not so october yet

Several things have cheesed me off recently:

1) This weather sucks. I know, it is probably exactly like this every single October, so why do I always complain? (Well, I guess I complain because it makes me irritable no matter how often it happens). See, in my head, October is brown and black and gray, and has bare branches, and is COLD outside, with patchy clouds sliding across the moon after a rain. And the October of reality is 85 degrees and very humid (veeeeeery humid), with no change in sight. Even the word “October” is sharp and cold, but in a good way. I feel like I’m living in a sauna — and a pretty crummy tepid ragweed-filled sauna at that.

2) I don’t even know how to put into words how utterly embarrassed I am to be from a country that would mistake an onscreen action hero for someone who can run the world’s fifth largest economy. Um, California? Hi, listen, I just was wondering if you realized that the movies aren’t real, and just because some dense overpumped ex-bodybuilder can pretend to be a leader on the big screen, that doesn’t mean he can do it in real life. Honestly, I don’t know much about Gray Davis, and maybe California does need a serious governmental overhaul, but is electing an actor really the best way to change things? I’m curious as to how people reacted when they elected Ronald Reagan governor. I was only eight when he became president, so I never had those years of knowing him as an actor to influence how I saw him. Was he just some yahoo actor who got lucky and coasted into office on the sheer novelty of who he was? Or did he actually work hard, speak intelligently about the issues, and win people over politically?

Hey, I bet I haven’t mentioned before that I’m really from Canada, eh? Yah, just visiting here.