The temperature has dropped about 20 degrees. And my house? Immediately freezing. In a good way. I've unearthed the old shawl (and taken out the one I started knitting this summer at the cottage), put extra blankets on the bed, started making homemade soups, and now have a constant bed companion in Grace. She's a bed hog. A big, huge, fat bed hog. If it wasn't so blatantly obvious she's cold I would think she actually liked me the way she insists on curling up right next to me or sometimes right on me. I find myself sleeping diagonally to ensure I don't accidentally suffocate her in my sleep as she ain't gonna wake up and neither am I. I love the beginning of fall. Layers of quilts and knitted things and tea and apples and crisp air and good sleeping and football and fires...I know I won't be so thrilled when I finally have to shut my windows and turn on my heat and the market dwindles to pumpkins and squash and the snow starts flying, but today I am blissfully happy.
Strange days at work. I've been busy with planning for next year and there is some big adjustments in how my compadre and I are doing things mainly that we'll no longer be planning programs for "families" (read "kids and teens"). I'm excited about everything we're hoping to pull off--some tasting programs, gardening, cooking, documentaries and lectures--but it's just different. We're used to BIG success and now we'll be in uncharted territory. Plus-drumroll, please-we don't have to do our own PR!!!! Today we met with the new person and I'm optimistic things are going to be vastly different. It's exciting but a little scary and overwhelming. Before we even get to all of that new stuff, however, we have a Day of the Dead program to pull together which is shaping up to be really cool. And the DVD Release Parties. Sigh. I can't wait for them to be over. We've scaled back quite a bit and I really can't wait to show The Simpsons and hand out doughnuts instead of popcorn, but man that program just wipes me out. And leaves me working 2 nights a week. Which I really, really hate.
I'm not certain what's going on but I can't seem to muster any enthusiasm for the upcoming political season. Maybe it's because everyone started campaigning a grazillion years ago. Remember when McCain was king? Remember when Romney was king? Remember when Obama had a shot? Remember when Guilliani was a joke? Remember when Thompson was gonna run and then he wasn't and then he was? Plus Iraq has got me down. In a big way. I foolishly thought the Democrats were actually going to do something about it when they took over the House and Senate in 2006. It's politics as usual: people too busy trying to keep their jobs instead of taking the time to do their jobs. And Bush? Who cares what Petraeus says because he's going to say exactly what Cheney and the neo cons want him to say. Does Bush actually expect the country to be happy with his 30,000 troop withdrawl next summer announcement?!? That's just below pre-surge levels so excuse me for not being thrilled. I don't know what to do over there. I don't know if we should pull out or stay or what we should do. But I can't get over that we shouldn't be there in the first place. And I can't get over if we leave we're leaving a bigger mess than we found it. Bush doesn't care about what's right for Iraq or what's right for America. Bush wants to keep everything exactly the way it is now so he can sneak out of the White House in 2008 and leave this international disaster in someone elses lap. I've thought seriously about voting Republican. Or voting third party should a viable candidate pop up. I absolutely dislike Hillary and I'm only slightly more excited about Obama because despite his youth and enthusiasm I cannot help but feel a lack of depth. And, dare I say, experience? It doesn't help living in a state that is trying to force the party's hand by moving up it's primary thereby ensuring no Democratic candidates visit here. Guess who needs the Democrats right now? This state with it's 7.2% unemployment rate--that's almost DOUBLE the national rate. I'm going to steal Peter's idea and propose we change the primary season thusly: economics. Poorest states get to vote first. Let's get every single candidate to hit Michigan and then Mississippi and then Alaska. We've got the most people out of work, we should get their attention.
Nice to see I haven't lost my idealistic side.
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