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enamouredI just realized that today I am completely decked out in Old Navy. I have on my new gray logo sweatshirt, a baby blue t-shirt that I've had for four years, sweatpants, and I am even carrying the blue corduroy bag that I bought at Old Navy onsale three years ago. Huh. I hate to think I'm becoming a labelwhore. If I am, it's semi-accidental. I am the accidental Old Navy ho.
There's six days to the election, and I feel like my head's going to explode. It's too much. Electoral overload, people. I watch the news every morning and while I agree with everyone who says, Get informed!, I also want to chuck something at the TV screen. I don't know how I'm going to react. I mean, I voted in a primary already, it's not that big of a deal, right?
It's kind of strange to me. When I was... six (during 1992) I was really into the whole presidential thing. I got a book from a book order about the history of the White House and I swear I read it about twenty times. I was super-into that, and learning about presidents and such. I used to want to be President. I wanted to be the first Black female President. Then I got older and realized that politics makes my head hurt, and that being the head of a country was just something I wasn't really up for undertaking (and instead, I've almost opted to be a starving artist.). But I remember constantly encouraging my parents to go vote. And when they would, they'd always give me the "I voted" stickers that you get at the polls. Do they still do that anymore?
But anyway. I'm apprehensive about the voting thing. Not so much about me actually doing it; more of what's going to happen AFTER the second. I get the distinct feeling that more than half of us will end up killing LiveJournal that day (and how, you ask, can an inanimate thing be killed? Oh, it can be killed. SO TOTALLY KILLED.) I think I may even go in for early voting today. Just to be different.
On a non-voting front, I need a title for my novel! I'm thinking of making an LJ account for NaNo purposes as well, but then again, I'd be succumbing to my inability to not resist making another journal. [shrugs] I may post anexcript (can't spell that damned word) selection from it here, but I'd have to lock it. If anyone's up for seeing that, please tell me.
I need to find a way to retrain myself to sleep with the TV off. I have had a hard time sleeping with my TV off since, oh... September '01. It was a paranoia/safety thing. If something happened, I wanted to know about it, and I was too scared to sleep in silence. Now, I don't mind, but I think it'd be better if I went back to sleeping with it off. Never know if I'll actually transfer out and end up with a roommate who doesn't like background noise as they sleep. You know. I gotta be courteous to future roommates.
There's six days to the election, and I feel like my head's going to explode. It's too much. Electoral overload, people. I watch the news every morning and while I agree with everyone who says, Get informed!, I also want to chuck something at the TV screen. I don't know how I'm going to react. I mean, I voted in a primary already, it's not that big of a deal, right?
It's kind of strange to me. When I was... six (during 1992) I was really into the whole presidential thing. I got a book from a book order about the history of the White House and I swear I read it about twenty times. I was super-into that, and learning about presidents and such. I used to want to be President. I wanted to be the first Black female President. Then I got older and realized that politics makes my head hurt, and that being the head of a country was just something I wasn't really up for undertaking (and instead, I've almost opted to be a starving artist.). But I remember constantly encouraging my parents to go vote. And when they would, they'd always give me the "I voted" stickers that you get at the polls. Do they still do that anymore?
But anyway. I'm apprehensive about the voting thing. Not so much about me actually doing it; more of what's going to happen AFTER the second. I get the distinct feeling that more than half of us will end up killing LiveJournal that day (and how, you ask, can an inanimate thing be killed? Oh, it can be killed. SO TOTALLY KILLED.) I think I may even go in for early voting today. Just to be different.
On a non-voting front, I need a title for my novel! I'm thinking of making an LJ account for NaNo purposes as well, but then again, I'd be succumbing to my inability to not resist making another journal. [shrugs] I may post an
I need to find a way to retrain myself to sleep with the TV off. I have had a hard time sleeping with my TV off since, oh... September '01. It was a paranoia/safety thing. If something happened, I wanted to know about it, and I was too scared to sleep in silence. Now, I don't mind, but I think it'd be better if I went back to sleeping with it off. Never know if I'll actually transfer out and end up with a roommate who doesn't like background noise as they sleep. You know. I gotta be courteous to future roommates.
