I Guess It Has Been a While

Okay, so it's been like a month since I last posted. I wanted to post something profound or inspiring tonight, but as usual nothing is coming, so I guess I'll settle for a compilation of what I've been up to lately:

Took my car into the mechanics Monday to change the brakes. It's still in there, and will hopefully be back tomorrow. As usual they found other things that were wrong with it when it was in there. Sometimes I hate having a car.

Work continues to be a joke. My boss...well my real boss who signs my paycheck, not the one who actually tells me what to do, asked me the other day what exactly I did all day. She wasn't asking because she thought I was wasting time, she was just curious and didn't know how I spent my ten hour days. I'm pretty sure I could have said just about anything and she wouldn't have cared. Again, this is my actual boss, who signs my paychecks, whose budget is diminshed with every day I work and every mile I drive. I still don't understand how I have a job.

Since I got home this summer I've started to become more and more picky with the types of food I buy. It started with trying to buy less processed and more whole foods, but it has quickly morphed into buying more and more organic foods. This of course won't last for long, seeing as I will be going back to college in September where I will have little to no acess to eith whole foods or organic foods. It'll be fun while it lasts at least. Speaking of which, I have been cooking for myself more and more, something I dearly missed while at college. It has actually been working out well thus far, since my days off are the days my parents don't get home until late, so I cook for myself, while the days I work are the days my dad is home and thus cooks, so I usually get 2-3 meals out of the mix. I just better not get used to it, since my ability to cook for myself will be greatly diminished when I go back to college as well.

One final observation I have recently made. While I work I often will listen to talk radio, since the radio stations tend to play the same songs over and over and I get tired of them, while talk radio at least has some veriety. Anyway, I started the summer listening to Rush Limbaugh in the moring, but quickly grew extremely annoyed and tired of listening to him, so I found a new station to listen to, Air America. If you don't know, Air America is the liberal talk radion network. Anyway, after listening to this station for a while I have come to the conclusion that both sides say essentially the same things, except they switch the following terms; liberal for conservative; democrat for republican; right for left. Let me give you two examples that stuck out to me. The left wing media is a popular theme in the right wing shows, while the right wing media is often found in left wing shows. But this isn't nearly as amusing as their views of each other. Rush Limbaugh continually talks about how the leftists in this country are running scared, they are panicking, and that they are showing America who they really are. Ironically enough, according to Air America the right is running scared, are panicking, and are showing America who they really are. I used to hold the opinion that there was some value in talk radio, that this medium allowed for an exchange of ideas, that people could go further indepth into issues than they can on the cable news, but I have since changed my mind. They are all just demagogues*. They don't care about the truth, they seem to be only interested in rallying the troops if you will. It seems improbable that anything they are saying will actually convince anyone since it is all so one sided, obviously biased, and poorly argued. Yet apparently people like hearing their views trumpeted from the radio so they continue to listen....or perhaps they are like me and just don't want to listen to music anymore.

Well, I think that is all that is going on in my very exciting life, so I guess I'll let you go after reading this long, completely useless blog.

*There are of course a few exceptions, but certainly the top several on either side easily fit within this catagory.