Well! Today rocked! Carol switched to pre-algebra in first period with us! YAY! We have a really small class, too. Anway. In second period, Writing Poetry, we had to write a poem about registration. It was weird! Then we had to switch poems with the person next to us (yay, I sat next to Ella) and use the words in their poem for another poem. It was tough! I only got four lines done, but it sounds pretty cool. In fourth.... Well, we didn't do a whole lot of anything. We made this weird painting.... It's cool, though. I like doing those paintings! We devided our papers into five parts, then wrote in big letters on it, and then painted in each of the sections. It was fun, but I didn't finish with it. Man, I'm slow.... Ugh. Caitlin is in fourth with me.... She's alright, but she talks WAY TOO MUCH! Ergh. At lunch I went to Arctic Roadrunner with Sakae, Laura and Chelsea. It was fun. When we got there we saw Justine and started hanging with her too. And Chelsea and Laura taught us a knew immaturely dirty song! "Ooooh, weener, weener, weener in a bun, bun, bun...." Haha, we're so immature. Political Science was GREAT. It was fucking hilarious! Jennifer (the teacher) was standing at the front of the class when we came in, and when everyone sat down, she started talking. "This class is about government. For the next ten minutes, we'll be exploring government." Then she walked out of the room without another word, and didn't come back for ten minutes! It was sooo funny! So all the boys were throwing Red-Hots at each other across the room, and Bren-Bren tried to steal my CD player :P He's dumb. I'm happy. Bryn, Bren-Bren, Ella, Sakae, Owen and Erin are in that class. It's gonna be fun (even though Jennifer is so incredibly senile! She has to count to five on her fingers cause she can't do it in her mind, it's insane!). After school, I was just hanging out with people. It's the first time in about two months that I've bothered to talking to anyone besides the girls and Erik. Ella, Sakae and I decided that we're gonna start the National Vagina Committee! Yay! Men are welcome too! :P Hahaha. It was funny, Max asked if he could join after he saw that Erik did :P Haha, we're freaks. Tweek hugged me for the first time in... well, since about the third quarter last year. Only because Ella told him to, too. Well, at least Ella loves me enough. Damn him. Anyway. Tweek isn't being such a bitch lately! Oh! Oh my god, Trevor's gonna ask Sakae out! We don't know when, and Sakae knows something's going on and she keeps begging me to tell her what it is, but I just can't tell her! Because knowing Trevor, he'll probably chicken out. He's such a dweeb. Okay, I think that's about it.... Oh, no, it's not! I saw Broken Heart's Club for the first time on the weekend! (I think I already wrote about this, but whatever....) Oh my fucking god, it's the sweetest, saddest movie ever!!! I love it! And Andrew Keegan is hot! Oh my god, that movie had me crying so many times... and movies really don't make me cry very easily! I FUCKING LOVE THAT MOVIE! After I saw it on IFC, I went to BB and rented it and watched it three times in one night! I love it SOOOO much! Okay, NOW I'm done. TTFN! *** Oh my god! I just got e-mailed an AWESOME article! Here, I'll post it. It's so cool! 'Spokane, Washington) Gay activists in this staid Eastern Washington city are planning to create a neighborhood of gay-oriented homes, businesses and nightlife, which religious conservatives complain will be at odds with Spokane's family-oriented culture. A gay district would signal that Spokane is tolerant and progressive, proponents contend, the type of community that can attract the so-called "creative class" that will build the economy of tomorrow. "We're talking about an actual physical part of town we would like to establish as a gay district," said Marvin Reguindin, owner of a Spokane graphic design firm, who envisions an area similar to the Castro district of San Francisco or Capitol Hill in Seattle. Community Impact Spokane, a network of evangelical Christians, is appalled. "A gay Mecca is not what we'd like to see Spokane marketed as," said Penny Lancaster, director of the group. "I'd rather see us promoted as a conservative, family oriented community without any reference to sexual orientation." Too late, some say. "There is a very large gay population here," said Bonnie Aspen, a business owner who arrived with her partner two years ago to escape the congestion of the San Francisco Bay area. Even though they face little discrimination, gays stay under the radar, said Aspen, a member of the Inland Northwest Business Alliance, an association of gay and gay-friendly businesses that is pushing the idea. "Visibility equals freedom," Aspen said. "Invisibility we have dealt with all our life." She predicted a gay district will exist within the next year or two. Spokane is some 90 percent white, and a gay district will promote the notion that such a community can still be tolerant and have diversity, Aspen said. The idea arises out of the theories of Richard Florida, an economist whose 2002 book "The Rise of the Creative Class" contends that the economy of the future will be created by the 38 million workers who toil in "creative" industries. Florida, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, said members of the creative class consider recreation, culture and ethnic diversity, including a large population of gays, as central to where they live. Places like New York, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle have those qualities. Places like Spokane generally do not. After Florida spoke here a couple of years ago, Spokane civic leaders embraced many of his ideas. They have pushed hard to create a university district and several arts districts near downtown. Tom Reese, an economic development officer for Spokane, said city government is not exactly pushing the notion of a gay district, but doesn't oppose it either. "It is our desire to create an environment where diversity and different interests and lifestyles of all types can flourish," Reese said. No public funds will be used to create the district, which is dependent on developers, Aspen said. No location has been announced. With about 200,000 residents, the city has little history of gay activism, other than an effort a few years ago that added homosexuals as a protected class to its human rights ordinance. Spokane - which in trendy Seattle is shorthand for tragically unhip - has long been dominated by conservative politics that stem from its history as a mining and farming center. But it also has a large core of Democrats who push for social justice, and libertarians who share the West's live-and-let-live philosophy. Most of all the city identifies itself as a good place to raise a family. A gay district clashes with that image, opponents contend. "We are a family-friendly, traditional-values community," said former Mayor John Talbott. Opponents fear a gay district will attract sexual predators who prey on gays, plus lead to increased crime, drug use and other social ills, Walton Mize, bishop of the Christ Holy Sanctified Church, said. "Most people don't know about the underbelly of it," Mize said. "It's a culture based upon sex." Aspen rejected the notion that a gay district will bring social problems to Spokane. "I can't see why they think they will have more of that than is already here," Aspen said. Spokane already has a gay newspaper, Stonewall News Northwest, and some businesses that cater to gay residents. It has had an openly gay member of the City Council. But creating a district is still important, Reguindin said. "It would help youth struggling with their sexuality to realize they don't have to go away to a big city to be gay. You can be gay right here in Spokane," Reguindin said. Farand Gunnels, local representative for the Pride Foundation, a Seattle-based group that gives grants to support the gay community, wondered if there were enough gay residents in Spokane to support such a district. The INBA is also preparing to launch a "visibility campaign," in which businesses will be asked to display signs in their windows proclaiming their support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. "We'll know where we will be welcome and patronize those businesses," Aspen said. "We've had a very positive reaction from the business community." Gay customers will be able to leave special cards at businesses they patronize, to let the owners know they were there, Aspen said. "It will give Spokane an idea of the economic impact gay people have," Aspen said.' I know, it's long, but it's cool! Yay for Spokane! That's awesome!