So, I'm new...
Dec 4th 2008, 3:36 pm
#211
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Dec 4th 2008, 3:56 pm
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Re: So, I'm new...
I don't even know what to make of that, but if it's that spectacular, then maybe you need to take it on the road! Cig butts and pennies? Is that all they can stretch to in GA now? Here they;d probably throw a whopper and fries, or a KFC wing... no money of course, because "food" is the currency down here.
Dec 4th 2008, 4:18 pm
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Dec 4th 2008, 4:29 pm
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Dec 4th 2008, 4:51 pm
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Dec 4th 2008, 5:09 pm
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Re: So, I'm new...
I dunno....I know that sitting on my ar$e in front of a pc doesn't help. I got a juicer last year, maybe I need to make some invigorating fresh juice, pomegranite with blueberries and pumpkin seeds (for the health of the hubby's nether regions) perhaps there is something I can add to oil up the joints.
Dec 4th 2008, 5:20 pm
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Re: So, I'm new...
I dunno....I know that sitting on my ar$e in front of a pc doesn't help. I got a juicer last year, maybe I need to make some invigorating fresh juice, pomegranite with blueberries and pumpkin seeds (for the health of the hubby's nether regions) perhaps there is something I can add to oil up the joints.
Dec 4th 2008, 5:38 pm
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Dec 4th 2008, 5:46 pm
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Dec 4th 2008, 5:47 pm
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Dec 4th 2008, 5:50 pm
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Dec 6th 2008, 5:09 am
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Re: So, I'm new...
Thought I'd say a swift hello...
I'm moving to Lexington, KY on 15th December with my two children (they're 12 and 8) on F1 student visa - I'll be studying literature at University of Kentucky from January
My partner is a USC but we have that whole same-sex thing working against us which basically means that I have to get out to the US on my own terms until (hopefully) someone (please) changes a law allowing us to have some kind of legally (and internationally) recognised partnership. Until then, I'm going to be an eternal student.
Right now my life is one long round of packing, packing and more packing. The moving company take most of my belongings away next Monday so we'll be living out of suitcases for a couple of months - we're told our stuff won't arrive in KY until late Jan/early Feb. How am I to cope without my 73 pairs of shoes for that length of time??
So I'm getting to grips with the forums, I've already found out some really useful information and it seems like a really friendly place. Hopefully there's room for another British ex-pat here...?
Looking forward to getting to know you all
I'm moving to Lexington, KY on 15th December with my two children (they're 12 and 8) on F1 student visa - I'll be studying literature at University of Kentucky from January
My partner is a USC but we have that whole same-sex thing working against us which basically means that I have to get out to the US on my own terms until (hopefully) someone (please) changes a law allowing us to have some kind of legally (and internationally) recognised partnership. Until then, I'm going to be an eternal student.Right now my life is one long round of packing, packing and more packing. The moving company take most of my belongings away next Monday so we'll be living out of suitcases for a couple of months - we're told our stuff won't arrive in KY until late Jan/early Feb. How am I to cope without my 73 pairs of shoes for that length of time??
So I'm getting to grips with the forums, I've already found out some really useful information and it seems like a really friendly place. Hopefully there's room for another British ex-pat here...?
Looking forward to getting to know you all
Dec 6th 2008, 8:22 am
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Re: So, I'm new...
My visa is valid until 31.12.2012 so we've got 4 years ahead of us. After that, I'll be trying to get into Grad school to do a Masters and a phd - which should hopefully give us another 6 years or so. After that...who knows? If Mr Obama changes the law regarding same-sex relationships then you can pretty much bet your backside that we'll be taking whatever ceremony is required. However, it's not at all likely that he'll make such a controversial change in his first term, but there is a slight possibility that things might change in his second term - assuming he's re-elected.
I think, for the most part, when people think about gay rights they don't realise that the lack of gay rights means that some couples are fundamentally unable to be together. It's easy to focus on things like healthcare, employment rights, rights as a next-of-kin etc etc and these things are ALL very important but don't affect a gay couple's ability to live together. But for an international couple, the lack of recognition of gay rights means, quite simply, that we can't be together in the US as a couple. And we're not the only ones. One of OH's best friends, also from the UK and in a same-sex relationship with a USC is facing similar problems - she's finished her phd and is now facing the possibility of having to uproot (after 7 years in the US) and come back to England without her partner.
I hate to get on a soap-box about this, and I know that any kind of immigration issue is hard work and stressful, but for gay couples it REALLY sucks. We basically don't exist.
Anyway, that's my morning mini-rant over and done with
I'm waiting for a potential tenant to come view my house, then for a friend to drive down from Leeds for a few hours, then dinner tonight with my lovely neighbours. And at some stage in all this I have to continue with the packing...