A couple things came up in the last day that I want to point out. One of them is that Dina made the announcement about her moving to Little Rock with me. I have some major issues with moving to a new city not knowing anyone. I did it once and I just don't have that in me to do it again. This time it is different seeing that I am going into a small group who are are about to go through the same masters program as me, but it is still nice to have someone there with me.
Little Rock is also different than when i moved to Vegas because I know myself so much better know than ten years ago and I am so much more geographically close to people I love and respect and hold tight in my life. When I moved to Vegas, I had three people who were all at least five hours away and now in Little Rock, I will have about twelve people with in a five hour radius, not to mention the list that is only eight hours or that my family will only be twelve hours away opposed to the thirty-two in Los Angeles.
Having Dina in the city though will make things a lot easier. No matter what my circumstances in life, I will always make friends so having a loved one close by can only be a positive.
With us being in Little Rock, we will bringing the Dina and Gregg Show to a new level. Not only will we be doing the show a couple times a month, but we will also be keeping a video blog of what is happening in Little Rock and how our lives are going being in the south where "alternative" lifestyles are not so prevalent. Here is the first vlog...
The next thing that I wanted to bring up was Gay Parenting, namely with Neil Patrick Harris and his fiance, David Burtka. As I was sitting at my father's house last night watching Entertainment tonight with Patti, a segment came on talking about how Oprah was having an exclusive with the couple and their twins. My first thought was "awww, how cute" and my second thought was, "look at what we are continuing to see on nation wide, pop-culture television? The actual version of a modern family that isn't about a gay couple, but about a couple in love who loves their children."
I can't seem to get the embedded code for the video so here is the link. http://www.etonline.com/media/flash/coincident/popOutPlayer.html?media=http://www.etonline.com/news/122216_Oprah_s_Aha_Moment_with_Neil_Patrick_Harris_Family/home_popout.ctv&playat=3.968
Here is however, the promo for the Oprah special. Despite what we see every moment on main street media, we are evolving.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Impromptu Book Club
I have never been in a book club. I’ve never had the urge and just plainly feel that I will enjoy a book by myself. Yes, there have been a-good plenty books that I absolutely loved discussing with people but still, that never induced a yearning for me to get together with a group of people and discuss the readings from a list of books. I do love the movie, “Jane Austin Book Club” but yet, that hasn’t set me a fire to seek out these like-minded people. Well, two of my friends recently have encouraged me to read The Hunger Games and this has spread across the restaurant I work at. We have now turned our job into an impromptu book club.
In this impromptu book club, we are all at different points in the three books, reading at our own speeds and it is working out completely functional. We talk about the books in and out of our shift and get excited about parts, discuss the change in character development and try to dissect what we may have missed. For the first time I actually see the benefit of having a book club.
Really, at the heart of it, it is to just have a communion with other people who are going through similar emotions while bringing in their different thoughts and backgrounds to the situation. Book clubs are a great way to find some spirituality without being spiritual or making a deal of it.
With the Hunger Games specifically, it works out well because it is a three book series that is so interlocked with each other that the moment you put down the one you’re reading, you’re picking up the next one. For work, it gives us something to get going about besides work. For anybody who has worked in a restaurant, you know how the drama is quick to come around and this impromptu book club has helped by offering something else to focus on.
All I really have to say is, “Book clubs! Who knew?” I may think twice the next time I am asked to join one. I guess Oprah had a hidden agenda with hers. I now see why.
In this impromptu book club, we are all at different points in the three books, reading at our own speeds and it is working out completely functional. We talk about the books in and out of our shift and get excited about parts, discuss the change in character development and try to dissect what we may have missed. For the first time I actually see the benefit of having a book club.
Really, at the heart of it, it is to just have a communion with other people who are going through similar emotions while bringing in their different thoughts and backgrounds to the situation. Book clubs are a great way to find some spirituality without being spiritual or making a deal of it.
With the Hunger Games specifically, it works out well because it is a three book series that is so interlocked with each other that the moment you put down the one you’re reading, you’re picking up the next one. For work, it gives us something to get going about besides work. For anybody who has worked in a restaurant, you know how the drama is quick to come around and this impromptu book club has helped by offering something else to focus on.
All I really have to say is, “Book clubs! Who knew?” I may think twice the next time I am asked to join one. I guess Oprah had a hidden agenda with hers. I now see why.
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