dead until morning

Overslept again and missed Sean's bus. ARGH. This has GOT TO STOP. I guess we needed the sleep, collectively. *sigh*

It is seventy-odd degrees here before 9AM. Supposed to get over 95 today. Human beings were not meant to support this kind of heat.

This sort of thing is just one part of why I think peer aides are a bad idea that needs to be eliminated (to say nothing of how absolutely appalling the other aspects of the case are): disabled woman sexually assaulted by peer aide; district expert claims she 'found the attack pleasurable'.

This whole story makes me incoherently angry. Seriously. I can't put words together to explain it.

Edit: maladaptive, you should totally be reading respect_otters, and so should every other feminist I know. Seriously. Today's post on pro-choice motherhood blew me away.

things I don't understand; part of a large series

Getting all of your ID replaced is like installing Linux; everything has dependencies. I can't replace my Social Security card without getting my passport and green card replaced; I can't replace my birth certificate without a garantour; I can't replace X without Y, etcetera etcetera.

So I called the Canadian Consulate (thank God this happened in Seattle, I guess; the Consulate is downtown) and asked them for advice on how to expedite this process, because some of my US documents can't be processed without my Canadian documents, and I'm not sure where to begin with my Canadian documents; birth certificate or passport (considering I have my old expired passport and my passport can be processed in an expedited manner if need be - and that's not counting the fact that tallin's aunt is good friends with the Consular General in Seattle, apparently ...)

I was greeted with a phone message that was naturally in both official languages, and marvelled at the mellifluous beauty of the woman's French accent (I have a thing about that.) My french is not the greatest, certainly not compared to tallin who is officially bilingual eonough to carry on an actual conversation fluently, but it's not bad, because we had french all the way up from 4th grade until high school (everyone was required to take at least one high school french class.)

And then I remembered hearing some nervous nellie on NPR blathering about how the US should have only one official language and ZOMG those damned immigrants should just learn english and OMG THEY MIGHT HAVE TO TEACH SPANISH IN GRADE SCHOOLS blah blah blah (forgetting all about Puerto Rico as usual; not a state, I know, but still).

And I'm thinking, 'so what? It's not going to kill the kids. Hell, half the Supermommies have their kids in language classes anyway starting in utero. They should be glad they don't have to pay for it. (Of course that's probably the government's problem; they'd have to pay for it if it's mandatory, and education is not exactly a top priority because the right wing would prefer that everyone is ignorant so they don't know what's going on (I used to say the military was a top priority, but considering the recent admissions from the Pentagon that there are soldiers going without body armor, I can't even say that any more; where the hell is the money actually GOING? Look! Black helicopters!)

But of course, that would make sense, and would force the current government to get its head out of its ass and actually admit that the english-speaking-US is not the center of the universe, and we can't have that, I suppose. Sigh.