"loneliness is the human condition. no one is ever going to fill that space. the best you can do is know yourself, know what you want and don't let the cattle get in the way."
-tom robbins

it's funny how people define happiness. a lot of people define it as having somebody to share life with. which doesn't make too much sense, in my opinion. to me, happiness is so many things - it's in the trees outside, the clouds, the grass, moose track ice cream...and sure, people. but why limit yourself to one thing? it seems childish to focus on the one thing that you can't have. though i'm not saying that having someone in your life wouldn't be nice.

i always wonder how many opportunities are missed when you don't go that extra bit to talk to somebody. there are so many amazing people everywhere, if only you could get the chance to sit down and talk to them all!

four more years? shit. i've never cared too much about politics in the past, but right now, i'm scared. four more years?....aaaghhh. i saw this and decided to steal it-

"I spent 5 months trying to reason with individual voters in two'Swing States' when I should have just been driving through rural Ohio running people down with my car"~misc blog


in other news, i saw the northern lights last night. they weren't as clear and dramatic as they normally are in pictures, but last night was pretty impressive nonetheless.

brought home a sick bat last week to rehabilitate. in the middle of the night it started thumping around in the cardboard box it was in, trying to escape; it was like something out of a horror movie--the box was bouncing all over the ground. earlier that night we were watching the news and there was a story about a boy who got rabies from a bat bite...we finally let it go later, turned out to be a quite hilarious ordeal : )
halloween was...halloween. ended in riots and pepper spray, as usual. that's what you get when you have 5,000 drunk, costumed people on three blocks of a street. they say over 90% of 400-something arrests made those two nights were not UW students, a significant proportion were from...where else but minnesota?