So there’s this friend of a friend that I’ve met a couple times. Let’s call him Scott. I met him through this girl I’m acquainted with. The three of us had dinner together randomly one night. You see where this is going, right? 

I liked him immediately, not in the like-like sense, but just in the ‘he’s good people’ kind of sense. And actually, I have a hard time grasping that his name is Scott. He looks like someone else I know, and I keep thinking of him by that name instead.  Anyway, from dinner out that first night, it was very clear he has a girlfriend. 

But anyway, Scott is nice, and I ran into him on Saturday night, and we have mutual acquintences. So we were all standing around, doing the typical suburban stand around outside and  attempt to make plans, and he’s like “You don’t want to go out do you? You want to go home? ”

And he is right that normally this is my MO, to slink away home, and to get fed up as the girls stand around endlessly debating the next set of plans. 

(and he didn’t say it in a judge-y way; there was one other night when both of us were cranky that no one could seem to make plans and just gave up and went home)

But tonight, the girls weren’t around, it was just Scott and a few other guys, No ulterior motive, just wanted to go out for the sake of going out, because I am anti social as hell. 

Dinner was uneventful, good food at Blue Moon, listening to some other guy preach, and having Scott apologize to me for having to listen to it. On the ride to my house we were just talking about work and I said something about wanting to go to law school, and how it will be a lot of debt, and he said “You never know, with Obama we might all wind up being able to go to school for free.” 

And I said “That’d be nice, but I don’t go for universal education. I’m a Libertarian.” 

And

(Wait for it) 

He said “You are? So am I!” 

Head, meet desk.

Background: Kevin is the older brother of one of my closest O-town friends. We used to know each other in real life. He was a couple years ahead of us in school, but I knew him from G&T, drama club and of course OnStage. In college, we started IMing each other randomly about political nonsense, and in post college life we have maintained an email friendship, based on more political nonsense (and lots of other inanities).

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

In addition to being a mayor and raising four children, Sarah Palin found time for another venture in her Wasilla years — she was part-owner of an Anchorage car wash.

…

On April 3, 2007, the state went further and issued a “certificate of involuntary dissolution” because of the car wash’s failure to file its report and pay state licensing fees.

It’s Harriet Miers redux. I still think its hilarious that she owed a car wash. Has anyone ever changed VPs in the middle of a campaign?

This doesn’t even make any sense:

“I can do my part in working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline, about a $30 billion project that’s going to create a lot of jobs for Alaska. … [but] I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” she said. “I can do my job there in developing our natural resources, in doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded. But really that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s hearts aren’t right with God.”

There’s a temp here this week, and lets face it, I’m starved for conversation here in YHWH & babies land. So I’ve been hanging out with him and we wound up discussing Israel, economics, and European railroads. In the middle of my rant about fetishized socialism he asked me if I was a Libertarian.

I am officially amazing.

**This is a repost; I actually wrote it quite awhile ago, but I wanted to share it with a larger audience. All two of you.

This is fully representative of the absolute nonsense exchanges that Kevin and I have been having for many, many years now, first via AIM in college and later via rapid fire emails when we’re both bored at work. Kevin is my high school best friend’s older brother. We actually used to know each other in real life, because we were both in Gifted & Talented in middle school, both did drama club, and both did tech for OnStage. Our joke now is that we could never hang out in real life, because we would have absolutely nothing to say to each other. We don’t talk about anything real.

Rachel: Bleh, It rained this morning and I didn’t have an umbrella because I don’t believe in them, and that’s not the outrageous part of the morning because that’s FREE CHOICE. I hate that people turn into even bigger morons whilst walking when it’s raining. They can’t maneuver and they’re too slow

Kevin: Indeed, though I dunno how umbrellas became a symbol of free choice

Rachel: I am choosing not to use an umbrella. I don’t complain when I get wet. I prefer to get wet rather than wield an unwieldy umbrella. I don’t like it when people get all in my face about not having an umbrella. shut up. Why do you care if I don’t have an umbrella, its not affecting you?

Kevin: Clearly this is a touchy subject haha

Rachel: I just wrote a long, passionate email about not carrying an umbrella. clearly, I need help

Kevin: …you mean longer than the one you just sent me?

Rachel: I refuse to carry an umbrella. I could claim this is because I don’t like having extra things in my bag but I carry random stuff around all the time, including books that are heavier than umbrellas. But I don’t like using an umbrella because it’s unwieldy and annoying and you can’t see where you’re going as well and it doesn’t even keep you that dry and then you get where you’re going and you have this wet, annoying thing and its like, well what do you do with it?

What I HATE is when I don’t carry an umbrella and get caught in the rain, and I get wet, AND I AM OKAY WITH THAT I KNOW I WILL GET WET IF I DON’T HAVE AN UMBRELLA AND IT HAPPENS TO RAIN I GET THAT THANK YOU, people are all like “oh you forgot your umbrella?!?” like its some tragedy. Or worse there’s the smug little “Got caught in the rain did you? Ho ho” Fuck you, I didn’t get “caught” in anything. And sometimes when I tell people that I don’t carry an umbrella, they think that’s insane or something. Really, I think humans walking around with umbrellas on the chance that MIGHT GET WET OH NO, OMG is what is ridiculous. Plus do you know how annoying it is to walk down a crowded city street full of people carrying umbrellas?!? People are even stupider in the rain than in regular days

And yes, I’m cranky today, but the fact that I got wet in the rain is not one of them and everyone just needs to accept that. GETTING WET IN THE RAIN WAS MY CHOICE. I knew it was going to happen and I didn’t much care when it happened so stop saying that that’s why I’m cranky. I’m not cranky because I got caught in the rain, people keep attributing my crankiness and that’s making me MORE CRANKY.

Kevin: Awesome.