I just absolutely love this picture, orange color and all.
Sanditon thus far is proving very strange, I'm still reading what Jane Austen herself wrote, but it just doesn't sound like her at all. They have Austen's notes and diary excerpts for sale at the bookstore downtown, hopefully I'll be able to get on that soon. I think there are two more existing fragments that I have yet to read, of course I'm on the lookout for the both of them but I'm starting to think I'll have to order them online.
Next on my reading list-
1. Middlemarch
2. Daniel Deronda
3. Bleakhouse
That's a great many pages to slog through right there but only three books. I desperately want to go book shopping. (I was going to say need but I caught myself.) I've got a list of books I want something like a mile long. Maybe I should concentrate just a little bit more on writing then reading... the writing might just provide me with the money I need to keep reading what I want.
October 4, 2008 -Reading and Writing-
October 3, 2008 -Of Kittens, a Dog, and a Laser Pointer-
And another leaf picture. I'm going picture taking tomorrow so I'll have some fun new stuff to put up that isn't so repetitive.
Picked up another Austen fragment, Sanditon this time, finished by an anonymous woman. Well, she's true to the Austen style in that much at least, I just hope she doesn't disappoint as much as the last one did.
Things are starting to look like I'm getting my own apartment again. I've applied for a job in Reedsburg that pays $11.35 an hour, and there's apartments right across the street that happen to be leasing. If I got the job we're moving in there.
Today was my boyfriend's day off, so we went to Robot World. I hadn't been there since I was about six, I had so much fun! They have an automatic lawn mower that just runs around all the time mowing the grass, it's so little and fun looking, it even refuels itself. At the gift shop we bought a cheap little laser pointer and took it over to my boyfriend's sister's house to play with the little kittens. They were adorable but didn't get into it very much, we had a lot of fun with the dog though. They have a great beast of a dog, German Shepard, Husky, and something else I can't quite discern that makes its head huge and blocky. He loved the pointer and galumphed after it for a good half hour, trying to pounce on it like a gargantuan fox.
FACT:
Small children are very good at scaring little animals, particularly when driving a Barbie jeep that for some unknown reason has a police siren and lights. This causes kittens to hide in small nooks and not come out even when you shine a laser pointer.
October 2, 2008 -Barack Button-
Another bee picture, I know, but they all just turned out so well.
Not much to say today. I got a cool "America's Next First Family" button with Michelle, Barack and their girls pictured on the front. Stuck that on my jacket. Highlight of my day, seriously.
October 1, 2008 -The Closing Campaign-
OCTOBER!
Adopt a Shelter Dog month
Gay and Lesbian History month
Photographer Appreciation month
And, furthermore, there's only a month left of the presidential campaign. People, you better believe that this election will fully determine whether our nation sinks or swims. We are headed straight for another depression, and no matter what we do to try and fix it, the damage has already been done. We need a leader who, in the next few years, is going to make responsible and intelligent decisions, someone who can prevent a complete plummet. The incredible debt that George Bush has sent us into now becomes our next president's responsibility, so let's just reason this out here.
John McCain is adamant about continuing the war that got us into this mess in the first place. Brilliant, let's just spend another trillion dollars so our men can die in a country we never should have gone to in the first place while here at home the price of basic needs start soaring through the roof. Our economy is in trouble and McCain wouldn't even acknowledge that simple fact until the stock market crashed. What can we expect of him as our president? Blissful ignorance as the middle class becomes extinct? And McCain's "lower taxes" bullshit that he feeds to the swing voters, who does he think he's kidding? Where do you think the money comes from that funds this pointless war? As long as we stay in Iraq our taxes stay the same, not to mention if the idiot actually gets his way and invades Iran. You might as well say goodbye to this country as you know it if that happens.
The War on Terrorism. If that's what this war was really about we wouldn't be overseas. What about the thousands of people shot every year in gang conflicts and territory wars? The mothers who have to bury their sons and daughters due to pointless violence? Maybe we should be worrying a little bit less about weapons in the middle east and a little bit more about weapons in the hands of criminals here at home. If it were up to me, nobody would be allowed to own a gun, nobody at all. That way, weapons can't fall into the wrong hands. Children teased at school don't go out and buy the guns they use to kill their classmates, they just find the key to their dad's gun cabinet. Terrorism abounds in this country, whether it be ignorant, close-minded sign bearers at a gay pride festival, or men dressed in white sheets burning a cross.
People, please, research your candidates this year and make a well informed choice. The youth of this country depend on you to secure a future worth looking forward too. I remember the devastation I felt at 14 years of age, not old enough to vote, hearing that George Bush was once again our nation's president. And now, this man that I didn't vote for and never would have voted for has racked up debt so bad that I will be paying for it the rest of my life. This year, be a true patriot and choose the man that's best for this country and our future.
