So today, my Uber-Conservative Evangelical College was visited by Some People, whom I'm sure some of you have heard of, the Equality Bus Trip People. (Can I share with you that I am not paranoid At All. Nope, not one bit. I just like to give people really, really vague names.) Now, I have to tell you, I was a wee bit scared. First, I was scared, because, well, said people are contending for an 'end to religious and political oppression' to 'LGTB' people (sometimes there is a Q or an I in there, and i'm not quite sure what the I stands for, but anyway, basically non-heterosexual people), and, well, sometimes on TV, people that protest for things like this are a wee bit rabid. So I was scared about that. Then, I was scared because I wasn't sure we could guarantee the civility of all my classmates. Let's just say I was afraid they might be a wee bit rabid, too, only on the other side. Finally, let's be perfectly blunt, I was scared because I've never had a great deal of contact w/ 'LGTB' people, and, call me a homophobe, but I had no idea waht to expect. (Except, of course, just people, but a lot of 'just pleople' scare me, so that doesn't help.)
Anyway, hurrah, it went just fine. Like, it was a little awkward, I'm not gonna lie, espescially b/c they were pretty much coming in saying our school was wrong, and our school was pretty much saying, no, you're wrong. But, we were all very civil, and we had some decent discussions, and things were all fine until Russian Orthodox boy started describing his understanding of salvation, and then one of the students about hit the ceiling with a cry of "That's not what the Bible says!!" Thankfully, however, several other people stepped in, and crisis was averted. Ahhhh.
By contrast, my own home is a battle ground. Gotta love the roommates. ;-) Currently, both the Crazy Roommate and the Happy Roommate feel utterly and horrifically Wronged by the other. Clearly, the other person is Out To Get Them, and, moreover, a horrible person. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, this all started on Sunday, when Happy Roommate (who is currently Not Happy) left a note with a List of Greivances for Crazy Roommate. I might add that these greivances are mostly about the house as a whole, but the note was addressed only to Crazy Roommate and no one else. Yay. So, the house has been on edge every since, with Sane Roommie and I tiptoeing around the house, hopeing to avoid the other two, who wish to bemoan the unfairness of it all to us.
Kids, this sucks.
We're set to have a 'house meeting' soon. In which, honestly, I hope Crazy Roommate and Happy Roommate have a knock-down, drag-out fight, so at least we can all stop pretending that 'everything's fine.' (Like, not that we actually pretend that completely, but we try to.) Maybe if they just have a fight, soemthing will get resolved.
And there I am, the pot calling the kettle black.
In any case, if things get really bad, Sane Roommie and I can just be like, "Y'all are crazy," and run away and live happily ever after.
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