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( Me complaining about Chemistry, what else is new? )

It's not like I did nothing at all today, though--today was a cage-cleaning and other pet maintenance day. I always like the feeling of knowing all the animals have fresh food and water and their cages are clean. ♥

There's something somewhat depressing going on with the pheasant's leg at the moment, but I'd rather not discuss it as I'm rather frustrated about it. :( I'm trying to treat it as best as I can, though.

I went to see Milk last night! It was great, and so human and down-to-earth in the way it was told...and sad. Although I'm already active and vehement in my beliefs of equal rights for everyone, this emphasized it even more and I was stunned by how relevant and timely the movie was. Now if only it had been released before Prop 8, though people are so closed-minded who knows if it would have even made any difference then... It's sad that oftentimes the people who most need to see these sorts of movies are the people who never will because they're unwilling to open their minds enough to give it a chance. :( Anyway, great movie, and Sean Penn was indeed fantastic in it.

I also saw Religulous! Quite entertaining and I agree with pretty much everything Bill Maher said. Also, lots of interesting new information in it, so yay. :D Not that I can't be accepting of people who are religious at all, because I do think everyone has the right to believe whatever they would like to believe, but when it comes down to it it really is amazing to me how ridiculous most of the main religious texts and beliefs are. Even more than that, it's amazing to me how blindly so many people follow these doctrines or even things that weren't in those texts or beliefs to begin with. It's a shame how much political power and conflict is spawned by religion, when instead I think things like simple reason, logic, and compassion for others is enough to keep things together and reasonably harmonious... Or at least more together and harmonious than they are currently, anyway. I love being agnostic--it means that, instead of believing something someone else laid down for me an having to follow that, I am able to make my own decisions, judgments, and decide my own values based off the things I see and know and observe without having to try to fit absolutes into it. It's very freeing and makes me feel as though I can examine things from different angles and really come to my own conclusions and live my own life as I truly see fit.

Also, as I predicted would happen, I'm already on the hunt for another rescue dog. That's what I've always done when I lose an important pet. It's not a matter of "replacing" the other one by any means because no matter what we do there's that emptiness in the house for a while, but it's about giving another animal a new chance at life and having an animal to train and work on and integrate. It really does help me cope, because instead of facing the enormity of the loss all at once it allows me to keep busy and happy most of the time and cope with the loss a little bit at a time, mixed with the joy of saving another life. Ah, it's hard to describe, but it seems like half of the people I meet need to leave some time before getting another animal after losing their last one, and the other half are like me and almost have to find another to rescue before it sinks in all the way. Have several border collies I'm looking at on PetFinder, mostly in Reno and Davis, so we'll see what happens when I contact the rescue groups. I think we'll know who the right dog at the right time is once we get some information on the dogs and meet them and let Hana meet them.

Still very much in denial about Tia, but it's slowly and quietly sinking in, I think.

Ah, it's 3 AM and I have to be up at 8 AM at the latest... Better go to bed. :/

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( Me complaining about Chemistry, what else is new? )

It's not like I did nothing at all today, though--today was a cage-cleaning and other pet maintenance day. I always like the feeling of knowing all the animals have fresh food and water and their cages are clean. ♥

There's something somewhat depressing going on with the pheasant's leg at the moment, but I'd rather not discuss it as I'm rather frustrated about it. :( I'm trying to treat it as best as I can, though.

I went to see Milk last night! It was great, and so human and down-to-earth in the way it was told...and sad. Although I'm already active and vehement in my beliefs of equal rights for everyone, this emphasized it even more and I was stunned by how relevant and timely the movie was. Now if only it had been released before Prop 8, though people are so closed-minded who knows if it would have even made any difference then... It's sad that oftentimes the people who most need to see these sorts of movies are the people who never will because they're unwilling to open their minds enough to give it a chance. :( Anyway, great movie, and Sean Penn was indeed fantastic in it.

I also saw Religulous! Quite entertaining and I agree with pretty much everything Bill Maher said. Also, lots of interesting new information in it, so yay. :D Not that I can't be accepting of people who are religious at all, because I do think everyone has the right to believe whatever they would like to believe, but when it comes down to it it really is amazing to me how ridiculous most of the main religious texts and beliefs are. Even more than that, it's amazing to me how blindly so many people follow these doctrines or even things that weren't in those texts or beliefs to begin with. It's a shame how much political power and conflict is spawned by religion, when instead I think things like simple reason, logic, and compassion for others is enough to keep things together and reasonably harmonious... Or at least more together and harmonious than they are currently, anyway. I love being agnostic--it means that, instead of believing something someone else laid down for me an having to follow that, I am able to make my own decisions, judgments, and decide my own values based off the things I see and know and observe without having to try to fit absolutes into it. It's very freeing and makes me feel as though I can examine things from different angles and really come to my own conclusions and live my own life as I truly see fit.

Also, as I predicted would happen, I'm already on the hunt for another rescue dog. That's what I've always done when I lose an important pet. It's not a matter of "replacing" the other one by any means because no matter what we do there's that emptiness in the house for a while, but it's about giving another animal a new chance at life and having an animal to train and work on and integrate. It really does help me cope, because instead of facing the enormity of the loss all at once it allows me to keep busy and happy most of the time and cope with the loss a little bit at a time, mixed with the joy of saving another life. Ah, it's hard to describe, but it seems like half of the people I meet need to leave some time before getting another animal after losing their last one, and the other half are like me and almost have to find another to rescue before it sinks in all the way. Have several border collies I'm looking at on PetFinder, mostly in Reno and Davis, so we'll see what happens when I contact the rescue groups. I think we'll know who the right dog at the right time is once we get some information on the dogs and meet them and let Hana meet them.

Still very much in denial about Tia, but it's slowly and quietly sinking in, I think.

Ah, it's 3 AM and I have to be up at 8 AM at the latest... Better go to bed. :/