the Dalaverse

Ugh, not a dream I'd like to remember. I was still in Southampton and my dad was there, helping me clean off my desk to pack. We were talking about how he should've brought an extra suitcase to take some of my stuff back when I found this tiny orange kitten mewing in a drawer. I then remembered that James had brought it to me to take care of; apparently I'd forgotten about it. I took it downstairs (to my actual kitchen), where Tina was eating Lucky Charms for some reason, and started to feed it some soggy Lucky Charms. The kitten seemed to like them and I suggested that we feed it some kibble soaked in milk, but then it stopped moving. It was hooked up to some kind of monitor thing, where I could see its heartbeat - which had stopped. So I tried to massage its heart but that didn't work, and it died. Because I'd forgotten to take care of it.

::shudders:: And it was one of those dreams right before you wake up, or that you wake up in the middle of, so it's all vivid and stays with you all day. The only other part of the dream I remember is that earlier, I was cleaning a toilet. Thanks, brain.

Since I'm already in a crabby mood, I will be bitter about politics for a moment, prompted by an article
in today's Post about McCain's new gains in the polls, especially among white women. Specifically, the fact that Sarah Palin has a 58% favorable rating to Biden's 51%. Aside from the fact that I am still rather WTF about McCain's VP pick in general; aside from the fact that I personally like Joe Biden and think he'll make a great VP; what's galling about it is that Biden is actually very strong on women's issues. No, he's not the greatest pro-choice advocate (although he does support Roe v. Wade), but that is not the only goddamned issue on the plate. Biden authored the Violence against Women Act and is an outspoken advocate of equal pay, for fuck's sake! What the hell has Sarah Palin ever done for my rights as a Vagina American?

This is what really gets my goat - not that some women are planning to vote for her based solely on the fact that she's a woman, but that the opposition is pretty solidly in our camp and, IMO, that irony is entirely lost on the press. Of course they'll bring it up in the debates, but that doesn't help assuage my anxiety now. Polls certainly aren't the be-all, end-all in politics, but they do trace general trends, and right now the general trends among American voters are making me extremely nervous.

Would it be tacky for me to dress up as Sarah Palin for Halloween? I have a suit, glasses and a stuffed moose. If no: would it then be tacky for me to talk someone into dressing up as Bristol Palin with me? (She says without having any actual plans for Halloween. But it's finally fall, dammit, and the blessed day is almost here!)

And if I have to hear one more time that Sarah Palin has 'energized' the party/voters/election, I'm gonna blow chunks ::goes back to reading the Post and grumbling::