today is a holiday but we have to work. it's martin luther king jr day, an important figure from a key moment in american history. if you weren't white than you had to use the non-white facilities. (actually, i don't think they were labeled that. the restrooms were probably labeled something else such as "colored" and "negro" but i'm from a different time and do not feel comfortable using such words.) i remember reading about a case where a yellow man refused to use the non-white facilities because he wasn't black. (that's really why i say non-white because the 'other's were treated differently.)

which sidetracks me to a funny little point i don't think we consider much when we speak. how do you like being referred to as crayola colors? perhaps decorating names would be better? marigold people? the smurfs were cerulean? anyway, if it wasn't for that change in our history and our consciousness brought about by the civil rights movement, i'd be using the non-white restroom today and my parents would have never been allowed to marry. a very important holiday, don't you think? but we have to work. twiddle thumbs has to work as well. i can't help but conclude that companies that don't acknowledge this holiday are racist. we had christmas and new year's off. while i like that we have new year's off, i don't see how it is a holiday (how is that day a key moment in our country's history?) and i'll never understand how in a country without an official religion, where there is separation of church and state, that christmas is a holiday.

our holidays really should be key moments in our country's history. perhaps it's a scar but shouldn't there be a day to reflect upon the civil war? i don't think we reflect upon it during memorial day or veteran's day. can't these combined into one day? i mean, there is only a minor difference between them--one is specifically for those that died. we combined washington and lincoln to create presidents' day. i don't see why we can't do the same for these armed forces days. civil wars are a key moment in any nation's history and i think that our civil war is particularly important. it could be a day when we don't let our divisions and differences get in the way of us being one nation. a day where we stand united. some months seem bare in official holidays though there might be days that we do things traditionally to some degree or another (dressing up or getting drunk or both). but you know, we don't have a holiday in august. it is totally bare. let's give august something. or perhaps you would like to celebrate bizarre american holidays.