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Hey there, all...
Just saw "The Sum of All Fears" today. There's only one thing that scares me worse than nuclear war....Republicans. Small hands, smell like cabbages. :)
Came in today to find that the Republicans took the Senate *and* the House. Locally, we re-elected our Republican incumbant for Governor, Mike Huckabee. I really don't like him, but the mudslinging that Jimmie Lou Fisher did all through the campaign left a bad taste in my mouth. We voted out Sen. Hutchinson for Mark Pryor, though his conservative 'good-ol'-boy' backpedalling didn't give me much comfort with him either. We voted to keep the grocery tax and turned down a measure to make animal cruelty a felony, both actions of which I'm against, but...oh well.
I'm not happy with this, but bitching does no good. The bottom line is, most people just don't care, and more people who do vote Republican. This two-party system is a crock anyway.
I'm in an...interesting state right now. I'm feeling empathetic towards people, quite a bit more these days, again, and that gives me a kind of contentment that I haven't felt in a while, but...it makes me so sad. There's so much negativity being thrown out there from people over the state of things and it feels like so many people are just giving up, resigning themselves to whatever 'facts' of life they've chosen to accept. In a lot of ways, I think I have too. I've given up on the idea that I could really feel deeply about...anything for a while. I don't like that...I've been so afraid of investing into people because I'm so tired of being hurt. I don't like that, either. I feel like I'm almost ready to fight again.
Ramadan started today. I fudged a bit and ate a few tortilla chips after the sun came up before I realized it had started, but that's all right. :) I forgot the pre-dawn breakfast (suhoor), so I'm *really* looking forward to sundown today. :D
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2_gryphon but a damned bug in my head about stand-up comedy a little while ago, and now I've kind of half-thought about putting together a 20-minute routine or something. I've always thought of myself as more a 'serious' writer/actor/artist-thing, so the idea of...comedy just seems like something I would fail at, miserably. No, really, have you seen a bunch of 'thespians' running an improv group or something? It's *not* pretty. :)
Still, I like the idea; I really want to be a Storyteller of some sort, a griot...someone people just...liked to listen to. The idea of bare-bones performance, just you and an audience and the collective imaginations of a room full of people...it's so exciting. I love everything about bards, and minstrels, and...stand-up comedy is a stylized form of that. If I could maybe get that, then it'd pave the way towards my ultimate goal. Maybe I just might look into this a bit more.
It's cold in my 'office'. Heat would be good.
And I'm looking into getting to MFF after all. Hurrah for waffles!
Just saw "The Sum of All Fears" today. There's only one thing that scares me worse than nuclear war....Republicans. Small hands, smell like cabbages. :)
Came in today to find that the Republicans took the Senate *and* the House. Locally, we re-elected our Republican incumbant for Governor, Mike Huckabee. I really don't like him, but the mudslinging that Jimmie Lou Fisher did all through the campaign left a bad taste in my mouth. We voted out Sen. Hutchinson for Mark Pryor, though his conservative 'good-ol'-boy' backpedalling didn't give me much comfort with him either. We voted to keep the grocery tax and turned down a measure to make animal cruelty a felony, both actions of which I'm against, but...oh well.
I'm not happy with this, but bitching does no good. The bottom line is, most people just don't care, and more people who do vote Republican. This two-party system is a crock anyway.
I'm in an...interesting state right now. I'm feeling empathetic towards people, quite a bit more these days, again, and that gives me a kind of contentment that I haven't felt in a while, but...it makes me so sad. There's so much negativity being thrown out there from people over the state of things and it feels like so many people are just giving up, resigning themselves to whatever 'facts' of life they've chosen to accept. In a lot of ways, I think I have too. I've given up on the idea that I could really feel deeply about...anything for a while. I don't like that...I've been so afraid of investing into people because I'm so tired of being hurt. I don't like that, either. I feel like I'm almost ready to fight again.
Ramadan started today. I fudged a bit and ate a few tortilla chips after the sun came up before I realized it had started, but that's all right. :) I forgot the pre-dawn breakfast (suhoor), so I'm *really* looking forward to sundown today. :D
2_gryphon but a damned bug in my head about stand-up comedy a little while ago, and now I've kind of half-thought about putting together a 20-minute routine or something. I've always thought of myself as more a 'serious' writer/actor/artist-thing, so the idea of...comedy just seems like something I would fail at, miserably. No, really, have you seen a bunch of 'thespians' running an improv group or something? It's *not* pretty. :)Still, I like the idea; I really want to be a Storyteller of some sort, a griot...someone people just...liked to listen to. The idea of bare-bones performance, just you and an audience and the collective imaginations of a room full of people...it's so exciting. I love everything about bards, and minstrels, and...stand-up comedy is a stylized form of that. If I could maybe get that, then it'd pave the way towards my ultimate goal. Maybe I just might look into this a bit more.
It's cold in my 'office'. Heat would be good.
And I'm looking into getting to MFF after all. Hurrah for waffles!
