Constituency of One

Newsweek blog about accusations that Sen. Obama is all talk and no walk, and what Sen. McCain's campaign actually is.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/17/on-wall-street-obama-is-all-wonk-and-mccain-is-all-words.aspx

I clicked on the link because I wanted to find out what "Obama is all wonk" meant.

I wish I could find a good quote or a chunk of a paragraph to copy and paste here, but so much of it is really good and shouldn't really be taken out of context, so I'll just leave it.

I finally got my wireless set up in my apartment, so I will update more later. Unless, that is, my kittens seduce me into going to bed as soon as I get home. I strongly feel that this might happen. In which case, updates after an epic cuddle-and-sleep night.

Duck and Cover

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live last night as Gov. Palin and Sen. Clinton.

Since it's NPR it's a legit video, it won't disappear like the YouTube versions keep doing. I knew we should have watched SNL last night at Niki's but since Sen. Obama cancelled (due to Hurricaine Ike, I was pissed off for a sec and then I realized that it was probably a smart move on his part) we didn't watch. Also there were like 18 people in her apartment so it would have been impossible to hear. Instead we played Balderdash!

Funny how we played board games when we were little, and then they got "uncool," and now that's pretty much what we do at parties. Balderdash, BS, Taboo, that weird card game that I can't remember, and hopefully soon Apples to Apples.

This is my blog in a word cloud! I wonder why I say "got" so much. I'm obsessed with this site. I'm entering as much as I can, other blogs, my resume, blah blah. so cool.

I'm too lazy to mess with the formatting on this post, so it's just going to be this way. I have to go pretend to like my brothers at my fraternity's welcome back picnic. It's good, because I get free food, but I would rather have free food and cuddle with kittens at the same time, instead of having to go outside in 95 degree, super humid weather. With "Battlestar Galactica" still written all over my leg from last night.

I just realized how glad I am to not be allergic to cats, because then I would be sad when Rhett rubs himself all over my face and gives me smelly cat-breath kisses. As it is, that makes me really happy.

Lord John Marbury

Kittens!

So floppy

Kitten assembly - ur doin it rong!

I just met the richest man I may have ever met, and he looks like a Klingon.
Our office manager: "It must be nice to be richer than God"

Galileo

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

pleasesaynopleasesaynopleasesayno

Angel Maintenance

ZOE ROMERO

Listening to Vienna Tang, sent to me by Maeg. very similar to Girlyman, but just one of instead of three (cue to Lindsey, look her up).

One of the most common things I experience these days is waking up to a completely trashed apartment. Friday night (Saturday morning) I went to sleep with a pretty neat floor, considering. Saturday morning (afternoon) I pull myself out of bed and see a deck of cards AND half the box of Taboo cards scattered allllll over the place.

RHETT LYMAN

D. sent me this, from a Wired blog, which is really funny.

Also there is this DailyShow clip and commentary from Sociological Images. not that I don't agree with the commentary in the blog, but it is quite funny. And I can say that, because I'm from a town the size of Wasilla, Alaska. Er... yeah. Not when Gov. Palin was mayor, but presently.

Ex-Hurricane Hanna was mostly just a bit of rain and wind, for about 20 hours. Maeg and I ran errands (BestBuy, ACE Hardware, TJMaxx, Cosi yummm, Safeway), and by the time we left ACE, the rain had already stopped and when we were walking to Safeway, it was sunny and we were too hot. I really enjoyed the rain while it lasted, but Maeg's umbrella didn't as much.

I had a dream last night that Natalie and I lived in a treehouse our sophomore year of high school. The other night I had a dream that I went to Hogwarts. Funny how now that I'm not in school, I dream about school all the time.

I'm starving, and I need to clean my apartment, buy an ironing board and toilet paper, and figure out how the hell not to be late to work tomorrow. Eventually I need to find my card reader so I can post more pictures of kittens, there are more on my Facebook though.

I want Cosi again. crap.

Opposition Research

This is copied directly from here, an AP article by Jim Kuhnhenn, released today from St. Paul. I'd copy and paste the whole thing, but all you have to do is click the link, so don't be lazy. Read it.

Regarding one of my "favorite" moments so far from the Republican National Convention:

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

Edit:

"Maverick my ass. Doing adventurous things is past his bedtime." - Natalie, re: Sen. McCain

Welcome to Wherever You Are

I'm in a weird weird mood today, and I guess for the past couple of days. I've been so so so busy every night, starting the second I leave work to the time I finally convince the kittens to stay still and nod off. I rush home to feed them and then run off to meet people or take care of things, and as soon as I'm out of the metro, I spend every second returning phone calls that I've received during the day- from the vet, the animal shelter, the doctor, family friends. It feels good to be efficient but it's a little hectic. Yesterday I was home for five minutes between 8:30 am and 10:15 pm. Then I obviously spent 2 hours playing with Zoe and Rhett.

My sister sent me a funny story today. Hee hee

There's a reason for this post. I wanted to write about my weird mood, but I can't put it into words. The best way I can describe is that I'm dying for something exciting to happen. I mean different than whatsherbutt speaking at the RNC tonight. I mean I want to go somewhere and do something and meet some people.

Words suck.


Craving o' moment: Chipotle
Obsession o' day: Josh and Donna

The Black Vera Wang

I've recently become obsessed with Mark Harmon. I'll have to start watching NCIS.

THE TICKETS:

Democrats:
Barack Obama and Joey Biden

Love love love love this ticket.
(are you kidding me? JOE BIDEN'S MOM FOR PRESIDENT)
Nothing more to say.

Republicans:
John McCain and Sarah Palin

I used to think that it was so smart for the GOP to put up McCain for pres. I still believe that, but less so now that I have realized he's 72. 8 years ago would have been better. 8 years ago he wouldn't have picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, because 8 years ago she was still just a hockey mom and only had a couple kids and was 36 years old.
Two things younger than John McCain - (1) Sarah Palin's home state, Alaska, and (2) Sarah Palin's parents. That's right, John McCain is the age of a great-granddaddy. well, in 4 months.

I'm sure there are people that love Gov. Palin. I'm sure she's a lovely person and a wonderful mother. However, I'm truly terrified of her, and would really rather she not be a heart beat away from an office in the West Wing.

I love my kittens. Almost as much as I love Mark Harmon.

Just kidding, I love my kittens more. They are, coincidentally, much more cuddly to me than Mark Harmon.

My musing of the day:
What would lawyers do without Portable Document Format??? Probably die off quickly, is my guess.