my umpteenth blog

So I've spent a lazy break. The day after Craig and I made it home, we all left for Pensacola. Ah sweet mystery of life...We spent 4 days at the beach, the first of which was rather cloudy, but for the most part they were perfect bright days spent floating in clear blue water, avoiding fish, and quoting pride and prejudice ("A bit of sea bathing would set me up forever!"). We went to the naval aviation museum while we were there-- two hours of bliss for my father, and two hours of mild interest for the rest of us. It was a lot larger than I expected and cool for about 30 minutes. My attention span is short for things like that. Since we've been back, I've spent most of my time sitting around the house, reading, crocheting, and...whatnot. I did go out with the sisters a couple of times (we have sisters now!). I've finished 5 books, one of the Jane Eyre which I had somehow never read before. Very good, but not my favorite book ever, as it is for most people. Also Breaking Dawn (better than the last two books, but still very very bizarre), and two F. Paul Wilson books ("Rebirth" and "Reprisal" and I'm about to start on "Night World"). He's...like a talented mix between Lovecraft and Steven King--Scary but not terrifying. The most frightening thing about his universe is not only that evil is strong and mostly wins, bu that the opposing orce is not necessarily good o working for our benefit-- it simply exists to contradict and harass the evil. There is no absolute good, nothing pure and wonderful, and that idea is, to me, terrifying. Anyways, he's a good writer.

I'm about to start my last semester. Sigh. Excited and scared, and hoping that all goes according to plan.

Also, I registered to vote today! That is good, but I don't know who I'm going to vote for. I despise politics because they are, for the most part, highly contentious, and rarely accomplish anything good (which is to be expected, I guess, because there are rarely easy solutions to the problems we face) but I want simplicity, and I want someone virtuous, someone who actually aspires to something other than personal power and glory, to be the figure-head and leader of America. Maybe I expect too much, but I know that it's not an impossible goal, because there have been men and women in our collective past who have worked to improve the world for those who follow, putting aside personal pride and concerns for something better. Where is my James Madison, my George Washington and Abraham Lincoln? Is greatness only borne out of strife?