I ask only for the strength to defend my people.

The Representative From Florida Has The FISKING Floor
( 2005-05-10 @ 11:42 p.m. )

I AM ALIVE! SEE? LOL! Seriously, so it's been one hell of a gap between updates. With finals and political chaos looming aroudn the corner I kind of went missing. Finals are over, I am out for the summer, political chaos still looms but hey I can HANDLE that, it's what I do. Or what I TRY to do.

So to start with, I was in the paper again. It was of course for a protest. A protest against the right-wing nut-job power grab called the "nuclear option". I dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, no I'm not kidding. Only catchwas my makeup was did so I was covered in bruises, I had a BOOT PRINT on my back, tape over my mouth, handcuffs on, chains wrapepd all around me. Here is the picture form the paper.

Lady Liberty

And below is the text that accompanied the article.

Give them liberty .... and No judicial take over

Julie Powell, portraying Lady Liberty, and Julie Risen, both of New Smyrna Beach, along with 41 other protesters, wave signs during a rally Wednesday to Oppose Radical Republicans Seizing Control of Federal Courts held in front of the Courthouse Annex in Daytona Beach. The group wants to stop Republicans from stacking the courts with right-wing judges by changing Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster. It was one of 50 rallies organized by the 3.1 million-member grassroots organization MoveOn PAC that were scheduled to take place across the country.

So have a look-see at that and let me know what you think. I am a bit proud of that idea. As a matter of fact I will be doing it again, on the 19th in Deland against Diebold electronic voting machines. This promises to be the biggest protest in Volusia County history and I will be there....in costume. Wish me luck.

This is a nasty month for me. I have that protest the 19th, and the next day my Sister has surgery.......kind of scary, then the 22nd I have my committee meeting......busy, busy busy. Busy enough im fact to nearly drive me nuts.Thusly accounting for lackage of updates. Mind you I am really terrified about my sister's surgery, and I hope no cancer is found.

I really hope so, I have been saving money to get her a pricy pre-operation present, she wants a pug puppy. So I have been trying to pull that off. Not easy. I owe people letters, I have written a few....I am out of school, I swear I will get them finished. Really...I will. I PROMISE.

In the meantime anyone who wants to write to me or send me random cheer-ups please do, I can sure as hell use a letter and such in the mail box to brighten my day. Also if you KNOW I damn well owe you a letter or want one, drop me a e-mail or a g-book note and I will write you. I PROMISE.

In other news I am still the same Ivy. Sure, entrenched in politics but also still entrenched in old habits. Toys, books, writing........I have been aquiring new star wars toys which makes me happy. The Unleashed figures are just brilliant, especially Aayla....who also happens to be said favorite character. But I am still me, still entrenched as ever in Fantasy.......

Which brings me to this. Why is it, whenever we try to fly, someone is hell bent on sitting on the other cliff and bemoaning us that right? I am blessed with an abundance of friends who share my eccentricities but still? Why is it I cannot have my feet firmly in the political world and my head off in Shangri-La?

Seems it has to be one or the other. Well I REFUSE to buy into that shit. I AM a punk-rocker-elf-Twi'Lek-Jedi-Political Staffer-Writer-Future Senator-Activist-Civil War Historian

Deal with it. It only makes me THAT much more lethal.

And that much harder to figure out. What can one REALLY say about the girl whose walls are covered in Democratic Senators, Rancid, Fairies, Lotr, Pics of her friends and so on?

Easy, you don't say anything at all, you calmly smile, nod and back away quickly.

Sure, I have gained GOALS in life. I am COMFORTABLE in politics and I have a knack for it {Like Thor} BUT that hasn't changed ME at all. It's just added to a list of things I enjoy.

I'm just glad I am no longer direction-less. Being 24 however and only NOW finding your calling sucks, but to everyone else out there who has NOT found theirs, keep looking, you will. Look in places you do NOT expect. Hell, I had no interest in politics before last year. I dont know where the hell it even CAME from. It just DID. Like some stupid epiphany. Thor helped with that....and I cannot thank him enough.

So look where you dont expect it, that's where you find magic. Magic after all is EVERYWHERE. Magic is in making peoples lives better, and showing them new things.....whether that thing be a wee fae, or a corrupt government I don't see much of a damn difference. If you say there is and I'm crazy....well you get the middle finger salute.

Magic is magic my friends, and for us dreamers touched by stars we best take it from wherever we can get it these days. It's best to tap into whatever source you can, and awaken those whom you can, as best you can. People like us are a dying breed, and in times of starvation it's best not to be to picky about food.

Ahem...

"Who will go with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's woven shade,
And dance upon the level shore,
Young Man, ift up your russet brow,
And lift your tender eyelids maid,
And brood on hopes and fears no more"

Just a random quote that fir the topic. As does this one. From Yeats whom I lvoe.

"I foten think I would put this belief in magic from me if I could, for I have coem to see or ot imagine, in men and women, in houses, in handicrafts, in nearly all sights and sounds, a certain evil, a certain ugliness, that comes from the slow perishing through the centuries of a quality of mind that made this belief and it's evidences common over the world."

Roughly Translated: If the people who believe in the magic die, so does the magic.

Also, another quote.

"A man, breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or signifigcance, sees a unicorn cross his path and dissapear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy: until-"My God" says a second man, "I must be dreaming. I thought I saw a Unicorn!"

So you see.........dont just believe BE{LIVE}

And remember, Unicorns dont care if you believe in them, any more than you care if they believe in you.

On that serious note, I end with funny quotes from the last few weeks of my life.

"AAH! AAAHHHHH!!!! ICK! ACK! THOR.....bad! HIS TIE is fucking up the feung shui in the SENATE HALL!"

"NO! You.....REPUBLICAN...AWAY! BAD BAD! Aaaw.....SHIT...nevermind...ABORT! RUN AWAY!"

"Oh fine YOU risk going to hell!"

"Ha Ha! Yeah WHAT? Do I LOOK like I have time for this?"

"I had osmeone hug a Republican for me, that IS BI-FISKING-PARTISAN!"

"I ALMOST gave a shit, oops...moments gone"

"No, the smelly-poo-head said something to me about MATURITY..."

"I have no idea what I was doing, but you made me fuck it up."

Sign my book, I love you guys.

P.S. Special thansk to James for being an AMAZING phoenix-friend, to Thor for um...being Thor and to Elnara, a note from you ALWAYS brightens my day. Oh yes, and Rachel, cause I love you.

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