hola! ok, so this is officially my last post as a college kid. odd. those words have defined me for so long. now i'm what - a working stiff? a twenty-something? i can no longer just define myself as a student . . . i haven't not been a student since i was 4. 18 years of my life is over . . . scary. alright well i don't mean to be depressing - it's just an interesting state of mind to be in.

so i went to dinner tonight and walking home i realize how uncomfortable my shoes are . . . so i take them off and walk home barefoot. nice to know that even after 4 years the east coast hasn't sucked my cali soul away from me. being barefoot is just soo free-ing. i dunno - it's possible i'm crazy.

so here's my stance on the rumsfeld thing. as much as people think that this is a death meld for bush it isn't. rumsfeld is taking all the blame - it's becoming rummys problem, not bush's. what happened to "the buck stops here" ??? in the end bush is responsible for what this country does while he is president. he is commander-in-chief, he is the top dog in the military - he is the one who should be held responsible for the travesties in iraq - not rumsfeld. this is playing out the way bush wants. rummy is being a good soldier and taking the blame, deflecting from bush. we don't want him to resign, we want him in until nov so people have another reason to vote against bush. which let's face it, what most people will be doing. in that sense i mean that they won't be voting FOR kerry, but AGAINST bush. that's what i'm doing anyway . . . either way, let's stop letting bush off the hook . . . blame the top dog.