I’m hungry today. Most days I’m pretty okay with a light lunch, but today I’m hungry. But I still just had fruit for lunch, and I’m still hungry. And I had one of those horrible times in the whole foods, all this food, and I’m so hungry and everything I pick up I think, “I shouldn’t eat this” and I put it down, and then I would think “Well, but I’m hungry, so I should eat something” and then I think, “but you’ll probably have something big for dinner, and maybe ice cream and you shouldn’t eat a mozzarella pretzel”, bah! I don’t usually get caught in that trap, but I did today.
ANYWAY rode my bike last night to this running path that runs along the north river, it is so pretty and there’s just the hugest park for miles and miles and it was such a crystal clear night and MAN it was such a good run. I love those. And then a sweet, cool bike ride home, I’m still flying from it a little and also think that’s why I’m so hungry today.
ANYWAY, a couple of things: as my main man continues to struggle against McCain and as we see more and more that Obama is just “a politician” (did anyone really think differently? Of course he is people!) I just keep enjoying getting to know him more and more and watching him pull the stops out on McCain and watching the rest of the country get to know him and write articles like this one from the NYT. Here is a quote from said article:
But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes.
Now, I realize this article is not written favorably about Obama and you know what? That’s cool. I have said from the beginning and will say it again, I prefer a shrewd politician, I love a man who will do what it takes, I love a little Chicago politics in my president, that’s what its going to take. I never assumed he was all hope and joy, not ever and I never wanted him to be that. I love that he is taken for granted by each who come upon him as “naïve” and “elitist”, my man knows how to get down and dirty and I think this article that tries so hard to make Obama look bad, only cements why I’m voting for him in the first place. *fist bump*
Now, I finished the most frustrating book ever written “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, this was the old dog story book. And I no longer recommend it to anyone. This is the most manipulative book I have ever read….ever.
It is as if the author of the book, who is not a creative writer in the least, said to himself “what’s the saddest thing a person can think of…I know, an old and dying dog” then “what’s the saddest thing an owner of an old dog can have happen to him…I know, his wife gets sick” then, “what’s the saddest thing an owner of an old dog with a sick wife can have…I know, his wife dies and the grandparents take the kid” and it just goes on endlessly like that.
It is a ridiculous book; the ending is ridiculous and close to writing for children.
Yet, and yet, I cried so much finishing the book that my boss asked me what was wrong when I walked in.
Yipes.
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