You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor
look through the eyes of the dead. nor feed on the spectres
in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
does anyone know why we have like vivid dreams? or why we remember some and not others? or why we can go for weeks not remembering our dreams and then go a week straight remembering every detail?
thought you might find this interesting
NYC to Change ID Rules for Transgendered
New York City seeks to ease rules for official documents reflecting gender change
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2006
By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writer
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(AP) The city wants to make it easier for transgender New Yorkers to switch the sex listed on their birth certificate even without undergoing sex-change surgery, putting the city at the forefront of efforts to redefine gender.
Under present city rules, only people who can show proof of surgery qualify for getting a revised birth certificate. Even then, the only change made is the elimination of any reference to gender on the document.
The new plan, unveiled in September, would let birth records reflect the new gender. It would also allow changes for people who hadn't had genital surgery, but could show substantial proof that they have undertaken other steps to irrevocably alter their gender-identity _ like undergoing hormone therapy.
The policy change is one that advocates for New York's sizable transgender community have requested for years, but which has taken on greater significance in a post-Sept. 11 world of increased security.
New Yorkers need to show picture ID to enter office towers, air terminals, public monuments and all sorts of government buildings. They need them to apply for a job too, or buy beer at a neighborhood deli.
The trouble comes when someone inspects those documents, and notices that a person's listed gender doesn't appear to match the way they look and dress.
"That can be a very dangerous situation for a transgender person," said Cole Thaler, transgender rights attorney for the national legal aid group Lambda Legal.
Thaler said having a birth certificate with a gender that matches a person's appearance will ease the way to getting other government records, including passports, drivers' licenses and Social Security records.
Lorna Thorpe, Deputy Commissioner of New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, called the current system "outdated."
"A lot of transgender persons use different techniques to switch genders," she said. Some try hormones. A smaller number undergo surgery _ in part because not everyone is medically capable of undergoing the procedure.
All but three states now allow people who have had a sex change to get a new birth certificate and New York City has done so since 1971. The city now issues about a dozen of the revised birth certificates a year.
Of the states that allow similar changes of birth certificates, almost all currently require proof of a gender-reassignment surgery.
Tennessee has a law expressly prohibiting a change of gender on a birth certificate. Ohio and Idaho also won't allow the change because of court rulings or as a matter of administrative policy.
alright this is a fun one guys
Google Image search the answer to these questions. Then either post the first picture you find for each question or include a link to it. No cheating: the picture MUST be the first one shown. You need not disclose the actual answer.
1. Your age on your next b-day
2. Your Favorite color
3. Your middle name
4. The last meal you ate
5. your bad habit
6. Your favorite fruit or vegetable
7. your favorite animal
8.the town you live in
9. the name of your pet or past pet (pick one)
10.your first name (or nickname)
11. your last name
"condi rice and laura bush swore in the new global aids coordinator mark dybul with his partner and coni rice refers to his partners mother as his mother in law. so we know that condi rice and laura bush have no problem with gay marriage"
i dont understand how that consensus can be reached from someone refering to someone's partner's mother as their mother in law....but whatever...i guess if youre reaching to make that point it works. im not saying that they dont, i dont really know what they think... i just think its kinda weird that they drew that conclusion from one phrase...and that phrase wasnt "i have no problem with gay marriage"
hehehe
we are watching patrick's dog for a couple days while he and brienne help his dad move to chicago. the dog is a german shepherd/rottweiler mix named mackenzie. she is so cute! she's very lovey and demands attention, something i am not used to because comet was kind of a loner. she slept with me in my bed last night and right now she's taking a nap on it while i'm typing up a paper. her eyes are shut tight and she looks so cute! my camera isn't working so i couldn't take a picture, so i decided posting an entry about it was the next best thing to do.
Letterman is usually good for a laugh
David Letterman's Top Ten New York Yankees excuses (from CBS.com)
10. Wanted Columbus Day off to get to all the sales
9. Thought series was best 6 out of 11
8. We've already missed the first three episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" -- enough is enough
7. Thought Joe Torre told us to give 10 percent
6. Players distracted by erotic text messages from Mark Foley
5. Shouldn't have switched to the cheaper generic steroids
4. Clubhouse caterer replaced E. coli-tainted spinach with E. coli-tainted lettuce
3. Uh, global warming?
2. More focused on how they're going to get by on a lousy $16 million a year
1. What's the point? North Korea's gonna nuke us at any moment
some more craziness
well since i havent really had any memorable dreams lately that i feel like sharing i'll go back to when i was a child.....sorry laurence youve heard this one before..
so i used to have this reoccuring dream....
i would be in the middle of my parents bed, with my dad on one side of me and mom on the other. Then the bed would split in half and fall over so that it was like a triangle shape with a gap in the middle and my parents would both disapear, and i would roll to the left and be between the wall and the bed.
then from the center would come this human size cat...it had the body of a cat but walked like a human and its limbs were attached like a human, and it had a cat head and wore a blue police style hat.
the cat would look at me, then walk out of the room and into the bathroom where my mom was sitting in the vanity and blow drying her hair. the cat had a big sword/knife thing and would be in the swing toward killing my mom and i would wake up before he hit her.....every time. and every time it scared the shit out of me.
per mccarthy's suggestion
tuesday night, i dreamt that i was on the freeway (looked like I-94 around Detroit) and suddenly i saw a downed airplane on the side of the road. people were being rescued from it. then i looked up and another plane in the sky was falling, as if the engines went out and it was free-falling. it crashed 10 feet in front of me. even though it looked normal sized in the sky, when i got close to it, was really small. the size of a car seat, maybe. on the outside were printed the words, "get pregnant." i ripped it open to see what was inside. there was a dog and he was okay, he just jumped up and ran away. there was also a cold styrofoam box. i opened it and there was some kind of human organ covered in bodily fluids - blood, mucus, etc. that was inside of a sealed plastic bag (not a ziplock bag, but industrial/medical type plastic). in the dream, i thought "this must have been a medical transportation plane that brings organs to hospitals for transplants and things. weird." that's all i can remember.
i tend to dream a lot about bodies of water, driving, freeways, and airplanes/aircraft stalling out and then falling to the ground. off the top of my head, i can think of at least 4 other times i've dreamt about planes crashing to the ground right in front of me. it's very strange.
ok kiddies, so lets take this lull in the postings and use it to:
post a story about the craziest dream you've ever had, or some funny story....i think we can all use some comedy in our lives....i dont know about you guys, but at albion its mid terms time