drabbles

D comes back from the SOA protests tonight. His plane doesn't land for another hour, so I'm at home finishing packing and such. He and I are going to San Francisco for Thanksgiving. His sister is getting married the day after Thanksgiving (Congrats E and K!).

I wish I could have gone to the SOA Watch protests this year, but plane tickets were far too expensive. Hopefully next year. I mean, how often do you get to attend a 20,000 person peace protest. That certainly doesn't ever happen in Utah. There are definitely times I wonder what the hell D and I are doing in this state. We just don't fit here.

George Bush on Global Warming

Ha! YouTube is a wonderful source of random blog postings.

a confession

i read fanfic (see definition of fanic here). i started doing it after i saw the first xmen movie and discovered wolverine&rogue fanfic. i've since moved on to firefly fanfic. i'll refrain from discussing my favorite pairings or other such fanfic related topics because this post isn't about fanfic. it's about blogs.

many people, when they post a new story on a fanfic site, give a link to their blog. following these links and reading the entries is always interesting and often amusing. on many levels, i'm envious of those people who are able and willing to post completely random thoughts on completely ridiculous topics. i wish i was more comfortable with this rather new medium of self-expression, such that i didn't feel the need to have every post on my blog be profound or contain some interesting social commentary.

okay, and now i'm going to fall into the 'social commentary' realm again.

so here's the social commentary. the majority of the people who have blogs are in my age group or younger. it seems (anecdotally) that many of the people whose blogs are random daily observations are younger than me. based on various surveys, most adolescents send text messages far more than i do, spend more time on email and more time on the phone. many people in older generations lament this as being a trend away from "quality" social interactions. however, i wonder if it more appropriately represents changing social interactions adjusting to new technologies rather than worsening social interactions.

the interactions are neither better nor worse than when we only had mail or only had mail and telephone, just different. the degree to which people use these new technologies and express themselves through them is simply a reflection of comfort. when you grow up with email being a given and not a "new thing" it becomes integrated into your world in a way that those of us who were introduced to it at an older age can never really comprehend. the same for text messaging, blogs, etc.

so, in my efforts to more fully integrate technologies into my life and consciousness, i'm going to make an active effort to post random, pointless and at times ridiculous daily observations here. stay tuned.