I didn’t vote. I missed it. I was studying.
I’ve got this French test tomorrow and a lot of research notes to still complete on my final Kafka paper. The research is what is eating up my time. Tonight after posting this, I’ll be working on French.
Regarding the election, I don’t feel too bad about it. I live in Utah Valley. My vote counts for nothing. Either the folks I was going to vote for lost by double-digit margins or they won by the same margin. Besides, our local representatives are basically nothing but a rubber-stamp for the Eagle Forum and most recently for the Tea-partiers (I don’t like the term tea-bagger because my dad really identifies with the tea-party basic premises). The national milieu is far more mixed. I guess the best way to describe my mood right now is slightly left of center with a small government penchant.
The biggest problem with politics in America is that there is that the two dominant parties really do not differ much from one another. There are reasons for this of course (most Americans are slightly right of center moderates), but a little more political diversity would be nice and actually better reflect our national identity.
Like it matters. The election is over and now the two parties will get back in bed together and start looking for ways to make more money for themselves and their supporters who got them elected. A bit pessimistic I know, but these guys rarely represent the values their constituents do beyond making sure they can be reelected once more.
Sorry for the long absence (for the two of you reading this), but there have been a lot of changes in my life recently. The biggest one is that I am going to school again. In a way it is good that I let the web comic go by the way side because it has taken me a long time to get back in the swing of doing research and writing papers. I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but I am an English major and have been a senior for over four years. I’ve had to drop out from time to time to raise kids and earn money (too many credits for financial aid–thank you Bush Administration). Right now though, the kids are raised (one even moved out permanently–my oldest has moved out three times, but keeps coming back, but he’s going to school in New York (Culinary Institute of America) next fall so that should take care of him).
I suppose you saw today’s comic. Groceries are a concern for me. My youngest (a UVU freshman) is allergic to anything with manufactured soy byproducts in it (soy-sauce is safe) so we have to make everything from scratch. That’s quite nice since my oldest wants to be a chef, but in his spates of movingoutedness my youngest or I get to do the cooking. Not too bad, but while I do fine with tv diners and pot-pies, my youngest blows up like a balloon and gets a rash.
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it