Obama can't make me more eloquent, but I can

[dampscribbler]

I'm hoping to improve my posts in the coming year(s).  I am frustrated by my relative lack of competence with words -- I'm out of practice, sloppy, and completely lacking in confidence.  But with practice, that will change.

Here's what I really started this post to say.  After the inauguration, which took place at 9am my time, I was headed for a physical therapy appointment.  At a traffic light I approached a Chevy Blazer with "I AM GAY" finger-etched in the dust on the back window.  My first response was, "I wanna go hug that gay guy!"  It literally took me a minute to realize that those words were far more likely to have been drawn by a youngster thinking he's making a clever insult than by someone proudly declaring his sexual orientation to a post-Bush America.

Which really barely begins to describe what it was like to be me sitting in my car oblivious to a homophobic "joke," but at least it begins. 

Comments

[lucyshoe.livejournal.com]

I love this because while I was reading the words, my first thoughts were exactly like yours, and by the time you were expositing your second thoughts - I was having them too.

But the point is, the first thoughts came first. Progress!

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

I had the exact same response!

I blame it on living in a gay ghetto :P.

[hiner.livejournal.com]

I love it when I have that sort of slow understanding of something intended to be obvious.