Assessing the Situation

I'd figure I'd take advantage of the situation I'm going to be putting myself in by reporting the next few weeks of my life, right here. Normally this would mean the recollection of the hopes, fears and dreams that accompany the forty hours a week at my dead-end job, my conviction towards sleeping eight hours a night and generally wasting the few hours I have in between screwing around on the internet - not the stuff of Melvillian proportions.

For the next few weeks, however, I have a different strategy in place; specifically, I intend to be devote a large chunk of my waking hours trying to get Ron Paul elected President of the United States - that is, a much larger chunk than I'm devoting right now.

In thirteen days, I board an aeroplane bound for Manchester, New Hampshire, where I'll spend the following three weeks trudging ten hours a day through the New Hampshire countryside trying to convince lots of people that I don't know to vote in their state's primaries for a congressman they've possibly never heard of. Hopefully my at-the-door schpeil comes across more persuasively.

Blog, short for web log, is a portmanteau, according to Wiki, which is a word formed by the combination of two words or sounds. I realize the notion of a blog - the very word, in fact - drips with ridiculous conceit, but I intend to make up for it by loading it with news and information that a) someone besides myself will find relevant, and b) won't be reported anywhere else. I do solemnly swear to report as completely and as honestly as I can manage while I'm working closely with Operation Live Free or Die, and I promise not to turn this into my own personal whine-and-bitch fest when I'm finished. Cross my heart.