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Thursday, July 17, 2008

A Day in the Life

No big theme today, just going to talk about my day and a few things random things most likely, cause I always have random things that come up when I write. I tend to "think out loud" in my writing.

Anyways, on with the news! I saw my case manager yesterday and told her how I was pretty discouraged about my visit with Voc Rehab last month, and her suggestion was to basically start small with things. So, I went into my appointment today and he had received information from my therapist, who had given me a recommendation to go to school. Also, the person at Voc Rehab also had the results of some of the testing that I had done as well which suggested that I was interested in things that were creative, like writing (well, I could have told him that last time I saw him), and it happened to fit wonderfully into my plan.

So, I bring out my nice little paper that says Liberal Arts, Associates of Arts, and I say brightly, "Well, yes, I have been interested in writing for a long time, and one of the things that interested my in ministry was the creativity involved in writing sermons." Now, an Associates is a much smaller goal then my eventual goal of a Masters in Divinity, and the guy in Voc Rehab was much happier and able to swallow that idea. So, I have made PROGRESS!!

I came home and called the university I am interested in that has the degree I am interested in, and filled out my FAFSA to see what financial aid is available to me. I filled out some more paperwork for Voc Rehab and I am a few steps closer to being able to take some college classes in the fall. I have an appointment on Tuesday to go to the local branch of the university and talk to administration.

*does his happy dance*

Well, the other thing I wanted to talk about some was a movie I saw last night. Now, the movie itself was, well, it was one that likely takes a querky taste in movies or point of view to appreciate. The movie is called "Hewdwig and the Angry Inch" if anyone is interested in it. It is about a transexual in the music business, and I will leave most of the details out.

The reason I bring it up is because she brought up an interesting idea about love, sexuality, and gender. There is a song in the movie called "The Origin of Love" which describes people as being joined at first. All people used to have four legs and four arms and one head with a face on each side. There were the Children of the Sun who were born with both of the parts being male, and the Children of the Earth who were born all female, and then there were the Children of the Moon who were born half female and half male.

It was like this until God got angry at them and split all of them into halves of the whole they were. From then love was created as people spent time trying to find the other half to make themselves whole again. It did not matter if the other half was male or female, it was what completed them and made them feel like they were a whole being.

Now I see this as the simple form where there is the attraction general attraction between same sex partners or partners of the opposite sex, but I also see something deeper as well. I see that split from a person that was originally a Child of the Moon, and that person may not feel right being one gender or another or that they are the wrong gender completely.

None of this is based on anything factual, I know, but I liked the imagery. I do know that there is factual evidence that shows that many transgendered people are genetically a mix and that some have been born as hermaphodites. I have not been tested to see what my own genetics say about me, I just know where I am comfortable.

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