life and puppies

Admittedly, I struggled some with Minnesota, West Virginia and Ohio — among others.  This is how it looks on my chalkboard wall, pre-election.  Let’s see how it looks tomorrow night.

You come after the fruitfly, you’d better be ready.  From the always vocal and former Bush-supporter Christopher Hitchens, comes this gem:

“This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus.  Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist.  They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured.  And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just ‘people of faith’ but theocratic bullies.  On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.”

Also, it’s been reported that it is snowing in Madison, Wisconsin. I don’t have a window office — this, despite the fact that when I started here four years ago my boss assured me it would be a matter of days until I would be able to see outside — so I cannot confirm.

Ok, I did it: I just emailed Sundance and told them I couldn’t do the ’09 festival.  Sigh.  Was this the right decision?  I think so.  When I signed up to do it last year, it’s not something I ever thought I’d want to do more than once.  And for almost the entire time I was there, it wasn’t sonething that I thought I’d ever need to repeat.  But then, at the tail end of the fest — as I started to get a hang of things — I thought, “Maybe again would be ok.”  And then months and months passed with very little of my brain devoted to Sundance, but then that email INVITING me back!!  And I replied!  I admit: I fell for it out of vanity.  But I’ve now come to my senses.  I think. 

These are the reasons that I don’t need to do it again: I already did it.

Right?