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Thursday, July 09, 2009 by jasmine
i think it's truly janky that i can't associate both of my gmails with this blog. google, stop trying to make things more inconvenient than necessary. and i'm going to need them to stop trying to infiltrate all aspects of technology. they're planning on releasing an operating system next year...like, can you at least get google chrome to be on par with firefox first?
today (er, i guess yesterday at this point) i saw john mccain speak. he's not that charismatic. in this era of barack obama, all politicians needs to step their game up. there were a couple hundred self-important interns and young professionals crammed into that room for the opportunity to share space with him. i arrived about a half an hour before he spoke, which means i had to endure half an hour of fidgeting alone while almost everyone else was with their friends. story of my life here. so frustrating. but anyway, mccain proceeded to speak in rhetoric and basically only rhetoric the entire time. "america supports democracy", "the united states has a tradition of all citizens being equal and we support other nations with these values" (OH, REALLY?) and so on and so forth. i find myself becoming increasingly more disgusted with politics. it still enchants and fascinates me like no other, but i don't feel optimistic or inspired by many elected leaders. i seriously didn't think working in a congressional office would harden me, but i really see so many problems with american democracy. alas, i can't really discuss them on the internet at this juncture. it's all fodder for the eventual memoir though.
it just occurred to me that music is my best friend, and i don't talk about it much any more, so i'm going to start doing a song of the day. today's is "all of this" by kpm music. i heard it in a gossip girl promo in, like, 2007, and i had completely forgotten about it until this morning.
today (er, i guess yesterday at this point) i saw john mccain speak. he's not that charismatic. in this era of barack obama, all politicians needs to step their game up. there were a couple hundred self-important interns and young professionals crammed into that room for the opportunity to share space with him. i arrived about a half an hour before he spoke, which means i had to endure half an hour of fidgeting alone while almost everyone else was with their friends. story of my life here. so frustrating. but anyway, mccain proceeded to speak in rhetoric and basically only rhetoric the entire time. "america supports democracy", "the united states has a tradition of all citizens being equal and we support other nations with these values" (OH, REALLY?) and so on and so forth. i find myself becoming increasingly more disgusted with politics. it still enchants and fascinates me like no other, but i don't feel optimistic or inspired by many elected leaders. i seriously didn't think working in a congressional office would harden me, but i really see so many problems with american democracy. alas, i can't really discuss them on the internet at this juncture. it's all fodder for the eventual memoir though.
it just occurred to me that music is my best friend, and i don't talk about it much any more, so i'm going to start doing a song of the day. today's is "all of this" by kpm music. i heard it in a gossip girl promo in, like, 2007, and i had completely forgotten about it until this morning.
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