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"I don't fall in love with people's genders. I fall in love with people." -some old friend of silme, who's a friend of elionwyr, who is on my friend's list.

Giving proper credit aside, it's a great quote. I like it a lot. :-)

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I'm the moderator a community entitled loversfaraway, which is a long distance relationship communtiy where you can go to get advice, support, or just rant about how much LDR's suck (because, yes, they do suck).

A new member, Dayna, joined yesterday and told her story. She lives in Mexico, and her husband (yes, they're married) lives here in the states. After visiting each other for months at a time and eventually getting married, she was on her way into the states with her visiting visa when she got thrown in jail here in the Atlanta airport, her visa taken away, and she was sent back to Mexico. Her husband is currently living in the states with his six year old daughter from a previous relationship, and Dayna lives in Mexico with her parents. It's only logical that she moves here.

However, she can't. And now that her Visa is taken away, she can't even visit the states. Even after going to the U.S. embassy in Mexico and showing them pictures of the two of them together and their marriage license, she's still not allowed to come back here until her other license is processed, which could take over a year.

Why am I writing all this? For several reasons. It made me realize that even though Dustin is having a hard time finding a job here in Atlanta, he at least has the freedom to move whenever a job becomes available.

Also, it's a plea for y'all to go sign this online petition that Dayna and her husband signed and support, directed towards Congress reguarding the length of time it takes to retrieve a Visa. While it's an online petition and may not have any bearing on Congress and they may not even care, it'd mean a lot if y'all would take a few minutes to read the petition, sign your names and support her.

vibrate, dammnit, vibrate!

So I haven't quite gotten the hang of when my phone vibrates in class, I hit the ignore button and hit "okay". Instead, I hit the ignore button, then the "call" button, which therefore answers the call. This happened today during my English 280 class, and I accidently answered the phone, then hung up on the guy.

Yeah, totally just hung up on the man who's interviewing me for this job on Saturday. Whoops. I didn't recognize the phone number (it's a 423 area code) so I didn't worry about it. But he called a few minutes ago while I was out of the room and left a voice mail telling me he's looking forward to meeting me on Saturday, and if I have any questions, to e-mail him and he'll be happy to answer them.

I'm tempted to e-mail him, thanking him for the phone call, and apologizing for the fact that I'm inept with my cell phone, while also promising I'm not inept enough that he shouldn't hire me. Or should I at least e-mail him and thank him for following up and that, no thank you, I don't have any questions yet? I'm so nervous, I don't know anything about interview etiquette!

Maybe cell phones aren't always a good thing. Or maybe I just need to learn how to use mine properly.