...Yes, so the presidential debates have gotten me feeling rather anti-anything-politics. I'm taking rather fiendish glee in the Wall-Street-dilemma--not because I wish the economy to fail necessarily, but because these people have spent years and years bowing down to their wretched economic success, and watching it fall is...it gives one a sense of rightness, a sort of "your gods have ears but cannot hear" feeling. Perhaps Elijah felt similarly (although undoubtedly with more strength) when the prophets of Baal could not summon fire on Mount Carmel. Perhaps the state of America's economy has fallen asleep...
In better news, the weather is glorious, and by glorious I mean the temperature is dropping with the stock market! I am more unashamedly and uncomplicatedly happy about the former. Coldness--whether it is cold in the clear-and-crisp sense or cold in the blustery-and-turbulent sense--is awesome. My employer and I have decided that if a certain candidate wins (three guesses and the first two don't count) we'll go to Mexico for the winter and Canada for the summer (PEI. Booya.). I'm thinking of just packing up and heading off to Canada for...forever. Find someplace with moderate-leaning-towards-low levels of population, beautiful scenery (I should like to have the ocean relatively nearby), and lots of cold. Seems to me an ideal situation. (The one flaw in either of these plans being the undoubtedly seedy nature of both the Mexican and Canadian government...unfortunately, one cannot lower the levels of natural human corruption by merely changing locations. Watch The Village if you've got any doubts about that. Or rather, tell your two-year-old "no.")
I've got a 13 page history paper to write, and even though 'tisn't due 'till the end of this month I need to take five pages of something to my discussion leader within this week. Obviously, I don't have five pages of much of anything, though I've got lots of ideas and notes, so I think I shall be off to try and formulate something solid. Whatever that means.
Cheers.
I've been delighting in this cooler weather as well. Great for riding one's bicycle at 8AM!
Although with cooler weather comes a strange desire for a hairy chin......
Enjoy your 13-page-paper writing, Queen Polar Bear. I think I need to get ahold of some proper winter clothes. *grin*
I'll come to Canada with you! We can find a cabin that doesn't have a stocked supply of rat poison and live in solitude. ;-D West coast sound okay to you? As long as we stay away from a certain town in Washington... ;-)(Yes, I am a bit punchy, have you noticed?)
'Tis a pity about the politics, though. *sighs* I am entirely sick of it, too. But we can't escape it really, in this life, can we?
On that note, how about a vacation to Canada? ;-)