Summer

I think I'm losing it into a fog. In other news, happy Fourth of July. But not really because I haven't gone to bed yet from the 3rd.

I don't consider the day to actually change until I've gone to bed and woken up, regardless of what time it is. The only exception is the all-nighters I frequently pull.

This year, more than most others, I'm kinda feeling Independence Day. It's an enormous relief not to be horribly embarrassed every time the president speaks, and cringing at the thought of people from other nations tuning in. I went to Europe during this time, and if it wasn't for the fact that I was in a group of almost 50 people (strength in numbers), I would have ducked my head in shame or claimed to be from Toronto. I even got hit on at various times, which I just found ridiculous given the numbers of gorgeous people walking around due to men's much greater consciousness of their looks and presence, high use of walking and public transportation and vastly reduced (over American) portion sizes. 

It seems like even though the economy is still in the toilet (with an announcement just today...er, yesterday...that the unemployment rate has now *officially* reached 9.5 %, with uncounted numbers possibly bringing the true total to almost 20%), the wars are still going on, marijuana is still illegal, violence is still glorified while sex and nudity are demeaned as unnatural and dirty, our pollution is killing the planet and eventually threatening the human population, our water is still flouridated, etc etc etc, at least there have been some victories. 

Dude this decade is seriously turning into a really lame version of the sixties. No, I think we may have missed our opportunity for the sixties during Bush's reign and jumped straight to the seventies. Either way, civil rights are being fought for and won for the first time in quite a while. Gays have won the right to marry in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and Maine. Maybe others. I don't remember. We have our first (half) black president (who's friggen gorgeous and haz a brane). 

Okay, I honestly don't know where that came from. I'm going to bed. Good night.

Advice for gays: Putting 69 as your age in an online profile isn't cute anymore. You guys really need to stop that.