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Back story: I am stuck in San Antonio, TX due to weather. Arthur and I flew down for his grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary. Now I cannot get back to Boston in time for my final exam in American Sign Language 2.
Sung to the tune of Breathe (2 AM) by Anna Nalick
6 PM and they call me ’cause they haven’t flown
Can you come and please drive me back home
There’s bad weather
We won’t make connection in Houston
Yeah we walked up to the gate
so expecting to board
Like we have any right to want to fly home
Oh holy shit, I’m not going to make my ASL final
‘Cause we can’t board the plane
We’ll be stuck overnight
And my Powerbook’s useless with no internet life
No one will find any free WiFi boy
So cuddle on up on the floor
Chorus:
And breathe, just breathe
Whoa breathe, just breathe
I went bowling for the first time in years with Arthur, his sister, and her boyfriend tonight. After a few turns, Arthur went to grab everyone refreshments, including a Smirnoff Ice for me. I decided to return the favor and grab Arthur a vodka-tonic.
Only the bartender refused to serve me because I had an out-of-state driver’s license. I later found out that the bartender didn’t even ask Arthur for identification.
This is the second time that I have been denied the purchase of alcohol even though I am 21. Once upon a time, I tried to purchase a bottle of wine for a date at the The Clayroom in Brookline, MA. The cashier refused to sell me the wine because I “didn’t look 21″ even though my driver’s license says in bright red letters, “Under 21 until January 15, 2005.” Arthur was with me, showed his Texas driver’s license to the cashier, and I was still allowed to pay for the wine. Besides both of us being out-of-state and Massachusetts law prohibiting the sale of alcohol if anyone in the party is under 21 (which apparently the cashier believed to be true), I quite enjoyed being discriminated against by someone so freshly legal in America.
The alcohol laws in this country are ridiculous and encourage wild behavior by making alcohol exclusive. In a truly conservative government, regulation of substances would be limited with punishment aimed at disrupted and harmful substance abuse. Only people in denial believe that current alcohol laws prevent the consumption of alcohol by those the law targets. If I can be drafted to die for this country and elect the most powerful political officer in the world, I am old enough to die of alcohol poisoning or elect to not drink at all.
Introducing the blog design. No, Internet Explorer cannot properly render this valid XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Nor do I care.
70% of my traffic is from my XML feed. Thus, I decided that my new design would break away from traditional blog metaphors. Speaking of XML, I killed off my RSS feed because, let’s face it, Atom is superior in every way. Are you loving my digital activism yet? ;-)
Many new features are not yet implemented into the design, as I wasn’t planning on being explicit until after my college graduation.
To be continued…
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