Digression: I haven't updated this blog in a while. I probably shouldn't be taking the time to update it now. But I will anyway. Reflections, for my own mind's sake.
Here's another thought on the matter...
I began blogging at the beginning of the primaries. Remember my second post? (If you're not, um, me, you probably don't.) It was written in my grandparents' basement while watching the Republican debates.
That was 11 months ago. Everything was so different.
I'd never been west of Chicago.
There was a real possibility that Mitt Fucking Romney would be the next president of the United States.
I would be leaving for Oregon in a matter of days, and I had no idea what I'd find there.
And now.
November 5th, 2008. America just elected Barack Obama president of the United States. At the end of January two things will happen: Obama will be inaugurated, and I will be out of a job. I have no idea what will happen after that.
What do I have to show for this time of this life?
I just finished revising a short story I started writing in 2005 (when I had never been west of Cleveland, written a grant application, graduated college, broken up with my first girlfriend, or placed in a psychiatric hospital.) It's creepy. I really like it.
I don't know what to do next.
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I always wonder why the hell anyone would move to Oregon. I was born here so I didn't have a choice.
I am glad you update your blog. The reader you could care less about enjoys a brain with depth. I know all about the negative traits too you wear like a flambouyant shirt but I tell ya. I don't care. It isn't about flattering you as the reason I want you to write. It is all about me looking for some depth in this world.
So you say you'll be out of a job now? First thing I would do is leave that dumpy little town your in.
correction* you're in rather.
yeah I am a natural born hick.
I couldn't not care less about you! I like it when people read stuff that I write, especially when its nonsense.
You don't understand that in the east of America, Oregon exists in the mind as a promised land, an ecosocialist utopian paradise kingdom ruled over by the kindly ghosts of Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. Then you get here and you find that actually, most of it is Central Pennsylvania without the coalmines.
ok good now that we are in agreement!
ahh central Pennsylvania.
But there is so much history there! We have salmon.
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