Erisue’s Weblog

T – do you remember my post about my mom cursing me to have a child ten times worse than me?  Well, Karen is even more evil than I originally suspected.  I have a feeling the “ten times worse” curse was only a curse she let me hear.  Under her breath and behind my back, I think she cursed me with a child JUST LIKE HER!  I swear to you, T, Ris is just like Karen.  The looks, the attitude, the sighs, the martyrdom, the acting like I’m incompetent, the passive aggressive behavior…it’s all her.  That’s why my eye has a permanent twitch to it now!  Oh, she is evil, Terri…evil, I tell you.  SO…here’s my curse on Ris…I hope she has one JUST LIKE ME!  That way, I can tag team with her kid like she’s tag teaming with my mother!  Game on.

I had E’s parent/teacher conference last Thursday. He is doing well. He got an A in math, reading, and effort, and a B in conduct. His teacher also told me they want to move him into an advanced math class with a couple other kids. She said they think he might even be gifted in math. (Uh…he didn’t get that from me. I hate math. I usually got Bs in it (with the exception of geometry and we just won’t talk about that right now), but my subjects were always English, History, and Geography. I also thought it was ironic that A Beautiful Mind was on over the weekend…which always reminds me of some guy I know - not only because I watched it with him but because he’s a math genius.  But anyway…) E was estatic when I told him about it. Apparently they are already giving him different worksheets than what his classmates have and he still flies through them. He loves math…like I love History and Literature (it borders on unhealthy…really it does). I was told this morning that advanced math and chess club are the only two things Ethan likes about school now…and he hasn’t even started advanced math yet.

Out of the last five presidential elections, this is the first one in which I did not vote.  It’s not that I didn’t feel it was important nor do I take my suffrage lightly; however, there is absolutely no damned way on God’s green earth that I was going to vote Palin into the office of vice-presidency.  I’m a Republican – I was all abroad the McCain train before he picked her as his running mate.  Plus, I live in Illinois, and in Illinois, Republicans don’t stand much of a chance in the election booth when all the dead Democratic Chicagoians somehow make a come back to vote in the booths next to us.  (The electoral college is a bunch of crap, but whatever, that’s a different discussion.)  BUT…Palin?  Was McCain secretly working on Obama’s campaign?  I expected McCain to pick a minority of some category as a running mate and certainly wasn’t surprised that he chose a woman, but damn, couldn’t he at least have picked a competent one? 

(As for the press covering Palin, yes, they were on the money with some things (like just about anything that had to do with politics), but damn, how freaking unfair is it to make comments on the price of her clothing or to insinuate that her husband is the father of her daughter’s child?  Does anyone know the designer of Obama or McCain’s suits?  No, we don’t because it doesn’t matter what a man wears.  Did anyone question the parentage of Obama, Biden, or McCain’s children?  No.  It also doesn’t matter whether a man is a part of his family’s life.  To attack a woman by saying she can’t do a good job in office because she has a family she needs to take care of sets the advancement of women back quite a few years.  People really need to wake the fuck up, and if you’re stupid, just stop talking because other stupid people believe you, and soon our country will be full of stupid people…oh wait…nevermind.  Although I don’t like Palin’s politics, she should still be given the respect the other candidate were given in the areas mentioned above.)

Now…back to politics…

I’ve heard a lot of talk today about why McCain lost – it was the economy, it was foreign affairs, it was this, it was that….it was fucking Palin.

Note to McCain:          Seriously, McCain?  You wanted me to vote for that?  Did you do your homework before you picked her or did you just draw her name out of a hat full of female/minority politicians?  Hey, if you decide to run for president again, I’ll be your vice-president.  I mean, I know I’m not a mere 90 miles away from a different country so my view on foreign relations probably wouldn’t be as keen as Palin’s, but I’m fairly sure I could have answered the media questions a whole hell of a lot better than she did.  Just a thought, McCain…just a thought.