Blog, Fog, and Obama

It has been nearly a year since I have blogged. In fact the last time I blogged was on March 20th of 2008. Wow! Its been a long time. The last time I blogged I was 24, in the middle of my first true opportunity in my career, and Bush was president. Its amazing how much we all change from year to year and how much the world changes too. I fell out of blogging for a couple of reasons. One, I was becoming overwhelmed with schoolwork. I have been taking a short break from school since I realized I have 70 credits and no true direction. Instead of wasting money on classes that I hope would fit into some sort of degree, I need to figure out what I want to do and how to do that. Also, I had a change of heart with myspace, where my previous blog exists. Im kind of sad about that. On my myspace blog I have 445 posts and nearly 25,000 views. I just beome overwhelmingly annoyed with the stream of spam that I received. It drove me away from myspace and drove me away from blogging. So, its been long enough and Im ready to give it a try again. I chose to find an actual blogsite to blog this time so that I would be able to post as I wished without any other distractions or annoyances. I hope to keep up with this as often as I used to keep up with my old blog.

Moving on from my necessary introduction, I wanted to start posting as I typically do. Lately, Seattle has been suffering from air stagnation. This is caused by temperature inversion, which I dont have a huge understanding of, but I know it has to do with cold air in the middle layer of the atmosphere keeping warmer air from escaping. Anyway, this causes a lot of fog, as well as a build up of air pollution. Ive been having trouble sleeping lately because my breathing has been off. I couldnt figure out why until this morning, when I had to pull out my inhaler to make it through class. It must be because of the air stagnation. Yeah, yeah...this weather issue is causing me some health problems, but to be completely honest, I love it when fog forms as thickly as it has been lately. I was walking home from work tonight and as I walked under the Space Needle, I struggled to see UFO-like top that Seattle is so famous for. I couldn't see any of the tall buildings in the near distance and when I was close enough to home to see Elliott Bay, it looked like Seattle was a northern beach town, instead of an inland port city. There's just such a mystical feeling that you get when you are walking amongst a grounded cloud. I may be psychotic, but I almost felt as if a talking cat or a wandering unicorn was about to come around the corner and tell me that I had to complete some mysterious mission. But alas, there was no cat or horned-horse, just me and my somewhat active imagination. My final thoughts about this approached something that is a more common train of thought in my mind. I felt like I was walking through foggy San Francisco. I could see the low-clouds blowing a bit. Although Ive only been once, I got a taste for that city. And although it may not be my ideal city, it is so much more metropolitan than Seattle. It made me ache, as I do probably about 20 times a day, to live somewhere vast, exciting, and unexplored (of course in a city).

Lastly, I thought it necessary to just mention the incredible change of the guards today. Today, Barack Obama (important note of knowledge: we USED to share our first name, til college, when Barry Obama wanted to get more in touch with his African roots) was sworn in as our new president, replacing the disaster of a leader that preceded him. Im not super political, but to see the direction our country was heading frightened me. Frightened me in too many ways to write. I saw too many values that I have as a human being falling away from my country of residence. Im cautiously excited to see what Obama can do for us, but I feel that there are too many problems for him to fix for him to achieve many of his objectives successfully. Not to be negative. I hope for the best and I expect a little less. I feel that people could easily turn on Barack if he doesnt accomplish EVERYTHING people feel needs change. The excitement that surrounded election day winnings and today's inauguration just scare me. If Obama cant succeed at what he promised, there will be more people angry than I can imagine. People expected stupidity and ignorance from Bush. Their rage with him was already so high, it couldnt get higher. But with Obama, it may be different. I think we just need to trust that he will do his absolute best for us. But the mess that has been left for him to clean up may in the end just be too cumbersome. With that said, if this country doesn't recover. Im moving to one of the following cities; Vancouver, Toronto, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, or Dubai (though I think the whole gay thing may not work out there).

Anyway, Im glad to be back to blogging! Cheers!