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2008 election

I haven’t had much to say on anyone’s blog about the 2008 election, and I’ll keep my thoughts about it here pretty simple:

1.  I’m glad that I’m able to see a campaign that presents a woman and an African American as serious candidates.  As children, we are taught that we can accomplish anything.  Many a child has dreamt of becoming the President of the United States.  This election reminds us that “there’s never been anything false about hope”.

2.  I really hope that after the primaries this week, the super delegates will decide which candidate they are supporting.  The longer this goes on, the less time the Democratic Party has to deal with Senator McCain and the Republican Party.

3.  I’m particularly disappointed by the way the media has used the 30 second sound bite from Rev. Jeremiah Wright to attack Senator Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the African American church.

4.  I’m glad that this election has re-energized America about politics and the political process.  Other than in POLI 41, I don’t recall talking about super delegates to anyone.

So yeah…I’ll leave it at that…those are my thoughts on the 2008 Election.


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being an adult

Okay, so I’m realizing that I’m a real-life adult.  I get up early, go to bed early, have coffee before work, dress up for work, commute too far for a job that pays too little.  I also try to run errands during lunch (pay bills, go to the cleaners, quick trips to the grocery store), pack my lunch when I can (real adults know that eating out gets to be too expensive), and I contemplate the direction of my life on a daily (hourly, minute-by minute, second-by-second) basis.  Saturdays are reserved for all the things that I can’t take care of on my lunch break, and respective meetings/commitments/appointments.  I go to church on most Sundays, Oh yeah, and I yell at people in traffic (no matter what day of the week it is).

So yeah, the realization for today is that I’m seriously becoming a real-life adult.  Like a FOR REAL grown up.  What in the world?  How did this happen?  And where was I went it took place?  The crazy thing is that I don’t FEEL like an adult.  I actually feel like I was just in college last week.

What I have discovered is that no one REALLY knows how to be an adult.  We’re all just figuring it out as we go along and trying not to make the same mistakes that we’ve made before.  I wish I’d known before that this is what being an adult is all about.  However, it would be slightly easier to manage adulthood if there had been some sort of handbook to the essentials: health insurance, 401k, investments, etc.  I sat in the orientation for my job taking notes as if I was studying for a final exam…all so that I could call my mother and ask what everything meant.

There are advantages to being an adult.  I mean, I’m really excited about my insurance dropping in a few months when I turn 25.  I’m also excited and pleased with my own personal growth- growing even more into who I am and what I desire to be.  I think that becoming an adult just happened a lot faster than I thought…