Yes, my darlings, I'm back earlier than I anticipated. It's lunchtime and I thought I'd dash home and try to write a quick entry about what's on my mind today. (Isn't that what these online journal thingies are all about?) I still won't be as regular as I'd like to be (I mean my updates, you gross people!) but until this month is over, you'll have to deal with my sporadicalism. (I am so fond of making up new words. Matter of fact, I made up few while typing the previous sentence [though some might call them typos].)

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(Stop it! No scatalogical humor! I mean it!)

Like the picture up there? A nice gentleman (with whom I've had some correspondence) suggested that I invest in a digital camera so that readers wouldn't have to dig so far into my site to see what I look like. I'd been thinking about doing that anyway, but until I do, I thought I'd at least put a little something up.

Of course, that means I'll have to be fully made-up and hair-styled before I update (though I may keep on my flannel jammies, 'cause they're so gosh darned cute).

Hmmm, I'm going to have to think twice about this...

I'm changing right before my eyes, and I think I like it.

Not that I'm physically morphing as we speak (wouldn't that get a few stares from my esteemed co-workers when I get back to work?). But I've noticed that I am becoming more politically aware over the last four months or so.

I know that I mentioned some of my growing awareness (at least in the activist sense) in a previous entry. Around the same time I started to listen to a local radio station whose programs tend to reflect my own liberal (some might say, progressive) views. Listening to the programs have certainly opened my eyes.

Of course, as befits someone with my innate idealism and cynicism, everything I hear and read is taken with a hefty handful of salt, but it is enough to encourage me to become more educated in the ways of politics.

(Though there will always be a part of me that agrees with a man who once said, regarding politicians, "They suck, they suck, they all suck!" I also know that I will probably never be as politically informed as Mike, but that's ok. I'm not sure that I want to be. At least, not right now.)

While I've generally believed that a populace that doesn't vote gets the government it deserves, it's only been since 1996 that I've voted at all. Even then I wasn't entirely knowledgeable about the people and issues up for the vote. I just either went with what sounded good on the surface, not knowing what kind of add-ons were buried in the measures and propositions, or someone I didn't dislike (Ralph Nader in the '96 presidential election and Gray Davis in the '98 gubernatorial (sp?) election, actually the only two times I've ever voted. Yes, I suck, I know.).

Recently I received, in the mail, the booklet that outlines the candidates and measures up for the March 7th California primary vote. For once I didn't just toss it aside, meaning to look at it later, then never doing so. This time I looked at it and squealed (yes, I actually squealed), "Oh cool! Now I can find out what's going on!" Then I tossed it aside to look at later.

(However, I'll be reading it this weekend. Need time to formulate my opinions, doncha know. Well, that and to decipher the dense language.)

I'm actually excited about the coming election!

It's time for...

Squooshy is sexy.