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New chapter, no idea what it will bring

I ordered my graduation announcements yesterday. I graduate in 18 days.

Itsy asked what I would be writing about after that - and that's an excellent question. Would you all even recognize my blog if I wasn't listing all the essays for which I was procrastinating? I don't even know what I'll do with my LIFE with no school, to tell you the truth, I'm sure another life crisis will arrive. Most likely I'll be back to school next fall getting some degree or another.

But first I have to finish up this semester. Two essays of 1500 words each, one 15-20 page paper, and a ten minute presentation. I haven't started any of them. I have 18 days to get them finished.

And then I'll be done. What then? I have NO IDEA.

Posted by Pischina at 9:32 PM | Comments (4)

New Bike!

Of COURSE they didn't have the bike I wanted, but I ended up getting something even better.

My new fire engine red Diamondback Sorrento 21 speed mountain bike.

Much more expensive, it was on sale for $359, but still... it's a great bike and it's beautiful. I'm a sucker for men's bikes I guess, I haven't had a girl bike in a long time.

It's taking awhile to get used to riding again, I think mostly because I don't know the area well yet so I don't know where the bumps, ledges, curbs and large rocks are. I don't like being surprised when I'm on a bike. Going fast. Without a helmet.

Yeah, I didn't get a helmet, shame on me, but I wasn't planning on paying that much so I didn't want to add on another $50. I'll get one soon.

Buffy and I decided it's my Christmas present. She said I couldn't ride it until Christmas, but I told her No, I'm riding it today. And I did.

Happy Happy Me.

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Bike Buying Season

Tomorrow Buffy is going with me to Sports Authority and we're going to get me a bike, hopefully this one. Then I'm going to explore some paths near my house and see where I can ride without worrying about getting run over. There are lots of running paths, but I'm not sure where I can ride. I've never been big on riding where cars drive fast.

We're also going to look at the bike racks for my car, since I purchased the car especially with the tow thingie so I could put a rack on it, but never got around to it. It's time. Then I can bring bike with me to Aptos and ride at the beach.

Then I have my long run scheduled for tomorrow - 5 miles. We'll see how that goes.

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Gym day before Turkey day

Went to gym and the Expresso Bikes were occupied!!

So I ran on the treadmill, 2 miles, until someone got off.
Then I got on the bike, but was a little tired from the treadmill, so I only did 3 miles, but Expresso Bike miles are mostly muscle, so I know I still got a great workout.

And hey, five miles total before Thanksgiving dinner - not many people are getting that done.

Picked up an apple and a pecan pie from Marie Callendars on my way home. Scott will pick me up at 3 and dinner is at 4pm. MMMmmmmm, dinner.

Oh, and I lost four pounds.
:-)

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GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!

Even you Canadians who already celebrated!

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Happy T-Day Eve

Tomorrow we'll all be separated, the kids to their dad and me with Scott to his family. But we'll have a good morning together and three days after.

Buffy and I will be going to the gym as often as possible over the weekend while I try to write my three papers in between.

I'm thrilled to be running again and love working my lungs and heart as hard as I can. It's nice to not worry about dieing in the street. It's nice to feel alive again. (But to Annie: I'm not running any marathons any time soon, especially Boston or New York! But maybe next year!) Honestly I'm thrilled to be running at all, but my goals of doing a 10K again and my first triathlon are enough for now. How many people can say they've done a triathlon, even a sprint tri? So I'm thrilled with my goals for 2009.

Took Buffy to Macy's today while I searched for some jeans, but they were all 12-18 inches too long. How long are the legs of your average person I would like to know??? Never fear, Buffy found some violet jeans she wanted and they were on sale. I went to a different store and found jeans that fit perfectly and were buy one get one free. So there, Macy's. I got two perfect pairs for almost half the price of one Macy's pair.

Hard economic times have hit the Ex's household and I don't want to be all bitter about it but it's hard not to gloat. So I think of it as just being happy and satisfied that karma has decided to right some wrongs in the world, and we'll leave it at that. Or, well, I didn't leave it at all until I'd given a mighty smug look and tried not to laugh at the desperate excuses for not paying child support, leaving the smug, defiant smile on my face just long enough (without saying a word) that he was thoroughly pissed off and stomped back into his house. Okay, that's gloating, right? Musn't do that. I'll just smile at how karma works, and that's all.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends out there. I hope troubled times stay far far far away from all your lives and I want everyone to have a wonderful, love-filled Holiday.

Posted by Pischina at 11:27 PM | Comments (0)

Goals having nothing to do with school:

So February 8 I'm running a 5K in Monterey (the same one we usually run).
On March 22 I'm running a 10K in Mt. View.

And.

On September 27 I'm running my first sprint triathlon.

Old age, Shmold age. I'm doing it.

Posted by Pischina at 10:22 PM | Comments (3)

Bye Bye breastsesesessss

I haven't weighed myself since I started running, mostly because the home scale cannot be trusted and I haven't been to the gym scale this month. My clothes don't really seem like they're fitting differently though, until today.

I'm wearing a blouse with kind of a wrap-around part over the chest area. This morning every time I looked down the wrap was hanging open, exposing my bra. "What the hell is WRONG with this thing today???" I kept yelling at it.

I went to class, and again, sitting up straight in my desk the stupid thing just hangs open. "I don't understand what's going on," I whispered to my classmate/friend. "It didn't used to do this." "Have you lost weight?" she asked.

Dammit. I mean, DAMmit. Because that was it. MY BREASTS HAVE SHRUNK. I've lost weight, not in my hips, not in my stomach, not in my butt, BUT IN THE ONE ASSET I HAD LEFT.

GAH. This is frustrating.

:-)

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YAAAAWWNNNN

TIRED! Sleepy Tired. See what happens when I get 6 hours of sleep?
I need to stick to my regular 4-5.

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Otter!

Today Scott and I went for a walk on the beach at Seacliff and I took pictures. One thing I could not take a picture of was an OTTER swimming in the water! I saw two ducks floating with something big in the water, and I couldn't figure out if it was a large piece of driftwood or a dead seal or something, but then we saw it was an OTTER swimming on its back! I see dolphins all the time at the beach, but I've never seen an otter (in the wild) outside of Monterey, CA or Alaska. The ducks appeared to be following it around waiting for leftovers.

So like I said, no otter pictures, but there are other beach pictures on Flickr now.

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Outsourced - the Movie

To make up for Bolt, I made Scott watch Outsourced with me, a movie from Cinequest that my daughter and I had fallen in love with. Plot: Todd Anderson is the head of a Seattle call center whose entire operation has been fired and outsourced to India. Todd is sent to India to train the new employees.

I love the movie because in the beginning you see India through Todd's eyes; you see stereotypes, crazy cab drivers, cows in office buildings, horrendous art... but it is not long before you are seeing America through India's eyes, and laughing harder at your own self and country and ways than you were at India. The movie shows you the beauty in "tacky" and teaches you that you are indeed a "schmuk". Nothing I could say in a simple blog entry would get across the beauty and humor and lessons that are in this film.

"Did you like it?" I asked Scott when it was over.

"Well," he said slowly, "Thank you. That's what I have to say. Thank you for showing this to me. I REALLY enjoyed it."

He was sure this one would make it to theaters - in reality, it didn't. I see on IMDB.com that there are two theaters showing it this weekend, Varsity Theatre (Ashland,OR) and Drexel East (Columbus,OH). This is one of those movies for which you feel SO LUCKY to have had access to Cinequest, because so many people would never get to see such a fantastic film.

But you're in luck, because you can get it now on Netflix. Or you can buy it from Amazon. I recommend you just go out and purchase it, and I am making a rare guarantee that you WILL LOVE it.

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Bolt - The Movie

Yeah. We saw Bolt.

It was okay. I will say that most of the kids in the audience seemed to really like most of the movie, but they were all thoroughly confused about what was reality and what was not. Not real life reality, but in the movie Bolt is an actor on a TV show and a regular dog during the day. The kids weren't getting that regular/Bolt could not do what actor/Bolt could do any more than Bolt understood it. And then they bring in a double for Bolt... OMG it was nonstop questions from every child in the audience - "Why that not Bolt?" "Why he not the real Bolt?" Why Penny think he the wrong Bolt?"

And then the plot is your basic dog lost from home and needs to travel across the US to get back home - IS THERE NO OTHER DOG PLOT IN THE UNIVERSE????

Bolt was cute, don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a dog like Bolt. But the only thing that really got laughs out of me was the hamster. That hamster was FUNNY. He kept getting left behind and I'd sit there and think, "Bummer, this is going to be torture without that hamster."

So. Yeah. Too many words spent on another formulaic animated dog movie. If you have small kids, go ahead, take them. They'll love Bolt and you'll love the hamster. But you might think twice about really young kids, because they aren't going to understand what's going on.

Posted by Pischina at 3:46 PM | Comments (0)

Gah!

Scott wants to see Bolt!

What has happened to my boyfriend??? I may have to trade him in.


At least he didn't say Twilight.

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Don't get yourself blocked, consider yourselves warned

Hey! Wake up!
Ya'll are falling down on the job!
I asked for your recommendations on which movie I should see this weekend (give me two!). And no one is answering yet. What, are you all WORKING or something? heeeee.
I'm thinking about these:
Religulous
W.
Changeling
Zack and Miri

First person to recommend Twilight gets blocked from this blog.
;-)

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Mowgli? REALLY Ashlee???

You have GOT to be kidding me. Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson have a baby and name it Bronx Mowgli Wentz? Some people should not be allowed to have babies.

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Mojitos are ALWAYS good

BOO! Play was bad. Mojitos were GOOD!

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It's like a Friday today

Yeah, I didn't go to bed until midnight, haha, it's still early for me. It's not that I have insomnia, I just don't want to miss anything! So I usually only get 4-6 hours a night.

Did one presentation in class today, it went very well. My other one was pushed to next week cuz we're always running late, but I spoke to the professor about it before class. It was nice to hear him say things that seemed like direct quotes from my own paper. I must have it right then! And no "disturbing exuberance"!

And in two hours I leave for Flames for drinks with my two friends, then it's off to Taming of the Shrew. Good times. Friday I head over to Aptos, and I have very little to do other than think about my papers. WOOOO! Maybe Scott and I can see a movie! Or... TWO!
Still haven't seen: Religulous, W., Zack and Miri, or Changeling. We've been falling behind. And after this weekend, I won't have a moment of spare time until end of the semester.

So... Which should we see? Have you seen any of them? Each of them has been recommended by at least one person to me. So now we'll put it up for a vote.

OOH, and yesterday I remembered something I used to do years ago on this blog. I was going through some very old posts for another reason, and I came across... (drumrolllllll)...
Saturday Morning Movie Quotes!!
Remember those? When I would post ten movie quotes on Saturday mornings and you would try to guess them? Well, what do you think, should we do it again? Would you participate?
Let me know and I'll decide if I'll do them again. It was a lot of fun, that's for sure.

And now I wait for 5pm and the end of work.

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Can't wait for Thursday night!

WOOOO, done with everything that is due for the rest of this week.
Thursday night I'm going to see The Taming of the Shrew at the SJSU Theater. I'm going with my two school friends who I went to plays with during the summer, and we're all thrilled that we're free on the same day. But first, Drinks! And since we're not driving all the way to San Francisco this time... Adrienne wants to meet at 5:30 for drinks. Umm, the play doesn't start until 7pm. Well, I guess the play is going to be really really good then, or at least it will be after all the drinks we can drink in an hour and a half.

Yesterday (or this morning) I didn't get to bed until 1:30am, and since I'm done with my school work early today, I'm going to bed now, at 11pm. CRAZzZY! On the other hand, I'll probably end up reading in bed. This is just too early for me. We'll see.

Taming of the Shrew! With drinks!!!

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Not quite "brilliant"

Well, you all are very flattering, and I thank you for all the wonderful things you've said. I wouldn't exactly call my proposal "brilliant" though, haha, I mean it was only a one page proposal. Who knows if I can pull it off? It does interest me though, this is the kind of thing that gets me excited, what makes me WANT to write a paper. Why do we as students feel we have to come up with the most inane, boring, jargon-filled subject that no one would ever ever ever want to read if they weren't forced to? That's the kind of thing that makes me dread graduate school. My paper topic is the kind of thing that makes me look forward to graduate school.

However, the comment that you all are the ones who would really "know me when" made me smile big. Because isn't that the truth?

Anyway, I love you all, I really do. Thanks!

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The highlight of my school career

In my graduate class, a seminar on Comedy and taught by my favorite lesbian professor, we have been studying crossdressing in theater, mostly 17th century from Elizabethan period on. We have a 15-20 page paper due mid-December so today we had to bring a paper proposal with us to class, and present it to the class, to discuss.

Plays have always been difficult for me to read, I really need to see them produced on stage for me to completely "get" them. Jacobean drama is especially difficult to find the "comedy" in. So often in class I bring up movies as comparison in our discussions; for instance when we read something horribly vile or violent I bring up "Fargo", which would not read very funny on paper, but on screen it IS funny. And recently I've brought up Monty Python movies as example. I'm in a group of graduate students who maybe don't get out to the movies that often, because I feel like I get a lot of blank looks and "crazy old movie watching lady" faces.

So this weekend, with a paper proposal due, I decided that no matter what, I was going to fit film into my paper topic, and maybe the professor would protest, but I knew that I could pull off a fantastic paper. The last time this professor disagreed with my topic she ended up writing "tour de force" next to my grade of "A". So I pulled up Celluloid Closet to watch, and took all day pausing and playing while I took notes. (By the way, Celluloid Closet is an excellent film for ANYONE to watch, I highly recommend it). But even with the careful study, I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to write about. But I kept on thinking, and two hours before class I just started writing and arguing to myself. Little by little I narrowed my arguments down into what I hoped would be an acceptable enough proposal to begin with. Professor had not asked for a thesis yet, just a good start of an idea. I didn't think I was quite there yet, but this was all I had.

I went to class a little nervous, and wanted to do my paper first so I didn't end up after someone who had their entire act together. But of course, I ended up last. I listened to fifteen paper proposals, some better than others, MANY too technical and full of jargon for me to pay attention to, at least half way out of my league. Most proposals were met with nervous laughter or a couple questions. I remained calm, with the "whatever" attitude I have been perfecting (as opposed to being a perfectionist).

I gave my proposal, beginning with the caveat that we all know that I am obsessed with the performance aspect of drama, and also with films, and that I was going to be including film in my paper but just needed to narrow down my focus. I read from my proposal. I finished. I sat back and took a breath, waiting to hear "But what??" and looked up...

And I heard a cacophony of excited voices: "WOW." "OMIGOD." "That sounds like a BOOK." "That sounds like a book I want to READ." "Wow, now we can all say 'We knew you when.'" It kept going. My brain was all confused. My professor said, "That was really really great, what I especially liked were the connections you were drawing between..." I have no idea what she said. My head was in the clouds. All around me were excited voices, telling each other what a great idea I had, that it sounded so interesting. "Wow. Really?" I asked. Everyone nodded and smiled and STILL kept talking, but I have no idea of what else was said.

It really was the highlight of my entire school career. The day I had a room full of graduate students, some really smart ones too, blown away by my paper idea.

Now I have to live up to it, heh.

Actual proposal after the jump, but it may not make sense if you haven't read the particular plays we had to read this semester.

Research Paper Proposal

In 1995, Richard Dyer, a film historian, said, “Your ideas about who you are don’t just come from inside you, they come from the culture. And in this culture they come especially from the movies, so we learn from the movies what it means to be a man or a woman, what it means to have sexuality.” This is as true today as it was in Shakespeare’s time. Just as we grow up learning how to act and behave in a sexual way from today’s cinema, theater was used to both teach and reflect gender identities of its time. Because Hollywood is the Globe Theater of our times, I would like to explore both our readings and cinematic characters in film. Looking back at the cross-dressing characters we have read about there is a definite change in how these characters are portrayed and how they affect the storyline. Shakespeare’s Rosalind is as vastly different from Moll Firth as they both are from Marlene Dietrich as the tuxedo-clad singer who kisses a woman in Morocco. Film also has a counterpart to drama’s Fop: the Sissy. In the book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies Vito Russo describes the Sissy as Hollywood’s first stock gay character. Much like drama’s version of the Fop, the Sissy dressed and acted effeminately, though Hollywood’s version of the character was to be understood as a homosexual in contrast to theater’s Fop, who is heterosexual. While the Fop/Sissy character is usually only found in Comedy, the cross dressed female can often be found in drama. My hope is to trace the changes in both types of characters from the time of Shakespeare’s plays through current times, and show how they have both taught sexuality, and reflected it, in their own times.

Posted by Pischina at 11:10 PM | Comments (3)

Four Miles

Today I went out for my "long run", planning to do a 3.2 miler, but hoping that just maybe I could pull out 4 miles. This was highly unlikely, as I've only been running about a month now, and I haven't done four freakin' miles in around EIGHT YEARS, and also, Hellooooo, still a fat lady.

I ran the four miles. And had energy to spare.

Around the end of the third mile I just started feeling fantastic, my heart was pumping nicely, my lungs were breathing, and my legs just kept on going. Since moving off the sidewalk and into the asphalt street my ankles haven't bothered me a bit (duh). And so... heart fine, lungs fine, muscles fine, legs ankles feet fine... I figured there was no way I wasn't going to try for the fifth lap. And I did it, and I could have run another 2 miles.

I didn't, because you're not supposed to increase your mileage so much (10% is recommended, my four miles was around 25% as it was). So I was a good, injury-free runner, and did what I was supposed to do.

I turned in the driveway after four miles and served myself up some porkchops and rice.

And it was gooood.

Posted by Pischina at 11:23 PM | Comments (5)

Goodnight Petey *sniff*

Today, CatieCake's little fluffy cat Petey was hit by a car and has died. Little Petey was an identical twin of Phoebe-Cat, and it's really hard to imagine that anything has happened to him. Please send all your love to Catie and her family, and especially I think to Seamus-Cat who sat with Petey in the street until someone came to get them.

I am really sad right now. Petey was a very good cat.

edited to add: because I am always behind in reading Catie's blog, I just now find out that her cat Roo passed away last week. Roo-kitty was 18 years old. I have lost one cat at a time, and it is incredibly devastating - I can't imagine what Catie and Andy and Seamus are going through now. Please send them your love.

Posted by Pischina at 9:56 PM | Comments (1)

I'm home again

We had a great time in Volcano, although I really would have liked one more full day there. It went by WAY too quick this time.

Friday we started driving around 12:30 and hit no traffic at all. The whole time we were chanting "Meat Pies! Meat Pies!" and couldn't wait to get there and have lunch. We arrived at 2:45 and right away went to Humble Pies - but they were closed! For a funeral! We were really happy it was only closed on Friday. So we just went to the Saloon instead and had the best Bloody Marys EVER and their huge chicken quesadillas. We checked into our room about 4pm after another Bloody Mary for each of us, and had some cheese and crackers and peppered salami that we had brought with us. That evening we went to the Cobblestone Theatre (about 20 steps from the hotel) to see "The Man with the Plastic Sandwich". It was okay, but it's always a good time to just walk to the theater and see a show.

The next day we went to Humble Pies for breakfast and had sausage rolls, meat pies, quiche and coffee. Scott actually wanted PIE after that! So we tried their cranberrie nut pie (YUM) and the pineapple macadamia nut, which we already knew was delicious. We decided to order some pies to take home with us on Sunday. We spent the rest of the day walking around town and reading on our balcony. We went back to the Saloon for Bloody Marys and lunch (fish tacos for me, a philly sandwich for Scott), made dinner reservations at the restaurant, and took a nap. Then, back to the Saloon for martinis (with Hangar One vodka, we didn't like them) and then dinner in the hotel restaurant. Braised oxtail for appetizer, salad, crab and shrimp raviolis for Scott and herbed chicken and rice for me. With wine of course. Then back to our room to watch a movie on my laptop (no TVs in the Bed & Breakfast) and went to bed. Or... actually I think maybe we watched the movie before we went to dinner. I think after dinner we walked around town again and then went to bed.

Sunday we woke up, had breakfast in the restaurant and took another walk. Picked up our pies, fresh from the oven (3 Nut Pie for Scott, Apple and Cranberrie Nut for me), and drove home. We got home around 2:45pm.

It was a very nice, relaxing weekend. I can't wait to go back again.

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Countdown to 42

So Saturday is my birthday, the big 42 (I think, haha).
But it's okay. I ran 2.5 miles this evening, and hope to continue that 5 days a week - so it can't be all bad, right?

I have a smart, polite, employed son in college, a very politically active daughter who is more intent on going to college every day, a loving boyfriend who is more patient than I could ever be, and lots and lots of friends. I'll officially have a BA in English and Comparative Literature in less than 7 weeks, and a well paying job in the meantime.

So bring it on, age 42. I'm ready for it!

Posted by Pischina at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)

The best news of all:

NO MORE POLITICAL ADS.

And no more hateful lies from hate-filled people in the Yes on 8 ads.
Now my television is no longer in danger of having my coffee mug thrown into it.

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Good news for today

And in my Global Understanding class my essay that was NOT hard, and that I wrote up in about 90 minutes...

Got an A.

Yay!

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Glad to see marriage has been protected from those dangerous gays and lesbians

Congratulations Californians,
You have now ensured that rapists, child molesters, and convicted murderers on death row have more rights than the same sex couple who lives down the street from you.

What else is there to say? Money well spent, I'm sure. Marriage is safe now. Phew!!

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My favorite headlines of the day:

Mr. President

Hail to the Chief, Bitches!

President Obama

Obama by Chuck Frazier

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Other good news of the day

So yes, Spike was officially hired at Circuit City today, and yes, I had heard that it might be going out of business. Spike was hired as a holiday worker, but was also told that they would be keeping some people after the holidays. The thing is, he's been turning in applications for months now. It's a rough time for kids to look for jobs here, there are too many laid off adults looking for any kind of work. We have a Circuit City three miles from our house - but Spike got hired at one in Sunnyvale: 20 miles away. That's how bad the job market is. So even if he only works there for 2 or 3 months, he's happy for now. In fact, he's so happy he never asked how much he's getting paid.

Also in good news this morning, remember the awful-horrible-no-good essay I had to write for my Honors class a few weeks ago? I got it back today, and the professor (the one not impressed with my "disturbing exuberance") rightfully ripped it apart with his comments throughout the essay, changing words around, disagreeing with my thesis, basically just slamming the whole thing. My grade?

A-

So, um, whatever Professor Dude. My friend's essay was ripped apart with no grade whatsoever on it, so THAT was disturbing, heh. And anyway, I know my essay was bad, I expected a well deserved C or D. Totally shocked at my A-.

But Happy, haha.

So three bits of unexpected good news today. It's going to be a good week in America I think, and I'm really happy to go off to Volcano with Scott for my birthday this weekend. I'll still be reading and writing all weekend long, but we'll be together in a nice relaxing place.

And off to bed with me.

Posted by Pischina at 11:34 PM | Comments (0)

Happy President-Elect Obama Evening!

Well this election went much better, eh? I guess this birthday on Saturday will be much nicer than the one 8 years ago.

Prop 8 is on its way to winning, which kind of hurts my heart. But Gavin Newsome has declared he will keep allowing the marriages until a judge tells him to stop - and Gavin Newsom has done a lot for this issue. I have no doubt he'll never let this drop.

It saddens me that Prop 8 is winning (not won yet though), but the happiness over Obama's win is at a pretty high level. As upset as I am about Prop 8, Obama's win is a move in the right direction overall. I love seeing the celebrations around the world on the news. It's nice living in a country we can be proud of again.

Well done America.

Posted by Pischina at 10:16 PM | Comments (2)

Happy Election Day!

I posted my very first blog on Election Day 2000. I spent the night posting about biting my nails as the television told me that Al Gore was winning the election, and went to bed confident that Gore had won.

The next morning, my birthday, I turned the radio on to all hell breaking loose and some very disappointing news about Bush, and Blue states turned Red, and the whole hanging chad debacle, etc etc. Such a disappointing birthday morning.

And now, eight years later, we have a chance to change things, and have a really great candidate for that change, a really intelligent man who is a great speaker and who the entire world seems excited about - and to top it off he happens to be a black man. The entire picture is so unbelievable and exciting, and I can barely contain myself. Now that the day is actually here I can barely stop the tears from falling I am so overwhelmed wtih excitement and happiness and relief.

And Spike got to vote today, and he's proudly wearing his "I Voted" sticker (as am I) and he even got HIRED today, at Circuit City, so it's a great day all around. It was so great to see him excited, and he read through all the voting materials so he could vote on every issue. At school the excitement was INTENSE, it's all anyone is talking about, even the professors, everyone is so damn excited we can barely discuss anything else. A lot of students, like Spike, are voting for the very first time, and what a great time to be a voter!!

So it's going to be a exciting evening again - but I hope it turns out different than it did eight years ago. With the entire world looking at us, hoping that we'll do the right thing, I hope we don't disappoint them or ourselves. I hope it's an exciting happy evening.

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