something's gone agley

plan for the day

7:30 am hit snooze alarm between one and four times.
8ish shower, dress, breakfast, etc.
9:00 meet with syntax professor to talk about paper due march 10.
10 or so nap for about an hour.
11 wake up, do some reading before lunch.
12:30 pm lunch.
1:30 have the rest of a day.
8:45 open the bar.
etc.

description of the day so far

7:30 am hit snooze alarm three or possibly four times.
8ish shower, dress, breakfast, etc.
9:00 meet with syntax professor to talk about paper due march 10.
10:00 return home via lodge, collecting bar keys and yesterday's mail.
10:15 send a couple of e-mails, read carolyn hax and miss manners.
10:30 nap.
3:30 pm wake up.

the hell of it is, i'm still sleepy.

ah, the power of allusion

(even inadvertent allusion, that is.)  (and no, it's not a west wing allusion, not specifically.  i'm not silly enough to think aaron sorkin came up with the old legal adage all by himself.  [g])

here's an article about how a proposed amendment to the Maryland constitution would restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples, which is apparently so badly written that it stands to infringe on a variety of other rights as well, many involving gay and lesbian citizens but possibly even including something as basic as divorce.  (the delegate said he "hadn't intended to 'take away any rights that are currently granted'" to gay people in maryland.  granted, which, RAR, but okay, that's a rant for another time.  eedjit.)

so anyway.  on the second page, this bit caught my eye:

Robert P. Duckworth, the Anne Arundel County court clerk who has made his name conducting marriage ceremonies, pounded his fist on the table as he told lawmakers that their failure to respond now would "turn the institution of marriage on its head."

The crowd cheered as he vowed to resist any request by a same-sex couple to marry in his courthouse.

okay, well, first of all, he's a court clerk, not a judge, so i'm not sure to what extent it's his courthouse (maybe it is, and the courtrooms belong to the judges, but i'm just saying).  but more importantly:  pounded his fist on the table, did he?  i'm pretty sure that's what you're supposed to do when neither the law nor the facts are on your side.  yeah.

west wing: 17 People

you know, the more i watch this episode and the ones that come after, the more i am convinced that the only way to see it is, POTUS is mad as all hell and snarking at the staff because he knows damn well he was wrong.