Woe Upon Your Cylon Heart!

ICE. IN GAINESVILLE. WHAT THE FRAK.

I spent last night in the throes of agony due to an GI upset, expelling the contents of my stomach pretty regularly. When I told my mother, she was sympathetic and understanding and then, towards the end of our conversation, she ventures "I bet you lost some weight though!" And then this morning she texted me "How do you feel?" and I called her in response because my answers are very rarely short enough to be properly texted, and I told her I felt pretty blech, and Mom says brightly, "how do your pants fit?" And sure enough, they were looser than they are normally. So my agony was rewarded at least.

Speaking of being sick to my stomach, Gainesville is having an election... soonish? I can't vote here, so I don't know- and one of the thing on the ballot is whether or not to allow discrimination. This is what is on a ballot. In 2009. "Should we allow discrimination against gay people?"

Shall the City Charter Be Amended to prohibit the adoption or enforcement of ordinances, regulations, rules, or policies that provide protected status, preferences, or discrimination claims based on classifications, characteristics, or orientations not recognized by the Florida Civil Right Act? The act recognizes race, color, creed, religion, gender, national origin, age, handicap,marital and familial status. Additionally, this amendment voids existing ordinances concerning sexual orientation, gender identity, and other ordinances inconsistent with this amendment.

I'd bold the important parts, but that whole paragraph is two sentences long. It's absolutely disgusting and backwards and how in God's name is this even legal? How can we put laws in place, in this day and age, that discriminates against people because of their sexual preference? Not even just sexual preference, how can we allow the adoption of laws that champions the discrimination against anyone!?

So, this is a bizarre request, but does anyone have the song "Hello, Dolly" or know where I could get it? I somehow lost the file between like, three computers and I'm desperate for it, and iTunes only sells the whole album. And while this song kicks all kinds of ass, the others don't really delight me as much as this one. And so I turn to you almighty flist! Can any of you help?

In other news, I have tanlines! I've been to the beach twice this week which hasn't happened in... two years? I'm not a beach goer normally. But this was very pleasant aside from the very mild sunburn I have on my shoulders.

Nothing else is really going on- Katie leaves tomorrow, and then we leave next Friday to New York via Gainesville and Asheville, NC. In Gville I need to find an apt because the situation is getting dire.

Also, I don't know how many of you have tile floors, or tile floors with grout that needs cleaning, but my mom and I just came across the tip to use baking soda and peroxide to clean grout and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, IT'S BEAUTIFUL. It works like magic and it has the extra benefit of being green, so, yay.

So, I'm here in Gainesville, and since I've been here we've eaten and shopped. Macy's is having one of their crazy, crazy sales, so I got a Tommy Hilfiger dress for $11, which is unheard of, and a special UF scrapbook that's pretty and blue. Because Amelia had one for FSU, and I wanted one. I'll have pictures later.

While we were having lunch at Steak n' Shake, we saw all these fire trucks going by, and when we left, we drove past this giant, giant fire at a storage facility. I mean, multiples of firemen, flames, billowing smokes, the works. I don't know why they hadn't blocked off the road, but man, was it impressive. Everyone's saying, as of right now, that it was probably a drug lab or something that caught fire, but I don't know the official story yet. But I will keep you posted, don't you worry.

Preview tomorrow. Gulp.