i have blogging malaise. it happens. my mind is pretty occupied with other stuff right now - nothing important, but i'm busy enough not to have time to sit around at work and think of pointless things to write about. actually i'm not busy at all with actual work, but instead of blogging i keep doing web research on things like grad school, home furnishings, tuscany, and stuff for DCist.

i haven't been watching a terrible lot of the GOP convention the past few days, though i did cackle with glee, as everyone else did, at the bush twins' terrible performance. i mean - yes, these girls are young. yes, they're entitled to drink underage and fall over at bars. god knows millions of others have done the same thing. but what gets me is that because of their positions in life, they could be doing so much more. they can meet anyone they want, go anywhere they want, get any kind of job they want. instead they 'campaign' for their dad, don't follow through with applications to teaching at harlem schools, and act like animatronic republican barbies in front of the nation, making jokes about how they currently have no ambition in life - just like their dad at his age. and you know what? THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY HOT. i know many of you think otherwise, but get a grip. jenna is fat, and barbara looks like kate beckinsdale with down syndrome. it just goes to show how far liberal guys will let their standards drop when it comes to their dreams of hate-fucking a yuppie republican tart.

anyway. wow, that was good to get out! i'll be away this weekend in virginia beach, celebrating becca and julie's birthday (happy birthday, ladies!), and running the rock 'n' roll half marathon. every year, the bands they get to play this thing get lamer. we have sugar ray and collective soul, for chrissake. i thought collective soul were off giving handjobs at rural rest stops or something, but no, lucky for us, they are still making music! but i bitch excessively. the race last year was a ton of fun - local bands play the 13.1 mile course, and high school cheerleading squads cheer you on. and, of course, you get to jump in the ocean at the end, and later that night, during birthday celebrations, if we're lucky, we'll get to see becca take body shots off the hot bartender once again :)