Okay I haven't been on here in a while and this isn't exactly college but I need to rant.

Basically, our society is a shithole and it's only been fairly recently that I've become aware of it. Mostly the war the Congress is waging against women's rights. I am so fucking sick and tired of it. I read these articles and see things on the news and I don't even know how this kind of outdated crap can be present in Congress. It's all been in my awareness and I've been bothered by it, but for some reason now I've processed it all and I'm furious.

They have no fucking right to complain that the government isn't doing things right while in the same breath curtailing a women's right to have sex safely. They're trying to limit the amount of contraception available to women while at the same time eliminating Planned Parenthood, which is absolute horseshit and I really want to give them a good slap in the face.

I hate this country, because its a place where Rush Limbaugh can get away with calling a women a slut because she supports the free contraception bill. No wait SCRATCH THAT. There is no reason that calling a woman a 'slut' should ever be justified, because who a woman has sex with is her business and no one else's. Like, a man can have sex like there's no tomorrow and no one would give a care. But if a woman does the same thing she's called a slut. That's bullshit. What you do with what you're born with is no one else's business and if you're promiscuous, so what. You like sex, who wouldn't? We were genetically built to ENJOY SEX.

I am just fed up with all of this. I'm being told I should love my country? Really, I'm not feeling any of it, if its allowed to even consider laws and social norms that would say 'You're a slut if you have sex. I'm going to control your sex life by taking away your right to have it safely. Then if you get pregnant we're going to take away your right to be aided by an organization that will help you do the right thing to make your child healthy. And god forbid you get an STD from unprotected sex, you're going to get shamed because that's how society works. Oh yes, and the men don't have to put up with that.'

Fuck that. Fuck our society. I don't want to live in this country any more if misguided politicians that I haven't even met before think its okay to tell my girlfriend - the LOVE OF MY LIFE - all these things and enforce them. I don't want to live in this country and be powerless while this can happen. I'm going to write letters with something to this effect to our senators and representatives. Hell, I'll write one to Obama. I'm not going to let them tell my girlfriend - or any of my friends, or her friends, or anyone else who is female - what they can or cannot do with their own body. They have absolutely no right to take away any rights as a human from any of my loved ones or anyone's loved ones. And furthermore I don't want my children to grow up in a country as fucked up as this.

I want to do so much to prevent this from happening. I love my girlfriend and my friends and my family way too damn much to let anyone tell them that even though they have never met them or even know who they are - and because these 'anyones' are MEN - they have the right to stomp all over their rights. Fuck them. Fuck anyone who does that. Because they are elected officials doesn't mean they can tell you how to have sex and whether you can have sex without being at risk at having a baby or a disease that could kill you. They are saying "Fuck you, we can ruin lives and there is nothing you can do it about it."

It breaks my heart. It makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry forever, and when I open my eyes it will all be gone. But that's not going to solve anything. So I'm going to do all I can and research how I can stop this. Because fuck anyone who messes with the people I love.

I should probably give you some details.

My roommate for one is kind of a handful. I've had to play therapist more times than I can count, and other times he doesn't let the sex jokes stop. He's an absolutely wonderful human being! He's just... a lot to deal with.

I have pretty awesome classes - they're ending in a month unfortunately. I have film studies which I love. A lot. Basically analyzing classics like a mofo. I quite enjoy it. Especially when there are days like today, when we watched Some Like It Hot. Jack Lemmon, you get me every time....

I have a crap load of music classes. There's music theory, where we learn that using tritones (dissonance) in conventional music is equivalent to selling newborn babies to cannibal chimney sweeps. You just don't do it.
There's ear training, where we learn how to sight sing and stuff. It's absurdly easy. Basically its saying tatatatatata in rhythm and saying do re mi fa etc in tune.
Orchestra is orchestra. My stand partner... I want to slap her in the face. She told me that this crazy spanish ballet that sounds like bats out of hell sounded like Pachebel's canon. Whut. Also she has this habit of staring at me (at least I think that's what she's doing), so I pretend that the music is suddenly more interesting than it really is. She's so creepy.
I have this awesome composer's sectional every wednesday. It's basically this older professor who is super hip and these two upperclassmen composers. I love it. Once the prof brought in his frog named Gilly. We wasted so much time that day....
There's functional piano but its so boring because I already know how to do all the things I'm getting taught...
I have a french class which is awesome and fairly easy. Apparently my girlfriend's high school sophomore french class is harder. Yeah.

So there's the background. I don't want to write too much more because I'm lazy and tired. More to come later.

Well here I go.

My girlfriend tells me I'm college. Like its an adjective, and I like it. It's kinda hard to believe that this is the experience... I feel like I should be a lot more changed. Instead everything else has. Well, mostly everything. The immediate environment has changed. The people I see everyday have changed. My girlfriend and hometown friends and family, however, have not, which I remain thankful for. I mean, college is fun. Quelf games happen every week. Wacky socials are abound - tonight I helped make a horror movie. My new friends are absolutely wonderful.

I'm going to be cliched and corny here: Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold. New stuff is cool, and pretty soon it won't feel quite so new anymore, but everything and everyone I associate with home feels so special, something that college could never replicate. I'm going home this weekend, and I shall be seeing my wonderfulamazing girlfriend and absolutelysupercool friends, and I can't. freaking. wait.

Yeah, dude, I'm college. Ish.