i confess...

very early in the primary season, i wanted mitt romney to be the republican candidate...

... because he reminded me of professor richard impossible. as an aside, he was originally voiced by stephen colbert.

go! team! venture!

i'd forgotten that obama was black...

okay, so maybe not so much "forgotten." i guess that's not really possible. i'm sure i'd have been able to answer the question if someone were to have asked me if he was. it just was no longer a conscious thought. the whole "first major presidential candidate to be black" thing was no longer a focus of anything. this probably would have raised my faith in humanity a bit, but, of course, i *didn't notice.* it just kinda happened.

but then three wackos had to pull out some half-baked scheme to "harm obama" because "blacks don't belong in political office."

i'm sure there are many who feel this way, many who won't even admit it themselves. they'll come up with other excuses: he was raised without a strong male figure, he went to a madrasah, he's a muslim (really? this is a relevant argument? do they actually know anything about islam? these are probably the same people who'd punch me for calling them "niggardly" because they'd think that it's an insult worse than the actual meaning or their perceived meaning would appear to the average person), or whatever. these people would not have forgotten.

then there are those who are supporting obama *because* he is black. perhaps they are black, and they want one of their own in the white house. perhaps they want to make history. perhaps they just want to piss off their parents. whatever the reasoning, these people will also not have forgotten.

of course, there's nothing to stop people from voting based on whatever criteria they choose. i could vote for mccain based on the fact that his last name is alphabetically closer to my last name than obama's (i suppose my theoretical "new" last name would be closer to obama's, but i'm not legally changing my name... bad luck for obama), i could vote for obama because his face looks cooler on a t-shirt (admit it--mccain's face on a t-shirt would be infinitely creepier), or i could vote for bob barr because his mustache makes me think he wants to be a porn star. nobody can stop me.

oh, back to the point. i haven't thought about it for very long, but i feel like the only purpose their attack will serve is to motivate one or two lukewarm obama supporters and one or two mildly racist voters to get to the polls. had they succeeded, however, hillary probably could have ridden the emotional wave into the white house. what were these guys trying to do again?

mmm... changeless...

the first post-wedding message from matt:

Matt ‎(10:56 AM):
http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1825755

i love us =D

sudden increase in nostalgia == brain tumor?

nostalgia is everywhere for me lately. cause of the current episode? beets.

my entire life, i've only had beats from one place: middle earth. i realize now how lucky i am to have gone there.

of course, at the time, i didn't appreciate how great the place was. great food, from scratch. second helpings if you want them, but only if you've finished everything else. i ate my beats. sometimes, i ate my beats just so i could have more green beans. (man do i love proper green beans...)

we had tornado drills. they took us to the zoo. we practiced evacuating from the second-story (first-and-a-half? i believe it was a split-level) window via an evacuation slide (how cool is that?! i doubt that would be allowed today. what, with the risk of a child breaking his/her arm and the ensuing lawsuit...).

... and i've forgotten where i was going with this post. it would have been poignant, i'm sure. the langoliers have taken a liking to my gray matter.

a disturbing reminder that some things just aren't natural

so... in some misguided attempt to gain weight, i drank a cappuccino slimfast yesterday. yes, i'm an idiot. no, it's not in the way it sounds.

the slimfast wasn't to replace a meal, but merely to supplement a meal. i figured, if i could eat as i normally do, but replace a relatively empty drink with a slimfast containing the nutrients of a partial meal, it should help me gain weight... right?

well, nearly 24 hours later, my pee still smells like artificial coffee flavor. i suspect the scent may be seeping out my skin as well, and i can't detect it because my sense of smell is inundated with the scent and my brain's tuned it out. no, i don't care to test this theory.

seriously. what the hell?

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update: it's now nearly 6:30, and definitely more than 24 hours after the consuming for said beverage. my urine, while nearly clear (hydrated-ru, go!), still smells distinctly of fake coffee flavo(u)r.

never again.