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Sunday, 31 October 04
am i really?
gonna go hold a don sign tommorrow at 7.30am??? oh holy fuck. i probably am.
Posted by brooke at 06:54 PM
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oh eugene, how do i love thee!
yeah, so the job market sucks here in eugene, big time.. and everyone i know is living far below the standard of living they could be living other places, cause the job market sucks so!
but oh eugene..
one reason people love it here...
right now, i'm getting dressed for fellowship. its THAT late already, and i got an extra hour.
grab my dress.. comfy, found at goodwill. everyone loves it, even at the straight laced place i used to work.
but no tights to be found.
thats okay, i'll just throw on my pants that are the same colour as the tights..
socks. need socks.
can't find any but my mulit-coloured-calico acorn socks.
back east, any place else, i'd be horrified. could't do that. would rather go sockless. but no. this is eugene.
i've now happily donned my little dress, my pants i've been wearing day after day (cause they are the only ones small enough to make me feel properly skinnier than i was a year ago), and my calico-socks.
over the socks? birkenstocks, what else??
and you know what? no one will say a thing, bat an eye, look the other way.
cause its eugene. and in eugene we get to wear whatever it is we want.
yeah, dig-it, makes the crappy job market worth it :)
Posted by brooke at 09:57 AM
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Friday, 29 October 04
i might be on to something.
there might be something to it. all i know is that i've felt better the last 2 evenings afterwards. if only i'd done what i didn't do yesterday. we'll see.. hopefully next thursday it'll still be there to do.
how's that for a clue as to what's up in my life? eh?
oh. and i'm knitting my first hat. its coming together nicely. i really love the yarn i'm working with. oooh.. my taste for expensive yarn is going to do my pocketbook in. but i simply cannot work with that red hart crap, not after working with alpaca and pure wool. oh holy fuck no.
and t's shawl.. its coming along.. slowly.. cause i hate the yarn. its acrylic, i bought it cause she's little and it needs to be machine washable, and the texture and the colors i knew she'd like (she does). while i love the intentions of working on the project, the knitting itself is torture. okay, thats a lie. knitting isn't torture.. but its not nearly as nice as say, the alpaca wool.
i found some yarn made in india, recycled in tibet, in a catalog. i keep thinking about it. gonna have to get some. make something nice.. for someone special. the spirit in that yarn, well.. thats the reason to get it.
yes, knitting is spiritual, i don't give a flying fuck what my friend e says. anything that calms my mind and allows me to work with products of the earth, fuck yeah, its spiritual. not like a higher power spiritual, but more a meditation type spiritual. the mixture of the patience it takes, the working with the hands, the building of something, the calming of the mind. isn't that what spirituality is about? building, making, calming, creating.. isn't that what the higher power did, does? isn't that why we are all here? because of those things?
anyhow, i'm gonna have to get mom to take me to the lys in virginia, both places i'm going there.. i need the rest of my xmas present!
Posted by brooke at 10:04 PM
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Monday, 25 October 04
seen on the back of my car.
just to entertain myself today i put this on the back of my car:
Republicans for Kerry
hahahahahahahahahahaha
its on there with a pete defazio sticker (our progressive dem congressman), kitty piercy (our soon to be new progressive mayor), no on 36 (meaning i am pro queer marriage), an abbie hoffman quote, 'create peace' and 'if you feel attacked by feminism, its probably a counter-attack'..
hahahahahahahahaha
just love to fuck with people's minds :)
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Saturday, 23 October 04
and this is where i talk about my life.
i am so putting off doing work this morning. i've run one list, that.. fucker, we've got to run up the river at somepoint this weekend.. no, not we, i e. people need to be called, the woman never ever got the list i mailed to her. fucker fucker fucker.
i've got many more phoning lists to run. and i've got to cut some turf.. though i only said I AM ONLY GOING TO CUT THIS ONE SMALL AREA, BECAUSE YOU ARE THROWING THIS ON ME LAST MINUTE WHEN I THOUGHT I HAD THE FREAKIN' WEEKEND OFF. and also because right before that i said I'LL DO ALL THIS FREAKIN DATA ENTRY THIS WEEKEND.. THE WEEKEND I THOUGHT I HAD OFF.
well. it all has to get done today. and before 4pm. because from 4 to 5 i get to have a heart to heart conversation with a friend about the chronic illness from which i suffer. she knows about the illness and has much advice to share. its a conversation i've been pushing to have, because mostly our conversations have been over the phone, which sucks.. but i admit, i'm a bit nervous about the conversation because of how much crap it'll bring up. afterwards i will most likely not be in the mood to do anything but climb into bed, watch law and order svu (or some other violent cop show, just because i love them so), and cry.
but tommorrow i go to fellowship, AFTER I DRIVE UP THE RIVER TO DELIVER THE FUCKING LISTS, and then i get to spend the afternoon with a friend.
i really am putting off working with THE FUCKING astro. i hate that thing.
update:
THE FUCKING TURF WON'T CUT in streets and trips. so i dropped it off at g's house. FUCKING LET HIM CUT IT (i'll feel guilty about that soon). NO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE FUCK GLENWOOD IS, BTW.
i am in a CRABBY FUCKING MOOD.
FUCK.
but t and p gave me this wonderful heating pad/ cooling pad/ smells nicely wonderful and can just be curled up with at night thingy. feels good curled up next to my heart. so that makes things better.
have i mentioned i desperately need a nap, right now? even though i took one earlier?? these 4.30 am wakings and then tossing and turning till i finally decide to get up is just not good. no. not. good.
i think i caught lisa's insomnia. i didn't think it was contagious.. FROM IOWA. *smirk*
Posted by brooke at 09:06 AM
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Thursday, 21 October 04
global vote.
global vote: where non americans get to vote for the us president.
well.. and americans too. i voted. this time with my gut instead of settling.. yes, i voted green.
now go! join the global community and vote!
i bet kerry wins :)
Posted by brooke at 08:35 PM
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Tuesday, 19 October 04
my brief brush with fame.
yep. carole king came by the coordinated campaign office last week. i've listened to her music on and off, don't own a cd, but appreciate her and what she's contributed to the music world. since then i've gotten a cd, and now i'm hooked.
anyhow, besides her being a great musician, she's got great politics. or, at least, good politics. maybe she's not this hard core lefty like me, but she's definetly to the left of center. gotta appreciate her hard work on behalf of getting bush out of office.
Posted by brooke at 12:56 PM
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ewwww!
i just got a call from those damn YES on 36 fuckers.
ewww. eww. ew.
fuckheads.
hateful fuckheads.
btw, assholes.. i already voted NO on your hate.
oh, and btw. have i mentioned how glad i am to have been raised in a family where we were taught that hate, blind hate, is not okay? that hating because of what someone is goes against the very beings of living in a humane world?
i often wonder what it must be like to have been raised being taught that some people are less okay than others because of their religion, skin color, nationality, sexual orientation, gender.. i wonder what it must be like to be so distrustful of people who are different.
okay, i'll admit.. when you are raised not being around people of all different creeds, and all of a sudden you come in to contact with those folks, being uncomfortable while trying to find your way is one thing.. but being raised to hate these new people.. being raised that when you meet different people you turn your nose up in disgust.. all that energy that goes into keeping that mind closed..
i feel sorry for those people. i really do. i feel sorry for those people who can't open their minds, who can't enrich their lives with the complexity of the human experience.
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Monday, 18 October 04
joining uu
i was not raised in any religion. i was raised being christian by culture-- re: we celebrated the family and gift giving part of christmas, but not the god part, we got easter baskets on easter.. but god.. no, in fact my mom rejected my grandmother's church.
i was one of the few kids i knew who didn't go to church, and so around 9 i began to realize how different i was, and i began to explore. i began to start going to church with my friends. i went to the baptist church, the newlife christian church... yeesh, i even went to a sleep away church camp one summer!
i continued this search through college. as an undergrad i started going to the episcopal church. that was the church of my father's family, the one that my father was raised in. i felt pretty at home there.. it felt pretty liberal.. but i always had a hard time with the 'one patriarchial god' thing. i was a raving feminist, and 'him' and 'he' just didn't jibe with my view of the world.
but then.. then i left the confines of my small college-- after growing up in the confines of a small college town-- and entered the city of atlanta and met a variety of people with a variety of beliefs. it was during the time between undergrad and grad school that i explored wicca, some. i also spent time meditating at a local newage bookstore every friday for many months.
what i knew along the way was that i was searching to belong, i wanted that part of community that my parents never provided me, a community that so many people i knew had and was an essiental part of their lives.. i wanted a religious community.
in the fall of 1997, nearing the end of my term in grad school, a friend in my program mentioned the unitarian universalist fellowship of athens. she invited me to come with her one day. and i did. after the first service i was hooked. after the second service a blessed woman named chip took me under her wing and guided me into the fellowship. i went to the 'new uu' meetings, i joined the women's group, i started going to the early morning lectures. the fellowship became an integral part of my life, and even though i knew i was going to be leaving soon, i became an official member.
i'll never forget my last service there. my minister, teri, made a big deal. she cried as she presented me with a beautiful certificate of membership and told me i would always have a home there. i still have it, and i still treasure it to this day.
i left athens and headed back to blacksburg and started going to the fellowship there. but i didn't feel like i belonged. it wasn't like what i had in athens. when i moved here to eugene.. i went to fellowship (well, this one is a church) occasionally.. but i didn't really know anyone, and there was no chip to grab me and take me into the fellowship.
but all along the way, whenever someone would ask me what i am, religious wise, i'd always proudly say 'i'm unitarian, even though i don't go to church'..
well.. the last 1.5 years in eugene have been wonderful for me, as far as community building. and what i've recently discovered is that i now know a bunch of wonderful people who go to the uu church here. when i walk in to the fellowship, i know folks from my activism work. when i walk in, i belong.
my friend e and i were talking about religion and spirituality one day. i told her i was uu, but didn't go, but that i was beginning to consider starting to go, because i've been feeling a need to belong to a spiritual community. for the past month now, fellowship has become important. i've been going.
yesterday my friend r was there as i arrived. we sat together during the service, i told her i was thinking about joining. she introduced me to our minister, and i told her i was finally ready to make a committment to this church as i had in athens 6 years ago. she was so kind, it felt nice.
so, sometime in the upcoming weeks i'm going to offically join the unitarian universalist church in eugene. i'm going to build myself yet another community. another reason to stick here in eugene with its crappy job market.
i'm excited. i can't wait. i'm thrilled to be continuing my path as a unitarian, and finally.. after all these years, so glad to have found the place i belong.
am i glad i wasn't raised in a church? i don't know. it would have been nice to have that community growing up.. but not being raised gave me the freedom to find my own path. i'm still going to explore, i've never been to a jewish temple, maybe i'll ask my friend c if i can go with her.. and there's a chuch out in the rurals i've been invited too. and then there are full moon circles that go on that i can always find one to attend. but no matter where i go, what i explore, i'll always have my home with the unitarians.. and goddess willing i have a child, my child will have a spirituality to grow up in, one where my child can explore as i did, but with the advantage of having what i didn't-- the community.
Posted by brooke at 05:38 AM
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Saturday, 16 October 04
i'm done..
with my vote at least.
yep yep. so proud! so loooove this oregon postal voting thing. yes, if you haven't heard by now, here in oregon we no longer go to polling stations to vote. our ballots come in the mail, we fill them out, we send them back (or drop them in a ballot box). and for those of you who doubt our system.. the possibility of fraud.. they check signatures. back in january for measure 30 i voted.. they counted my vote, but said i had to come in and re-register for the primary just to make sure i was who i said i was, cause my signature didn't match up.
anyhow.. so, i voted. kerry/edwards. yes. peter defazio. yes. not don hampton though-- fucker. i don't live in the district. but i couldn't vote for my county commissioner, so i wrote in greg ringer-- who ran against bobby green. and sherrif, couldn't vote for the guy who won the primary, had to write in who i voted for in the primary. checked off andrea ortiz for city councilor-- she needs just one vote, she's got it! and kitty piercy, of course, for mayor of eugene. oh yeah, and no on 36 - the queer marriage amendment.
now i just wait. okay, no i don't. thats a lie. now i just continue to work on don's campaign and hold my breath that the voters we've not contacted won't be early voters like me. hold my breath in hopes we can get to them, convince them to vote all the way down the freakin' ballot, for the right man that is.
can't wait till november 2nd. a party at the fairgrounds? like the one i missed in may? oh i hope so. i hope all the dems and the commie-pinko (a new term i've picked up, from someone out in the rurals who was describing the eugene progressive community, to describe my views) lefty people and issues win. oh hope so. we need the lefty's back in power not just in d.c. but also all over oregon.
Posted by brooke at 03:00 PM
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Wednesday, 13 October 04
never thought i could be so in love.
so, i've got a nephew. he was born back in may. i've never met him face to face, cause we're 3000 miles apart, but i get lots and lots of pictures of him.
each day i love him more and more. i never thought i could love someone this much, someone that i've never met. i'm so amazed at this love i have for this child.
i get to meet him after the election. i'll probably cry. i'll smother him with kisses and he won't know who i am. but one day he will, he'll know i'm aunt brooke from oregon. and no matter who he turns out to be, i'll always love him.
i'm just simply amazed.
Posted by brooke at 01:42 PM
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Tuesday, 12 October 04
at some point, and yarn.
i will post pictures of some of the knitting projects i'm working on.
i'm just a beginner. i started last year, but put it down. now that e is in my life and she spins and knits, its perfect. and so i've become yarn obsessed.
i've done a lot of work with lambs pride. its easy, its a great beginner's wool. i've knitted quite the few scarves with it. i'm currently working on a set of 3 scarves, each one exactly alike, just different sizes, one for mom, one for dad, and one for baby.
e gave me some donegal tweed to work with. that was nice. not so soft, not so stretchy, but great texture. i made a triangular shawl for my friend p.
i called my ma the other day and asked her for her favorite color.. blue. that was easy. i'm making another triangular shawl, but with smaller needles, and alpaca wool. oooh.. yummy. its so soft and warm. i can't wait to finish it, cause i want to wear it some before i give it to mom.
i'm about to make my first hat. the pattern calls for lambs pride. i went to the yarn store today to get something different.. but.. goddess.. i'm such the snob. i couldn't find anything cheap but nice. nothing that suit my snobbery. so i'll make the hat out of lambs pride.. but! i did pick up some cotton/acrylic yarn.. i'm not sure what i'll do with it, but the colors are simply delicious.
*sigh*
i was going through some catalogs last night, saw some wool from tibet. oooh.. wouldn't that be nice? and some from india. i'm tempted. but not sure what i'd do with it. but still, tibet. make something to be worn close. such a sacred place tibet is.
okay. thats it. pictures to come soon.
oh yeah.. did i mention, i got my boye needle set? delicious!
Posted by brooke at 03:13 PM
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yes, john edwards is coming.
john edwards is going to be at the u of oregon tommorrow. might i go? i can probably get a ticket. but, well.. after going to see teresa heinz-kerry, the crazy crowd shit and all that crap. ick ick ick. i loved teresa, but not the crowd. i'd love to hear him talk with that accent of his, but i'll get enough of that once he's elected.
apparently kerry might come back. and bushy will be down in central point (southern oregon) thursday or friday. oh, i wish i could go down there. throw an egg at that fucker. hold posters of some of the dead americans and iraqi's. tell him that he's a criminal. tell him that a man with an iq of 98 should not be leading a country with as much power as ours seems to weild. i want to let that fucker know how much he has hurt the american people with his rhetoric, with is evangelical shit, with is stupidity, with.. all that evil that is wrapped up in his political agenda. i want the people who are down there to see they are selling themselves out to the devil. i want, i want.. i want people to get it. and i want bush to get it.
yes, i live in a swing state. so, you know what that means? every candidate is coming to oregon. before the 15th. because on the 15th the ballots drop. yeah, if all goes well i'll have voted by the afternoon of the 16th. i can tell people -- sorry, my mind is made up, i've voted. leave me alone.
but my mind is pretty made up already about our measures. i'm going to be splitting with my progressive community to vote yes on a measure being funded by the insurance companies, but the reason is personal. my ultra liberal, progressive, wonderful doctor says to vote yes on the measure. if she says to vote yes on it, i'll vote for her. yeah, thats a vote for her, because she is the kind of doc you don't find often, and if passage of the measure will make her life easier, i'm all for it.
otherwise, i'll be voting yes for medical marijuana being more readily accessible, yes for protecting the forests, no for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, and on and on.
i'll be voting for bob ackerman -- where the fuck is his campaign?? i've neither seen here nor there of him! no literature, no nothing. i've not gotten one piece of candidate mail. and i'll be voting for andrea and kitty, and of course, kerry and edwards. i'll abstain from a vote in the sherrif's election, because i wanted louis gomez to win instead of the fucker thats there now, i might even just write in louis gomez.
it will be nice to have it all over with, at least for my personal vote.
i'm looking forward to this campaign season to be over with. i'm not looking forward to not seeing the folks i've been working with down at the carry oregon office, but thats life and now that i've become one of them, i'm sure i'll run into them again in my travels. different than my progressive community folks, but good folks, folks with good hearts, just a lot more politics wrapped up in them.
Posted by brooke at 09:32 AM
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Friday, 8 October 04
was i the only one?
was i the only one who heard bushy say:
a) kennedy is the most liberal senator..
b) sadaam would still be in power and the world would be a better place
?
Posted by brooke at 07:37 PM
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Thursday, 7 October 04
teresa heinz-kerry
so, folks some folks wanted my reaction to teresa heinz-kerry. i wrote the following. and to note -- andrea is andrea ortiz, eugene's newest city councilor, who's campaign i was the assistant manager of. kitty is kitty piercy, eugene's new mayor. i adore both of them muchly.
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okay, so.. i'm now a bit more sold on the kerry - edwards ticket. and not just because i got to shake teresa heinz-kerry's hand. no. that wouldn't do it for me.
she talked for a long time. longer than i expected. we were all cramed in, i took my 'short privilage' and got a spot right up against the ropes so i could see every speaker, watch andrea and kitty, really be able to listen to what teresa had to say.
i thought she was going to do a stump speech. i thought the crowd would spend a lot of time cheering. i thought she would rally the troops.
she did. but she also explained what it is that john kerry hopes to do when he becomes president. she talked about their creating jobs through funding of alternative energy sources, she talked about education and the fact that no child should be left behind, and that that should be funded, she talked about afghanistan and iraq, and she talked about health care. every child will have health care by the end of the kerry administration, if they get to do what they want to do. and there will be government coverage for catastrophic health care. and. and. and.
and she referred to our friend mr. kucinich in her talk. yeah, it wasn't a speech, it was a talk. she referred to him, let us know that yes our voices have been heard.
is it a pipe dream she's just sold us? in a country where so many poor people are voting for bush, do we have hope that the kind of change she talked about can happen? i don't know.
i don't know if hope is on the way. but i like our future first lady. i liked that when the bush supporters started to chant that she simply told them they were being impolite. i liked that she told them that they have the freedom to say what they want, but right now it was her turn to talk. they can talk later. i like how she handled it. no god crap, no 'they'll come around and see the light' like cheney threw at my friend peter. simply about manners.
i've never seen hillary speak. maybe she's more charasmatic. or probably just less tired. yeesh, if i'm tired, can you imagine what the kerry's and the edward's and their staff feel like? oh, yeah, i know, because i see dnc staff every day at the office, and they are exhausted.
i like her. i like the fact that she is a modern woman. i like the fact that she is modern like my mother. if you knew my mother, you'd know exactly what i'm talking about. teresa is independent, can speak for herself. she doesn't need her husband to mold her, she molds herself. she is choosing to campaign for him because she *wants* to, not because of some sacred duty to the man who is the be all and end all of her life. she is highly educated and well traveled. her perspective is global. she has chosen america as her country and she's looking out for this country first, but she knows that we are just one country out of hundreds that share this planet. she knows that america is only the center to the people who live here, not to the rest of the world.
maybe this all stuff other folks already knew, but i didn't. i just knew the press hasn't been happy with her because she speaks her mind, and i liked that about her.
i really hate crowds, i hate being cramed in and not being able to get out, everyone squirming for position, not having any personal space.. but this crowd was worth it. it was worth being nearly brought to tears when i saw andrea take the stage, it was worth yelling 'NO MORE' with kitty, but most of all it was worth it to hear someone from our future administration talk about their hopes for this country of mine.
Posted by brooke at 09:23 PM
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cute.
file this under 'just too cute'
leta's mommy wants a new president.
Posted by brooke at 09:42 AM
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Wednesday, 6 October 04
teresa heinz-kerry
teresa heinz-kerry is coming to eugene tommorrow. and *i* have a vip ticket.
yep. i got one of the 29 tickets going around the office. i can't believe it.
and get this.
andrea ortiz, our newest city councilor, (i was her campaign assistant manager) is one of the pre-speakers, as with kitty piercy. i think i'm more excited to see andrea speak on the same stage as our future first lady than i am to be seeing our future first lady myself.
its great to live in a swing state this year. and its great to live in one of the 2 places in the state that the progressives / liberals/ dems know if they loose, they can't win the state. last week it was howard dean (he wears some seriously nose-hair bending aftershave), labor day weekend it was carole king.. howie is going to come back, and max cleland will be at the vets club on friday.
oh and did i mention dick cheney being here and my friend peter yelling him down? georgie is the only one who has dared not to set foot anywhere near eugene. better the fuck not, peter won't be the only one using their first amendment rights to let that fucker know he can't do this shit to us and the world anymore. we'll have swarms of peters if he dares come near eugene.
anyhow. i can't believe it. i get to go see teresa heinz-kerry tommorrow!
Posted by brooke at 10:33 PM
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Monday, 4 October 04
amazing how difficult...
i'm wondering if anyone out there knows how much work goes into those mailers that appear in your mailboxes from your favorite (or not so favorite) political candidates?
*sigh*
we started work last week. not we collectively, one of our campaign volunteers started last week. on the comparison piece. yeah, its the most vital piece of the campaign, its the piece that hits your door step that tells you why our opponent is a scuzz bag and our candidate is the man of your dreams.. or the commissioner of your dreams. or.. whatever.
so, we started last week. we knew it was coming, we knew what our deadline was. we've gotta get this piece on the doorsteps the day the ballots hit (thats campaign speak for arrive).. and it takes a week to print. and days to mail. and we are two weeks out from the day the ballots are dropped (thats election talk for 'mailed'). (fyi: oregon has postal voting. ballots get dropped 15 october, so logically some of us could vote as early 16 october)
last week. friday to be specific. *agh* a team of 3 brought in to work with the volunteer. 1 of us is absent, family stuff. but thats okay, she can work from home. the other 2 of us can work from home, and then together. it'll all go smoothly, we'll be done so we can all have a life sunday afternoon. or maybe even saturday night!oh, wouldn't that be nice? yeah, it would have been.
see, each person has a different take on each word, and each rural person has a different take on what will fly in the rurals, and each urban person thinks that the other urban people are wrong about what will fly in the rurals. and the candidate, he's a good guy, but gollee, his opinion differs from co-manager who lives out there, and city councilor, maybe he's too urban? or maybe he just thinks we should take bigger risks? or .. and then those folks from our opponents home turf. golleee.. you'd think they'd all have a similiar opinion..
but no.
no one has a similiar opinion. ideas from 2 days ago just striking some, others bring in whole new ideas the moment we need to be done..
it all comes down to the voters. how will we not alienate the voters, how will we get them to come to our side. how do we do this without pissing off our opponents donors so they don't send more money to his bottomless bank account (unlike ours) but while also making a point that they are all evildoers and will ruin this county if he's elected with his henchmen in tow?
do we use the words "resource extraction," is it too high fallutin, to educated? and the word "extremist", is it too extreme? do we link him to urban issues who's spin shows the awfulness of his connections, will the rural folks care? how do we make the point of his inxperience, his willingness to rape and pillage the local forests? do we use the words 'rape and pillage'? do we scare them or do we hand it to them on a piece of milk toast? periods? do we use them? and verbs? do we start sentences with verbs? and and and and and.
each and every word is carefully gone over. examined. each and every sentence fragment.. and thats not to mention the citations. we must have exact citiations. we go on wild goose chases, cause our volunteer seems to like to do that to *cough* me, not the first time. well meaning, but not the first time.
when you look at those pieces in your boxes, don't just toss them aside. realize that highly educated, highly experienced, well thought out large committees of people have put together those simple little sentences and images. realize that the mailer might be small, but the work that went into it was more like the work that goes into.. well.. a short novel? but in fast forward time.
its not as easy as it appears, this literature creating. no, its not as easy as it looks. so, do us a favor. read the literature. don't just toss it away. and appreciate the crafting that went into it.
Posted by brooke at 06:48 PM
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mt. st helens
yes, mt. st helens is getting ready to blow.. again. or so they say. its the big talk here in the pacific northwest, even down here in eugene, ~150 miles away from the mountain. we've gotten some warnings here about the ash, if it gets blown down here. most likely it won't get here. its not going to be a big enough eruption to for that to happen.
the news just came on.. a huge cloud of steam has come out of the mountain. we'll see what happens next.
but still. in the middle of campaign season, its such a nice diversion. i've thought about going up there, but i don't have the time. i don't even have the time to go hiking up spencer's butte.
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