I woke up with my alarm today at 7 a.m. and am still sitting on my couch in my pajamas-- I'm working from home this morning because at lunchtime, I'm going to look at an apartment with Dave in East Aurora. The birds are conducting a symphony outside my living room window, and the stream behind my kitchen is providing a quiet, gurgling baseline.

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Today, my old day care provider sent me an email. It read "Hi, Kristy! I sent you this so you could do your own detective work!" Then the rest went a little something like this.

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Stolen from Alex, who stole from Sam.... this is brillant.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907?currentPage=1

I read about how ridiculous Sarah Palin's resignation speech was, but I never actually saw it. I just checked it out on youtube.

If I had forgotten, this speech certainly reminded me why I postively HATE Sarah Palin and everything associated with her. Oh my goodness. So much.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqC1afO3Uo4

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I just watched an NBC special called "Inside the White House," and I just have to say it again: I am fiercely proud of our president and this country. We're going to be okay.

"I had bought a map, and I followed Martin Luther King Drive from its northernmost to its southernmost point, down byways and alleys, past the apartment buildings and vacant lots, convenience stores and bungalow homes. And as I drove, I remembered ...  I made a chain between my life and the faces I saw, borrowing other people's memories. In this ( Read more... )

"An Obama job approval rating of 79 percent -- that's the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a national disaster," said Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst. "To many Americans, the Bush administration was a national disaster."

I'm sitting at our ancient, pathetically slow computer right now, trying to write my "Twilight" review before I head to my friend Libby's apartment. In the other room, my neighbor is in the middle of telling my brothers how by 2042, we are going to be living in an entirely socialist nation, white people will be outnumbered by Hispanics and blacks, ( Read more... )

History was made tonight (passive tense be damned ( Read more... )