Archive for November, 2006

Emotive Days

A question for all the men, and the women who love them, in the audience:  How often do you awaken in the morning, and once your day gets rolling, discover you’re finding yourself more emotional than usual?  Whether it’s being more passionate in your response to the morning zoo’s antics on the radio during your commute, people on the road annoying you to an unusual degree, the wife and kids bothering you more than usual, or hearing a song that seems to have an unusually profound effect on you.  Ever feel yourself overreacting and not knowing why?  The next question is, are these all manifestations of different types of emotion, or different manifestations of the same emotion?  When I recently had it happen to me, it clearly was the latter.  This emotion could have manifested itself in many different ways–not all of them pleasant–but fortunately, it went the way of simple joy.  It’s a great thing to experience, especially without the use of any chemical compounds.

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Thoughts on the post-election results

I have to say, my faith in my fellow voters has been restored after Tuesday.  At least we sent the only message we could, shit’s got to change.  Seems like Washington got the message loud and clear, and I’m glad Rumsfeld was sent packing, but it’s only a start.  Cheney’s a fucking loon as well, and he needs to find himself a nice retirment hobby at the NRA’s shooting range out there off I-66 in Chantilly.
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