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Sunday 4, May 08 ?! Title: The Best of Us (Part 2) Author: Coco Rating: PG-13 Summary: Catherine finds herself in a delicate situation and she has to cope with it while trying to balance a rapidly declining relationship with her daughter, a love-hate relationship with her mother and the budding romance between she and Grissom. Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or its characters and I don't make any claim to own anything here. Spoilers: Knowing what happened in season 8 regarding Sara is a must. Part One ( When Grissom got home one day the following week he found a note taped to his front door from his next door neighbor. ) ♥ Coco

Wednesday 30, Apr 08 3 ♥?! Well, I'm all signed up for classes and I was worried because I signed up late for various reasons but I was stunned because I got all my first choices! My classes are: The Next French Course... Intro to Drawing (my second to last gen ed) Behavior Analysis (my last class for my minor) Elementary German My one problem with the German class is that it's a whole year course and I have to go abroad second semester this upcoming year but since I'm pretty awesome at languages I plan to keep up with German so that I can test into intermediate German when I come back in the fall, otherwise I'd have to wait a whole year before resuming my German studies. Anyways, that's what's new in my world this morning.

Tuesday 29, Apr 08 7 ♥?! So on one of my yahoo groups there's some drama because someone made a site that's supposed to be inclusive but completely disallowed the inclusion of slash. So one person said, "hey, I think that's wrong of you to do considering we're supposed to be united here. You should include slash." <--that's a paraphrase but she never called the first woman a hater of gay people, just homophobic. And so the person who spoke up made a completely all inclusive site that allows slash. High road, right? She didn't ask her to change her site, she did NOT "drag her name through the mud" as the woman complained. Now on the original website there is a loooooooooong “I AM NOT HOMOPHOBIC… I’M JUST CHRISTIAN AND SCARED OF GAY PEOPLE.” welcome message. That whole thing is really insulting. And it also drives me up the wall because she didn’t say that she hated gay people. Homophobia does not inherantly imply hatred. I think she needs a dictionary. The whole thing is really an insult to tolerance even though she’s accusing anyone who is offended by her exclusion of slash of intolerance. She is so mad. It’s kind of funny in a totally awful way. She said, and I quote: “I'm sick and tired of hearing people talk about love and tolerance, and yet failing to practice those two things when it comes to people who have different beliefs than they do!” we’re supposed to be like, “oh, you think I’m going to hell, but that’s okay.” Who says people have to tolerate and love intolerance? She has completely martyred herself. “No one deserves to be treated this way.” She needs to climb down off her cross. It’s totally laughable and oh-so-completely-intolerant-Christian. Because you know, straight white Christians are really persecuted in this country... we should all cut her some slack and love her for her exclusive, stifled, misguided "moral" view of people who are different than her. To me the issue would be no different if she disallowed someone of a different religion onto her website. It is totally not alright to start a WIKI, something that public, in a FANDOM and invite people to join but exclude probably a quarter of the people. Another quote I found particularly offensive was... oh that's funny. I went back to get the quote and she'd changed the disclaimer... The quote was like "we're supposedly living in a progressive society but I'm being persecuted for this?" and also there was a quote from one of her friends like, "I'm fine with gay people having a relationship but that doesn't mean I have to acknowledge it." oh blah blah blah. It's people like her who are the reason why there's still only partial equality. Because they can't look past their own bigoted beliefs to realize that gay people should have all the same rights and privileges as they do. To quote Olauduah Equiano, "oh ye nominal Christians" People who claim to have moral values are usual moral in name only. And also another fitting quote, William Apess (a native American before the Cherokee Removal) ""while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disenfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime. I'll venture to say, these characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way would be the first to cry out, "Injustice! awful Injustice!" The argument is the same. Discrimination is wrong. Be it based on religion, skin color, gender, sexuality, age it is always wrong. And I am under no obligation to tolerate or love people who don't think that everyone is entitled to the same privileges for any reason. Sorry for the rant, but I'm really pissed off at that person right now.

Sunday 13, Apr 08 22 ♥?! ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ i_heart_cuddy ♥ So I made a new layout like I do obsessively. Only one problem, anyone who can help me out with CSS stuff... there's a piece of code that is overriding my changing the font of the date. I want the date to be like: Friday 10, Apr 08 But it's all in the same size and same font as everything else and I just want the date to stick out, and I kind of like it to be big and obnoxious. O:) ALSOOOOOOOO I'm going to start another livejournal where I speak only in French. Il y a quelqu'un sur ma flist qui parle le français et voudrait m'ajouter comme une française? Je n'ai pas encore avoir mon username mais bientot! ♥ ♥♥♥Coco♥♥♥

Friday 11, Apr 08 ?! FIVE ON FRIDAY!!!!!!!! They're not new but because I'm new to this I'm doing back fives. 1. ice 2. primary 3. dirty 4. green 5. fly 1. CREAM. Because I'm hungry. 2. Presidential primary. I listened to a Hillary/Bill thing on the radio on the way home today 3. Dishes? 4. The shirt that Erin painted on today, she painted a blue tree on it and it was so pretty. And I painted on a purple t-shirt that has the X-Files X on it and JULY 2008 BECAUSE I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE MOVIEEEEEEE! 5. Erin. Because she said her and her sister could fly when they were little. ♥♥♥♥ I think I'm going to make a new layout...

Wednesday 9, Apr 08 2 ♥?! NOTE TO SELF AND ANYONE WHO USES FIREFOX AND DOESN'T ALREADY KNOW THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you hit CTRL+SHIFT+T then it'll open the tab that you just closed, so like if you hadn't meant to close it you're saved! ♥ YOU GUYS! When I am done with my French presentation you all have no idea how many manips I'm going to make! It's going to be mad crazy!

Sunday 6, Apr 08 ?! Dear Marg and Lisa - Please be a little less hot because it's seriously depressing me every moment I'm not all over you. Thanks. - Love Coco

Sunday 6, Apr 08 ?! I'm going to do one of those Five on Friday things because I didn't think of it until just now and I just want to... so, you know... I'm just going to do it... 1. When feel the urge to use the bathroom, do you hold it or go right away? 2. When was the last time you held hands with someone? 3. Do you hold in your emotions or let them out? 4. If you play blackjack or poker, are you more likely to hold or fold on any given hand? 5. In general, can you hold your tongue? When you have a secret? When someone says something you don't agree with? 1. Depends on where I am... If I'm in class and I want to get up and move for a few minutes I'll just go, but I do hold it a lot.... 2. Friday, I think. 3. A little of both. Mostly hold in but I still talk about them or let it out when I'm alone OR sometimes I let them out in my writing. 4. Hold, because I play with M&Ms and there's no real loss, but I'm really bad at poker. 5. I can't hold my tongue when I have a secret, but I don't tell people that would be mean about the secret or anything. And I can't hold my tongue at all if I disagree with something. I want to do more of these! I might go back in the archives and just do some more... I also want to do some icon challenges this week... but... I really really really need to actually DO stuff today... :/ ♥

Monday 31, Mar 08 1 ♥?! Free Falling @ Youtube So, I wrote a me version of the first three lines of Free Falling by Tom Petty. You can sing it if you try, it's just about the right rhythm: She's a good girl, loves good grammar, loves cynics and the internet too. She's a good girl, crazy bout lj, loves greyhounds and the french language too. And it's a long day, living on campus, cause there's a freeway passing her by. That last line is because I'm almost 20 and still don't have a license... :) But yeah. That's what I've been doing instead of a French essay. I want to go watch a Meryl movie, methinks.

Saturday 29, Mar 08 3 ♥?! For everyone who hasn't seen it on Google (or didn't look into it when they saw Google was black) today there will be Earth Hour! Go here to learn more. "On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone." ♥♥♥ Energy conservation ♥♥♥