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November 03, 2000
La la la...
I've been meaning to update for a while, but I just haven't been able to get my thoughts into any sort of order lately. I'm too easily distracted -- oh, look, there's a bright shiny thing! Oooooohhhh... Every free minute I have, I get sucked into Three Way Action or into endless games of Snood. Snood's evil, I'm telling you, evil. I can't stop. I even stayed at work late the other night, playing. Addictive as hell, it is. And I stink at it -- I can't get past level nine on the easiest setting.
Other than that, well, I haven't been up to much, really. My roommate is throwing a great big huge party tomorrow night -- her birthday is this weekend, and oh crap, I forgot to buy her a present... guess I'm going shopping after work. I really don't like parties -- I hate big groups of people I don't know, and the way it's shaping up, I'll know about two people there -- four, counting my roommate and her boyfriend. Whee. I'm telling myself it's good for me, I need to meet new people, blah blah blah. Feh.
I've been trying -- between TWA postings and Snood games -- to read up on the Massachusetts ballot questions so I can be a good little informed voter next week. The only one I really have any feelings about is the one about banning greyhound racing -- I'm all for that. I'm not really fond of the idea of people using animals for pure entertainment (I don't like circuses much, for instance.) I don't believe all the ads with people earnestly saying that the dogs aren't mistreated -- I lost faith in them when I realized all the people in the ads were employed by racetracks. Sure, they'll be honest... I'm really not looking forward to voting, because every election, it's the same thing -- I'm not voting for one candidate so much as I'm voting against the other. I don't much like either Gore or Bush, but of the two, I dislike Bush the most. I just don't think he's terribly smart, and I don't think he has even the slightest ability to lead. The latest news thing, the one about his drunk driving arrest, just cemented my opinion of him -- I don't care in the slightest that he did it. It was more than twenty years ago, he owned up to it, and paid the fine, and all that. It's the fact that he hid it -- he didn't have the brains to figure out that eventually, someone was going to dig up that particular little piece of dirt. I don't care if candidates have done drugs, or drank too much, or shoplifted, or any of that -- everyone does things they might not be proud of at some point or another. I don't expect politicians to be anything but human. I do, however, have a lot more respect for them when they say "Sure, I did some drugs back in the day. I'm not doing them now, so what's the big deal?" I don't expect politicians to be moral leaders, but I do expect that they'll be honest -- because I start to wonder -- if they're hiding such a minor thing, what else aren't they telling us?
Meh. So, long rant short, I'll be voting against Bush -- and anyway, the day I vote Republican will be the day Hell freezes over. Too much thinking... must play Snood...
Oh, one last thing: this headline made me choke on my Pepsi this morning. Too bad the actual story isn't as funny:$8,000 found in man's buttocks
Posted by Mary Ellen at November 3, 2000 01:44 PM