Traditional American fare, here I come.
Thanksgiving break doesn’t officially start until Wednesday. But for me — well, let’s just say there’s a class or two that might not see my face tomorrow. I’m going home! I can’t wait. Thanksgiving is always the most-needed break in any year. Today I had two papers, a small test, and an art critique, so I’m just mentally blown. It’s time to check out. Hit the beaches (in November? Well, why not?), eat zillions of pounds of turkey, twice that amount of dressing, and just hang with my family for a few days.
Whew. I’ve been counting down to this one for weeks. It’s gonna be so great.
Is it sad that I plan to get lots of stuff done while I’m at home?
I’m going to kick-start the favorite American food part early, though. Tonight I’m going to a community dinner (started by alumni — I guess the whole hospitality and community emphasis of Messiah really does stick with you) that will feature pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, and probably tiny chickens.
Tiny chickens?
Well, I’m not in charge of that part. So don’t ask me.
Filed under general | Comment (0)Internships are the future!
Literally. In my internship, I am living in the future. Next January, in fact — a month that I’m already looking forward to for completely extracurriculur reasons (my first month after I graduate!). Central PA magazine always works a few months in advance, to give time for printing and emergencies to happen, so I’m helping them put together the January issue of the magazine.
Creativity is definitely encouraged, and once I get more in the swing of things, I hope I’m able to contribute.
Mostly, I hope I can find a job. I’m scanning the interwebs for jobs that suit my interests. I’m hoping against hope that I don’t get stuck in a regrettable city for years.
The weather turned cold today, and in a fortuitous turn of events, my grandmother mailed me a flower bulb that arrived. So now when winter blows its unpleasant breezes all over campus, I will have a bright red amaryllis to cheer up my apartment.
Everyone needs a bright red amaryllis.
Filed under general | Comment (0)“I feel more excited today for election day than I did on my birthday.”
That’s the kind of sentiment that filled Messiah’s campus yesterday. Wow, what a day! And now people can’t stop talking about how relieved and/or angry they are about the results. I’m just relieved the country decided overwhelmingly in one direction. I dreaded another re-count. I just don’t think I could handle it. I would’ve had to run screaming around my apartment and maybe tossed a few pillows around for good, angry measure.
Of course, as my co-worker Dan just told me, two states have yet to declare their votes: Missouri and North Carolina. That’s 26 electoral votes yet to be accounted for. Not that it would swing the election either way. It just strikes me as funny that we can declare a winner without knowing all the numbers. Like, shouldn’t there be a due process to all of this?
Also, how did they do it back in the day? Did they have to wait until horses brought in all the votes to Philadelphia or Washington D.C. or something? And would people have tried to mug the vote-carrying horsemen to try and skew the vote?
These are the things I wish history taught us.
And while I’m wishing, I’m going to wish for less rhetoric and more substance for our country. So many people got emotional at Obama’s acceptance speech, or McCain’s concession speech. But you know, both those speeches just gave me a bad taste in my mouth. It’s all just talk, and it’s not even straight talk. We’ll find out what Obama’s made of in the next four years. My guess? That no matter who was elected, the new president won’t be any better than any president we’ve had over the last few decades, and he has at least a 30% chance of being worse.
And I’m going to wish that people would educate themselves about the local party candidates that were on their ballots as stringently as they educated themselves about the presidential candidates. Because it’s not just one man running the show.
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