new data - should I resurrect the dream?

I don't want to be a jaded person. I want to believe the best.

Dare I let myself allow for McCain's selection of Sarah Palin to signify a move emblematic of the bold, courageous McCain I long for, rather than one of pragmatic tokenism?

It's easy to let your mind regress to the latter by lazily grasping onto stereotypes: she's white, from Idaho, is an "evangelical Christian" (loaded term) with 5 kids and was a TV broadcaster (the lower-paying entertainment sector). That said, she also, at great personal sacrifice, opted out of an abortion knowing her baby had Down Syndrome, and has taxed the gas companies so powerful in her realm.

Granted, Alaskans have not proven themselves to be the most discerning lot...and in July Ms. Palin went under investigation for a little vengefulness...but, is that bad...? I liked Kill Bill I. And Kill Bill II. Maybe a little too much.

"Eventually"????

The NYT headline reads, "Newcomers Adjust, Eventually, to New York"

He suddenly found himself exasperated by slow moving pedestrians, and, like a true New Yorker, began darting around them instead.

“Any time I want to see someone and catch up with someone, everyone takes out their BlackBerrys and says, ‘This weekend isn’t good; how about three weeks from now?’

“Nothing is sugarcoated"...

I am already there and haven't even moved yet!!

It's all about perspective

When I find myself fighting with a wireless mike, i often complain to my group exercise classes that, in addition to commanding the disciplines of physiology, kinesiology, choreography and CPR, I also must be an audio/video expert. Clearly these are not complementary skill sets.

But I'll hush on up after reading about what teachers in Texas are now doing. Talk about "scope creep" in your job description!

Then again, they are from Texas so maybe it isn't such a stretch....lest you think I'm being a blue state snob, take it from the source:

"Country people are take-care-of-yourself people. They are not under the illusion that the police are there to protect them." -- David Thweatt, Harrold, TX school superintendent

Then again, denial always remains an option.

Take the state of Alaska, for example.

"Hey, indictment isn't conviction."

"84 is the new 50."

"People have been voting for Ted for 40 years and their inclination is to keep doing it," Dave Cuddy, a former state lawmaker who finished a distant second to Mr. Stevens, said in a phone interview several hours before the polls closed.

We've all been there.

"Find/Replace"...or is it "evolution"?...

I used to LOVE John McCain. The heroic, principled maverick who did what he wanted to because he thought it was the right thing at the risk of losing personal power.

Right?

Well, maybe it was all a figment of my imagination. That image dissolved when I read that one of McCain's primary differentiators to Bush - his fiscal policies - had eroded.

So I was forced with a painful, wrenching decision:

OPTION #1: Stay embroiled in the past....the facade...the delusion...that he would do the right thing, regardless of partisan power plays. That reality felt SO good. It let me believe what he said. It enabled me to vote with conviction. Gave me a glimmer of hope in the human race.

OPTION #2: Receive the new data. Recreate the model. Rewrite history.

Sigh. Yeah....

Find/Replace!

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Friends don't let friends blog badly! Love y'all, my peeps.


(but it's still in my 'drafts' folder ....I think it's funny so will just chuckle to myself ;-P....)

But if you HAVE to go to grad school....

...why not let it be ...worthwhile? I forgot just how much of a boondoggle biz school was...is...so I had to remind myself tonight. And I don't even drink!