//loc.ation//in a flaming paper bag
//moo.d//tired...but blissful
//bad.thought//fire island seems like a good place to get away with all my homies and meet women.

//politics_what.makes_me((tick))
okay...with the 2004 presidential campaign underway, as a democrat, i'm kinda not-so-thrilled about the whole thing. there are quite a few democratic hopefuls, and none of them really have that charismatic standing-out quality that you'd hope for...none of them have made me really want to give a shit about them...you know?

ruling the republican spectrum, probably un-opposed, is good ol' g-dubya. i'm still not a big fan of his--but, things could be a lot worse...so...yeah.

amidst all of this, i still wish that sen. john mccain would have won the republican primary for the 2000 election...i liked him, as a democrat, i liked him...i still wasn't a big fan of bush back then either, come to think of it. the funny thing is, as a democrat, i was rooting harder for mccain than i was for gore.

i guess a lot of it roots down to charisma...but, also the ability to lead a country well.

//odd_not.even::odd
it just strikes me as odd.

i had a class with this one girl last semester, and we probably had a few conversations, but not to many: just those shoot-the-bull kind of conversations.

this semester, i have crew with her...and she's single now, as opposed to last semester where it was the opposite, and we've been talking more, and the conversations don't seems as stiff--we joke around like we've hung out before...that kind of thing.

i don't know...i'm definitely not complaining...it's just really pleasantly unexpected.

i'm trying not to search for meaning in this, and just taking the whole situation at face value, because it's all really fun. i'm just fighting my old instincts of reading too deeply into a simple situation...it's difficult. but fun.

//((approach))
is there a civilized way of approaching a person who you consider to be quite attractive and just sharing a nice piece of conversation with? if this person is a stranger? if this person is someone you're mildly-acquainted with?

jeez...the ritual acts of courtship really do not get any easier by getting older, seriously. whether you're nine or nineteen, the shit is still difficult.

(see the equivocation? ritual acts of courtship=shit.)

saw you last night
dance by the light of the moon
stars in your eyes
free from the life that you knew
--ben folds five : magic