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Oct. 23rd, 2008 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicI've signed on to write two pieces for Gadling in a series about music. Specifically, music that inspires you while traveling, or that you associate with traveling. I'm supposed to pick two songs, artists, or albums, I have to include a video (from YouTube, not like a music video), and write about why this music inspires me. This is exactly the kind of thing I should be writing about, yet it's an extremely difficult assignment because holy crap, how do I pick just two? (Two was the max.)
Look for my first post tomorrow. My next one won't be until December, because others are writing their own music posts, too. If an entire blog existed solely for the purpose of writing about travel music, I could do a new posts every day. I've already decided what I'm going to write about for tomorrow, but now choosing the one other song/artist/album for this series is driving me nuts. I feel guilty for all the things I'm leaving out. Of course, there's always the Perpetual Tourist, but due to my noncompete agreement, I'm not supposed to have any subject overlap. Sigh.
Does anybody else feel like October (and the year as a whole) has just flown by? It's the 23rd already. My half birthday is in four days, and I've still been answering "24" when people ask my age. Usually by my half birthday, I've already started rounding up to the next year, which would be 26, since I'm actually not 24 anymore. Summer lasted longer than usual again this year (but now that it's been a 2-year pattern, maybe this is the norm now), but then wasted no time in transition. It went from 90 to 40 pretty much overnight here. And of course the election is suddenly right around the corner. I'm much more confident this year than I was in 2004, and my hopes are dangerously high. It feels right now like there's no place to go but up, but I'm not so naive. After all, the economy is in the shitter, but at least no one's flushed yet. Things are worse than they've ever been in my lifetime, but I'm not foolish enough to call this "rock bottom." Unfortunately, as much confidence as I have in Obama to get us out of our multiple messes, I have even more certainty that if we elect McCain, we will see what rock bottom feels like. I just want the election to happen already, so I can either stop worrying or start bracing myself.
Don't get me wrong; I'm also not naive enough to think that one man is the answer to all of our problems. Obama cannot singlehandedly fix the US. People will have to start paying attention and enacting change in their own lives if we really want to be a strong nation again (by strong, I don't mean militarily, I mean not-on-the-verge-of-total-collapse). I think we're getting a real wakeup call right now, and if losing jobs, houses, cars, and retirement doesn't get people to stop living so wastefully, I'm not sure there's any hope. Bah. I'm not trying to be so negative. I just don't understand why things like conservation and responsibility have become partisan issues. I know these thoughts seem disjointed -- that's because I've deleted a lot of the joining sentences. It's too early in the morning to get riled up.
Peace.
Look for my first post tomorrow. My next one won't be until December, because others are writing their own music posts, too. If an entire blog existed solely for the purpose of writing about travel music, I could do a new posts every day. I've already decided what I'm going to write about for tomorrow, but now choosing the one other song/artist/album for this series is driving me nuts. I feel guilty for all the things I'm leaving out. Of course, there's always the Perpetual Tourist, but due to my noncompete agreement, I'm not supposed to have any subject overlap. Sigh.
Does anybody else feel like October (and the year as a whole) has just flown by? It's the 23rd already. My half birthday is in four days, and I've still been answering "24" when people ask my age. Usually by my half birthday, I've already started rounding up to the next year, which would be 26, since I'm actually not 24 anymore. Summer lasted longer than usual again this year (but now that it's been a 2-year pattern, maybe this is the norm now), but then wasted no time in transition. It went from 90 to 40 pretty much overnight here. And of course the election is suddenly right around the corner. I'm much more confident this year than I was in 2004, and my hopes are dangerously high. It feels right now like there's no place to go but up, but I'm not so naive. After all, the economy is in the shitter, but at least no one's flushed yet. Things are worse than they've ever been in my lifetime, but I'm not foolish enough to call this "rock bottom." Unfortunately, as much confidence as I have in Obama to get us out of our multiple messes, I have even more certainty that if we elect McCain, we will see what rock bottom feels like. I just want the election to happen already, so I can either stop worrying or start bracing myself.
Don't get me wrong; I'm also not naive enough to think that one man is the answer to all of our problems. Obama cannot singlehandedly fix the US. People will have to start paying attention and enacting change in their own lives if we really want to be a strong nation again (by strong, I don't mean militarily, I mean not-on-the-verge-of-total-collapse). I think we're getting a real wakeup call right now, and if losing jobs, houses, cars, and retirement doesn't get people to stop living so wastefully, I'm not sure there's any hope. Bah. I'm not trying to be so negative. I just don't understand why things like conservation and responsibility have become partisan issues. I know these thoughts seem disjointed -- that's because I've deleted a lot of the joining sentences. It's too early in the morning to get riled up.
Peace.
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Date: 2008-10-23 09:27 pm (UTC)I voted yesterday (WA mails ballots) and I feel very helpless now. The suspense is giving me an ulcer. I'm asking random strangers if they have voted yet!