So an interdimensional portal walks into my bedroom...
I watched Lost last night -- I'll have to do a separate post about that later - and then started to watch the finale of Life of Mars because I strongly suspected that it would provide generous fodder for mocking -- but fell asleep forty-five minutes in. So I missed the last fifteen minutes - what transpired?
Anyway, I took off my glasses (sssshhh, I only wear them at night when my contacts come out), put them on the bed beside me, and when I woke up this morning, they were GONE. I took all the covers off of my bed. Gone. I looked under the bed. Nada. I then searched the entire bedroom. THEY ARE NOT IN MY BEDROOM. So, unless I'm sleepwalking at night and remain unaware of it, I am at a loss. I feel like calling up Bill Nye, Science Guy to see if there is an optometric equivalent of the infamous sock demon, but I don't have his number.
I paid three hundred dollars for these tres chic glasses and their retro frames. Did an interdimensional rift open up in my bedroom and let in some insidious and malevolent entity that wants to torment me? Gah!
Then I woke up this morning and saw this on ontd_political: Obama pwns Gordon Brown:
Better yet:
Look at the beaming smile on the face of that police officer. He's pleasantly stunned. I bet he's thinking that he wishes that he could have voted for Obama.
I think little things like this -- Obama stopping to acknowledge and greet the common people with obvious enjoyment and goodwill -- are what what differentiate him from his last three predecessors. I may be a little upset with a few things that Obama has done while in office (the torture thing specifically), but I voted for him, and one of the ways that he's entirely compelling, regardless of one's political inclinations, is that he seems to genuinely enjoy meeting the citizenry of this planet in all of their myriad glory. He truly seems to care. Granted, gregariousness and extroversion are by necessity a common hallmark of American Presidents, but Obama's genuine warmth and interest in people are what set him apart. I haven't seen evidence of a President so invested in understanding regular people since Jimmy Carter (who still remains the MOST AWESOME ex-Prez still living, what with his dedicated work with Habitat for Humanity and other like-minded organizations. Georg Bush Sr. is content to sit back and collect outrageously high speaker fees while Jimmy's out there building houses in Central America).
I'm pretty sure that Gordon Brown didn't see the proffered hand in the clip above, but the fact that he didn't pause to consider that the officer may have been about to shake his hand? Oh, the Tories are gonna have a field day with this.
Such a small thing, but so completely indicative of Obama and Brown's differing outlooks.
Well done, Mr. President. Well done. Little gestures like this can mean so very much.
Edit of Trollitude: There's a troll called lycon78 hitting hundreds of LJ communities this morning and posting really, really gross stuff. If you see him posting to comms on your flist, please oh please report him to LJ Abuse/Support.
Anyway, I took off my glasses (sssshhh, I only wear them at night when my contacts come out), put them on the bed beside me, and when I woke up this morning, they were GONE. I took all the covers off of my bed. Gone. I looked under the bed. Nada. I then searched the entire bedroom. THEY ARE NOT IN MY BEDROOM. So, unless I'm sleepwalking at night and remain unaware of it, I am at a loss. I feel like calling up Bill Nye, Science Guy to see if there is an optometric equivalent of the infamous sock demon, but I don't have his number.
I paid three hundred dollars for these tres chic glasses and their retro frames. Did an interdimensional rift open up in my bedroom and let in some insidious and malevolent entity that wants to torment me? Gah!
Then I woke up this morning and saw this on ontd_political: Obama pwns Gordon Brown:
Better yet:
Look at the beaming smile on the face of that police officer. He's pleasantly stunned. I bet he's thinking that he wishes that he could have voted for Obama.
I think little things like this -- Obama stopping to acknowledge and greet the common people with obvious enjoyment and goodwill -- are what what differentiate him from his last three predecessors. I may be a little upset with a few things that Obama has done while in office (the torture thing specifically), but I voted for him, and one of the ways that he's entirely compelling, regardless of one's political inclinations, is that he seems to genuinely enjoy meeting the citizenry of this planet in all of their myriad glory. He truly seems to care. Granted, gregariousness and extroversion are by necessity a common hallmark of American Presidents, but Obama's genuine warmth and interest in people are what set him apart. I haven't seen evidence of a President so invested in understanding regular people since Jimmy Carter (who still remains the MOST AWESOME ex-Prez still living, what with his dedicated work with Habitat for Humanity and other like-minded organizations. Georg Bush Sr. is content to sit back and collect outrageously high speaker fees while Jimmy's out there building houses in Central America).
I'm pretty sure that Gordon Brown didn't see the proffered hand in the clip above, but the fact that he didn't pause to consider that the officer may have been about to shake his hand? Oh, the Tories are gonna have a field day with this.
Such a small thing, but so completely indicative of Obama and Brown's differing outlooks.
Well done, Mr. President. Well done. Little gestures like this can mean so very much.
Edit of Trollitude: There's a troll called lycon78 hitting hundreds of LJ communities this morning and posting really, really gross stuff. If you see him posting to comms on your flist, please oh please report him to LJ Abuse/Support.