Back to get a part of me...

I'm off to Boston. I'll miss you!

Thoughts

Every so often I feel like going on a wild road trip, thinking I just need to see more parts of the country.

I don't know where I want to go, though. I just think, though, that it's important to remind ourselves how small we are every once and a while. Or daily, really. It's not that we're completely insignificant, but there's so much out there in the world that we haven't seen yet, so I don't know why I hold and hold and hold onto things. It's not as if I'll forget them, I remember so much.

But I think it's unhealthy to try to re-live things. Because there are some things that are constant in our lives (for me, it's cookies, and music, and my friends, and my cousins, and my mom, and these days it's even my dad most of the time) that can always be present, and others that can't, I guess, like old loves and old feelings and old weights and old laughs, even if the joke is still funny, or the person is still beautiful, or whatever.

I guess that all I'm trying to say is that there are so many people and things I've never seen or smelled or touched or tasted, there are even words I've never said or written into anything at all.

I just want to drive and drive, but I can't be all places at once, because here at school is a good good place to be.

I need to stop stretching myself so thin and just be where I am.

Thank you thank you, where I am.

NVM. We're good.

Phew!

VOTE FOR OBAMA

Today was really scary. I went to the polling place and got in line and got my ballot and went into the booth. All fine. But then I pulled out the pen and opened the ballot and almost started crying. It has never been real to me, the idea that McCain could actually be our next president. I have been joking in my brain, thinking, "Oh, haha, I'm gonna vote for Sarah Palin because she's HOTT." But I never actually thought about the fact that some people might be walking in to the booth trying to hand John McCain our country. It was really really scary.

The choice has seemed so clear, so apparent to me from Day 1. I've been an Obama supporter since he ran for Senate. I guess it never seemed like much of a decision. But seeing other names there on that ballot made everything real. Terrifying and real.

So I hope that everyone goes out there and does what they can to save our country. I'm scared. But I've done my part -- I'm just crossing my fingers now and hoping really hard. We'll see...