Every time I take that quiz (and answer honestly) I get Juan.... ugh

Anyway, I had an odd dream the other night. I was in prison for something and among other things that I have either forgotten or don't care to discuss, I was in a single cell and Signe, you really wanted to get into my cell because I got milk and you and another member of the girlz (maybe Rock? I'm not really sure) in the other cell didn't get any. Our cells were remarkably well furnished too, complete with plants.

I'm Juan as well : )

Interesting...



I am Juan Moreno!!


Which Completely Random Person Are You???

i had an interesting dream last night. i was kissing Aidan. which is silly, because he's taken, so totally (dykeboi. i am still queering it up). but that beats the hell out of tonight, because i really can't sleep. i have memories taking over my present-life. that = crying = insomnia = bad news. i can see why so many lesbians have therapists, i think i need help. is there somewhere to go to where i can be injected with little-kid so i can be happy and energetic again? i don't want the past, i want a future with past feelings of security.

Jamie, I had the most fucked up dream ever. You and I were at East Junior High, in the art/tech ed hallway. (Um...you probalby don't know what the art/tech ed hallway is, having never went to school there. It's on first floor, and it's the part with all the glass windows that you can see in to when you drive past on Lincoln Street.) Anyway. We were running up and down the hallway, and sometimes we stopped to dance because Madonna was playing over the loud speakers. We were only wearing bras and super-tiny underwear. There were other people around, but they were either fully clothed or wearing towels, and they were jealous of us because they wanted to dance and be naked-ish too, but they were too scared and inhibited. It was a very liberating dream. I know it sounds creepy, but trust me...it wasn't.

Thanks Sig - I thought it was, but who knows : ) I am going to be going back to Ripon after we all get together. I don't like to leave the kitty alone more than a few days. He gets into lots of trouble and knocks his food and water over and won't eat it off the floor cuz he's the pickiest thing in the world! That and Jacob will be hunting the whole weekend and I'm no way in hell going out there with him - I learned my lesson. 1 day in the woods 'hunting' (aka snoring and freezing) was long enough for the rest of my life! So if anyone is not doing anything and wants to come back with me, they are welcome to. I'll leave Friday afternoon sometime and come back whenever on Saturday. Let me know!

Lise, Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. :)

Check it out:
http://jacobgraf.com/Lisa/

I had to make a website for a class I have, and here it is - nothing too special, pretty basic, if i messed anything up or if you have anything to add or pictures you want added email me!

Is everyone ok with Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving? Or the day after Thanksgiving - i am so damn busy I have no clue what days are what anymore, and I have the worst cold ever, so that doesn't really help. Let me know if I should plan on people or if you wanna do something else!

bitches.

thankfully, the Defense of Marriage Act did not happen this year. it was frighteningly close however: the bid to overturn the Gov's veto of DOMA failed by one single vote. does that worry anyone else? it should..i don't care how straight *or* homophobic you are, hateful legislation tends to beget more hateful legislation. land of the free, my ass.

to any of you who called in to tell your legislators to uphold Doyle's veto, thank you.

ps - today is november 11th, other than Veterans Day, I am sure insignificant to many of you. However, today marks the
fourth - 4th - FOURTH year that Jacob and I have dated. I realize we are married now, and tomorrow will be 4 months
of marriage, but 4 years of dating the same person seems like forever, yet feels more like 4 days sometime! It's even
more unimaginable that I've known the boy for close to 5 1/2 years and he still hasn't decided to hate me! Other than
all of you and my family he's the only boy to accomplish this! : ) We must be doing something right! I'm getting all
reflective and mooshy so I'll stop now, but this is what happens when I have to teach from 8-10 and then I don't have
classes so I have the rest of the day to think and do this kind of stuff : ) I love you girls!

I realize Tuesday nights suck to get together during the school year, so that is why I am sending an invite via Blog rather than mailing everyone an invite. I understand if you are unable to make it. I tried scheduling it for a weekend, however the hostess couldn't work me into her schedule! If you can make it to the party wonderful - we have a pull out sofa if you'd like to crash here - if you can't make it I totally understand. If you'd still like to order some PartyLite products email
me and I can get a catalogue in the mail and then you just let me know what you want to order and I'll hook you up! So here's the details:

What: Lisa's PartyLite Party (Candles)

When: Tuesday, December 9th @ 6:00pm

Where: Lisa's Apartment
(Email me at LaGraf@Charter.net for directions - let me know where you are coming from)

I'll have lots of yummy appetizers to eat before and during the party and some delicious desserts to eat afterwards. I'll have lots of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, too! : )

Another Invite:

What: Thanksgiving Get Together

When: Friday after Thanksgiving
1-?

Where: Lisa's Parents' House in Rapids
(email me LaGraf@Charter.net for directions)

I'll get my mom to hook us up with some chips and snack stuff - bring your own alcohol if you want it, otherwise I'll have
soda and juice and whatever else my parents' have : ) I emailed most of you before and said I couldn't have a get together, but my aunt and uncle will be leaving that morning, so it's ok with my parents and everything!

More news: Jacob is helping me make my own webpage! : ) I'll post the link as soon as I get the site complete. If you
have any recent pictures of yourself or from my wedding or of me or whatever email me them at the address I already listed twice! Thanks girls!

Here's an idea for something fun we could all do sometime! This past weekend I went to Laura Kuehl's bachelorette party and it was so much fun! We went to the community center in Rapids - I didn't even know we had one! But it's in that building where the old DeByles store was, and across from where the old Wal-Mart was and has the huge yellow sign on it. Jenny Glenn, Laura's maid of honor set everything up. The art teacher from Lincoln, I don't remember his name, but he lead us in pottery stuff. Because we didn't have a lot of time he already created a few pieces of pottery and then we got to paint them! It was so much fun, and I am far from being artistic, but I still had a great time. It was a little weird to be hanging out with all the girls that I despised in high school - Jessica Romanski... all those girls. But I must admit it was a lot of fun! We should all get together and do it some night or day. The guy is really flexible with times, and he just gave Jenny the key to the building as we hung out and drank and had cake and pizza and had a really fun party there afterwards. They have 4 pottery wheel things and a kiln in this room in the basement and all the materials you need! Just an idea... : )

Lauren - I love the hair : ) Very you!

Chilling

HeLLo EvERybOdY
So..I've added more time-consuming positions to my roster: Outreach Ed coordinator for our GSA. Fun fun :) But that doesn't mean there isn't still an open invite to y'all...come visit, we love you and miss you and want you to come! In other news, my hair is a beautiful shade of nuclear red


It looks pretty pinkish in this pic, but in person it's more of a vividly intense shade of red. Gotta love Hot Topic ;) and Connor, my gay boy who did an exquisite job

EVERYONE: please..a favor..give a call to your legislators and tell them to support Gov. Doyle's veto of DOMA (and if you still don't know what DOMA is, send me an email - ljung279 at uwsp dot edu) If you need help discovering who your legislators are, CLICK HERE. It'll cost you less than a quarter and all you have to say is something as brief as "I'm calling to oppose AB 475 and SB 233 - the "Defense of Marriage" Act - and want my legislators to do the same." or as elaborate as:

Dear Senator ______,

My name is _____________ and I’m a student at ________.

I’m calling you to request that you support the Gov's veto of Senate Bill 233, the Defense of Marriage bill. This bill changes the definition of marriage from “a husband and a wife” to “one man and one woman.”

This bill would effectively change nothing, and is perceived as an attack on LGBT families, regardless of intent. If you want to strengthen the institution of marriage, I have plenty of suggestions, and this is definitely not one of them.

Please help make Wisconsin a welcoming, inclusive state by voting down this bill.

Thank you for your time and I appreciate the Senator’s consideration of this important student issue.


Note: If you call during business hours and talk to a live rep and they asks you: What are some ways to strengthen the family? You can say:

-provide a living wage so parents do not need to work more than 40 hours a
week

-offer relationship counseling to couples both before and during marriage

-help create a culture in which couples do an equal share of housework

-provide quality, affordable childcare

-prevent and end domestic violence

You can also call the Governor and make sure he upholds his previous statements that he will not support DOMA His number is Phone: (608) 266-1212 OR Fax: (608) 267-8983

Sig: I deleted it the other day. I figured it was just me and you writing in it and I wrote less than you did so yeah! : )

I am taking this Philosophy of Education which really is a book that has every, or a majority of the commonly accepted philosophies in it and how they all apply to education. We just got done with Existentialism and Phenomenology and I find those to be quite interesting. Especially Buber's 'I-it; and I-thou' philosophy. This class' purpose is to help us as teachers develop our own personal philosophy, however the more I learn about different philosophies the less I identify with one or the other. Not that there is some requirement I adhere to only one philosophy or anything, but it'd be nice to find a philosophy that suits all of my beliefs and such!

Sig do you know of Jean-Paul Sartre or Soren Kierkegaard? You should check them out, they are kind of on opposite spectrums on the existentialism continum but their thoughts on God seem similar to yours.

Anyways I've been putting homework off long enough :) Talk to you all soon!

Sig, that sounds similar to 'the god of the gaps' - thoughts on that?

Lisa: doesn't your blog exist anymore? I mean, I know that it does because I can look at it, but I can't log in to it. Umm....

Sig Waxes Theological. (Or: Tell Me All Your Thoughts on God)

It's not that I don't believe in a god, it's just that I don't believe in the God...meaning the Christian interpretation of the divine. Honestly, the more I study religion the more I think that humans have it all wrong. So far, I have yet to stumble upon a philisophical or religious system of thought that satisfactorily accounts for the workings of the universe, existence, the meaning of life, the problem of evil, etc. Still, the more I study religion the more I'm convinced that there's something out there... Who or what that something is, I cannot say. What this something does, I cannot say. Whether this something created the universeand/or humanity - or sustains it, or has the power to destroy it - I cannot say. Whether or not this something interacts with the created world, I cannot say. Whether or not that something is all good, all evil, or some combination thereof I cannot say.

In short, I don't get it. I think that there is something to get, however...something far outside of the bounds of my imagination. I think Anselm of Canterbury has come the closest to defining God/the divine: "God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived." Think about that for a minute...I expect you'll find that you can't come up with anything better.

Holy crap Dan having a baby?! Not the actual process, but being a parent? I have little confidence in that family. However, when I first heard Abe was beginning his family, I was quite surprised and obviously he is a wonderful and capable parent now. So who knows - kids raising kids is crappy, but I know a quite immature adult who is like 40 and has managed to raise at least 1 of his 3 children pretty well, a little earlier to tell with the 3rd, but who knows!

And Siggie poo if you don't believe in God, or at least in his importance, why should it matter what he thinks? We all love you : )

Hannah - Jacob's little sister - had surgery today. She had part of her nose (the inside) shaved off (I forgot the technical term and it's not the adnoids, if I heard it I'd know it - starts with a t I think - trodent maybe, who knows, anyways) and she also had tubes put in her ears. Apparently there was lots of bleeding so the surgery took longer, and whenever she sits up blood poors out of her nose, and she'll probably start puking the blood that has poured down her throat eventually! I feel bad for her! We bought her an Ernest movie (I despise knowing we used out money for that crap, but Jacob loves those movies), and a card.

Laura Kuehl is getting married, I am sure everyone knows already. But if anyone is going to be around Rapids area this weekend and bored I am going to be in town. Laura's bridal shower and bachelorette party is Saturday. The shower is during the day and then we're going to the community center (I didn't even know Rapids had one) and doing 'pottery' things (we've been invited to bring alcohol as well). Not sure how alcohol and making pottery things will go together but what the hell, sounds like fun to me : )

Also I am going to be having a PartyLite thingy over here at the apartment in December sometime - probably either the 9th or 16th and it'd be cool if any of you would like to come to it! We have room to crash over night, and we could have our own little party afterwards if you'd like! I'll be sending invites, so if I don't already have your updated address email me it at LaGraf@Charter.net : )

So that was huge and a well needed break from all my dumb homework! I registered for next semester and I am only taking 13 credits : ) The least amount of credits I've ever taken! I get to graduate with my class in May, however my diploma majors will be for Educational Studies and History, but not much I can do with an Ed. Studies degree alone, but I am planning on coming back to student teach in the fall of 04 and I will be certified in December : )

Also Jacob and I have been talking lots about not moving out to Denver and settling down somewhere in WI. Not in Rapids nor Ripon and probably a larger area, at least over 60,000 we're aiming for. And where ever we can both get decent jobs! We figure the cost of living is huge in Denver (our friends pay close to 1500 a month for rent in an apartment similar to ours here). Although I'd be teaching and he'd have some business management position (that degree is pretty flexible), that still would probably be 'getting us by' and we'd be spending what we didn't need on entertainment with friends, rather than savings and stuff! Housing costs are so low right now and we'd like to start a family like 3 or 4 years from now, and moving half way across the country and back between then might not be worth it. We love visiting our friends in Denver and it'll always be our 2nd home, but we wanna make our own home soon : ) Apartment life isn't all it's cracked up to be, and it's worthless to keep paying rent. Considering the cost of homes; in the next 2 years (the time we have to rent) we could have bought a decent house.

So that is my life lately and everything! : ) Hope everyone is doing well in whatever you are doing! I miss you girls so much and looking forward to getting together soon! : ) Does anyone have plans for the day after Thanksgiving? Like morning/afternoon? I propose we get together then - I'll send an email out, too, but you are all invited to my parents' house for like a lunch or whatever and just to hang out! Bring pictures from recently or whenever! I'll be sure to remember all the 1000 of our wedding pictures : ) Looking forward to seeing you guys! Love you all!

Siggie, God does NOT hate you. I would know, my mother is God, and she adores you.

Just so that you're all aware, God hates me. For real.

I got a letter from Dan today, postmarked 28 October. It makes no mention of the fetus.