Cra-a-a-zay (Think Gnarls Barkley)

I was driving down the street the other day to pick Zaki up from work. I pulled up to a stop light just about the time 2 bicyclists were pulling up in the bike lane beside me. I then see a pedestrian crossing in the crosswalk in front of me - he looks like he may be homeless but perhaps he is just not all that interested in hygiene - hard to say. Anyway, I notice that he's walking rather slowly and has his arm fully extended in the air and is looking in my direction. And he's flipping me off. Or he's flipping the bikers off. Or he's flipping off the fact that he has to cross the street. Or he's just flipping off everything and everybody. I have no idea. It didn't seem particularly aimed at me or at the bikers, but it could have been. None of us did anything obviously wrong - no one had to slam on their breaks, no one threw their garbage at him, there were no apparent infractions of the vehicle/pedestrian or biker/pedestrian code. I glanced at the bikers to see if they seemed to recognize him but the bikers and I just continued to act as though this wasn't happening. Because he was obviously crazy.

But was he? Sometimes I wonder if, like cats, "crazy" people are able to see and hear things that we don't. Real things (I swear cats have a reason for darting around the house like they're chasing something even though we can't see it). What if they're right and the rest of us "sane" ones are wrong? I suppose this just makes me sound crazy, too. But who's to say Long-Haired-Bird-Wagging Dude didn't have a perfectly viable reason for his actions? And he was wondering why we weren't all acting accordingly.

Or not.

Yes We Did

It turns out blogging is harder than I thought it would be. I guess maybe I just had some funny stories to tell when I first started this thing and ever since I keep thinking I'll update when something else interesting happens. But nothing has. To me I mean. But there have been so many huge things that have happened in the world lately that I figure I'll just write about them.

In case you hadn't heard, the next president of the United States is BARACK OBAMA!!!!! There really aren't words for how happy this makes me. I am still occasionally overcome with joy (manifested in tears and/or squeals) when I think about it. I saw his first press conference yesterday and I went nuts - that's our Commander in Chief!!! Zaki laughed at me because my glee was so seemingly-random and I couldn't control it. But he's just what a prez is supposed to look like and sound like - smart, in control, smooth. I love him so much. And did you happen to see that video of him walking out of some building the other day wearing a baseball cap, jeans and sneakers? President Bad Ass! Taking the reigns from our current President Dumb Ass. The night after the election I had a dream that I ran into Obizzle walking down the street and I just went up to him and threw my arms around him and told him how much I love him and how wonderful he is. He was very, very gracious and hugged me right back. Part of me would like to think it would go like that if I ever met him. But he's got all that secret service around him so it probably wouldn't be as pretty as my dream. Besides, if the way I act around David Sedaris is any indication, I'd probably just freeze and say a few incoherent words before smiling and walking away embarrassed.

I've got a cold now. I used to get a cold every Christmas break or after every play I did. I haven't done any shows lately and I'm not in school so I'm thinking this is a post-election cold. I really did sleep as though a huge weight was lifted off of me after the election. Is that crazy? I wasn't the one running and aside from the money I donated and the countless conversations I've had about his awesomeness over the last year I wasn't working on the campaign. But I felt like my future and the future of my soon-to-be-born nephew and the kids I want to have some day was at stake. When Kerry lost 4 years ago I had a major meltdown the night after election day. Ask Zaki - it was messy. I was sure that W would run this country and possibly the planet into the ground and I couldn't in good conscience bring a child into the world with him in office. Of course I wasn't planning to have a kid during that time, but it was a matter of principle. But now, even though he did manage to largely run us into the ground, we've got a prez who can and will lift us up. So I guess now I've got no excuse not to start popping out the kids.

This is a lot of rambling so I should probably wrap it up. For anyone who is still reading, my apologies for any incoherence. Perhaps I will post another update before 6 months goes by...