So why would I be up so late for no apparent reason?? Well, I've been downloading all the songs from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.  The funny part is, I own the CD, but my computer hates me and decided to kill the CD drive so I can no longer burn CDs or upload songs from them. Cute, isn't it?

I'm soooo excited, a week from now we'll be in Sanibel!! Its basically gonna be the highlight of my summer, especially since its near the end and Sean will be leaving relatively soon-ish... its like my last big fun thing until graduation, basically! And that means I need to get all the things I planned on doing this summer done either this week or the week before school starts... which is actually kinda a lot so I should probably get to bed...

But anyone reading this who would like to hang out again or for the first time this summer, give me a call asap so we can make plans! =o)

Yesterday I went to the Gay Pride Parade and Festival thing in St. Pete. And obviously I'm not gay, but I went just to support the whole gay rights thing and have fun, since I had a feeling those gays would know how to have a good time! It ended up being super-fun, it was a great parade! We even saw the gay couple we know in it, haha! But to my point...

There were a few people there who came with a megaphone and signs to protest being gay, I guess. I wasn't really paying attention to what they were saying exactly, but I know it was about how being gay is against God... and at one point, I heard the guy say something about gays dying of AIDS and being in Hell now.

For me, that just crossed the line. Its one thing to disagree with something, but to insinuate that people are in Hell just because you disagree with what they are??? That's just not right, I don't even know many gay people or any who have/had AIDS, but that even hurt my feelings.

What I don't understand, is why people feel the need to spend time and energy trying to hurt and bring down others.  Shouldn't everyone be focusing on making their own lives better?   Like in this situation... these people think gay is a sin and blah blah blah... well okay, YOU don't have to be gay, so YOU won't go to "hell"... so why does it matter if these people do? Its one thing if they were truly concerned about the gays, but they can't be.. protesting like that never makes people go "Hmm, yanno, maybe that person is right, I'll just stop being gay!"

And just generally speaking, on a broader spectrum... I see and hear about people hurting other people every day. Why?? I just don't know how anyone can feel pleasure from other people's pain. Like the war for instance... on both sides, there have been people torturing their prisoners. How can that possibly make them happy??? And all the killing, raping, stealing, etc etc that goes on every day.... I just can't comprehend it.

I just wish people would understand that life is too short to have so much hate, and that love is the answer. Like in Moulin Rouge, the things I value: freedom, beauty, truth, and love.

But I guess for now, I'll just have to try to forget about it all... and listen to Queen songs like "The Miracle" which repeats "That time will come, one day you'll see, when we can all be friends..."