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those who love.

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong
(reposting Mitchell Sturges)

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
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you know... that work thing?

Hello! I promise I'm alive!

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II has finally given me some breathing room and I'm once again thrown back into society. That's right! I'm finally getting off when there's still daylight, being re-introduced to traffic, no longer leaving when there are only drunken people staggering down the streets, and stores are still open! I'm working like a normal person (well... just a fraction longer) and not enduring 14-16 hour days and 8 hour weekends! Huzzah!

In fact, I was called out by a co-worker from our neighboring game company, "Excuse me? Kat leaving at this hour? This is crazy!" and have received countless texts, messages, and phone calls noting that people have seen me posting and replying Facebook, concern about whether I still exist, and contemplations as to when I would have my life back again :). Yes, it's true. In fact, this past weekend was my 2nd weekend I've had off in quite a long time.

It's rather pleasant, I must say.

Hello, society! I've missed you!
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the local thing.


After a brief hunt,I recently bought a GoLocal card from Toy Joy.

I really enjoy the idea of supporting local stores, and I love that Austin is sprinkled with a plethora of businesses to visit. From salons, restaurants, boutiques, sno cone stands, chiropractors, and even physical therapy, there's quite a selection to choose from. Thus far, I've only used the card once for 10% off of our fun, way better than the Studio Movie Grill, movie theatre, The Alamo Drafhouse.


A few places I'd like my GoLocal card to visit:

Kerbey Lane Cafe- 10% off (their breakfast is ridiculously better than Denny's or Ihop)
Terra Burger- 10% off combo
Hey, Cupcake!- 10% off
Toy Joy- 10% off and free vegan softserve (so good!)
Portabla- 10% off
Austin Children's Museum- 2 for 1 admission
Austin Symphony Orchestra- 10% off
The Steeping Room- 15% breakfast or 1 free iced tea.
Torchy's Tacos- 10% off
Viva Chocolato- 10% off and free truffle with purchase.
The Holy Cacao- 10% off
Muck-n-Dave's Texas BBQ- 10% off
Zhi Tea- 10% off
Austin Lyric Opera- 10% off tickets (La Traviata would be nice to watch!).
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time lines.

Can you believe? It's been/or will be:

1. 10 months since I moved to Austin.
2. 1 year since I graduated.
3. 2 weeks since I saw Joanne and Karen <3.
4. Almost X years that we've been together?
5. Nearly 10 months since I've become lactose intolerant.
6. 1 day since I wore deodorant... (I forgot, really)
7. 2 weeks until Kim graduates high school.
8. 2 months until Kim moves to Austin (UT!).
9. 1+ months since I've been to Momoko :'(.
10. 6 days until Akon21 (and I have so much to do!).
11. 6 months since I've been employed!?
12. 1 year since I successfully jogged a mile.
13. 3 years since I've played an FF game.
14. 1 year and 5 months since I had my nose pierced.
15. 2 months since I've had an inflammation-free nose piercing...
16. 3 weeks (or more?) since I've rode my bicycle.
17. 3-4 days since Meow has had fleas.
18. MONTHS (years?!) since I've actually played piano.
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trash.

Everyone has trash. I've never seen trash as cute as this. :)

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in the job description.

Purple highlights, nose piercing, comfy shoes, and silly shirts, the game industry is a playful, but long houred choice of employment. I love seeing (and hearing!) the behind the scenes action, poking at multiple projects, and slowly learning new tid bits, but one thing I miss the most is having female comrades to share war stories and indulge in random cravings.

I dreadfully miss random outings, dressing up (because it truly is important to look and feel beautiful once in a while), discussions, and silly pictures (particularly from H-Mart!).


On a broader scale, I miss having friends to hang out with.



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the color purple.

Over the weekend, I had my hair highlighted purple. Yes, purple- my first "exciting" color. :)

You see, I have terrible, terrible luck with haircuts and the like. Somehow, "just a trim" becomes 2-3 inches, and sometimes (last time), bangs that are vertically only on one half of my face (literally). So, after 4 months of non-haircutting, I tried my luck at Supercuts... only to be fantastically surprised. Not only did she trim my hair without lopping of inches, we actually carried a good conversation. I pleasantly surprised with the cut and was equally pleased to hear that she also can do highlights... bright highlights... that won't eat my wallet.


So on Saturday, I fell into the Twighlight Zone.

Turns out, the hairstylist not only moved 7 months ago too, but she also LOVES Katamari (!), corgis are her dream dogs (YES!), she plays the keyboard, has the same model of laptop I'm considering buying, majoring in Psychology, people confuse her for being either Filipino or Hispanic, and the list goes on... It even got to the point where she randomly mentioned liking this one cute sweater with bear ears, and I mentioned I was actually ordering one...

Somewhere along the line I figured I was probably in good hands. :)


That night, Eric and I walked around downtown (after having a fantastic Momoko bubble tea!)... and a bird pooped on my head... on my hair... on my new, purple highlights. I've never been pooped on by a bird... especially at night... especially after getting highlights. Luckily, we went home shortly after and I was able to wash that part of my hair... only to find a lovely discolored patch.

Alas! This is why you wash your car after birds poo!



Interesting weekend comments:


Mr. Wenske: "I thought it was going to look gross!"
Mrs. Wenske: "I wasn't sure how I'd like it. It's not so bad."
Mom: "What the heck is this? Purple?... this looks... nice. Why does this look nice?"
Kim: "This is surprisingly nice."
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