It seems I post nothing but miscellany these days

• I love my environmental prof. But he's not exactly gripping - he speaks incredibly slowly, so that by the time he's done a sentence, I've pretty much forgotten what he started to talk about. It does make note-taking a breeze, though.
  
  
• Justin was complaining of chest pains last night and this morning. Doctor's appointment at 1:30 today.
  
  
• Leaving class today, our prof reminded us there's no class next Monday because of Thanksgiving. One of our classmates (Russian exchange student) started asking questions. What is Thanksgiving? Why do you celebrate? What do you do? How did it get started? It's always interesting when somebody makes you look at something you normally take for granted. For example, I had actually never consciously thought about the fact that we eat almost exclusively North American food at Thanksgiving - turkey, pumpkin, sweet potato, cranberries, etc.
  
  
• The bank of goodwill of the adults in our home is not doing great right now. I think we need to go on a date.
  
  
• The Supreme Court starts hearing the same-sex marriage reference today, deciding whether gay marriage will be made legal across the country. Right now, it's legal in 5/10 provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia) and 1/3 territories (the Yukon). There are 28 intervenors scheduled for the next three days. And it feels rather odd to know that a few blocks away from where I'm sitting right now, the gears are in motion for a decision that has the potential to affect so many people I know.
  
  Anyway, here's a link to what's going on right now for those who are interested.
  
  Oh, and ( from the archives: Make Room For Adam and Steve )

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Justin seems OK, though the doc was worried enough about him to send him off to get chest X-rays. But he started to perk up at CHEO and by the time we were home, he was his usual bubbly self, no pains in evidence. Hope he's OK tonight.

I love John Stewart. Last night's show: (talking about Doctor Phil's question re whether, as a parent, Dubya believes in spanking) "He believes in executing the retarded. Of course he believes in spanking!"