sorry for the lack of postage...but lately it's the st. paul public library or nothing.

i have a job; i have a house; i even (thanks mom and dad) have a car for the summer. i wish i had slightly better coping skills. as it turns out, this whole graduating from college and pretending to be an adult thing is a little difficult at first...especially, i suppose, when it involves a new city and a big readjustment to life in the midwest. really...it's supposed to be the politest (that's not a word. i don't care.) place on earth, but when it comes to things they've never seen before, people can be pretty ridiculous. please, won't the state of minnesota just stop staring at my hairy legs? that's RUDE!

one more gripe: i don't feel particularly OK about ranting about the state of the world when my usual conversation crowd is gone. oh, how i miss the anti-war reading group. at this point, despite a fairly religious reliance upon nytimes.com, all i feel competent to say is something along the lines of damn, that sucks. for instance: american violence against iraqi civilians: damn, that sucks. ariel sharon's position on hamas: damn, that sucks. well, i can do better than that. how about, the very existence of sharon and hamas: damn, that sucks. the catch-22 that the israeli leadership has placed the palestinian authority in is shameful and, i think, shows a total resistance to peace not involving complete palestinian capitulation...an unlikely outcome, to say the least.

...but i've said all of that before. see? all reading and no actual conversation make amelia a dull blogger. sigh.