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[ilanarama]

Politics report: getting whoa scary acrimonious on the local level. What do you do when two people you know socially run against each other in a primary?

Movie report: the Durango Independent Film Festival is so far a lot of fun. This afternoon I hope to sit in the theatre from 3 until 8 and watch my little eyeballs out.

Psotcrad report: tofty has beautiful small precision handwriting.

Remodeling report: I unpacked three boxes of books to put them on our new!!! bookshelves!!! today. The Ekornes chairs we ordered are supposed to come in on Wednesday.

Running report: eight miles yesterday, the longest I've run since I started getting knee problems in November. Felt pretty good.

Snow report: still none at all.

Comments

[frosch.livejournal.com]

Generally, when it comes to politics, religion, and other such supposedly serious pursuits, I find it most socially successful to cultivate an artificial superficiality. I ask myself, "What would Zaphod do?"

It has been my experience that people in general find this much more attractive than dealing with my core personality, actual feelings, and well-considered opinions.

Usually, of course, I don't find it worth the energy to maintain such a facade, which is a large part of the reason I'm not very active in the community in which I live.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

As it happens, politics is to a great extent our social outlet (perhaps in the same way that church is that for others) as both Britt and I work at home and thus have a hard time meeting people. It works pretty well, as most of the people we are in contact with agree with our actual feelings and well-considered opinions. The only weirdness is when things fall out as they are now, with a primary race in which we both think that the better candidate is the one that we are less personally fond of.

There is a reason I use my swamp picture for my political posts.