Fear and Loathing in Topton, PA

I’m sure I’ve seen that movie, but I can’t quite think of the plot right now. All I know is that A) everyone is afraid of what the Market is doing right now, and B) I’m loathing the upcoming elections.

FEAR

I don’t watch the news. I don’t read the newspaper. Right now I’m getting my information from the web and my mother (willingly and unwillingly, respectively).

I don’t watch the news because I know it will only depress me and make me very, very afraid of a situation that I can’t do a whole lot about. The market will crash whether I watch the news or read the paper or ignore it all. But in the meantime, I won’t be stressing.

Sure, I won’t be preparing, either. How should I prepare? Do I pull everything out (I think this is generally agreed to be a bad idea), do I add more in (also doesn’t seem like a real good plan if I’m about to lose everything), or do I rearrange the funds that are already in and hope for the best (I’m really not equipped for that)?

At any rate…

LOATHING

I loathe how the elections can make people so mean to each other. We’re calling each other liars, incompetants, pigs, and it’s mean. Is it naive to think that we should all play nice? Probably, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting it.

The closer we get to November, the more I look forward to National Novel Writing Month. (Ha! Thought I was going to say something else, didn’t you?) And the less I look forward to the damn election. The closer we get, the meaner people get, and in my life, the louder the insults and “proclomations of faith” get.

And I really do look forward to NaNoWriMo…I focus on that and forget that on November 2nd, my mother will kick my ass out of the house and not let it back in until I have an “I Voted!” sticker on my shirt.

At any rate, that’s my life right now. Nervous anxiety and disappointment in humanity.

Can’t we all just get along?

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