Watching Ari Fleischer on last night’s Daily Show… he looks really different without the glasses. I would not have recognized him. I might have squinted at him for a few minutes, thinking he looked familiar, but I would not have guessed it.
Anyway.
I did write a blog post yesterday but it got lost, and then I didn’t rewrite it because it wasn’t much of a post. I’ll probably rehash the same information in this post, just watch. This week has been the longest week on record. I woke up this morning to go to the gym, and thought, “Yay, it’s Friday!!” And it’s not Friday. It’s not even Thursday. By the time Friday rolls around, I will think it’s next week.
Tonight’s the last debate, my friends! I am once again considering watching it with the Obamatons, but I will probably take one look at the rain coming down when I get home from work, and decide that I will once again snuggle into my comforter and watch the debate with my laptop perched on my knees.
Still watching the Daily Show: Ari Fleischer decides to use the Alaska approval ratings in defense of Sarah Palin. She’s the most popular governor! Hey, bitch, you know that Sarah Palin’s approval ratings in the country are now just about where George Bush’s approval ratings are? 32%! That’s not change- that’s more of the same!
October 15th! I can’t think of October now without thinking that it’s time to start Christmas shopping, due to years spent with crazy early shoppers at my previous job. October is the month where I feel guilty that I haven’t started shopping yet. Then I shop in November. Then I’m done by Thanksgiving. Then I spend December buying impulsively for myself. Well, sort of.
Everyone else has put up Halloween decorations, but not me! I’m starting to feel a little guilty about that as well.
But I did spend the weekend knocking off some of the items on my Fourth Quarter To-Do List: I went out shooting on Saturday morning; I did a bunch of laundry, moved winter clothes into my closet and summer clothes out, and filled a couple of bags for Goodwill; and I weeded some flowerbeds on Sunday morning. Yay! I mean, I haven’t tackled my shoe collection yet, which is way overdue, and I haven’t finished the flowerbeds. But it was a good start.
On Sunday afternoon, I was invited at the last minute to take part in a photography event in Columbia, which turned out to be a much bigger deal than I had anticipated. A summary of the event: a photographer in Columbia died this past summer, and her photographer friends decided to put this together in her memory. They invited a lot of families, put up some tents with musicians and activities for kids, and several photographers took quick family portraits for free. The late photographer didn’t have many photos of herself with her kids, so the idea was that all mothers and fathers should have pictures with their children. The photos were then posted to the late photographer’s website, where the families can buy the prints at the same rate that the late photographer charged. Anyway, a story about the event made the Missourian on Monday, and it looks like there will be some kind of story in the Columbia Tribune on Sunday. I was there to take photos of the entire event, so it looks like I will have several photos included in the story on Sunday, if it runs. Cool! I had a good time, and it was fun to meet photographers from the Columbia area since I mostly have met photographers in the Jeff City area. I will put some of my pictures from the event on my blog today or tomorrow, with links to the event site and the Missourian stories, so watch out for that.
In the meantime, it’s been a long week. Did I mention that?
Your reference to shooting reminds me of a conversation I once had about carving.
You mean shooting pictures, not guns.
He meant carving turkeys, not wood.
Wasn’t I the fool to think otherwise?
I think you should be more surprised with the possibility that I would be shooting guns than you are that I am interested in Mizzou football.