#56

Hi there!

It's been a while since I wrote anything. The last few weeks at my practical training/work placement ended up being rather hectic. I also learned a lot, so that's cool!

A gender-neutral marriage law has been passed in Finland, on a Friday about 2 weeks ago. So far it's gotten through 2 major votes, so basically it will probably be written into law. The parliament approved it in general and the grand legislation committee approved it with a majority vote as well. At this point they've started writing up the legislation that will be affected by the changes in this upcoming marriage law, and they'll re-approve it in the parliament a couple years from now. Honestly what I find really interesting about this whole process is that this is basically the first piece of legislation that started as a petition that was approved by the parliament! It would be great if this precedent inspires people to be more active with politics and such.
/ EDIT: I just heard. Some dumbass from "the Finns Party" is making the whole parliament vote on this again. What in the world. I'm pretty sure the majority hasn't changed in this two-week period, this is just super frustrating.

I'm currently just hanging around on campus and was just roped to do a spoken English test again, because someone from the group didn't have a partner. Fuck this, as if I didn't have other things to do. Oh well. What're you going to do.

Our cruise's theme this year is movies - guess who's going as Star Lord?! Such a surprise, wow. Anyway, I'm trying to use that costume as much as possible before I put in dreads and will be unable to wear a wig and so on. I've ordered Ravager patches for the coat and decals for the walkman and everything. All I need to do is some paint modding on the walkman, an empty C-cassette and the NERF quad blasters I ordered from Amazon. It should be okay, I guess. I'm super pumped anyway, ha. The general imitation prop I had seen on Entertainment Earth when I was originally making the cosplay had been discontinued/sold out, so I went with the NERF versions. At least I'll have modded Star Lord NERF guns at the end...?

.:+*+:.

Fanciness galore! I had to leave for a bit to do the spoken English test there, but I'm currently sitting in a thesis seminar. We're now getting our thesis schedule together a bit, we're starting it properly in the spring. Or so it seems, at least.

I have an appointment with an optician this Saturday. I don't really think my lenses are too weak but they're getting so scratched up that I'm seeing less with glasses on than without them. I'll probably also look into some different types of frames, but I'm not sure. I kind of really like the ones I've had for going on 5 years now. It's a habitual thing, I suppose. Kind of like how it takes a while to get used to your own image in the mirror after getting a haircut? Except with glasses your "view" is also different since you can see the frames at all times.

Anyway, I don't have anything important to talk about, really. This was a rather rambling post as is. (The current presenter is speaking in a rather dull and monotonous voice so I figured I'd distract myself. End of this.)

Bye!