Welcome Back...to...me!

So I cannot even remember the last time I wrote on this blog but I know that in my mind it has been too long. Too many things have been left unmentioned, untold, or unexplained. This is the one public conduit through which I feel I can deliver my ideas to someone other than those in my close group of friends and family.

A lot has happened in my absence. I got engaged and married and had a one year anniversary. That's good! My Career goals have shifted from making strong use of my degree and gaining further education...to not being unemployed. That is kinda bad in my eyes. People seem to be more interested in the environment on a national level to some degree. That is good too and I am realising that alternative energies is moving closer and closer to my heart as a true passion. However, some things have not changed even during the long hiatus.

We are still in Iraq and this is obviously still bad, at least IMHO.

Since about October of last year I have been goign to the gym regularly and I am in much better shape then I was when I began so I am very happy with myself. Snowboarding is going to be much more enjoyable this year hopefully because of it.

Last tidbit of info for this post at least is that I got a new car and I love not having to worry about it breaking down which is spectacular but for some reason I feel bad and I miss my old car. Oh well...

Prioritize

Well it happened again. This time it was a movie on TV and last time it was a video game.

More and more I find myself forgetting about things I am supposed to do because of lack of priorities. I don't really have anything to say that is amazingly insightful about the matter but it does upset me. I guess this is kind of a little confession box.

People, despite whatever I might have been thinking, are always more important and ultimately more entertaining than any show or game that I could otherwise be doing. I need to remember this.

So there you have it. Nothing insightful and certainly nothing Arbitrary. Just an honest thought on how I should behave better.

The Blame Game

I am fairly confident, without looking at any numbers or any data at all really, that the amount of energy and money being used to discuss who did this and who didn't do that or somebody didn't do this fast enough or whatever, would have been better spent recovering from the actual disaster. Unfortunately it is more entertaining to watch high ranking officials be scrutinized than it is to watch people suffer while they hope to be saved.

On a side note...who else thinks its hilarious when they have the videos about people driving into gas stations amidst rising gasoline costs worries... shot from a helicopter?

Richard: SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH "Well Donna you can see people just continue to use gasoline as much as ever, even though it costs around 3 dollars a gallon...maybe this will cause people to start moving towards smaller cars." SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH

Donna: [mutters] Or at least stop using helicopters.

Richard: SWOOSH SWOOSH "What was that I couldn't hear you over this gigantic engine" SWOOSH

Donna: Nevermind.

Back to School...Back to Thinking

Howdy everybody. As I have always said. Joel was the perfect way to keep the blog alive through my downtimes. Hopefully since I am back to school I can attempt to blather endlessly to you good people.

I have been working out an idea in my head that I plan to turn into a paper by the end of the term.
The concept is basically a paper about how civic leadership and personal and economic freedom go hand in hand. Essentially proposing the concept that in order for the maximum number of personal freedoms to be maintained...all parties must be leaders or find leaders to defend their values. It is a simple concept which I hope to apply specifically to transitioning economies.

Nothing revolutionary here (not to say anything else I have written ever was) but I just wanted to throw the idea out there. Perhaps for no other reason than to make sure I do not forget it myself.

Trip

MIA Again...The Frustrated Idealist bows out

Sorry everybody for the lack of posts...I have been working on websites so much at my internship this summer I have not felt the urge to come home and write on web pages even more. So there is not too much interning left for this summer and then I shoudl be back. Hope everyoneis enjoying Joel's posts.