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-ENTER- "Hi, is ______available?  This is Desiree LaVecchia with Senator Barack Obama's campaign."

-ENTER- "Hello, this is Desiree LaVecchia with Barack Obama's Campaign for Change"

That is how I begin phone calls at my new internship.  Yes, I do work for Barack Obama.
This is going to be good.

"Time has been appropriated by institutions.  They've taken it away from us.  Time has been tranformed into production and then production into distribution.  Our work time is converted into salary, and our leisure time into consumption.  So we can actually measure time with bills and coins.  In the instant that time is transformed into hours, ( Read more... )

My life has been filling up with some pretty awesome people and events.  I am really enjoying the pace of things....well, most things.  I was thinking about school today, and the fact that I am done in December.  It is a little bittersweet because I have just recently (say the past year or so) become much more involved on campus and in Tampa.  It ( Read more... )

Melissa's favorite quote goes like this:

"We are not the same people this year as last; nor are those we love.  It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person"

I think about it so much.  My insides are currently a whirlwind, and I cannot find a way to express myself clearly to those around me.  So I have mostly just been ( Read more... )

Senseless babble at 2:55 in the morning.  I cannot sleep.  I felt like I got so much done today, yet I let my dad down...and it has been plaguing me.  I have learned in the past year or so, that one of the worst feelings I can ever experience is letting people I love so dearly down, or just disapointing people that mean so much to me.  It is bound ( Read more... )

 The air today smells like Gardenia's preparing to bloom.  I think that sweet smell, while wandering around looking at beautiful houses in some older parts of town really had it's effect on me.  Put me in a nostalgic sort of mood.

Today was good....The things I did
-Went to Target and bought things to spoil Gracie with, among a few essentials the ( Read more... )

"There are things in my body
There are things that I can see
Birds and bees and forty dollars
I'm so glad you are alive"

I had such a wonderful night!!!  The best in awhile.  Jess and I decided to go to a show at the Skatepark, and it turned out to be one of the most fun shows I have been to in forever.  We saw quite a few awesome bands, including Yard ( Read more... )

Just got off the phone with my dad....and I took a minute to sit back and think about our relationship.  I am beyond thankful for what we have.  He has inspired me more than he will ever realize to begin this path I am walking.  He gives me all the encouragement I could ever need, and then more.  He believes in me, even when I do not really know if ( Read more... )

Don't forget what you've learned, all you give is returned.