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remember the hippie berkeley house i potlucked at? a couple that lives there came up with an organization - "chemists for peace"
khalid just bought me one of their mugs with the slogan "making bonds not bombs."
oh, those hippie chemists.
usually when i come home, i don't like to go on the internet. sort of my way of escaping from everything. this has gotten me in trouble in the past and plus, if i ddn't get on here, that would mean a whole more week passing with no blogging. of my recent bloggable thoughts...
~my nephew is the cutest child in the world. when i walk in public with him, i just don't understand why everyone is not stopping and getting googly eyed over him.
~i had a deaf couple and a blind man on my plane with me when i flew home on saturday. i tried to help the blind man find his gate because there is no way for him to know where he is walking. this just seems wrong. not me helping, but with all the extra things done with the ADA, shouldn't there be something at the airport in place to help him out?
~mojan's pictures of chicago make me want to cry. i really miss that place. i've been feeling the cold weather here in virginia, and it makes me want to go back to the windy city even more.
~i finished my first trimester at school! i made it through!
~last week, i went to this amazing amazing conference. it was like that question "if you could choose any 5 people, dead or alive, to have dinner with, who would it be?", and all 5 of those people were there. and then some! at least those people concerning my professional development and future job plans. it was inspirational and so exciting.
each one of these has been forming as an all out post in my mind, and i just haven't. i've really gotta get back on the posting wagon. i was telling shokufeh that my problem, i think, is this: i used to blog/read blogs at work, but now i have too much work during the day to mess around on the internet. and then, i kind of view playing around on the internet as a pretty antisocial thing, so when i go home and only have 3 hours with khalid before i fall asleep, i really don't want to spend it online. anyway, i'm going to have to work on myself and find a solution, because my lack of posting is getting ridiculous.
i got a phone call from bill clinton tonite. he just kept talking and i couldn't get a word in edgewise, but he called. me! okay, so maybe it was a recording. kind of like the one i got from al gore last week.
is it me, or is this election day crazier than others? i think perhaps they've all been crazy, but relative to my entire lifetime, I have payed attention to just a small handful of elections. no matter how heated the races are, they just don't grab your attention as much when you are 12.
i think part of it is that i live in california now, where there are a gazillion propositions and measures up for public vote. i feel this huge sense of social responsibility to do my part as a voter, so i've been spending my evening public transit rides reading up on the candidates and the different propositions. but there is so much and i've lived here for such a relatively short period of time so i'm really confused about a lot of the stuff. along democratic lines, typically yes. but what do you do when you live in berkeley and a republican would get laughed off if he/she ran for mayor, so instead you have several somewhat reasonable democratic candidates? much confusion.
good old bill must have realized my confusion when he gave me the personal call. al gore too for that matter.