Once it passes the Senate, the bill will pass in the House, and Governor Gregoire has already publicly stated that she'll sign the bill. Remember when I posted an entry about this a little while back? Yeah. I'm so happy right now you guys, and so proud to be a Washingtonian.

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WELL. I've learned that I cannot type an entry while listening to good music. I get too caught up in the beats, silently singing along and dancing (while sitting) on my bed. It's virtually impossible to blog under those conditions, unless you don't care that your entries will probably be a gigantic mess.

BUT. Fortunately for you folks, I don't want to create an incoherent POS for you to read...so, take a gander at this video while I finish my jams. Do you think you can leave your finger on the screen for the whole length of the film? I dare you.



LOL. If you are friends with me on Facebook, or are aware of the Internet, you have probably already seen / done this. Good times, good times.....

ANYWAY. On with the good stuff. What's new? My first reaction to that question is....gosh, I don't know. Which is dumb, because I have so much new stuff, but I never remember enough of it to write down! That brings me to the first new thing, I suppose, which is my recent streak of forgetfulness and general distance from things happening around me. Spacehead Muffy? Something like that. I don't know what it is. It's started to worry me a little bit, at times...but, nothing too much to freak out about. And certainly not a big enough deal to bring me out of a good mood!

I went to a gay bar for the first time. It was...interesting. I had a lot of fun! But meeting someone on the dance floor is certainly no the best environment to make a good friend or spark a relationship that will last longer than the next song. And lots of people grabbing my butt...weirdos.

Hmm...What's next? Christmas?? NO! I forgot something (typical)! My research group won best paper for the quarter out of 21 groups, and we all received automatic 4.0s :) Yay!

Ok, back to Christmas. Santa left this really weird note this year. I've begun to suspect that Santa may have really been Chinese all along. My family had a very low key Christmas this year, which is fine. I do miss the days when it was a big deal though, and the parents would pull out the video camera to record my sister and I tearing open gobs of presents :-\ *sigh* I don't cling to the past, but I think it's okay to be a little nostalgic every now and then.

Santa came through, though! I got socks and $450, nine of those dollars I have spent on a new shirt. Beyond that...I don't know what to waste my money on! Haha....such a first world problem. Maybe a plane ticket somewhere. Experiences and people are more valuable to me than things.

That evening we made gingerbread houses. Below are the contenders!



If you're friends with me on Facebook, you have probably seen this already. If not, read the description below:

The gingerbread contenders.... Starting in the back we have the "Occupy" Gingerbread House complete with teddy graham protestors and police. In the front right we have the winter spa house (you should've seen the engineering from the inside...). And in the front left we have the shrine of Kim Jong Il, complete with life-like portrait and North Korean national anthem.

That evening was a lot of fun too...and did I mention, that we watched THE MATRIX RELOADED while making the houses? Toooo perfect. I also watched one of my favorite movies of all time, Spirited Away, with my mother and sister while nibbling (or gouging, if you're like me) on popcorn and sipping (guzzling) cup(s) of hot chocolate. I have been wanting to do that for a while, and it made made me very happy :)

Oh my, this has turned out to be longer than I expected, and not significantly more coherent than if I had kept my grooving music playing. BUT....before I go, I wanted to share something I learned from the sagacious Nuttz.

She and I have been messaging a bit back and forth about relationships and whatnot, and she had this to say to me:

"If on your saddest days and happiest days, you want him to be there to share it with you, I think he's the one Muffy."

This captures everything that I have been trying to say, and trying to feel, and trying to explain, all in one beautiful little sentence. And I could have told myself this over and over again...but to hear it come from someone else, someone completely detached from my situation, makes me love it all the more. I don't know for certain who "he" is right now, but I'm going to keep these words in my pocket as I go about life, and see where my heart takes me :)

Muffy over and out.

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...a new layout! This theme had its beginnings in my tinkering with vector graphics using a nifty open source tool, Inkscape. I drew a muffin. And from there...chaos erupted.

I'm not pleased with how chaotic it looks, but at this point I don't give a damn. This was mostly a project to dabble in the realm of SVG (scalable vector graphics) and I learned a lot! Here are some nifty things about this template:

Works in Firefox and Chrome. Internet Explorer, GTFO
• Everything on this page designed 100% by Muffy! (except the font...and the little buttons in the corner)
• The member nav in the top-right corner is actually created by Javascript. I wanted to give you guys the "Your site" link, and I did it by accessing a cookie in your browser and forming it into a working hyperlink. Nifty, eh?? Let me know if it works

I do have more to post about, but first...ingest this new theme and tell me what you think :) Suggestions for a name??

Muffy over and out!

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Be it extremely emotional, controversial, messed up, or whatever, this entry has been password protected.

If you know it, enter it; or, ask me for it.

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Great news: there's a new movement in Washington state pushing for total marriage equality

We were talking about this at the QMG meeting...and Jack said "if this thing starts to go anywhere, we have to get ready for the backlash." I had this sudden sense of camaraderie. It was like I was part of the resistance, preparing to stand against something. It kinda made me think...what else in my life have I ever had to fight for? I live in a country where freedom isn't a luxury, it's expected. I've always expected to have food, water, and shelter. I've always expected to go to school and come back to a warm shower. But what I didn't expect was to be discriminated against because the person I love isn't a woman. Now, I have something to fight for, and it makes me proud to be who I am.

There's a lot of talk about the Rick Perry campaign ad that's been circulating around the net....I haven't watched it. And I don't plan on it, because I don't feel like being disgusted. But either way, I appreciate the fact that Tinky Winky took the time to photobomb the shit out of this still frame.


Let's see what happens

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Oh goodness, folks!

So much happenings in the life of Muffy. First and foremost....

I MET ZANZIBAR

What a weird thing, to talk to a 'Tanger in person! And to here them say "Muffy!" It sounds like you're in a different realm, trust me. But so so so cool. I'm so glad that it worked out, and I'm so glad that Zanzi is who she says she is and not a 50 year-old creepy man who has been posting on this blog all these years.

Just to clue everybody in, the fusion team went to Paris for the IDDC (international double dutch competition), and here is our performance!



We were the only team to get a standing ovation, and we won first place :) The video has been shared by over 150 people on Facebook, and we signed sooooo many autographs....the people over there LOVED IT. Because we have a jumping style that is so different from anywhere else in the world. That was such an incredible experience and I'm so glad that Zanzi was there to see it!

Hmmm...what else is new? Today is the University of Washington's 150th birthday! The Bing homepage features the reading room of Suzzalo library :)

WTF technology??

If you have ever played Pokemon (and even if you haven't), these are tooooo classic

Ok. I swear that there's more happening that I can't think of. I just feel like I'm on the right track! In terms of everything. School, friendships, relationships....I should really start making a list of things to blog.

I'm meeting with LostSoul13 on Monday! First Zanzi, then LS.....and next, ALL OF YOU.

*creeps away*

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I just typed a long entry about holding things in, and hurting, and a whole lot of other sad stuff...and then I deleted it. Because I just needed time to settle and cool down. I just get really riled up in particular moments....bleh. On the bright side, I feel really excited about the direction that my life is going (aside from a few things that I wish would HURRY UP)! I'm very excited about my major now, more on that later. I went to a meeting with QMG (Queer Men's Group) on campus and it was....interesting! But I'm hoping to connect a little bit more with the community as time goes on. Not sure how I like the name but that's ok. Labels gonna label. Haters gonna hate.

Yay, so I succeeded in posting a nice little update instead of a sorrowful one. I'm about to board a plane to Michigan, and I hope everybody has a fantastic weekend!

Muffy's Musings:
This is how I typed the whole other entry before I deleted it

Over and out :)

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I don't even knooooow what just happened....here I was typing an entry when my hand slipped a little down the keyboard and then all this shit went down in my browser and the Nutang page got replaced with my hotmail inbox, and there was no trace of Nutang to be found in the browser history. Freaking Apple.

Anyway, I've decided today that I need to stop creeping on Facebook, because it is just not healthy. I had a REALLY funny typo in my last draft of this entry where I accidentally said "I need to stalk creeping on Facebook" instead of *stop creeping....but now I can't recreate it again because the damn hotkeys ruined everything.

*sigh*...so bitter.

However, creeping blogs on Tumblr is not nearly as bad, so I will continue doing that.

The Avengers trailer omgz!!11!

The past 3 nights I've gone to bed mad, and I don't know why. Well, I kind of know why, but it's not really anything that I should be mad about. It's just one of those frustrated, trapped kind of feelings, I think...but I'm going to have to work on changing it. I just hate that every time I want something to change in my life, I have to work on it alone.

Whatever, no more sordid talk. Done with that. How about you people go trip on this instead, in today's round of MUFFY'S MUSINGS.



Also trippy....tipping with PI
Muffy over and out

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