.....things apparently look different. Not surprising I guess. I always preferred night myself.
After the good day of yesterday, the excrutiating backpain of today. Sitting in front of the computer for 11 1/2 hours of work, which I got sent expecting it to be 8. I have just finished. My wrist is also killing me.
I am not sure how coherent this will be with backache and knackeredness, but there were two interesting news stories on CTV today. One involves a mother who has gone on strike and is camping in a tent in her front yard to try and force her kids to tidy the house and actually do some housework. This is in Florida, so luckily it's not minus something degrees. The kids are 17 and 12, and the house is a pig sty. Thing is, the kids are probably going to be bloody resourceful buggers and they'll have savings and stuff, plus they'll just go round to their friends and eat there, and leave all the dishes until they're beyond cleaning and have to be chucked out. I don't think the parents have fully thought this through, but it's a nice idea in theory.
The other story is of course that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that same-sex marriage is in line with the constitution, can be decreed as enforceable by the federal government (though churches can choose not to hold such weddings), and can be pushed through the courts probably by the end of 2005 to be legal across all provinces. This would mean that Canada would become the third country to make same sex marriage legal, although here in BC, and in two other provinces, gay weddings have been going ahead for some time anyway. Of course there is going to be opposition to the bill going through, but the general concensus is that it won't do any good. The future of gay marriage appears to be in Canada.
Denise and I watched the story with interest; I am currently undecided on whether gay marriage is something I support or not. I thoroughly agree with equal rights, equal laws and civil blessings, but something in me still yearns for the traditional man-woman marriage thing to be kept. This is coming from someone who is non-religious, and doesn't really think that marriage means too much these days anyway, so why do I feel like this? Who knows. I think I am just a hopeless romantic at heart, and kind of like my traditional trappings. So my conclusion seems to be that I embrace these changes wholeheartedly in the spirit of equality and development, but at the same time regret that things have to change. Story of the world's life....
The random fear for the day (there's always one): today I suddenly thought, what happens when I have come back from my holiday in England in a couple of months? So far all my thoughts have been geared up to February, and what I plan to do when I get there. I hadn't even thought about what will happen when it is the end of my time there and I come back here! Then it will be ages until I get to go home again. Will everything sort itself out during those three weeks? Chances of this happening = nil. That's a depressing thought if ever there was one.....
And so, in order not to end on a low note, a happy thought: when I come home, my parents will have put a shower in our house, and for the first time in 26 years, I can actually live in a family home with a shower in. I am not sure what my parents' aversion to buying houses with showers in was, but we never had one. And so, I leave for Canada and they immediately get one. Very suspicious. Showers are good. Although, at the moment with my backache I really want a bath, and what do we not have in this current house? A bath. The law of Sod strikes again.....