I have to admit, I feel very poetic posting from this tiny little coffee shop, all curled up in a big armchair with a steamy mug of delicious on the table beside me. I’ve got a bunch of Virginia Woolf books beside me and a notebook full of my random scribblings beside those. Life is pretty good.
Atmospheres like this tend to have the same creative and inspirational affect on me. The wall paintings and unused fireplace, the mugs of coffee scattered around the tables like cast off memories, the people talking quietly about town gossip or the paper that professor so-and-so just assigned, everything here makes me want to be creative. I started writing a new story when I got to Morris this year, a story that started out just like any of my other stories: exciting, fun, and likely to never get finished. Yet, I’ve found myself needing to write this year more than I ever have before. Being able to jump into my made up world with my made up characters and write along as they sort out their troubles has been and continues to be the best mental face-washing I can find. Graduate school issues, the GRE, classes, activities, the CA job, all of this stuff has been piling up and it feels good to be able to step away from that pile of important but stressful things for a little while. So, for now I think I will bid Mrs. Woolf a short goodbye and hop off to the Broom Kingdom, where things just might work out after all.
For everyone not familiar with America’s newest club, the Douchers of America, meet Congressman Joe Wilson. He’s a Republican from South Carolina and a few nights ago he shouted out the words, “You lie,” to the President of the United States during said President’s speech. No big deal though, you know, I think the speech was probably only being broadcast to, oh, I dunno, maybe a few hundred…million people. I’m all for having dissenting opinions on things and not going along with the majority just because it’s the majority but really Joe Wilson? Last time I checked, expressing your opinion in the form of a petulant child who is having a tizzy over being told he was wrong is not, in fact, the type of behavior promoted for either the general adult population or the representatives of vast amounts of people. Joe Wilson, you are a doucher and your parents need a good reprimand for never teaching their immature baby boy to grow the hell up and learn what the word respect means. But I should say thanks to Joe Wilson. As a voter who tends to lean toward the liberal end of the scope, you have just given me a little self-esteem boost for a) not being you b) not having nor would I ever have voted for you c) not being a Republican. Kudos, and good luck with puberty.
