October 2004

To depart from politics for a moment…

Amber sent me her diary’s url. It is www.livejournal.com/~_mercygirl_.

I actually have no memory of how or why it got taken down.

Contrary to what she thinks, my friends are welcome to be as egotistical as they like!

#1. THE NEW BLOG

An Empire Wilderness

http://www.empirewilderness.com/weblog/index.php

An Empire Wilderness is maintained by Cory, a graduate student in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is a vegetarian, Eagle Scout, and bitterly cynical Bush-hater.

His comments, however, are reasonable and grounded, qualities I find often lacking in those of us irate at the current administration.

Not much to write today.

I began to draft a Letter to the Editor of the Flint Journal, but I don’t think it’s quite time.

I’m better at responding than I am at opening, I’ve found.

I was referred to MoveOn.org

This is, of course, still a personal blog.

I haven’t gone all political.

Two things from the last month I left out that I didn’t want to, and one addendum:

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THE GODFATHER

About a month ago, Jess and I went to Saturday Mass at St.

Experience has made me a bit more cynical about these things, and maybe I overshot reality in my perception of the debate yesterday.

A lot of commentary has shown that, while there wasn’t a definitive winner, Kerry succeeded in kicking off some of the shackles that have clung to him throughout the campaign, while Bush seemed as mired in his usual weaknesses as ever.

In the last two weeks, not much exciting has happened.

I finished unpacking for the most part. Visited Jessica several times during the week, all while the students at Loyola and the U of C filtered in and took over.