Big week already. So there was obviously the hilarity of the love found/lost/found/lost last Friday/Saturday night, the Royal Wedding, Osama, then May the 4th. Ill address these burning, important topics.
Love Lost
Bridget and I went to Grandma’s the other week and were talking about how unlucky we are in love. Grandma made the good point that back in her day, everyone went out dancing every night and you just met people. It was designed to meet people. Bridget goes out dancing a lot, I’m out at the pub a lot, but you don’t meet people in the same way. The answer, really, is through friends. I did indeed meet some randoms on the weekend, and they were indeed random (and their friends, on Friday night at least, were rude!), so the only answer is friends.
Or RSVP. I still think that’s the point of last result, but is it that bad? I think people are brave to put themselves out there, and they could be a little crazy, but it is a frank admission that they’re out looking for love and they don’t want to mess around. It’s a lot like classifieds I guess – if you kept on trying to sell the car through friends you’d only have so much luck, but on the net it’s bound to sell. Still, I don’t think I could bring myself to go on it – would be too much!!!
Royal Wedding
Look I just didn’t care. I always thought that I was a Monarchist, but I realised after the wedding that they’re predominantly obsolete to us these days and are in fact little more than British celebrities. Sure it was wonderful to see such a celebration of marriage and two people very much in love, but I still think that it wasn’t as important as people made it out to be.
So yeah, a rude shock to the system that I am in fact a Republican now. It’s not a disrespect for the Monarchy (looking back, this was my primary reason for being a Monarchist – that we needed to acknowledge our roots; it was probably a ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ mentality too), but more so an acknowledgement that they’re not relevant at all to us anymore.
It did make me think about living OS though, and I must say that I’m much keener to do it now. I maintain that I would like to be with someone to do it, but I think that I would like to do it sooner rather than later. Perhaps a reiteration of the fascination with love from the point above.
Osama
Look you have to credit Obama with getting him; it was quite a triumph for the US. I was initial uneasy with how it was handled though, with people out dancing in the street, and I wasn’t sure why. I realised that this was akin to celebrations at the end of the war (but still I thought that marked the end of a war, which was a bit different) and that people were celebrating victory, but I was still upset for all the horror that has been created by this man (911, War on Terrorism) and all the lives lost. I also am more worried about retaliations. I guess it’s been the same way since the Cold War, but it’s an uneasy environment at the moment.
May the 4th
What a day. I love dates, this has to be good just because of all the Star Wars
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