As I was saying...

Ahem. Well It seems like it's time to crawl back into my shell, ignore the world at large, and escape into a bookish cocoon. I mean metaphorically. I won't be masticating any book paper and extruding an actual cocoon, although if you saw my library you might wonder.

What have I been reading lately? I had taken a detour into the world of non-fiction. I read a passel of the lefty political books (Molly Ivins, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Joe Conason, Greg Palast, etc.), but now that Bush is back in for another four years I think I'll go back to reading Horror fiction, since it is less scary.

The only thought I have on the election is that it only confirms for me (for the zillionth time) what I have known in my heart at least since elementary school: There is something wrong with me. For some reason, if normal is what the majority of people enjoy, do, or believe, then I am not like the majority of people, not normal. Every interest, every belief, every enthusiasm I have just seems to put me further and further out of the mainstream of, well, I don't know, the stream I guess.

So if you are looking for me for the next four years or so I'll be over here at Not Crazy..Just Enthusiastic huddled against the shore (or is it the bank) of the stream, out of the swift moving current of the mainstream where I could be swept over the falls or dashed against the rocks. I'll just be clinging to the knobby little roots and branches of what I hold most precious: Traditional values like tolerance, intelligence, fairness, reading, compassion, beauty, wit, reading, open-mindedness, courtesy, kindness, and reading. We will strive to remain cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.