Poly Sci 101

I was surprised at this:

What's a Centrist?

Your true political self:

You are a Social Liberal (66% permissive) and an... Economic Moderate (41% permissive) You are best described as a: Centrist You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (62, -32) modscore: (25, 40) W w Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

Leaving me angry and bleh

The Boy has been off to the dorms for 2 weeks now. At first it bothered me more than I would have thought - there was an odd emptiness in my solar plexus and a lurching of my stomach. But he really is a considerate boy - before he left he did something that made me SO mad at him! I haven't told his father, because he was right and I was wrong, and I hate hearing that.

But K knows I am angry with the Boy, and that it helps me not miss him, but he never asks what I am angry about. On some deep intuitive level, he must know that he really, REALLY, doesn't want to know. So instead of asking, he just suggests something, like, "About what, his life?" and I say "Yes, that's it."

Right now I'm not feeling the love. I feel like "bleh."My immediate family is very nice, but the rest of my family kindof sucks. I called my three sisters yesterday, and only one called me back. I guess I should just be glad about that. I send people emails, and people don't bother to respond. People change their blogs and take me off their list. Bloggers I read are quitting or taking breaks.

So I'm admitting to myself that I waste far too much time on the internet, and I should focus my energies on projects that might somehow make me some money. Or some friends. I guess I just keep this blog for myself, but I'd save some time if I just wrote it and didn't post it. Someday I'll print it all out for myself.

Bleh.

Trip Highlights

Summing up our 2-week trip to Colorado is not easy. We did many of the usual things - lunch at my favorite Vietnamese place, a party at our friend Sal's house. We visited more people than usual - a sister in law had moved to town, and my cousin had a baby girl I wanted to see.

In Estes Park - Olympics = food + TV! Opposite of the usual.We sortof hung out and were scared to go back to Denver. See below.

My sisters and I took out my parents for their 50th Anniversary dinner. We celebrated while we were in town, but technically their anniversary is this month. There was a lot of fighting surrounding the choice of restaurants, but the dinner itself came off without any drama.

Rage against the Machine Concert
My sister E got two tickets, and took another sister, M, to this free concert on Wednesday. The band got the Coliseum all riled up against the war, and wanted everyone to to follow them in a march to the DNC. My sisters didn't march the 3 miles down there - they said they didn't want to go to jail. I said, "You didn't want to go to jail WITH THE BAND?"

Thursday we dropped in at the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver, to get a glimpse of the political activities down there. It was good to see people expressing themselves. Also we found some cool t-shirts. The Girl declared herself to be tired of visiting people and started to have a meltdown until we distracted her with lunch. My sister M met us at Chili's for lunch - we shared a fajita dish.

Then we drove to Longmont and K tried to fix a few things at the duplex. We went to see our friend JD's boy Pete playing soccer. That boy is so good looking and just plain nice, and good at soccer too. We went to see our friends practicing with their band, and I was really glad I went. They were really good and we had a good time.

Football game
On our last day there, we went to Colorado Springs to see our friend's son, a Senior, play football. It was the first game of the year.

On the way there we stopped to visit my cousin, C, who is so cool and has the coolest family. It's the kind of house where friends and neighbors just walk in. While we were there an older (than me!) man came in with a teenage boy and girl. It turned out that his son, the boy, was playing for the other team in that same game! So we told them they should come to the game too.

Then we went over our friend's house, and our friend McNeal had come out too for the game. He just got a new job, so he was feeling good. We ate some pizza, drank a few beers, borrowed jackets, and loaded up for the game.

The game started badly, with other team scoring 3 touchdowns in the first quarter! At least our friend's son played really well.Then there was a fight and "our" team's best player was kicked out! Not anyone from the other team, tho not our friend's son either, and I think he was in the thick of it.

My cousin and her family showed up, so that was fun. Then the team started to come back after halftime. After their second touchdown, a player on the other team went down hurt. We waited and eventually they brought out a stretcher for him. Then we noticed it was starting to sprinkle, altho it looked like it was raining much harder on the other side of the field!

Then it moved over to us, and everyone ran for cover. It was raining HARD! I kept thinking it would move off as quickly as it came, and my cousin threw her blanket over me, and I held my plastic seat cover over that! Her husband and son had run under a tree, but that didn't seem to help at all.

After awhile I looked out and we decided to run for the car. We felt much better in the car, but our clothes were soaked! My cousin left with her family, and the Girl and I waited for K to get back. The Girl was cold and soaked and wanted badly to leave. Finally we got enough people to leave, but the guys wanted to stay and see what happened in the game. It turned out they let them play one more play, where our team tied the score, and then they called the game because of lightening.

That's one thing I remember most about Colorado Springs. The sudden cloudbursts, flash flooding, and lightening.

And although I've always loved the mountains, I'm now developing a new love of the soft colors of the plain and fields around Longmont.

I wish I could post pictures, but my photo card has gone kaput. Now I need a way to "rescue" about 300 pictures off that card!

Wish me luck...