So, I'm a staffer/GOTV Organizer/Intern, WHATEVER for the Barack Obama campaign.  That might explain why I've been off of the grid for WEEKS.  Plus I'm going to the gym 5 days a week and suck, and still working at the gym on weekend nights ( Read more... )

Like everyone else, I've been 'pestered' about my choice in candidates for the upcoming Presidential election since probably... 6 weeks after the previous election.  I had been not only tight-lipped, but down right refused to tell anyone my thoughts about them until I felt good and ready.  Well I finally feel good and ready.

So who is it?  I was ( Read more... )

Larry Stewart has been in my journal a few other times- most noteably when he passed away earlier this year from cancer.

Who was Larry Stewart?  He was just a man who saw suffering in the world, and had felt great success in his life.  Larry was the Kansas City Secret Santa- for years Mr. Stewart anonymously handed out denominations of $100 or more ( Read more... )

So- they accepted our offer- and that means WE'RE GETTING A HOUSE!!!!!!!!!! yay!  I'm so excited that I think I may faint.

Friday night Jamie came over and we had pizza and junk food while watching "Stranger Than Fiction".  I.LOVE.THAT.MOVIE.  It was quite honestly, magnificent, with a superb blend of humor and reality.  And it made me tear up too.  Maggie Gylenhall is marvelous.  It sound stupid- but a lot of the movies I've seen, and books I've read recently have all ( Read more... )

Sometimes it feels as though there is nothing but awful, terrible, horrific things and really mean people (and evil harpies) in this world.  And then, sometimes, you come in to work after running around like a crazy person and read stories like these:

Mystery Santa hands out money.

Man thinks quickly and saves falling tolder.

Baby Okapi born at Ill. ( Read more... )

I'm not at work....

that is all.

Ick... yesterday started out great.  And I was even in a good mood at work... but unfortunately about 2 hours in I started to have hot and cold flashes,  get light headed, nausiated, and then physically ill a couple of times.   Today I have only thrown up once, but I have a fever and a bit of a rash (I'm assuming from the fever), and just... bleh ( Read more... )

SO- today is the last day of my International Law Class, and I CANNOT wait for it to be over so I can go to TMCC's orchestra Concert to finish my concert report... and I have a B... in this class... and may not have to take my Final! HEEHEE

Ok- so now that I'm able to form sentences... My friend Colby is going to med school and he got in to not only his 2nd choice school (my father's alma mater) but also his FIRST CHOICE school in Canada! SERIOUSLY yo! He gets to go to his first choice school, AND it's cheaper... YAY ( Read more... )