Well, I have all day to myself tomorrow, which I'm looking forward to.

Now, don't get me wrong. I love people. One of my fantasies is having a huge house with all my family on both sides living there, and friend's families as well. Well, not necessarily one big house. Maybe like one big house, and several nice sized guest houses. Or better yet, a pre-planned village. I mean, wouldn't it be cool if you lived in a mansion where your immediate family had it's own wing, but it shared a lot of common rooms with your sister's family, your brother-in-law's family, your best friend's family, your husband's best friend's family, etc. Everyone would have their own wing they could retreat into, but then they would have these giant common rooms to mingle in. And when you went to sleep tonight, snuggling next to your soulmate, you would know that under the same roof were all the people who were nearest and dearest to your heart. Now that is heaven!

Slept in early Saturday night until late Sunday morning. Sorry, but I was exhausted!!!

And I have a pulp fiction superhero story roaming around in the back of my head called SEVEN. But really can't start on it until I work on a lot of other different stories.

TTFN!

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First of all, I turn 26 this year, not 14! I know I look young. And I don't mind you carding me if I'm sitting in the bar and order a drink while we wait to get seated. But he's my man, not my daddy (though sometimes he is my sugar daddy, and other times he is my big daddy!). Oh, and if you think I'm underage, stop staring at my chest. Staring at a 14 year old's chest makes you a perv and a pedophile.

For anyone who wants to know what that rant is about, don't ask! Trust me, you're happier that way!

I've spent a lot of time on my raffle this week

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but this weekend, I get back to my writing. There's a police chief in Love City, Arkansas who probably has sworn out a warrant for me, and Lori Hunter of New Ecbatana...well, let's just say I don't want to get a futuristic dragon hunter pissed off at little ol' me. She probably won't care if I'm really 26 or 14.

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One of the best rating/reviews I ever got was a 3.5. I say this because the reviewer went step by step over everything they liked and disliked about what I had written. That was great.

But then, just the other day, I get a low rating with the review of This is pretty good. And I'm thinking WTF? Now, I understand some things I write might not be your cup of tea. And some of polls are a little too cutesy for some people's taste. But to dump me with a 2.0?

And so I went over to the port of the person who dumped that 2.0 on me, read a couple of their pieces, and the words 'spell check' kept on running through my head. But you can't just dump a bad rating on someone who gave you one, even if you honestly think they deserve it. It's almost retaliatory. So I just bit my tongue and moved on.

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Have you ever had one of those days that you just wanted to shout one Anglo-Saxon expletive after another? That you just wanted to type into your blog the word F*** over and over and over? Having one of those days here. Heck, having one of those weeks! But I'm good now!

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I found a real cool website the other day, http://www.politicalcompass.org, and I was a little disappointed that I was actually to the left and south of Barack Obama (I'm an Obama Girl!) To the "south", you say? Well, you have to take the test to understand it. And hey, when you do, you can log your results over at:

ID: 1407757   (Rated: ASR) Political compass  What are your political leanings? by Jenn - Hopeful for the Future

Well, it's been a busy week, both off and online. Work has been hectic, and I've come closing to cross the line of full-blown bitchiness without actually having crossed it.

I'm a little disappointed that my CSI/NCIS contest never really took off. I only got one entry, and that one was only half the required length. I may try this again when I close it down after its official deadline passes, and later on try a more general fanfic short story contest.

I've gotten some nice words for my story "American Spoken Here", which I moved over to my collection:

ID: 1407723   (Rated: ASR) Fifty five  Flash fiction pieces of exactly fifty-five words in length by Jenn - Hopeful for the Future

I come from a family with a strong military tradition. Even now, I make up three different care packages a month to send over to Iraq. Like a majority of Americans, I think it was wrong for us to get into Iraq in the first place but, now that we're there, we have a duty to not leave before things stabilize. And that's not just my opinion, that's the opinion of all the marines, soldiers, airmen and sailors that I know. The ones who are making the sacrifice.

So I guess I'm ranting because I see this disrespect for the men and women who are going over there. And people who make comments like "If there was oil there, we would be in there right now." So how about we get our troops out of Iraq and not move them to another war just because the other war might be socially acceptable? And professors who don't want military recruiters on their campuses shouldn't make suggestions about where the military should be sent to intervene.

OK, my rant is over now. It probably didn't make much sense, but I feel better.

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Well, today is going to be housecleaning today, both off and online.

I've got a bathroom that needs to be cleaned today before a SWAT team from the EPA breaks into my house. Well, maybe it's not THAT, but it's pretty darn close! And, of course, I've got a couple of boxes worth of email and other things that I keep on pretending I'm going to address that I haven't got to yet.

Speaking of getting houses in order, Florida and Michigan aren't going to be doing primary do-overs again. In the long run, this can't be a good thing for either Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama. Nobody wants to be disenfranchised. I don't know about Michigan, but this may make Florida a more easily captured objective for McCain. After all, Sen. Obama's willingness to engage other world leaders is not going to play well with a Cuban-American community that will want either Castro brother to be a pariah in this country's eyes.

Holy giant starfish! I saw that a biological expedition to the south of New Zealand found starfish as large as two feet long. A long list of possible new species might have been found. Just thoguht I would throw this in there because I'm an armchair explorer. Love watching new discoveries made.

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WOO HOO! This is a red---er, pink---letter day for me at WDC. One of my stories won an awardicon in a story contest!

ID: 1395681   (Rated: ASR) A Perfect Day  A perfect day for two people in love by Jenn - Hopeful for the Future

Well, I think my creativity juices are dried up for the moment, at least as far as contests are concerned.

Wow! Signed on today and there were more than forty smurfing emails waiting for me.
Oh, and speaking of smurfs, check out my new in and out

ID: 1399091   (Rated: 13+) What the smurf you looking at?  Come on in and have a little smurfing fun! by Jenn - Hopeful for the Future

You know, being a WDC member has made me appreciate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page that much more. For example, I was doing some research for my story "The Lizzie Borden Murders"  (which is an entry for "A Flicker of Madness" ) Now, to be truthful, I knew the Lizzie Borden poem (Lizzie Borden took an axe,...), and I knew it took place in New England, but other than that, I knew absolutely nothing. Not time frame, or anything. One wiki entry on Lizzie Borden later, though, and I was an instrant semi-expert.

On a lighter note, got a new signature from iKïyå§ama

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Well, today was both fruitful and not-as-fruitful as I wanted it be.

On one hand, I finished two pieces of flash fiction, got a judge for my CSI/NCIS contest and met some really nice people.

On the other hand, I've spent four hours on WDC, and didn't even touch one of three incomplete items which I said I would work on today

Ah, well, it was a good day nonetheless. And that Thomas Edison quote I put on my signatures becomes more germane everyday!

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work".---Thomas Edison

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On political matters, I've been reading about the Jewish Community's desire for Obama to commit to a stance on Israel. I had not heard that the Jerusalem Post had accused Obama's minister of anti-semitism, or that the Anti-Defamation League has said that the Post's accusations are patentedly untrue.

I wonder what will happen after Texas and Ohio? How big a win will Obama have to get for Hillary to drop out? I've heard speculation that Obama could have just a slim majority going into the convention but that Hillary could still win the nomination with the superdelegates. Won't this cause a rift in the party, though? And if she does win the nomination, will she face the double whammy of the disenfranchised Obama supporters not coming out to vote for her, as well as the motivated convservative voters who dislike her enough that they'll overlook their distaste for McCain to vote against her?

And frankly, I don't think Obama will face anything harsher in the general campaign than whe the Clintons dished out in the primary.

On other non-political notes, I cranked out another crossword puzzle, and plan to work on at least one incomplete project staring accusingly at me from my portfolio.

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work".---Thomas Edison

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OK, time for some more semi-political ramblings.

I know everyone makes fun of Chuck Norris, but I remember watching his Walker, Texas Ranger with my Dad when I was a teenager. It was a great morality play, good vs. evil, etc. So if he wants to be on the Huckabee campaign wagon, more power to him. To me, it's just as valid a celebrity endorsement as Madonna endorsing Hillary Clinton.

Now, for the Oprah/Obama connection.Again, I personally like Oprah, even though I'm an Obama girl for other reasons that Oprah's endorsement. I seriously doubt that Oprah in and of herself convinced a significant number of people to vote for Obama, but she did do wonders for his exposure and campaign coffers.




 

Well, this is my first entry into my blog, and what are my thoughts for the day?

Good question! I guess I'd have to be awake enough to have thoughts.

Actually, I'm feeling political today. I was talking to my Dad on the phone yesterday about politics (it's the only way I can keep him on the phone for more than half a minute, is to talk about politics). Anyway, he was telling me this presidential election reminds him of the one in 1992, except in reverse. I reminded him that I was only 12 at the time. Well, he told me that in 1992 that the election was the Republicans to lose, which they subsequently did. This one is the Democrats to lose, which he says they are on their way to doing.

I thought about this, and I disagree. OK, granted, I'm an Obama girl, but he's getting out the youth vote. I think if you were to compare this election to a past one, it would be the one in 1960, with John F. Kennedy.

On other notes, I just started a CSI/NCIS writing contest. Hope somebody enters a story about Abbie. She's the reason I watch NCIS in the first place!

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.---Thomas Edison

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