mike called and asked if i was blogging today?
yeah, i'd just taken time today to catch up with friends. i went into the city and hung out with t for a couple of hours, we went to lunch, then i caught up with some other friends. a friend has a birthday coming up and i had to shop for a gift. it was just a catch up and run errands day.
so it was just me and the guy who looks like an extra from the godfather on steroids. i'm glad i've got a guest room here or i guess he's have to sleep on the couch. i already told him that tomorrow morning let me have my coffee before saying anything.
i don't care who you are, friend, lover or, in his case, bodyguard, don't say a word until i get that 1st sip of coffee. it's always amazed me how many people i know do not drink coffee. c.i. has never drank coffee. ever. mormon!
i'm joking, c.i.'s not a mormon. the family dog got into the coffee when c.i. was a small child and c.i. was the 1 who found him, dead, so coffee isn't a fond smell for c.i. elaine's jittery in the morning until she has her 1st cup but she's always rushing around so that probably helps that she avoids it until she's almost out the door. you'd never know it to look at her, she's always the picture of sophistication and impeccably dressed, but she's pulling everything on while in motion. to look at her, you'd think, 'oh she must be this ocean of calm each morning carefully selecting each outfit and accessory.' she's like a cyclone. she's rushing around, brushing her teeth, looking for what to wear, all at once. she hits the shower and that's probably the only time she's standing moderately still, the minutes she comes out of the shower, she's madness in motion. anytime i'm present, i just sip my coffee and stay out of her way. and it never fails that when she finally grabs her cup of coffee and takes that first sip, she'll ask, 'ready to go?'
i like to begin the day slowly.
that's why i'm not a morning blogger.
so the bodyguard's watching tv and i'm in the bedroom doing this entry and listening to james blunt. i picked that up for myself. kat and jess and ty especially have been high on that cd and i kept meaning to check it out but i hadn't had time to shop since christmas. (or hadn't made time.) (and apologies to a friend who had a birthday during the hearings. i ordered a gift, at the last minute, online. i was focused on the hearings and didn't even realize it was a best friend's birthday until that day around five.) if you missed kat's review of james blunt's back to bedlham, please check that out.
i was looking for bright eyes motion sickness as well but couldn't find it. i'll probably look again later this week. i feel like i have to provide field trips or else the bodyguard will be sitting around bored.
at lunch t and i were both saying to sit with us and he kept saying no, he was 'on duty.' so he sat at the table next to us.
i feel like judith miller with a minder.
okay, my favorite song by james blunt just came on (i've listened to this cd over and over this evening). it's the piano ballad. 'goodbye my lover' is the name of the song.
ty played this track over the phone to get me hooked on the album. ty was telling me i had to hear it. it's a great song but the whole 'you have to listen to this' reminded me of when c.i. played liz phair's 'divorce song' over the phone to me once. i'm not really impressed with liz anymore. exile in guyville was an incredible cd. then she lost me. i hope the new teeny bopper/sex pot phase pays the rent and brings her new fans but if i wanted to listen to avril, i'd listen to avril.
so alito. if you read the common ills yesterday or today, c.i.'s said it better than i could. we were screwed. it's that simple.
by the way, it's 'dianne' feinstein. we were sure it was 'diane.' well, c.i. kept saying 'i believe it has 2 "n"s in it' but like c.i. said this morning, i won't lose any sleep over it.
that extra 'n' was probably too heavy for delicate diane.
let me pull from c.i.'s entry because kate michelman had the guts to say what needed to be said:
"Since the last election there seems to be less comfort, if you will, or less willingness to be very forthright or strong on a woman's right to choose," Ms. Michelman said in a telephone interview on Sunday. "It is worrisome that there wasn't more strength behind their questioning" of Judge Alito's views on abortion.
i feel stabbed in the back and betrayed by a party that doesn't want to fight for my rights.
i'm furious about the whole thing.
i was wondering how many people felt that way so while i was hanging out at t's salon today, i asked that and there wasn't a woman there who didn't express rage over the hearings and dianne's declaration of no filibuster. old, young, women of all colors and ethnicities, we are disgusted with the senate democrats.
they really tore into dianne. (including that ridiculous hair 'do' she insists upon wearing.) t told them about 'miss diane, girl senator' and they wanted to hear all about that. she was just disgraceful in the hearings.
i hope we're sharing our rage with 1 another but i also hope we're sharing it with our senators. they need to grasp how angry we are with them, how disgusted we are.
i can't believe how dianne and the committee acted. (there were exceptions of life but overall the committee was dead.) they really did screw us over. and they seem to think that they can get away with it. they can't.
i don't care if they're the only game in town, they're going to find that this performance is going to haunt them.
that's all i'm going to write tonight. just thinking about the hearings depresses me. but i'm not sitting on my feelings and doing nothing about them and you shouldn't either. call, schedule meetings with your senator or her/his staff. let them know how offended you are. and remember that now has Take Action: Call Your Senators Today.
