Follow the Lighted Promenade

Bush Lied! Today marks the one year anniversary of the day ignorance reigned supreme and life was lost. King Dubya launched his "preemptive" strike against Iraq (to stop their production of nuclear weap...Ahem...weapons of mass...Ahem...evil) and showed the world the wonders of his bloated military budget and ego. I nearly cried when I saw a live picture of Baghdad (just before Shock and Awe) and I wondered what these people were feeling, waiting for the sky to literally fall. I felt so alone. Everyone was pumped up on adrenaline and I felt saddened beyond belief. It was one of the darkest days I have known. I know now that I wasn't alone, that nearly half of this country and 95 percent of the world were against it. The UN was against it. Most of our allies were against it. They said it would disrupt the very fabric of the world's alliance - and they were right. And things have changed for the better. Spain's entire gov't was just voted out

It's been a long time since I've posted here. It certainly has been an interesting time - not boring at all; it's just that I express myself more eloquently in my stories and most of my creativity goes there. I've been a loner again. It's really hard for an introvert to be a teacher and usually I am just overcome at the end of the day. I'll take a nap, eat dinner in front of the Simpsons, read, take a walk, run errands, write, and go to bed. I have to do this at least two or three nights a week or I'll feel lousy. It's been somewhat of a rough run - I've been drinking too much caffeine (though still not nearly as much as most of my friends), I've been a little depressed by the weather, I've been somewhat overwhelmed/ burned out by teaching, and, until recently, I havent been all that creative. But this is a good time of the year to be burned out - the weather invites naps. I went hiking at the Dunes National Lakeshore on Monday - in