look, i twittered today!

• 07:58 listening to PLA #20 on the way to work. <3 #
• 12:07 it's like that board game Mall Madness: "ooh, a long line...try again later!" but, i really want tacos, so i stay in line. #
• 18:21 leaving work...yay! #
• 18:49 @vrsj i'm watching it online, on a washington dc public tv webcast. #
• 19:23 my douchebag neighbour is trying to sell his parking spot for $60. moron. everyone knows the going rate for cubs parking is more like $35. #
• 23:17 ENERGY AND TAXES AND DRILL BABY DRILL is not the answer to everything. biden kicked palin's ass. #

don't blame me, blame loudtwitter.

why am i having bar dreams NOW?

i didn't have any weird, panicky bar-related dreams between the test and the results coming out. i freaked out enough during my waking hours, but my sleep was my own. the anticipation and the nerves never seemed to follow me into dreamland.

it was only last night, after the bar results came out, that the bar first stalked me there.

i had a dream last night that i was at a meeting with my co-workers. we were congratulating each other for passing the bar. i was trying to put on a happy face and play along, but it was painful. it was painful because in the dream, i had received a message before the meeting that ibaby's first notice to me was in error, and that i had in fact failed the bar. there was one person who made an off-hand comment about how it wouldn't have been *that* bad if one of us had failed, because we could always take it again and we could keep working unless we failed it a second time...and i wanted to slink back into a corner until they were done talking about the bar.

i didn't quite believe that it was all a dream until i woke up, checked my email, and saw no "important message from ibaby" in my inbox.

now more than ever

mccain drove me crazy during last week's debate. he claimed that we were clearly winning in iraq. he claimed that a $5000 tax break is a better idea than actual government healthcare assistance. he couldn't put a finger on any way his policies would be different from those of george w. bush.

palin's incoherent blather last night was the last straw.

i made a donation to the obama-biden campaign this morning.

if you don't want to see four more years of what we've got now, and you've got a little money to spare...i encourage you to do the same thing. i have no illusions that this ticket is perfect or that there will be huge changes overnight; neither of those things are possible.

however, they are the only electable ticket who gives us a chance of moving incrementally away from the last eight years. that much, i do believe.