Fluffy animals win.

Don't worry, I don't have to wake up at the crack of dawn or anything. Oh wait, I do. What kind of fruitcake plans a Lobby Day that requires you to BE in Oly at 9 am. They know that people are driving in from all over the state tomorrow morning. Are they high? I certainly hope so, because the cruelty that would require them to be able to set that time while perfectly sober is astonishing. Things like this make me want to be politically apathetic, or at least uninvolved.

I went to the Quad's tonight. I am so nerdy, but I LOVE having people who have known me and my family for a long time. And, let's be honest, having someone else feed me is wonderful, especially when cheesecake is included. One thing Jo (the mom) said tonight, however, was thoroughly frightening. Apparently, her wealthy friend was contacted by her Swiss bank and advised to convert all her money in the bank to gold, because the bank was certain that an attack on Iran by the United States was imminent in the next month. Scary. I know lots of people are sure that the administration is headed there soon, but I honestly have trouble believing it. For all of Bush's sheer stupidity, he still has Cheney by his side, and although Cheney is undoubtedly the more evil of the two (making Bush's impeachment a Democrat's nightmare), he must have the political savviness to realize that their administration CANNOT AFFORD another Iraq. Which Iran would inevitably be.

Did you know that pandas bounce? This is true. They fall out of their trees suprisingly often, and when they hit the ground they literally bounce. The babies realize this after a few dozen falls and then start to get even more jiggy with it on tree branches, and just bounce when they fall off.

If I had to rank the top animals that I would like to hold, I would actually put pandas above koalas, even though I have said my whole life that I would love to hold a koala. You can, actually, if you can make it to the Lone Pine Wildlife Conservatory in Australia. They encourage people to volunteer for a 2-week period with the koalas. I would rather go to China, though, because pandas are not as fiesty as koalas, in addition to being less boring. Koalas are boring because they have almost no nutritional value in their diet (eucalyptus leaves)...their daily intake is actually supposed to be the koala equivalent of the amount of nutritional value provided to us by a bowl of cereal. No joke. Anyway, the important thing is that pandas are more playful and fuzzier and thus I will visit China, before I trek down to Australia.

I have discoved that for the first time ever, I can say one carefully chosen sentence in a Spanish accent. "It was black as night when we trekked through the bush." It's pretty amazing. I can't wait to show my cousins. They will tear it apart. (: And here's a related secret: Aqua di Gio cologne may actually be the way to my heart. I wish that every boy I know would wear it. Not so I can fall for them, just so that I can to live in a society where I get to smell it 50% of the time.

Sometimes I think that maybe if I wrote in here when I wasn't falling asleep, I would actually have something profound to say. I don't think I've ever tried it, but let's be honest, half of my time really is spent thinking about pandas, cologne, and petty complaints, so this is probably as good as its gonna get.






"Holler at THAT man. He is fucking fierce!"
Chloe Harper, watching The Long Kiss Goodnight