my political compass, after a year of college/having a real job
I remember I took this test way back in ninth grade, and I thought it would be interesting to compare the results then and now, but I can't find the old ones anywhere. Oh well.
Here's how the smatter of presidential candidates stacked up:
Why hello, Mike Gravel. Nice being the only two people in the purple quadrant?
Where are yall on the grid? www.politicalcompass.org
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Life (not relating to the useless pasttime of pondering poltics- which I only deem useless because I can't vote):
I'm in Alabama right now, helping my grandparents move into their new house. It's exhausting because moving is an exhausting activity in general, and because my extended family, like those of many others, tends to make things buckets more stressful than they need to be. It really isn't that bad, actually; I'm glad to be able to help.
All of the things they yell about just seem petty, since one of my childhood friends died the other night. It's been a sad, strange few days because of it, and pretty surreal since, besides elderly relatives, she is the first person I've really known that's died. I almost feel like I don't have a full right to be upset about it since we both moved and haven't kept in very close touch the past few years... I just can't believe that the girl who I told the Easter Bunny wasn't real, whose fat black lab swam in my pool, who I had Halloween parties and sleepovers with, is gone. My family drove up to Birmingham to show their family some love, and seeing her mom- the mom who made me bring her a diet coke in the basket of my bike one night of my childhood- encompassed by that shadow that follows mothers who have had to bury their children (I've seen it a few times), was so, so surreal...