is it november yet?
Jan. 27th, 2004 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fearlesstempI haven't really let this out in my LJ yet, but I'm a wee bit obsessed with the whole election thing. I was in NYC last week watching something on the TV about New Hampshire, and began talking about it in what I thought was a very rational, intelligent way, only to turn around and find my parents staring at me with vaguely scared expressions. I suddenly realized that I was gritting my teeth so tightly that it hurt, and my hands were up in the air above my shoulders because I had been gesturing very emphatically about Something Very Important, and that I probably looked pretty scary.
And it's only January, people! JANUARY! There are, like, ten whole months of madness to go, assuming that the election will actually end on Election Day -- which isn't as sure a bet as I'd thought it was before 2000! I am going to go crazy. I am going to go crazy and, before that, alienate all of my friends and family by becoming a crazy mad election zealot, glued to the 24 Cable News I (for the most part) despise.
If anyone's curious, I'm for Dean, because I think he's got that thing, that je ne sais quoi, that whatever it is that energizes people. Inspires them. Myself included -- I just watched him on the Daily Show and first of all, was stunned that he was doing the interview, and then even more so by the way he did it (which is hard to explain, and really has to be seen, but suffice it to say he pokes fun of most of his recent campaign missteps). And then I danced around the house laughing for reasons I can't quite understand, wanted to wake my parents up and show them, or call my friends and be all, "Look at this guy! Look at him! He's making fun of his creepy smile! Don't you want him to be your President? Don't ya don't ya??? And don't you want him to win New Hampshire, just to show all of the pundits how completely, totally wrong they are AGAIN?!"
It's a good thing I decided to dance alone, I think, because I don't want to start alienating friends and family with my craziness this soon. Still got ten months! Ten whole months!
And so I post this LJ entry.
Here's something for the campaign-obsessed on my flist:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
campaign_desk is a feed from the Columbia Journalism Review, a project that's following and reality-checking the news coverage of the 2004 campaign. Kind of like The Daily Show, but not as funny. Just as informative, though.
In other news: I have a new temp job at a law firm starting tomorrow. Already! Dammit! I wanted to be an unemployed poverty-stricken slacker for a few more days, at least! I'm actually not kidding, which says a lot about my work ethic. I asked my father about the firm, and he said, and I quote, "They're evil." Oh, happy day!
Please, please may they have internet access.
And it's only January, people! JANUARY! There are, like, ten whole months of madness to go, assuming that the election will actually end on Election Day -- which isn't as sure a bet as I'd thought it was before 2000! I am going to go crazy. I am going to go crazy and, before that, alienate all of my friends and family by becoming a crazy mad election zealot, glued to the 24 Cable News I (for the most part) despise.
If anyone's curious, I'm for Dean, because I think he's got that thing, that je ne sais quoi, that whatever it is that energizes people. Inspires them. Myself included -- I just watched him on the Daily Show and first of all, was stunned that he was doing the interview, and then even more so by the way he did it (which is hard to explain, and really has to be seen, but suffice it to say he pokes fun of most of his recent campaign missteps). And then I danced around the house laughing for reasons I can't quite understand, wanted to wake my parents up and show them, or call my friends and be all, "Look at this guy! Look at him! He's making fun of his creepy smile! Don't you want him to be your President? Don't ya don't ya??? And don't you want him to win New Hampshire, just to show all of the pundits how completely, totally wrong they are AGAIN?!"
It's a good thing I decided to dance alone, I think, because I don't want to start alienating friends and family with my craziness this soon. Still got ten months! Ten whole months!
And so I post this LJ entry.
Here's something for the campaign-obsessed on my flist:
campaign_desk is a feed from the Columbia Journalism Review, a project that's following and reality-checking the news coverage of the 2004 campaign. Kind of like The Daily Show, but not as funny. Just as informative, though.In other news: I have a new temp job at a law firm starting tomorrow. Already! Dammit! I wanted to be an unemployed poverty-stricken slacker for a few more days, at least! I'm actually not kidding, which says a lot about my work ethic. I asked my father about the firm, and he said, and I quote, "They're evil." Oh, happy day!
Please, please may they have internet access.
