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So at least one promised post here. The more I see reports of people in schools being denied the right to sit down during the pledge, or wear shirts expressing disgust with the war, the more I realize just how liberal my little backwater school, 600 students in the 7th-12 grades, so small the elementary and high schools were connected (we didn't have a middle school then we were too small) had been. It was in the middle of farm country, which is often branded the home of conservative values, and I come from a very staunchly Republican family, as most of them seemed to be there. But during Gulf War part the first, when I was in the seventh grade, we were told in homeroom that we have the right to sit down and express our displeasure. Hell, the way one of the teachers spoke, you'd almost think he was encouraging it. We had demonstrations about school policies and so far as I know no one was expelled, though I think some of the more disruptive students got detention or suspension. Some of the teachers let us leave class, some protested with us, though the principal didn't seem to like that much. Yes, there was discipline, the administration tried to get us to stop, but in the end we were successful anyway. That was a good school, and I'd liek to find another one like it in several years. But I *don't* want to move back to Galway.

So my MMRs. There is supposed to be a part of the school website that says whether or not I'm allowed to register for classes normally. And it's supposed to say if it would be restricted. But I never got the notice, because it wan't there, so I tried to register and it would only let me have 5 credits. Of course. So I went to Health services, and they said I had to have records of immunizations, which I have had, but there were no records of me at the doctor's office, and my mother coudn't find her copies. So I had to call my high school yesterday, and got hung up on several times, disconnected, and lost in wrong numbers from the website. It went to a Galway switch board, and went nowhere. So. After wasting lots of money, I had Remy call them, and they said I had to send them a request with my signature on it, but yes, a fax would work. So I faxed an official request. This morning they still hadn't arrived. This afternoon they were there, and when I got home I was *finally* able to finish registering. I'm in five classes: Renaissance and Baroque seminar, History of England to 1485, Gothic art, Survey of Western art 1, and beginner's Latin. One of the classes I had wanted--it had 16 seats left on Tuesday--was filled. Women in the Middle Ages. But if there's a chance I can get into it at the beginning of the next semester, if someone drops or something, then I will. And I guess I'd drop Latin, because I really wanted Middle English. But I have to find the professor of that class first, because he generally only teaches Grad students. So. I think that will be my update fro now. I have classes for the new year, a nice list of 15 of them, and I am happy.

I could just try to keep Latin as well, and possibly add the Medieval Women to that.... 18 credits?

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We just saw a truly awful movie. Of course, I loved it, it was that sort of awful, but I think most other people would be horrified. We finally got around to seeing Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, because no one stopped us, or suggested something else, and we wanted to see it. And my brain hurts from too much exercise. I needed to kill off some of the cell population, there were too many of them.... Something about a priest with a hawk, a homemade punk/funk/rockabillyesque soundtrack, and Jesus on a moped is just great. And it was full of lesbians, for no logical reason. I mean, they fit into the plot, but it really made no sense. And Jesus defended homosexuality, and gave an awesome sermon at the end. The Vampire chick was cute too, and Mary Magnum, whose card said Apostle to Apostles. Yeah, it was bad. It was so very DIY, but it just kinda made it cooler. And the random scary priest guy that looked like Rasputin.

What else is up? Not much, I think.... We read part of the Fairey Queene today, and it really is quite lovely, but I think I like it better without the symbolism. And as a person, I don't think I like Spenser at all. He was one of those sent to quell and rule the Irish, and was generally a bad person to them. But damn it, he wrote such pretty poems. He was just a bastard with talent.... Not so very rare, I suppose, but really.