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11.18.03 - 12:31 a.m. Just a short entry before bed. I am pretty tired, but that isn't usually enough to push my boat off onto the lake of dreams. Lake of dreams...that's silly. I spoke to my mamma today...namesake of my diary...well her pills are, anyway. She is currently taking oxy-something-or-other...it is the same pain killer that poor 'ol Rush was/is addicted. (Speaking of good 'ol Rush, I think it is amusing that he has said in the past, drug users should have to spend time in prison. I am sure he meant all the OTHER drug users, you know, the 'bad ones.' I also thought it was amusing that when he would meet his house keeper to give her cash to make a buy, he would say, "Here's the cabbage." What a dork.) Anyway, back to Ma, she had to have a hip replacement surgery on Friday. She is only 50...hell. A few months ago she had a lot of work done on her knee. It is now being held together by screws. And about a year ago she had her hand pretty much rebuilt. She is going to be a cyborg, soon. Cyborg Mamma. She was pretty drugged up on the phone. I guess that makes sense with all of the Rush pills she is taking, and the Percasets on top of that. It's fun to talk to mom when she's hopped up on dolls. I feel bad for her, though, I know its quite a blow to her self-esteem she can't work and help bring money into the household. Her disablility check doesn't really bring in much, um, cabbage. Moving on... I watched Legally Blonde II, last night. Damn, Jennifer Coolidge is hilarious. I wish she were in more films/movies. Then again, maybe the reason why I love her so much is because I don't see her playing many roles, so i don't get the chance to get sick of her. I think my favourite line she has delivered is in the movie, A Mighty Wind, "I love model trains, if it weren't for model trains where would they get the idea to build the big ones?" Red, White and Blonde was a nice, feel good movie. It's good to be reminded that we all have a voice in this country. A lot of the times I get so frustrated with the 'system,' and I feel like the whole thing is so much bigger than me, oh, and corrupt. I just don't really like the direction our country is going, but honestly, it is my fault because I have never made myself heard. Sure I am a 'member' of Moveon.org, and I email my congressman, and the President voicing my opinion, usually through a pre-written form letter, but it is a start. It really is the lazy man's democracy, and I am not really sure if I am achieving anything. In my opinion, people heavily involved in Politics, and its crazy obstacle course to get anything done, tend to forget what it is like being a working american. They are so far removed from our reality, and get caught up in the games and scheming, that they don't realize a lot of the times they aren't truly acting on behalf of the people. Corporate interest is such a hive mind affair, and rarely benifits the people who actually do the work in the companies. Wouldn't it be nice if once a year they were forced to live with a black family in the projects, a white trash family in a trailer court, a farm family on, well a farm? Maybe, if they walked in the shoes of the people a bit, they would work harder to make the paths they walk on safer, cleaner, and more beautiful. Hell, I think I just came up with next years big Reality Show on Fox, make that CBS. Time to get my z's. Night.
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