Well, earlier on I was considering writing a post about how I'm excited for summer, the weather's starting to warm up (but not to sweltering proportions quite yet) and the school year's winding down, but now I have an entirely more exciting bit of news to deal with. Osama bin Laden is dead, and I think it hasn't fully sunk in yet for me. It's great ( Read more... )

The Meg Whitman/Steve Poizner ads have been driving me insane. I tend not to like political ads in general because they're such blatant propaganda and often tiresomely accusing, but I have some very specific gripes with these ads in particular:

1) Meg Whitman began airing her ads a few months ago. The election isn't until November and it's least ( Read more... )

There has recently been some controversy discussed in the news about a speech that President Obama intends to broadcast to (presumably) elementary school students. Some parents don't want their children to listen to the speech and there was some suspicious wording in a draft of the speech, which has since been changed. (It was about "discuss[ing] ( Read more... )

It's Inauguration Day! Yay! Bush is finally gone and we have someone who's actually fairly intelligent and hopefully much more competent! And he's the first black President, too. This is pretty freaking awesome. As my Latin teacher said this morning, you can hear the planes taking off- back to Texas. Finally. I'm excited. Hopefully the next four ( Read more... )

OMIGOD OBAMA WON! THIS IS CRAZY! I AM MENTALLY FREAKING OUT SOOO MUCH RIGHT NOW, BUT AM NOT ACTUALLY LETTING IT SHOW BECAUSE MY ANNOYED REPUBLICAN FATHER IS SITTING ABOUT THREE FEET AWAY AND NOT SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW. HENCE, I AM TYPING IN CAPSLOCK ( Read more... )

Fortunately, it turns out that I didn't miss the Presidential Debate. (See, I wasn't kidding about updating more often.) My Spanish class was cancelled (they probably couldn't have gotten a sub again) so I ended up watching it. I missed the first few minutes, but it didn't matter much; both candidates were pretty much saying the same things they've ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned how much I love finally being able to do drama in school? Yeah, it's freaking amazing. I'm so excited about our play; it's going to be hilarious. It's called "You Can't Take it With You" and is basically about this insane family in the thirties who have a couple brushes with the federal government and a daughter (me!) who is in ( Read more... )