Week's end.

[silveradept]

Well, I have finished all the required components for the presentation Tuesday. They are being reviewed by the impressive, incisive, and reaaaaaaly good editor 2dlife, to whom we give profuse thanks.

Oh, also something that I remember now, that I thought was interesting on Tuesday. For the last several weeks, I've been chatting with a group of protesters, and recently have picked up and held a sign with them that I feel is a worthy cause enough to be holding onto - "Democracy, yes! Theocracy, no!" Tuesday last, we got a couple of people from one of the local high schools (they were out on Spring Break) who asked to take pictures of us, an easily granted thing. On the same day, we also noticed a gentleman with a camera taking pictures. So I did what I do best - smiled, gave a thumbs up, and tossed off not-so-witty one-liners like "Make sure you get my good side!". The gentleman next to me gave a good smile and said "Think impeachment!" As the gentleman passed by us after he was finished taking pictures, we asked him to idenitfy himself, which he did not, and walked briskly away. If you're going to be taking pictures of people in public (which is part of your Constitutional rights, yes), at least have the courtesy to identify yourself to the people you're taking picture of. We'd like to know where our likenesses are being used, after all. So my mug is probably plastered on a webpage somewhere, likely with some derogatory comment about protesting and liberalism. Those of you who've seen me and know what I look like, maybe you can help me find it? I'd love to leave a comment somewhere about the quality of the picture taken. It's not a picture to be ashamed of, as I do believe in the thought, but I would like to know where it's gone. Mostly because I want to see what the captioning contest produces.

So that's my interesting story - the timing on it was good, as I was researching the PATRIOT act for the paper I gave yesterday (so I'm already in the hole many ways - library science, researching the PATRIOT Act, not spitting on protesters, staying long enough to have my picture taken - I'm probably a terrorism suspect by now.) and some of the articles I saw mentioned the idea that people change their behavior when they know that the records of that behavior are subject to surveillance and requisition. Even more so when the information can be relatively easily accessed. That's the other reason I'm curious about that photograph taken of me - I want to know where it ends up, and the hops it takes along the way.

There is a certain contradiction existing in this country right now - the President's got one of the very lowest approval ratings in the entire history of the freaking country, and yet, on an occasion where the President took questions and criticisms, when someone got up to voice his criticism of the Administration, he got booed. Nor did Bush really apologize for anything he's done so far. Still, either those people were so convinced of their rightness as to boo the opposition, to which their ears are closed already, or they were people behaving extremely badly in the presence of others. Although, reading somewhat on the lines and between them, it seems like it was supposed to be another love-fest between the like-minded. Perhaps the intrusion of the other side wrecked their happy fantasy, and so they booed and hissed because they didn't want to be reminded of the reality of things? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, as I wasn't there, nor did I organize it.

Well, that's all there is from me tonight. I await my results, likely by doing some other homework that I need to.

Comments

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

I'm not incredible, not at all. Demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic, disapproving, discerning, discriminating, or disparaging would all be much better choices of alliterative descriptions.

[silveradept]

Most of those are negative, however, of which you are not. If I'm going to alliterate, I have to be accurate, lest I be admonished.