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raybearUm, my last post wasn't totally forthright. I mean, I should explain more the context of the conversation -- DYA and I discussed registering as domestic partners after she starts working for the county, and then I can get signed onto her insurance. Since we were talking about registering, she mentioned us doing some sort of commitment ceremony on our 3rd anniversary (early February) and I said, yeah, maybe we could have some big party. So, not necessarily flower girls and ushers going on. But probably lots of food and dancing. And yeah, we probably wouldn't turn down a new toaster.
The funny thing about the domestic partnership registry in Cook County -- it is only available to same-sex couples, since it is a marriage alternative or however they frame it. And legally, we are a same-sex couple, though visibly we are not, so I'm sure this will cause some fun downtown in city hall, but whatever. This is a time where I don't mind that I haven't gotten around to changing that birth certificate, because otherwise to get health benefits here in Chicago, we'd have to get married and I'm not willing to file my taxes that way.
So you wouldn't know it from the news, but there were vigils in every state on Wednesday night marking the 2,000th recorded death of U.S. soldiers since the war started. And you also wouldn't know it from the news, but there are more than 10 civilian deaths for every American dead. You can watch the count HERE, unless for some reason you find it unamerican to care about non-americans who are dead, especially by our hand, and yeah, I say "our" because that's your money paying for them to do it. Oh, and while I'm on a news rant, I would say that I find it a bit too coincidental that Harriet Miers withdrew the day before the grand jury announces any indictments against Karl Rove or Scooter Libby (why is a grown-ass man in our white house going by "Scooter"?), except I think things maybe finally are going down the toilet for the people in administration and all I can say is, stay the course, fuckers.
I'm sick of this cough. I'm sick of blowing my nose so much that it's raw and dry. I'm sick of being so exhuasted in the evenings that I can barely do isht. But it's Thursday night and I survived the week and teaching went pretty well and JT and I had a nice dinner afterwards. Now I'm going to play with our video camera and try not to fall asleep.
The funny thing about the domestic partnership registry in Cook County -- it is only available to same-sex couples, since it is a marriage alternative or however they frame it. And legally, we are a same-sex couple, though visibly we are not, so I'm sure this will cause some fun downtown in city hall, but whatever. This is a time where I don't mind that I haven't gotten around to changing that birth certificate, because otherwise to get health benefits here in Chicago, we'd have to get married and I'm not willing to file my taxes that way.
So you wouldn't know it from the news, but there were vigils in every state on Wednesday night marking the 2,000th recorded death of U.S. soldiers since the war started. And you also wouldn't know it from the news, but there are more than 10 civilian deaths for every American dead. You can watch the count HERE, unless for some reason you find it unamerican to care about non-americans who are dead, especially by our hand, and yeah, I say "our" because that's your money paying for them to do it. Oh, and while I'm on a news rant, I would say that I find it a bit too coincidental that Harriet Miers withdrew the day before the grand jury announces any indictments against Karl Rove or Scooter Libby (why is a grown-ass man in our white house going by "Scooter"?), except I think things maybe finally are going down the toilet for the people in administration and all I can say is, stay the course, fuckers.
I'm sick of this cough. I'm sick of blowing my nose so much that it's raw and dry. I'm sick of being so exhuasted in the evenings that I can barely do isht. But it's Thursday night and I survived the week and teaching went pretty well and JT and I had a nice dinner afterwards. Now I'm going to play with our video camera and try not to fall asleep.
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Date: 2005-10-28 03:01 am (UTC)Ha, this made me laugh. A moment's reprieve from feeling really disturbed by the whole thing.
Re: marriage / DP... W and I didn't have the option to become DP's for the same reason - It's a "marriage alternative" and therefore only available to people who are over 65 or in same sex relationships. So we had to get legally married for me to get free health benefits. So the fun that you're about to have when registering for DP'ship will probably be akin to the fun we had at the county registrar's office (apparently when I put on a button-down and tie I suddenly pass very, very well). Ah, the joys of bureaucracy in this heterosexist world.