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Last night was the Take Back The Night rally. Marie and I went around 6:30, just in time for two women, who survived domestic abuse and told their tales, some music and then our march down Main Street towards campus, where there was a guest speaker and information from the local agencies that work with domestic/sexual abuse.

It felt really good to ‘take it to the streets’ and show my support for the end of domestic violence. While I was severely outnumbered by the females, I was encouraged to see more males there than I thought would show up. Nice work, fellas. It’s just discouraging to me to hear about so many women who have to live through an abusive relationship because they have limited options. How has violence come to be seen as an acceptable way of dealing with problems (coughcoughmilitaryinterventioncoughcough)? I’m realizing that I’m a pacifist and that violence causes more problems and cycles into more violence.

Got back last night and checked my email and chatted a bit with JonnyV and XjustinX. Crazy kids. It’s XjustinX’s birthday on 10/01, so give him a shout out, will you? The big bad 17, you only hit that awkward age once, so I hope he enjoys it. His present should be in the mail tomorrow, but I can’t post here what it is, since he reads my journal. I am the Master of Deception.

Tonight will be a visit to my brother, a visit to my parents and a visit to Best Buy to get a scanner that can withstand the apparently destructive nature in which I will operate it in. But, I hopefully will be able to find a cheaper one than the last one, and use the remainder of the store credit to get a CD. I think Pulley has a new disc out that I’d like to have. Otherwise, JonnyV has me hooked on Tegan and Sara and Dashboard Confessional. That bastard gave me 130+ MP3s and I’ve like a good 90% of them.

Oh, and http://www.theonion.com has some fantastic coverage of the events of Sept 11. Let’s keep our sense of humor, people.

More later.