Pointless

Ok. So Beth and I have this ongoing battle. We always make fun of each other for the types of men we are attracted to. Apparently I only like battle scarred 50 year-olds, while I am convinced she is only attracted to 18 year olds who are 6 months from out of the closet. I've included pictures below to demonstrate (I purposefully chose these specific pictures to illustrate and exaggerate the difference.) Left, please witness dream-boat Javier Bardem, the Spanish actor who recently won an oscar for his role in "No Country for Old Men." Beth would say he could be my father, and he's so scarred you can barely see his face (I actually don't see any scars, but she's prone to hyperbole). Right, see Justin Long, most recently seen in "Die Hard with a Vengeance". I know he's probably like 30, but seriously with the hat and the boyish grin? He could enroll in high school tomorrow. Anyways the point of this is that we were joking about this tonight, but I realized that evolutionary psychology can explain all of this. So basically there is no point to this post, just some rambling leading to an epiphany which I will not disclose. I'm not going to spoon feed you the evolutionary psych, figure it out on your own if you really want to know more about it.



ok, so maybe I also chose this picture on the left because he looks like a mixture between Wolverine and a vampire. I think it's funny.

Does anybody else see this? Or is it just me?

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?

Let's talk about this for a second...We have a strong alliance with Georgia, and just within the last few months have had cabinet members visit the country. A few days ago, Russian forces invaded a Russia-sympathetic rebel province in northern Georgia. Aggressive, yes, but I can kind of understand the logic behind it. But, they haven't stopped, they are continuing south, outside that province and on into central Georgia. This is Russia's first military action outside of it's own country in over 20 years. Scary, yes.

Today I picked up two GRE study manuals. Good job me. Now I have all the materials I need to do something for which I have no time. But I'm one step closer to living the dream.