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Angry!

At first, I thought it was a joke: we just had an election less than a year ago! Davis did well! Sure, he's not universally loved, but we've had a lot worse (and quite recently). Why would there be a recall?

Nevertheless, there it is on the evening news: 700,000 of the 900,000 signatures required for a recall initiative have been collected. If they reach their goal, the initiative will be on the ballot this fall, in a special election sure to have low turnout and likely to draw voters as conservative as the people behind the recall effort.

Who's behind it? Bush's campaign coordinator for California. The president himself is one of the driving forces in this travesty, and I can't help but think about the sick and insidious game of politics--Bush having been the governor of Texas just as Gov. Davis brought to light the fact that Texan companies were screwing over the California energy market.

This stinks. Not only that the Republicans are conspiring to take out a major Democratic figure in time for the 2004 election, not only that it shows they have no respect for democracy if it doesn't produce the results they want, but most saliently that the same people who are all for cutting taxes and reducing government spending want to waste a sizeable portion of the state's money to basically hold an election that will at the least change nothing from last year's election and alternately upend our state's government in the middle of a term. What the hell? I'm too angry to feel coherent.

www.stoptherecall.com

www.stoptherecall.com

www.stoptherecall.com
peachy as always, Mike at 9:55 PM

 
There's a Kind of Hush...

Everything in my life has gotten pretty quiet as of late. I've helped two roommates move out over the past month, and with just two of us left (and my remaining roommate a workaholic) the house is very quiet during the day. Quiet and big. And warm. More like a movie set than a living area, really.

I've gotten my transportation and housing for this fall pretty well worked out, too, so I've over fretting about that. One of my classmates was kind enough to let me share a rather expensive sublet in DC in order to keep costs down. STA Travel was savvy enough to get me a cheap flight from DC to Rome, and I was adventurous enough to find a discounted train ticket from Rome to Bologna.

Even my everpresent (if exaggerated) money woes seem to have lessened recently...I've made what I do have work for me, and have decided not to sweat the prospects of what I don't have. Even the looming shadow of a fine for my first-ever speeding citation (really not much of a story: I was approaching Lafayette from a rural road and wasn't slowing down at the rate the speed limit was changing from 55 to 45 to 35) doesn't faze me.

My biggest concern right now, really, is cleaning up my living space, throwing out a lot of crap, and figuring out what to pack, what to store, and what to sell. But I have nearly two months to deal with all that.

I'm glad I'm not just sitting around (which I find incredibly easy to do), but going out and doing things I enjoy. I went orienteering on Sunday, and though my legs are all scratched up and I was dead tired afterward, it was great. I'm going to camp in Yosemite and hike Half Dome next week. I've been touring the East Bay Open Studios and have been considered for a modeling job for a sculptor. I'm reading and--after a long period of neglect--keeping in touch with friends again.

Life is good. Quiet, but good.
peachy as always, Mike at 4:03 PM