Do any of you have needy friends? Those ones that if you don't give your 100% attention and they get whiny and pouty? I have one of those friends. I reallly enjoy spending time with this friend and we have a good time. But because of her attitude, sometimes I don't want to see her. At one of the singles dances, I stepped out to talk to a friend, but my friend acted really cold towards me afterwards, all because I stepped out without her. She frequently tries to make me feel guilty for how busy I am.
Tonight, we had plans to spend some good quality girl time watching Castle and eating junk food. She texted me at 2:30 p.m. while I was at a funeral to find out what the plan was for tonight. I called her when I could and she asked if we were going to dinner. I informed her that I had to drive a friend to the grocery store right then and some time that evening I had to do laundry, clean my apartment, and write Valentines. Maybe we could watch Castle at my house while I cleaned. If she didn't want to come to my place, then we'd have to hang out later in the evening. We decided that I would call when I got back from the store and figure out what to do.
I got a text before I got back from the store that said, "So you sound busy do you just want to not hang out tonight?" This is not the first time she has texted me or said something along those lines. Whenever she says this, I get the feeling that she is saying, "Are you too busy to hang out with me? Do you even really want to be with me?" I can hear the hurt and frustration in her voice. It mostly irritates me. I am trying to tell her what my plans are to coordinate with her to see what time we are meeting up. She acts like I am trying to blow her off. In the end, I just feel like saying, "Now look, you asked me to hang out. I agreed. Stop acting like I'm trying to get out of spending time with you. If you have changed your mind, stop blaming me in an effort to help you find an excuse to cancel."
I called my friend when I got back from the store and asked what the plan was for the evening. She told me, "Well you sound too busy to hang out tonight." Maybe I was a little irritated because I said, "Well...I'm usually busy. I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. What time did you want to hang out?" She said that she had a dinner date with a friend. She also hinted that maybe I didn't really want to hang out. I said that I had agreed to hang out and I was willing to. So if she didn't really want to hang out she would call me after dinner.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Religious Freedom
Here is a news link about a speech Elder Dallin H. Oaks gave in California.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=14271236
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the article.
"We must never see the day when the public square is not open to religious ideas and religious persons," Elder Oaks said. "The religious community must unite to be sure we are not coerced or deterred into silence by the kinds of intimidation or threatening rhetoric that are being experienced.
Religious individuals should insist on their constitutional right and duty to exercise their religion, to vote their consciences on public issues and to participate in elections and debates, Elder Oaks said.
He quoted Cardinal Francis George, the then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who referred in a 2010 BYU speech to "threats to religious freedom in America that are new to our history and to our tradition" — including threats to current religious-based exemptions from participating in abortions and the development of gay rights and the call for same-sex marriage.
Said Elder Oaks: "Along with many others, I see a serious threat to the freedom of religion in the current assertion of a 'civil right' of homosexuals to be free from religious preaching against their relationships. Religious leaders of various denominations affirm and preach that sexual relations should only occur between a man and a woman joined together in marriage. One would think that the preaching of such a doctrinal belief would be protected by the constitutional guarantee of the free exercise of religion, to say nothing of the guarantee of free speech. However, we are beginning to see worldwide indications that this may not be so."
The result: Legal definitions of traditional marriage and family are deteriorating and under attack.
"All of this shows an alarming trajectory of events pointing toward constraining the freedom of religious speech by forcing it to give way to the 'rights' of those offended by such speech," Elder Oaks said. "If that happens, we will have criminal prosecution of those whose religious doctrines or speech offend those whose public influence and political power establish them as an officially protected class."
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=14271236
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the article.
"We must never see the day when the public square is not open to religious ideas and religious persons," Elder Oaks said. "The religious community must unite to be sure we are not coerced or deterred into silence by the kinds of intimidation or threatening rhetoric that are being experienced.
Religious individuals should insist on their constitutional right and duty to exercise their religion, to vote their consciences on public issues and to participate in elections and debates, Elder Oaks said.
He quoted Cardinal Francis George, the then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who referred in a 2010 BYU speech to "threats to religious freedom in America that are new to our history and to our tradition" — including threats to current religious-based exemptions from participating in abortions and the development of gay rights and the call for same-sex marriage.
Said Elder Oaks: "Along with many others, I see a serious threat to the freedom of religion in the current assertion of a 'civil right' of homosexuals to be free from religious preaching against their relationships. Religious leaders of various denominations affirm and preach that sexual relations should only occur between a man and a woman joined together in marriage. One would think that the preaching of such a doctrinal belief would be protected by the constitutional guarantee of the free exercise of religion, to say nothing of the guarantee of free speech. However, we are beginning to see worldwide indications that this may not be so."
The result: Legal definitions of traditional marriage and family are deteriorating and under attack.
"All of this shows an alarming trajectory of events pointing toward constraining the freedom of religious speech by forcing it to give way to the 'rights' of those offended by such speech," Elder Oaks said. "If that happens, we will have criminal prosecution of those whose religious doctrines or speech offend those whose public influence and political power establish them as an officially protected class."
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Sick, ill, unwell
Looking through my OTC pharmacy in my bathroom, I realize that this town is trying to kill me. I have purchased more of the usual (cough drops, Tylenol, Pepto) and some new things too (Benadryl, Excedrin). What is with this place? I blame the stress of school. I learned that stress releases glucocorticoids. Prolonged use of exogenous glucocorticoids have many, many side effects. Well how about prolonged use of endogenous glucocorticoids? I'd have to look up in my notes all of the different side effects, but sad to say that I recognized some of them in myself. Ugh.
I hate being sick. A cold and stomach flu this weekend. Awful. Still not fully well, but back to school I go. Hopefully I live through the day.
I hate being sick. A cold and stomach flu this weekend. Awful. Still not fully well, but back to school I go. Hopefully I live through the day.
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