Volunteer, Advocate, Trekker.

As my one friend put it, poli sci nerds look forward to election day more than Christmas! Only it's like a Christmas where, between you and another person, only one of you gets gifts (and the other gets nothing.) Well this Christmas -- I got most of my gifts: the candidate my internship has been with WON the Mayoral election!!! :D Let me tell you a little about how election day went down in my life. Woke up bright and early, like 6:15am (on a day I had class at 3.) Went to the polls looking dapper as I often do (you don't want to look like a crazy person at the polls, subconsciously I don't associate crazy people with supporting not-crazy candidates.) And just wished people entering the polling location "Good morning!" from more than 100 feet away, often accompanied by Council candidate Annie. We had a blast talking about all kinds of things, mainly local-politics related. While she went to other polling locations, I stuck at this one: an elementary school, w...

Busy weekend ahead -- slept through the service project this morning, but I'm not sure I actually signed up for it, plus that playground has been cleaned at least twice in the last month and I don't use the McDonalds coupons they give us anyway. Today I have to major food shop with mom, get lunch, go campaigning and to a Halloween party with the campaign, make my costume (Still not sure what I'm being at this point!) and somehow make it to Trick or Treat for UNICEF. Then after that it's off to a Halloween shindig with Jen and Patsy. Then tomorrow afternoon: I have a Roman Republic report to write, and a Internship book report to write due Monday. Ugh, think I'm going to reserve myself for 'stay at home' work -- unless some campaign stuff comes up perhaps. Song of the Day: "We Found Love" by Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris . Off the album Talk That Talk I believe. Hehe, okay, so first of all you need to know that the chorus of this song is ...

Checking out Gizmodo as I often do, after my long day of crazy -- had a morning filled with Circle K emails, mom insisting adamantly on getting our tags renewed because the world was ending or something (it ended up taking 15 minutes, she expected a long line. There was no line -.-) and also a bunch of Circle K stuff in the afternoon. Then, in the Cleveland area, hung out with Panda for a while and saw Captain America for 6 bucks a person. That was one bad movie. But back to the present, I WANT THIS ! The green in me combined with the adventurer in me combined with the couch potato that needs his cell phone wherever he may go -- a Solar-powered Cell Phone charging Backpack! Awesome Awesome Awesome!!! News Article of the Day: White House rickrolls followers after person tweets at them complaining their briefing is boring . As you can imagine, the actual headline is shorter -- but is effectively the same thing. Bahaha, hilarious. I love this White House. Here is the actual twe...

Morning boys and girls, Christmas in my house was not as bad as I'd worried! Mom got the presents right for Sure this year! (By actually shopping for the stuff on our list, surprising but its a method that works...) I made off with the list that follows! 1. "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin . Book about Lincoln's cabinet that inspired Obama to select his cabinet. Number 1 New York Times best-seller! 2. "Rated R" CD by Rihanna . Woohoo! I've been hoping to buy a Rihanna CD, I don't have any yet. Listening to it now, looking for a song of the day. 3. "Star Trek" (new Movie) 2 disc special edition DVD . WOOHOO! Watched the special features already! Glad no one tried to get me the Star Trek movie without the special features, cause that puts me in an awkward position of "well, I want the special features, but I don't want to buy a second copy..." which is why if you're going to get me a DVD, try to be careful about Spec...