My day off
Apr. 10th, 2006 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksI'm off today, so I missed the congestion that was forecast for DC due to the planned immigration protest/rally. Eh. I have really mixed feelings about America's immigration policy, bound up with my anal, law-abiding-ness, compounded by the fact that I interned at Immigration Court one semester while in law school. There is no question that the US immigration system is a mess, a combination of outdated ideas and processes that worked fine in 1898 but not so well now. But the law is the law. It's anal, I know, but there it is. When one breaks traffic laws, one gets a ticket. Same for laws about theft and damage of property -- end up incarcerated and/or paying restitution. Enter the US illegally? Is that okay? Isn't that what granting amnesty or just out and out ignoring basically says? I always wonder: if A came here illegally because the pros outweighed the cons in the cost-benefit analysis, what other laws will A decide shouldn't apply to him/her or aren't fair or aren't worth obeying? I've spoken to a couple of my colleagues who are LPRs and there is a huge amount of resentment there for those who came illegally and could be given amnesty, like those people jumped the line and aren't going to be punished. I'm not disagreeing that there are millions of illegal aliens in the US who contribute and live law-abiding lives who should have some rights. I'm just not sure where to draw the line in the sand. Apparently neither is Congress...except for those who want to build a 1,000 mile fence.
Edited to add:
Saw Inside Man this afternoon. I'd've gone to see it anyway, since it has Clive Owen, Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster, but I was also spurred by Stephen Hunter's snide line in his review about having a better version of a masked antihero than was in V for Vendetta. My take: excellent, excellent heist movie, even if parts were predictable...hell, Russell told Frazier how he was going to get out of there, Frazier just wasn't paying attention. Loved the music, the camera work. But comparing Weaving's V to Owens' Russell is comparing apples and oranges. V's mask is a piece of him and a part of the movie; Russell's mask is a tool that he discards at every opportunity, a convenience.
Swung by the library and returned a bunch of books, picked up somemore. Noticed a used red condom in the library parking lot. Now, books turn me on, but really? The library parking lot? I remember parking in a dark lot and steaming up windows as a teenager. But in the library parking lot? Ick. That ranks up there with sex in a public library, which I unfortunately witnessed once while a library aide in college. What is up with that?
Went to the neighborhood jewelry store and ordered a new chain to replace one that broke; had hoped that they would have the length and style that I wanted in stock, but they only had an inch shorter and an inch longer, so they had to order it. Ended up buying a pair of dangly earrings made of malachite and lapiz, too. The woman who made them was there with another batch of handmade stuff that looks beautiful. There's a reason I only window shop there. The prices are reasonable, which lulls me into buying, but I don't need jewelry. It's not that I have too much (can a woman have too many pairs of earrings?), it's just that it is way too easy to spend money at Morstein's.
I'm trying to figure out what to write about for SBD. Reissues? Dated books? My secret reading vice? Hmmm, maybe that one.
Edited to add:
Saw Inside Man this afternoon. I'd've gone to see it anyway, since it has Clive Owen, Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster, but I was also spurred by Stephen Hunter's snide line in his review about having a better version of a masked antihero than was in V for Vendetta. My take: excellent, excellent heist movie, even if parts were predictable...hell, Russell told Frazier how he was going to get out of there, Frazier just wasn't paying attention. Loved the music, the camera work. But comparing Weaving's V to Owens' Russell is comparing apples and oranges. V's mask is a piece of him and a part of the movie; Russell's mask is a tool that he discards at every opportunity, a convenience.
Swung by the library and returned a bunch of books, picked up somemore. Noticed a used red condom in the library parking lot. Now, books turn me on, but really? The library parking lot? I remember parking in a dark lot and steaming up windows as a teenager. But in the library parking lot? Ick. That ranks up there with sex in a public library, which I unfortunately witnessed once while a library aide in college. What is up with that?
Went to the neighborhood jewelry store and ordered a new chain to replace one that broke; had hoped that they would have the length and style that I wanted in stock, but they only had an inch shorter and an inch longer, so they had to order it. Ended up buying a pair of dangly earrings made of malachite and lapiz, too. The woman who made them was there with another batch of handmade stuff that looks beautiful. There's a reason I only window shop there. The prices are reasonable, which lulls me into buying, but I don't need jewelry. It's not that I have too much (can a woman have too many pairs of earrings?), it's just that it is way too easy to spend money at Morstein's.
I'm trying to figure out what to write about for SBD. Reissues? Dated books? My secret reading vice? Hmmm, maybe that one.
