2 posts tagged “biden”

Seriously, I actually think I have a crush on the guy after last night's debate. He blew me away with his intelligence, his warmth, his plans and ideas for how to fix things and the way he refused to let Palin get away with he bullshit claims and phoney answers. Here is why I think I have a crush on Biden:

This was a great weekend, Friday night before I left work I had a good talk with a coworker. I'm working at a really large company right now and still trying to navigate the politics of that and figuring out how to be successful there and how to do my job the best way I can. My coworker is a great ally, one of those people who will answer any question you have and go out of their way to talk you through things. He even offered to sit down with me on my next project and help me figure out how to really make it my own. It started the weekend off well, even though I was still panicking about the project that was happening on Saturday in London.

I didn't have too much time to dwell on the project, my boyfriend and I had to get up and head into the city - we were meeting two friends of his and driving upstate to go to the garlic festival. Holy crap. The garlic festival was amazing. I'm not usually one for festivals - I don't like the swarms of people eating and pushing and talking on their cell phones about guys named "Fred" or couches they plan on buying. But once I got past that the festival was great - we had deep fried roasted garlic which was more wonderful than I can even express. We had mushrooms with garlic, we even sampled raw garlic, which I've never had before. The only weird thing was that somehow I ended up spending a lot of money on Saturday. One might ask themselves how one spends $80 at a garlic festival... yeah, one might ask that...

Then hockey today. Ah, hockey. I haven't really written that much about hockey, it's one of those things that's really hard to explain. It's a large group of people, about 300, co-ed, none of whom you would peg as athletes. Mostly you would think they are hipsters. In fact a lot of them do wear terrycloth. Mostly you would think they are alcoholics. In fact this might be true, we usually tend to play hockey for an hour and then go out drinking for about 4 hours to celebrate our athleticism.  One way I've described it to someone is that it's like you're watching a movie that you didn't know was a musical and all of a sudden people start singing. That's the feeling when all of a sudden you see these hipsters in their American Apparel t-shirts with cute nicknames on the back put on hockey gloves and pick up their sticks and paly really competitive, intense, games of hockey.  We have this awesome team that we started three years ago and we play really well together, but we're still only about 5th ranked. This is not a bad ranking, especially when you consider there's 18 teams, but today we beat the number one team and it was really really sweet. It was a great game and a great day for upsets in general - another team, one of the lowest ranked teams almost beat one of the other high ranking teams - a team that is full of so many assholes that it's just pretty much evil, but like funny evil. Like if Darth Vader had a hockey team, THIS would be his team. Anyway, they didn't lose, but it was fun to watch them ALMOST lose.

I got a little writing done - I started the outline about the screenplay that I want to rough out before I confront the monumental task of revising and sending out my novel... This should be a pretty fun week, there's a lot I have planned, but in a good way... I'm definitely looking forward to watching the Palin/Biden debate. I'm going to a friend's house to see that insanity... I thought Obama totally kicked ass on Friday.  I loved when he said, "John, you like to pretend that the war started in 2007..." Amazing. Way to nail it, Obama!