I'm Too Tired to be Blogging (Yet Again)

Today started out much like most other school days; I woke up cursing myself for taking a class that requires me to set an alarm. And after the short argument with myself about just skipping class and sleeping (somehow I seem to be losing this argument lately and going to class), I got up and went about getting ready as normal. The only real difference between this morning and most mornings I'm up is that Anchorage was covered in a thick blanket of fog; the kind that gives a surreal quality to the world when you look out your window. I'd be a liar if I said I didn't enjoy weather like that. And that's about where the enjoyment of my day ended.
As I usually do, I stopped by the Kaladi Brothers coffee near my house on the way to school. I've been there enough that most the employees know me and they're usually pretty nice. But a few days ago one of them wasn't so nice. Not that she was mean, but kind of distant (and distant as a personality trait is never nice). And now that distance that she once showed seems to have spread to the rest of the employees at the coffee shop. And that sucks. No matter how crappy a day was, I could always look forward to a little pick me up by going there and the employees having a chipper "how's it going?". And as a way to officially start the day, that "how's it going?" could hardly be beat. And today it seems like that moment might have died. Maybe I'm imagining this or maybe it's just I've been catching the various employees when they've been having a bad time themselves lately and it's nothing personal towards me. I'll try one more time and go from there. It's gonna suck if I have to find a new coffee shop and change up my school day routine.
So in a not-so-great mood, I went to school. And I'll be damned if I didn't feel like I'd suddenly been turned into a pariah. I can't quite explain it, but it seemed like I was being avoided as best possible. As though people went out of their way to not use the same door as me or any conversation that must be had was kept as short as possible (and I checked in the mirror; no bugger hanging from my nose or anything). And this lasted the whole school day. At least it felt that way.
Needless to say I got home and today didn't feel like a good day. It was a bad day for intangible reasons, which makes me wonder if I can really call it a bad day.
In retro-spec, at least my car didn't blow up on me (with the odd noises it makes from time to time, I'm sure it's going to do so any day now). If for whatever reason I don't make any new friends this semester and I'm just constantly avoided, oh well. As much as that idea sucks, my reason for being there is to get a degree, not meet new people. However, I'm going to be super bummed if I have to change coffee shops.

The Best Thing that Could Happen to America...

Would be a bomb falling on Capital Hill. But I don't just want the politicians that are screwing things up to be present for it, I want the large amounts of news media voices and celebrities trying to play politician to be there as well. And that's for the left and the right.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm absolutely tired of the us vs. them mentality on both sides. If each side keeps viewing the other as the enemy, nothing is really ever going to get accomplished (except a whole lot of accusations and screaming back and forth). Yes, I believe there's truly evil liberals that would gladly see America (and the world) turned some sort of extremely socialist regime in which only a handful of people held all real power (much like George Orwell's "1984"). I also believe there's a select number of people on the political right that would gladly see all power in the hands of a few mega-corporations that run the world. And I'll be damned if both of those scenarios don't look like two sides of the same coin.
I'm tired of right-wing talk show hosts accusing liberals of being stupid just because they're liberals. And vice-versa. The majority of people with strong political beliefs* have reasons for them; and they're not stupid. They're conclusions people have come to based upon their knowledge and past experiences. Attacking someone with different views purely because they have different views is completely retarded. If that's going to be our mentality though, as seems to be the trend, me may as well split America up now into a few different countries. Then from there we can all just go to war with each other much like European countries of the Middle Ages.
I know me saying all this won't make me very popular. In fact, it seems one of the best ways to get popular these days is to claim you're allegiance to the right or left and then repeatedly bash the other side. And while I do think one of the best things that could happen to America would be the abolishment of all of our current government officers (and many of the offices), I do not actually wish them physical harm. I don't doubt many of them have just become caught up in the disgusting game of politics and aren't as horrible as their actions may lead one to believe. For all I know, they're just trying to make a paycheck and care for their family like most Americans (though I'd certainly prefer to have their paycheck to that of most Americans). However, I wouldn't lose a bit of sleep of the majority of media personalities and celebrities that constantly try to talk politics suddenly disappeared.

*I say "strong political beliefs" because I know there's a large amount of Americans (dare I say the majority of them) that don't have strong political beliefs. In fact they have very weak ones. And even worse, their political beliefs are the result of nothing more than how they were raided, what the the TV tells them to think/believe, or what they just seem to think is trendy. In my mind those people are the lowest of the low and an insult to humanity in general. I'm not saying everyone needs to be some sort of activist; but you should know what you believe and why.