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Monday, July 27, 2009

It's almost back to school time

And that totally sucks. I'm rather enjoying my time this summer. Alas, I've grown accustomed to eating and living indoors, so when the doors swing wide for yet another academic year, I'll be standing in a classroom.

Honestly, I'll be happy about it. Teaching is that job I'd do for free.
Can't explain it to you, but it is.

This afternoon I've got an interview to see about the job I mentioned on Friday. Truth be told I want it less now than I did last week. But the the fact is that it would be a building block. So one of my least favorite things comes into play...compromise.

ick.

Friday evening was lovely. Dinner with a good friend, and then I stopped off to see my friends. The Usual Suspects would probably be a more appropriate moniker for them. My ex had cooked dinner (he's a pretty good cook) and even though I'd already had more than enough food for one evening I had a little plate of what he made. It seemed he wanted me to try it and I didn't have the heart to tell him no.

This weekend seemed to go so quickly I can't believe it. Let's hope the week takes its time, I've got stuff to do.

Well, I'm off to do a couple more hours of research on classes at the university I'll be interviewing at today so I can speak intelligently about curriculum this afternoon.

Yesterday I did a tarot reading and the outcome card was death, which means intense change.

Just what I love..intensity.

Alas...

I wanted to add this little piece I found on towleroad this morning about Walter Cronkite. I think it's proof of what's possible in this world when someone from a totally redneck place, in a totally racist time can open their mind to life and what it means to us all to be able to live as we're taught we're entitled to. It seems he was quite the guy.

-The Washington Post has published an interesting piece about activist Mark Segal and how his protest during a December 1973 broadcast of the CBS Evening News with the late Walter Cronkite changed both Cronkite's mind about reporting on gay rights and forever shifted network news approach to it.
Segal, who interrupted Cronkite's broadcast with a sign reading "Gays protest CBS prejudice" and was subsequently wrestled to the floor and taken away, later subpoenaed Cronkite to testify in the court case over his trespassing charges.
The WaPo notes:
When the trial began in April 1974, Cronkite took the stand, but CBS lawyers objected each time Segal's lawyer posed a question. During a recess, Segal felt a tap on his shoulder. "Why did you do that?" Cronkite asked about the incident in the studio.
"You're news censors," Segal responded. The anchorman was appalled. "If I can prove it," Segal then asked, "would you do something to change it?" He cited three examples, including a CBS report on the second rejection of a gay rights bill by the New York City Council. "Yes, I believe I wrote that story myself," Cronkite said.
"Well, why haven't you reported on the 23 other cities that have passed gay rights bills?" Segal asked. "Why do you cover 5,000 women walking down Fifth Avenue in New York City when they proclaim International Women's Year on the network news, and you do not cover 50,000 gays and lesbians walking down that same avenue proclaiming Gay Pride Day? That's censorship." Genuinely moved, Cronkite shook Segal's hand and thanked him.
Said Segal of Cronkite: "He was the kind of man who believed in human rights for everyone. I am amazed and humbled by his willingness to reach out to me. He was a bridge between the gay movement and major media. We remained friends, and it was a privilege knowing him."-

And now it's morsel time:


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