mostly) in the Smith 2 decision, Free Exercise has been a (pardon the pun) free-for-all in terms of understanding what is protected by it, and how it is to be applied as a constitutional guarantee. Really fascinating stuff which I can't wait to get to.
But without being overly bitchy about it, I'm floored by how disinterested these students are. It's a second year seminar, so you'd imagine that the students are at least fairly dedicated to the study, but everyone in the class sets up their laptop and IMs the whole class. And the few that do pay attention....well....let's just say I'm unimpressed. The professor posed one of the dissent's arguments in a case about prayer in school to the class and asked for a response. The argument was: the majority of people want prayer in the schools. Her question to us: why can't we give the majoirty what they want? Ok, so anyone who has read any constitutional decisions at all would immediately jump to tyrrany of the majority over the rights of the minority, which is basically why we have constitutionally protected rights in the first place. It's obvious. But the first person to answer said, and I kid you not: "I think it's kind of a sad argument, because it means that people who supposedly have this deep religious devotion, like, need to be reminded of it all the time by having other people lead them in prayer, and that's just really sad." Ok, what?! That doesn't even address the question! I was hoping that in law school I would be a little more stimulated by my peers...
So as Kelli's deployment date approaches I find myself more and more lethargic. Her leaving Boston was like having my heart torn in half. Everything is less - everything means nothing - there is a void that shadows my everyday. Although I believe she will come back, I know that truely she will never come back. Not as she is now, not as she was. Not as my Kelli. She will be changed, how can she not be changed after being at war? I will always love her, but I won't even know her anymore. I keep praying something will keep her from being deployed and she will get discharged like she was supposed to in February.
And finally, because you were good enough to read through this, here is the latest picture from the shoot I did a while ago with ChristopherLee:
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How are the studies coming, you must be a busy bee.