Bummer

[frameofmind6]

Wolf Blitzer just moved Minnesota from the "leaning towards Obama" pile to the "battleground" pile. (*shivers*)

Not if my absentee vote has anything to say about it...

In other news, I am sick. Yucky. Fortunately the worst of it didn't hit until after my audition on Friday evening (by Saturday morning I could barely speak, much less sing), but still, it's not fun. I made a run to Duane Reade before class today to restock my medicine cabinet, so I'm locked and loaded to power my way through the week...

Oh, and anyone else just a little freaked out by the Wall Street crisis? I really have no expertise in ecnomics, so when they start talking about government subsidies and why they aren't helping Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch the way they did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, I get sorta lost -- but just in general, it's a little unsettling. Especially since I'm, like, looking for a job this year. Not in finance, thank god, but still...this can't be helpful...

Then again, watching the news always makes things look darker. Like all entertainment, the news is best able to sell itself when it offers conflict. And I just came from a writing class where we were talking about an author who committed suicide the other day and reading "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor (not to mention a story written by one of my classmates in which the protagonist vomits a wedding ring and realizes that he's eaten his wife...yeah...), so I suppose that's enough to depress anybody...

At least "The Daily Show" comes back tonight! That'll cheer me up...

Comments

[drjmaxwell.livejournal.com]

I'm thrilled about the economic crisis. Wall Street's had this coming. Die, AIG, die!

[frameofmind6.livejournal.com]

LOL -- well I haven't heard that reaction yet... (*grin*)

The upside for me in all of this is that economic downturn may help boost Obama's poll numbers. If it takes a scare like this to get a competant president into office, I think it's worth it. 'Course, I say that as someone whose parents still pay her rent and who has no particular direct connection to the financial sector, so who am I to talk...

[drjmaxwell.livejournal.com]

Obama is fucking this up so badly. He needs to basically ignore McCain and articulate a positive SUBSTANTITIVE policy portfolio for his first 100 days in office. People aren't voting for McCain in this election. They're voting Yes or No on Obama. McCain's doing the right thing by trying to get people to vote No, but Obama's trying to get them to vote No on McCain, and he needs to be getting them to vote Yes on him.

[frameofmind6.livejournal.com]

I know -- at least he seems to have wormed his way out of the trap of criticizing Palin and elevating her to his level (that was depressing...). But honestly, I think the Dems are really still reeling from the aftermath of the conventions. Everything was going so well for awhile there, and than all of a sudden Palin comes along, McCain steals all their slogans, and it actually *works*, and they're like, "Wtf...?"

[patchcat.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that Ren went to school with you. That's kind of awesome. :S

[frameofmind6.livejournal.com]

LOL -- yeah, that one definitely made me think of Ren. Except with less Kouga... (*grin*)