Such a week

[pecunium]

Julia Child

Gay Marriage in Calif.

Prepping for the Korea trip

Planning for the move back to SLO, when I get back from Korea

Planning out the next year (I may get to go to Monterey for 6 Mos)

Pondering some things

So, this may get a bit long.

Julia Child died yesterday. Unlike Bresson I knew she was still among the quick. I never cared for her voice, but her quiet passions, and her cooking, were inspirations to me on the subject of food.

Which is part of why I grow peppers, and basil, and shallots, and tomatoes,and lavender, and onions, and melons, and squash, and corn, and...

She understood food, and eating. Not for her the tin-fiddles of fat-free pudding. Eat less, but eat well.

Above all eat well.

Gay Marriage

The Court did the right thing. I don't like it, but the question was not on the consitutionality of California's marriage laws, it was about separation of powers. I may (in fact I do) think Newsom was right. I cheered to see the people getting married, and I knew this day would come.

It had to. Ponder this... Newsom is the executive branch. He did what I was decrying Bush's legal counsel for saying Bush could do; set aside a law with which he disagreed. As precedent it's horrible. It means the executive is also the judicial. It means that Lockyear, or any local DA, can go to his boss, the Governor, the Mayor, and convince him that setting a law aside is a good idea.

Or the city council can. So long as the law doesn't touch federal issues the 10th amendment ought to cover them. It's an invitation to anarchy.

Until then If this be error
The other stuff, well Korea is three weeks. I get back on the 6th of Sept., I have a PT Test, a russian test and perhaps a physical, in the week which follows and then Maia and I head back to SLO, Baby snakes, and horses going with us, and someplace to board the dogs (we can't keep them where we'll be when we get there. We'd like to find a place we can, but there is no place for the interim. One more thing to be annoyed with the last landlord about).

If I get the scores I want, on the language test, I apply for Intermediate Russian at DLI, and come home on the weekends. If I get the scores I expect, I go to a two-week refresher, test again, and then apply.

So, that's the present wrap up. I have some more involved/political stuff percolating, but the pot's not full yet.

Comments

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

The Court did the right thing. I don't like it, but the question was not on the consitutionality of California's marriage laws, it was about separation of powers. I may (in fact I do) think Newsom was right. I cheered to see the people getting married, and I knew this day would come.

It had to. Ponder this... Newsom is the executive branch. He did what I was decrying Bush's legal counsel for doing, setting aside a law with which he disagreed. As precedent it's horrible. It means the executive is also the judicial. It means that Lockyear, or any local DA, can go to his boss, the Governor, the Mayor, and convince him that setting a law aside is a good idea.

Or the city council can. So long as the law doesn't touch federal issues the 10th amendment ought to cover them. It's an invitation to anarchy.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I wanted to post roughly this exact same thing (in fact I did but made the post private) but decided I was not up to dealing with the argument that would ensue.

BTW, I found your journal some time back through geekchick and have added you to my friends list. I hope you don't mind -- I find what you say to be usually quite interesting.

[ex-soothemys349.livejournal.com]

I think that gay marriage is a fine thing. Maybe they'll have better luck with it.

When Mass. started allowing it, my son and I drove by city hall and offered thumbs up to those waiting in line. They looked so happy and hopeful.