Just checking.

Is there anyone who doesnt think that the U. S. is going to start withdrawing some number of troops from Iraq by the time congressional elections take place? Yeah, just checking.

In which she can't find a Starbucks.

PS--I love audioblogger.

How I came to believe there is no god

It was a couple of years ago, in November.

Door 1, Bush 0.

I really am surprised that no one has thought of making a new Odd Couple show out of the adventures of Hugo and Dubya.

Singing Chavez

If anyone knows of a way to get a recording of Hugo Chavez singing "El Rey," let me know. Its entertainment value is through the roof and I'd be forever thankful.

We went to dinner at a local Denny's-type place--you know, mashed potatoes and pie--, and had a waitress who kept forgetting parts of our order. She apologized profusely and told us it was her first day. She had an accent--my first guess was Ukraine or Russia and was, other than the forgetting, perfectly nice.

Towards the end of the meal, a new party was seated near us. Most of them were wearing purple UW sweatshirts (it was Apple Cup weekend), and one man at the table started a conversation with the waitress in a fatherly tone. He asked her where her last name originated (Poland/Lithuania), and later, what brought her to the US.

"Well, you know Chernobyl," she started. "We lived near there, and after that happened, my sistered developed leukemia, so my mother and grandmother started trying to apply to all different places to go to, and this is the first one that said yes."

Nervous laughter.

"Oh," someone choked out. "That's nice."

Thunk.

Well, I used to have a website with a journal of sorts, but as of late I found I didn't feel comfortable posting there, because it was too easy to find by anyone from work who might Google me, or by people I'd met IRL I didn't really care for, etc. So I landed here; livejournal has a little too much of a teenage "I'm fat!" "No you're not! I'm fat!" "No you're not! I am!" vibe, and this has an easy way of managing posts.

I may move some of my older entries that I'm fond of from my other journal here later on, but for now this is enough to get me started.