Day 9 & 10 - Friday July 14 & Saturday July 15, 2000

Texas Pictures

Unfortunately Jackie had to go to work today. She asked if she could get off early because I was coming to town. SHe said all her co-workers at the daycare teased her all Thursday for me, hehe. They said she could leave by 3 or 3:30.

I just slept all morning more or less and wrote in my journal. I had hoped to get a lot of writing done and to check my e-mail, but I ended up sleeping too much. Jackie came home for lunch, and finally got out of work at 4 o’clock.

Not having much to do we decided to go out to see a movie. We saw the Patriot, yea!! I couldn’t wait to see that movie, its about time. It was excellent. Kinda like Braveheart but with the American Revolution. Lots of really cool battles and action, plus it had a great patriotic feel to it. I actually would have preferred a different ending though. At the end Mel Gibson’s character is in the final battle with the movie’s villian. And the villian is about to kill him. Gibson looks up and sees the American troops winning the battle, sees the flag advancing. I thought it would be great for him to be killed and for him to realize that his life is sacrificable for the good of freedom, goof of the nation, good of the whole. Sacrificing himself for ideals and principles. But instead it was a standard Hollywood ending and Gibson turned around & killed the villian.

Despite that ending it was a great, great movie. Jackie however didn’t like it. I can see how se perhaps couldn’t like a great movie like “Spaceballs” but this was a smart, dramatic movie. She still didn’t like it. Crazy…

We went out to dinner and then back home. We ended up back in her room and talked for most of the night, then finally I got to bed. Jackie told me to wake her up when I got up. I got up early (unfortunately) since I can’t sleep in too late. I went upstairs to her room again and then we talked a bit and got ready to go to the Johnson Space Center.

We went to NASA and looked around there for a bit. Mostly all there is to do in Houston. THe city and especially nearer to NASA where Jackie lives is totally obsessed with it. Everything has a space theme or astronaut theme. A large amount of the people in Jackie’s neighborhood work at NASA in fact. And the father of one of the kids at her daycare is an astronaut.

I parked crooked and Jackie wouldn’t leave the car till I parked normal. I won out and I even wore my chicken hat inside. We watched a brief movie and then looked at a few exhibits. I was doing good and was really interested in it all until we went on a tour. It was mostly outside with a bunch of walking through a few buildings. Just being in the heat zonked me out, and my 4ish hours of sleep caught up with me. I was exhausted. I went through the tour like a zombie and couldn’t wait till we got done with it.

After the Space Center we briefly stopped by the house then went out to an Indian Restaurant for dinner. We ended up getting into a heated discussion about abortion. For many years I never cared about abortion, I felt it to be too devisive and I tried to avoid it. Then I became pro-life, but still tried to avoid abortion discussions. Recently I have been more and more committed to my pro-life belief. Esepcially when seen in a youth rights context. The child is murdered by the mother without being asked or consulted (obviously). NOw it is to the point where my vote may be decided on that issue. The thought of abortions turns my stomach.

Recently I’ve gotten into several discussions on abortion; one on the way to Cedar Point with Erin, Buddy, & Bridgitt. They are all pro-life as well and we were all in agreement. It felt so nice to have others around that agreed with me on this issue. I’m always in the company of extreme liberals, and I’m always alone.

Then at Larissa’s place we talked about abortion too. Larissa was pro-choice and Hew was kinda pro-choice. Now today I finally bring up the issue with Jackie. SHe is very liberal and I always assumed she was pro-choice but I never really knew to what degree. We talked about it and I found out she was ardently pro-choice. It really turned my stomach to listen to her talk about these babies as “parasites” or “apendages”. The woman I loved advocating killing unborn children didn’t sit well with me at all. It was absolutely horrible to hear her talk about her views on abortion. I also learned that her mother had even gotten an abortion, and Jackie was just fine with that. I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to throw up or cry. She also thought it should be entirely up to the mother to have the abortion and should do it against the father’s wishes even. This scares me. If I ever get her pregnant she would kill my child.

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