"A grown-up job" or, "Cindy for Congress!"

For those who don't already know, Monday will be my first day working for Cindy Sheehan's Congressional campaign. If you don't know who Cindy Sheehan is, for shame! Perhaps best known for her extended protest outside President Bush's Texas ranch after the death of her son in the Iraq war, she announced her intent to run against she-devil/Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, after Pelosi failed to introduce articles of impeachment. (And seriously, what else did we elect her for?) Now that intent is finally coming to fruition with an honest-to-goodness campaign - a campaign of which I get to be a part! I'm finally putting the B.A. to work, meaning my dad didn't necessarily waste thousands of dollars after all, and I think we can all raise our glasses to that, my friends.

p.s. If you want any of the following - affordable housing, quality health care, efficient and environmentally friendly public transit, an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a solution to the immigration problem, and for Bush to go suck one - then you had better get your ass out to vote for Cindy on the first Tuesday in November. Okay? Okay.

And here she is getting arrested in D.C.! My kind of candidate.

"Scary Leftist Groups" launch "attack" on Griff Jenkins in DNC "Riots"

Thief!

So.... the book was still there on Friday. So I took it. I'll let you know how awesome it was when I'm done. Unless I'm too busy training manatees at that point, in which case, I might not have time to let you know. Also, I might be stuck down by a higher power as punishment for theft. If either happens.... sorry. But on a positive note: manatees are way cute.

Hey, you forgot your book.

A fellow tenant has left their book on the table in my building's laundry room:

I'm dying to know who it is. Maybe they can teach me too?

P.S.

I seriously wish I could do this.

And this.

Olympic pet peeves

1. The women's gymnastics uniforms. Is there are a good reason for those leotards to be cut so high on the hips? Other than the fact that it's fun to watch the girls pick them out of their butts as they walk back to their teammates? Maybe.
2. The fact that I can't stop watching. And there are all these things to do in my real life getting in the way of my watching.

Maybe that's it.

I CAN'T WAIT!

The Olympics are finally here, and I, as usual, will be spending a good deal of time posted up in front of my computer and/or television hoping to catch every meager scrap of coverage of the equestrian events - in particular, the show jumping. We managed the individual and team silver medals in Athens (the team medal was later boosted to gold based on much-disputed drug charges against Germany's gold medal team), so hopefully we can do that - or better! - this time around in Beijing. Our team kicks ass this year, and even though I'm pretty sure almost no one else cares, I'm excited! But it sure makes me miss this sport. :(

Beezie Madden riding Authentic


McLain Ward riding Sapphire


Laura Kraut riding Cedric


Will Simpson riding El Campeon's Carlsson vom Dach

I am debating

a Nietzschean reading of Kung Fu Hustle. The violent and ultimately triumphant rise of a proudly modest lower class in the face of terrorizing, non-governmental, upper-class power? Whose side would he be on? Maybe this will be my dissertation. 

p.s. I just bought it, so come watch it with me.