( Wisconsin Becomes a National Power by Staying Close to Home )

Shit, I'm loyal to UW and I'm not even from Wisconsin...

Vedder Warms Up For Solo Trek With Seattle Gigs

( I am so insanely jealous, whoa. )

He's playing "Forever Young"???? If I attended a concert and he played that song I'd need a new pair of underwear.

Clinton: Wright 'would not have been my pastor'

That's so completely fair. The Wright debacle has my head spinning a bit, still. But! The real nugget of this article:

Clinton said she was "sleep-deprived" and "misspoke" when she said last week that she landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996, when she was first lady.

The lolz just keep coming.

For posterity, here's the ( entire article )

I have an 'election 2008' tag? Shit. I should use it.

-'A More Perfect Union' Because everyone needs a transcript of this speech.

-Stop dodging the issues, Barack!! Mark Bazer brings the lolz in today's Chicago Tribune. You know, I honestly don't know if the fact that people are still writing that they don't understand Obama's specifics on issues means that Obama hasn't gotten any better, or if people are just throwing the same tired criticism at him because they are Not Getting It. I lean toward believing the latter, myself.


( Blather. )

Content strike over. Unlocked last night's post. Mostly, I just needed to rant then about apartments. (I'm still cranky.)

My NCAA brackets are fucked. And yet, I am going to watch basketball until the end of the night. While crocheting. yes yes.

Question. Why can't Pearl Jam tour anywhere near where I'm living this summer? I finally am not living in Iowa during a tour... and I get ignored anyway. So not fair, lads!

I* spent 50$ on yarn today. (10 skeins.) And those were cheapies, too... whoa, yo. But I'm going to have the most brilliant double crocheted afghan ever created.

I also got a pair of brown pants at the Gap on sale. And socks! Including a pair of argyle ones.

I haven't gone shopping in ages...

I'm working on an afghan right now, actually, switching back to the crochet topic... it's pretty bright. And happy. And a little ugly. But mostly happy. I'd like to call it "Happiness Is An Ugly Blanket" when it's finished. It's going to be warm as fuck though. It's just made out of cheap Walmart yarn--it's a blanket on a college budget, unfortunately. But I like! I picked up crocheting again when I had to go 72 hours without media (TV, internet, music, cell phone, etc). And it's stuck... hopefully, for a little while, since I have about 3 blankets to do...





*my mother

what's up, obama.

'For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.

We can do that.

But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change.

That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, “Not this time.”'
-Barack Obama, 18 March 2008
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/18/text-of-obamas-speech-a-more-perfect-union


That's fucking beautiful. The whole speech is great, but that part is just amazing. I love this man. Despite my annoyance at the time, I really am glad that I had a chance to caucus for him in the state of Iowa. I'm really proud of that!

So, the homepage tells me it's been 31 weeks since I've posted an entry. Whoa. (I didn't mean the neglect!) I also got an e-mail reminding me that my automatic payment had just gone through... again, whoa. (I guess I forgot to turn it off oh-so-long ago, so I've apparently been a faithful supporter for all 31 weeks as well!)

I don't want to give up on LJ... so much of my life is packed into the couple thousand entries I've posted. I just feel like I have no time to write or keep up. Between boys and class and committees and ensembles...

Currently what's getting me is Hillary Clinton. I've been watching her campaign with complete disgust for the past few days (well, longer than that, but it's been notably deplorable as of late). I was actually on the Joe Biden train until he dropped out... I tried to caucus for him, but my precinct did not have enough Biden people (one short of 15%!) so I switched to Obama. I've been there ever since, I do believe... I've even made my first political contribution, to him. Anyone watching the debates tonight? It should be interesting...

What up, LJ?

I cannot believe how amazing it is to be back at home.

Seriously.

I took five days off from work and came home to Iowa... for the longest time, I didn't really miss home at all, but during the last couple of weeks I've really started to miss it. So, home I came. I'm here until Thursday night, when I [a bit unfortunately] have to go back to the Twin Cities...

This afternoon, I watched eight episodes of The West Wing with my mom and little brother. Mom has always been a big West Wing fan (she's partly why I started watching, in fact) and my brother became a fan as soon as he saw some of the pilot this afternoon. I just bought season one, and none of my roommates appreciate how awesome this show [was], so it was fun to watch it with my fam. God I miss the show in its early days... there isn't really anything as awesome on TV right now. (Not that I actually watch TV right now... it was so wild to flip through channels last night, it was like I was rediscovering the ability to walk or something.)

Right now, I'm working on making some new icons for my LJ. I finally renewed my account; I think it expired in November? And yeah, it was time to get rid of all of those old icons that haven't been changed for over a year... I'm so rusty with Photoshop, though, so I don't know how these are going to turn out. (Anyone know a torrent site that's got a cracked Mac Photoshop? I could really use it on my laptop!)

I'm also devoting this time back at home to rereading Harry Potters five and six. I'm 100-some pages into OotP right now, and am gonna knock out some more once I'm done on the computer for the night... you know what's sad? I had totally forgotten about things like Petunia getting a Howler, all that shit with Mundungus Fletcher, etc etc. SO SAD. My retention is miniscule, clearly. Hopefully I'll get done with HBP by Friday, so I can dig into Deathly Hallows right away! And, hopefully I'll be able to find it at a Walmart or something at midnight. I really need to get some info on these release things. This is a great example of how little I've been paying attention to all the hubbub surrounding DH...