A Day Without Immigrants

What an ill planned and ill advised 'show of solidarity'. For starters, while I don't agree with everything in the legislation that's being pushed, there is no question that the U.S. needs to tighten its borders. In this day and age, we just can't afford to be lax in our border security; there are just too many people that want to kill American just because they're Americans. Not to mention the insane amount of tax dollars being spent to support people that are in the U.S. without having gone through the proper steps to get here.

Secondly, it's not a matter of being anti-immigrant - it's a matter of being opposed to ILLEGAL immigration. And no, I will not call the 'undocumented workers'. They are here illegally, therefore, they are illegal immigrants. I understand why they would want to come to this country. I understand that coming here legally is a very long and difficult process that should be simplified. I realize that most of them are decent people that are just trying to support their families. None of that is an excuse for breaking the law. None of it.

So, a day where legal and illegal immigrants protest in disjointed ways across the country seems a bit pointless to me. The fractured way that they are doing it makes any significant impact unlikely. Illegal immigrants are usually living hand to mouth and really can't afford to take off a day to boycott and they are protesting for something that is already illegal.

Respect our laws, have your supporters lobby for a better way to handle legal immigration and, if you're going to protest, organize yourselves in a way that will do more for you than create a bit of media hype.

Meeting

I spent four hours in a meeting this afternoon, occasionally dozing. Why do they schedule these things for right after lunch? Bah. Anyway, when I wasn't drifting off, I was staring at the guy running the meeting. Since he was talking, it didn't seem odd for me to be staring at him, but really what I was staring at was his nose. It was perfectly straight. Seriously, it was perfect. There was no bump at the top or anything, just slope that could be used as a straight edge. I found it oddly fascinating.

A guy I work with has his speakerphone up REALLY loud. I can hear his entire conversation. I'll have to tease him about it later. His office is all the way around the corner from mine!

That reminds me of the Bud Lite commercial I heard today. It was the 'Real Men of Genius' salute to Mr. Really Loud Cell Phone Talker Guy (or something like that). Funny - I love those commercials. "Did I mention I'm important?" Yeah. Budweiser makes great ads.

I'd like to congratulate my Lucius and Narcissa Sims on the arrival of Draco. He's a very content baby and Lucy and Cissy are soooo in love. Yay!

Has anyone else played around with the Sim characters in Veronaville? I put Regan Capp and her husband what's-his-name in a house; her brother Kent lives with them. The deal is that Kent has a thing for Biance Monty. She likes him back but the rest of the Capp and Monty clans are really unhappy about it. Poor Kent gets shit from all sides. His brother-in-law keeps poking him in the chest and the Monty patriarch and matriarch totally kicked his ass for no reason. That guy's got it rough. In fact, the whole populus of Veronaville seems to be a bit whacked out. I created a family there and the patriarch of the Capp family came running into their house and just started yelling at the teenage son. They'd never even met before. Oberon Summerdream knocked over their trash can. Veronaville is a violent town. What a bunch of freaks!

Ok, time to go home. Bye guys!

Interview meme

Leave me a comment saying 'Interview me' and I will respond by asking you five questions. You post the five questions and your answers in your Livejournal with these same instructions for people that respond. And so on...

liliaevans asked me:

1) How did you first get into Draco/Ginny?

I was doing a search on google to find out exactly what a Kneazle was and one of the returns was 'The Weasel and the Kneazle' by Davesmom. I had never read any fanfiction and I feel very fortunate to have stumbled across such a good story. Not only did it introduce me to my OTP, but if I'd first read one of the horrible fanfics that are out there, I'd probably never have gotten into it.

2) What are your other ships?

I'm satisfied with the canon pairings in general, although I'd never read Harry/Ginny fanfic. I like Neville and Pansy together sometimes. Snape/Hermione is intriguing, if a bit twisted. And, horror of horrors and may mynuet forgive me, there are two stories (well, one is a trilogy - yes, the one you're thinking of) that have Draco/Hermione that I really like. In my defense, I must say that I don't think either of the stories will end with that pairing, thereby making it ok.

3) How did you decide on your daughters name?

I went to school with a girl named Meredith and liked the name. Truthfully, Meredith Theresa was the only girl's name Rob and I could agree on.

4) If you had to live on a deserted island, what three things would you take?

Hmmm. Tough one. Since it's things, and not people, I'll say my camera, my computer and a book. I can't decide which book, though. Likely either a Harry Potter book or Pride & Prejudice.

5) How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could use a chain saw? (crazy question) ;-)

An amount approximately equal to the amount of ground a groundhog could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.