hello all! today is going to be a good day. got two more papers turned in . . .4 more tomorrow and that's it (except for 2 finals and a thesis, but really - does that matter?) yikes! so i just got back from buying my ticket to atlantic city for senior week (don't ask why but for some reason i was convinced it was free . . . but then i remembered what school i went to . . . ) as i was walking back to my room it hit me that i won't be walking around campus very much anymore. it seems insane that i am graduating college. i mean i just started going to GW - how do i only have one more (full, of course) day of classes left!? it's a complete mystery to me . . . why else is it a good day? 1 reason really - 7:00pm espn. a's vs yankees. we may have lost last nite, but it was a mistake, no doubt, we were too easy on them, given they just got a harsh beating from the bo sox. tonight i'll be watching every play, and my boys never let me down when i'm there for them! i love baseball. except at orioles stadium. in the cold. for a 4 hour game that wouldn't die. and no beer allowed.

so there has been this awesome series in the post for the past few days (sun - tues) about how divided our country is electorally - red american vs. blue america. nevermind that i wrote a paper about that on sat and on sun the post comes out with it . . . whatever. they did a profile of the reddest of red americans (texas) and the bluest of blue americans (san francisco). of course, people commented how lucky i was to be raised in the bluest of blue americas . . . and i was lucky to be in a liberal area - but castro valley is ideologically hours from san francisco. let's all think back to the 2000 elections, the bay area went for gore (as did california as a whole) but there is a good chunk in the middle that's fairly red (that's what you get when you have such a huge and important state like california . . . ) and they all probably voted for bush. castro valley probably fit amongst those red people right? no, of course not - bush was way too liberal for cv - we voted for buchanan. that's right, pat buchanan - man of the people. who doesn't believe in the holocaust. so really, even though i was only 20 min away from the bluest of clue americans, i lived in another world. i count myself extremely lucky i was able to get out, and with my blue values intact.

quick note: although castro valley has it's red side, we are also home to the largest amount of fast food restaurants in a square mile. awesome.