For my own benefit, when in 2, 5, or 10 years from now I come back to read my old blog entries, I would like to catch myself (and anybody else) up with a brief summary of what has transpired since I put the blog on "pause" back at the end of January.
As far as I remember, February and March were often (not always) cold and depressing. April was a big month for me as I got hired on here as a "Research Assistant" (a big step up from "barely-paid intern"), and moved out of my loving relatives' house into a group house with 3 other 20-somethings just like me. In May I went on my first "business trip," flying to Germany for a week to drink beer and work at a conference about carbon emissions trading. Before coming back from Germany, I also spent a day in Brussels hanging out with a friend of mine and two of her friends who just happened to also be in Brussels that day. Then at the end of May I went to Colorado for a week to see my little cuz graduate (congrats cuz, this should be an exciting time in your life), run the Bolder Boulder (I am pretty proud of my 61-minute time), raft in the Eagle River (beer + river rapids = fun), wash and sell my little red Acura Integra that has transported me all over Colorado since I bought it back in 2002 before graduating high school (it was a good car, I kind of miss it already), and meet up with my good college buddy for a game of putt-putt golf.
That brings us more or less to now where I am mostly just working, trying to hang out with friends when possible, watching the Obama news, etc...
This coming weekend is pretty promising though. I have been invited to a river cruise on Friday evening, followed by a fancy dinner/band evening party here on Saturday. I suspect it will be a pretty swanky shindig.
6.23.2008
6.03.2008
Happilly Naïve
I never would have guessed that this would be the catalyst for me to start blogging again, but here I am. I just saw a picture of Barack Obama grinning from ear to ear after apparently securing enough delegates to clench the democratic primary nomination. It has been a long, close primary, longer and closer than anyone would have predicted, but I am really very happy to see Obama arrive at this milestone.
If you had asked me four or five months ago, I would have told you that although I ultimately wanted to see Obama win the nomination and the election, I probably would have been almost just as happy with another Clinton in the White House. Ask me now though, and I will tell you that the Clinton campaign has completely turned me off and not only will I be happy to see her fade from the scene, but I would probably also be upset (briefly) to see her picked as the VP. At this point I hope Obama picks someone great other than Hillary to be his running mate, and I then I will hope for and expect an amazing victory in the fall. I think I speak for a lot of other people around my age when I say that never in my life have I been so excited about politics, but I feel like I could just as easily be turned off by the whole thing if he fails. So a lot is riding on this candidacy. He holds not only the potential to become the first African American to hold the highest public office in the country, but also, perhaps more importantly, he has the potential to get a whole generation of American's excited and engaged in the political process again. And hopefully he will even be able to live up to our admittedly high expectations of him once in office.
I realize that there is a high probability that I will look back three or four or more years from now with disappointment for yet another empty promise of a presidential candidate, but right now I am still full of (potentially naïve) enthusiasm for what seems to be a new and fresh and better sort of candidate. Call me naïve, but I'm hoping for the best.
If you had asked me four or five months ago, I would have told you that although I ultimately wanted to see Obama win the nomination and the election, I probably would have been almost just as happy with another Clinton in the White House. Ask me now though, and I will tell you that the Clinton campaign has completely turned me off and not only will I be happy to see her fade from the scene, but I would probably also be upset (briefly) to see her picked as the VP. At this point I hope Obama picks someone great other than Hillary to be his running mate, and I then I will hope for and expect an amazing victory in the fall. I think I speak for a lot of other people around my age when I say that never in my life have I been so excited about politics, but I feel like I could just as easily be turned off by the whole thing if he fails. So a lot is riding on this candidacy. He holds not only the potential to become the first African American to hold the highest public office in the country, but also, perhaps more importantly, he has the potential to get a whole generation of American's excited and engaged in the political process again. And hopefully he will even be able to live up to our admittedly high expectations of him once in office.
I realize that there is a high probability that I will look back three or four or more years from now with disappointment for yet another empty promise of a presidential candidate, but right now I am still full of (potentially naïve) enthusiasm for what seems to be a new and fresh and better sort of candidate. Call me naïve, but I'm hoping for the best.
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