This is an interesting, human interest story actually.
It's not necessary anti-McCain but it certainly shows that he is human.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind
By Sharon Churcher
June 2008
Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.
While Obama will surely press his credentials as the embodiment of the American dream – a handsome, charismatic young black man who was raised on food stamps by a single mother and who represents his country’s future – McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation’s tarnished reputation.
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Forgotten woman: But despite all her problems Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband
McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons
had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.
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Golden couple: John and Cindy McCain at a charity gala in Los Angeles
Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. ‘I have no bitterness,’
she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.
McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.
He first met Carol in the Fifties while he was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. He was a privileged, but rebellious scion of one of America’s most distinguished military dynasties – his father and grandfather were both admirals.
But setting out to have a good time, the young McCain hung out with a group of young officers who called themselves the ‘Bad Bunch’.
His primary interest was women and his conquests ranged from a knife-wielding floozy nicknamed ‘Marie, the Flame of Florida’ to a tobacco heiress.
Carol fell into his fast-living world by accident. She escaped a poor upbringing in Philadelphia to become a successful model, married an Annapolis classmate of McCain’s and had two children – Douglas and Andrew – before renewing what one acquaintance calls ‘an old flirtation’ with McCain.
It seems clear she was bowled over by McCain’s attention at a time when he was becoming bored with his playboy lifestyle.
‘He was 28 and ready to settle down and he loved Carol’s children,’ recalled another Annapolis graduate, Robert Timberg, who wrote The Nightingale’s Song, a bestselling biography of McCain and four other graduates of the academy.
The couple married and McCain adopted Carol’s sons. Their daughter, Sidney, was born a year later, but domesticity was clearly beginning
to bore McCain – the couple were regarded as ‘fixtures on the party circuit’ before McCain requested combat duty in Vietnam at the end of 1966.
He was assigned as a bomber pilot on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin.
What follows is the stuff of the McCain legend. He was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 on his 23rd mission over North Vietnam and was badly beaten by an angry mob when he was pulled, half-drowned from a lake.
War hero: McCain with Carol as he arrives back in the US in 1973 after his five years as a PoW in North Vietnam
Over the next five-and-a-half years in the notorious Hoa Loa Prison he was regularly tortured and mistreated.
It was in 1969 that Carol went to spend the Christmas holiday – her third without McCain – at her parents’ home. After dinner, she left to drop off some presents at a friend’s house.
It wasn’t until some hours later that she was discovered, alone and in terrible pain, next to the wreckage of her car. She had been hurled through the windscreen.
After her first series of life-saving operations, Carol was told she may never walk again, but when doctors said they would try to get word to McCain about her injuries, she refused, insisting: ‘He’s got enough problems, I don’t want to tell him.’
H. Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, future presidential candidate and advocate of prisoners of war, paid for her medical care.
When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.
But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’
He bought her a bungalow near the sea in Florida and another former PoW helped him to build a railing so she could pull herself over the dunes to the water.
‘I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after,’ says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles.
Through Ross Perot, he met Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California. A sympathetic Nancy Reagan took Carol under her wing.
But already the McCains’ marriage had begun to fray. ‘John started carousing and running around with women,’ said Robert Timberg.
McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis.
He was also fiercely ambitious, but it was clear he would never become an admiral like his illustrious father and grandfather and his thoughts were turning to politics.
In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.
Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide.
‘They never displayed any difficulties between themselves. I know the Reagans were quite shocked because they loved and respected both Carol and John.’
Another friend added: ‘Carol didn’t fight him. She felt her infirmity made her an impediment to him. She justified his actions because of all he had gone through. She used to say, “He just wants to make up for lost time.”’
Indeed, to many in their circle the saddest part of the break-up was Carol’s decision to resign herself to losing a man she says she still adores.
Friends confirm she has remained friends with McCain and backed him in all his campaigns. ‘He was very generous to her in the divorce but of course he could afford to be, since he was marrying Cindy,’ one observed.
McCain transferred the Florida beach house to Carol and gave her the right to live in their jointly-owned townhouse in the Washington suburb of Alexandria. He also agreed to pay her alimony and child support.
A former neighbour says she subsequently sold up in Florida and Washington and moved in 2003 to Virginia Beach. He said: ‘My impression was that she found the new place easier to manage as she still has some difficulties walking.’
Meanwhile McCain moved to Arizona with his new bride immediately after their 1980 marriage. There, his new father-in-law gave him a job and introduced him to local businessmen and political powerbrokers who would smooth his passage to Washington via the House of Representatives and Senate.
And yet despite his popularity as a politician, there are those who won’t forget his treatment of his first wife.
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.
‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.
‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.
‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’
One old friend of the McCains said: ‘Carol always insists she is not bitter, but I think that’s a defence mechanism. She also feels deeply in his debt because in return for her agreement to a divorce, he promised to pay for her medical care for the rest of her life.’
Carol remained resolutely loyal as McCain’s political star rose. She says she agreed to talk to The Mail on Sunday only because she wanted to publicise her support for the man who abandoned her.
Indeed, the old Mercedes that she uses to run errands displays both a disabled badge and a sticker encouraging people to vote for her ex-husband. ‘He’s a good guy,’ she assured us. ‘We are still good friends. He is the best man for president.’
But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.
‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.
‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Hot Pic of the Day #2: Tenderness
My newly born, little baby brother, Tai Nicholas Alexander.
I think the pic says more than a caption can.
Hot Link of the Day #2: Older Mom's
No major problems in babies born to older moms, Statistics Canada finds
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | 2:41 PM ET
CBC News
More Canadian women wait until they are well into their 30s before giving birth to their first child, but for the most part the babies are generally as healthy as those born to younger moms, according to a Statistics Canada report released Wednesday.
In 1987, only four per cent of first births occurred among women aged 35 or older. The rate nearly tripled to 11 per cent by 2005, the agency said. The proportion of first birth among women in their early 30s also increased, from 15 per cent in 1987 to 26 per cent in 2005.
It's well known that older mothers are at increased risk for miscarriage or stillbirth and pregnancy complications and that their children are at increased risk of birth defects. The report aimed to help fill in the gap in knowledge about the potential effects on children's development.
Children of older mothers said their first word and took their first step at about the same time as those born to mothers in their mid to late 20s. Both groups of children were equally likely to be in excellent or good health up to age five, with similar incidences of asthma.
Both groups also had similar average scores of physical aggression, emotion disorder, anxiety, hyperactivity and inattention. Vocabulary and number knowledge were also similar.
But first-born children born to older mothers were more likely to be late to first sit up by themselves, score lower on motor and social development scales at ages two to three and have lower positive behaviour scores at ages four to five.
'Encouraging' findings
"What I think is important that this report shows is that once the children are born, developmentally [there] aren't very many outcomes that differ between our children of older mothers and children of mothers 25 to 29," study author and research analyst Rochelle Garner said in an interview.
"Hopefully that's encouraging. It warrants looking at these children perhaps when they start going to school whether we're going to see any academic differences."
Whether the delays in motor development carry on as the children start school is not yet known.
Statistics Canada was approached to do the study by researchers in Europe, who have focused on achieving pregnancy and lowering pregnancy complications among older women.
When the results were presented at a conference in The Hague, the Europeans were "surprised and encouraged" that no striking differences have been found so far in Canada, Garner said.
Mothers in both groups shared similar socio-demographic profiles in terms of education and income. About 13 per cent of both groups had a mother with a high school diploma, and about 12 per cent of children in both groups live in a low-income household.
As in previous studies, more mothers 35 or older had hypertension during pregnancy, 23 per cent, compared with 13 per cent of mothers aged 25 to 29.
About 40 per cent of children of older mothers were delivered by caesarean section, almost twice the proportion of children of mothers in the younger group at 23 per cent.
Seventeen per cent of children of older mothers were born pre-term, compared with 11 per cent in the younger group.
About 43 per cent of children of older mothers were breastfed for more than six months, compared with 26 per cent of the younger mothers.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | 2:41 PM ET
CBC News
More Canadian women wait until they are well into their 30s before giving birth to their first child, but for the most part the babies are generally as healthy as those born to younger moms, according to a Statistics Canada report released Wednesday.
In 1987, only four per cent of first births occurred among women aged 35 or older. The rate nearly tripled to 11 per cent by 2005, the agency said. The proportion of first birth among women in their early 30s also increased, from 15 per cent in 1987 to 26 per cent in 2005.
It's well known that older mothers are at increased risk for miscarriage or stillbirth and pregnancy complications and that their children are at increased risk of birth defects. The report aimed to help fill in the gap in knowledge about the potential effects on children's development.
Children of older mothers said their first word and took their first step at about the same time as those born to mothers in their mid to late 20s. Both groups of children were equally likely to be in excellent or good health up to age five, with similar incidences of asthma.
Both groups also had similar average scores of physical aggression, emotion disorder, anxiety, hyperactivity and inattention. Vocabulary and number knowledge were also similar.
But first-born children born to older mothers were more likely to be late to first sit up by themselves, score lower on motor and social development scales at ages two to three and have lower positive behaviour scores at ages four to five.
'Encouraging' findings
"What I think is important that this report shows is that once the children are born, developmentally [there] aren't very many outcomes that differ between our children of older mothers and children of mothers 25 to 29," study author and research analyst Rochelle Garner said in an interview.
"Hopefully that's encouraging. It warrants looking at these children perhaps when they start going to school whether we're going to see any academic differences."
Whether the delays in motor development carry on as the children start school is not yet known.
Statistics Canada was approached to do the study by researchers in Europe, who have focused on achieving pregnancy and lowering pregnancy complications among older women.
When the results were presented at a conference in The Hague, the Europeans were "surprised and encouraged" that no striking differences have been found so far in Canada, Garner said.
Mothers in both groups shared similar socio-demographic profiles in terms of education and income. About 13 per cent of both groups had a mother with a high school diploma, and about 12 per cent of children in both groups live in a low-income household.
As in previous studies, more mothers 35 or older had hypertension during pregnancy, 23 per cent, compared with 13 per cent of mothers aged 25 to 29.
About 40 per cent of children of older mothers were delivered by caesarean section, almost twice the proportion of children of mothers in the younger group at 23 per cent.
Seventeen per cent of children of older mothers were born pre-term, compared with 11 per cent in the younger group.
About 43 per cent of children of older mothers were breastfed for more than six months, compared with 26 per cent of the younger mothers.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Photo of the Day #1: Delicate
This photo was actually taken in New Zealand last December. But as time is slowly taking us towards winter, (especially here in Ottawa) I figured a little reminder of what the summer brings to us: the green, the freshness, the life, was in order.Hot Link #1: "Otherizing Obama"
Ok, I have decided that I will post 1 interesting link per day (to start).
The link will touch upon something that I feel strongly about, and feel obligation to share with you all. Or, it might just be something witty that I liked.
Todays article and link shows just how much of an uphill climb Obama has faced during the entire process, and just how racist much of America still is:
Here’s a sad monument to the sleaziness of this presidential campaign: Almost one-third of voters “know” that Barack Obama is a Muslim or believe that he could be.
In short, the political campaign to transform Mr. Obama into a Muslim is succeeding. The real loser as that happens isn’t just Mr. Obama, but our entire political process.
A Pew Research Center survey released a few days ago found that only half of Americans correctly know that Mr. Obama is a Christian. Meanwhile, 13 percent of registered voters say that he is a Muslim, compared with 12 percent in June and 10 percent in March.
More ominously, a rising share — now 16 percent — say they aren’t sure about his religion because they’ve heard “different things” about it.
When I’ve traveled around the country, particularly to my childhood home in rural Oregon, I’ve been struck by the number of people who ask something like: That Obama — is he really a Christian? Isn’t he a Muslim or something? Didn’t he take his oath of office on the Koran?
In conservative Christian circles and on Christian radio stations, there are even widespread theories that Mr. Obama just may be the Antichrist. Seriously.
John Green, of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, says that about 10 percent of Americans believe we may be in the Book of Revelation’s “end times” and are on the lookout for the Antichrist. A constant barrage of e-mail and broadcasts suggest that Mr. Obama just may be it.
The online Red State Shop sells T-shirts, mugs and stickers exploiting the idea. Some shirts and stickers portray a large “O” with horns, above a caption: “The Anti-Christ.”
To his credit, Mr. McCain himself has never raised doubts about Mr. Obama’s religion. But a McCain commercial last month mimicked the words and imagery of the best-selling Christian “Left Behind” book series in ways that would have set off alarm bells among evangelicals nervous about the Antichrist.
Mr. McCain himself is not popular with evangelicals. But they will vote for him if they think the other guy may be on Satan’s side.
In fact, of course, Mr. Obama took his oath on the Bible, not — as the rumors have it — on the Koran. He is far more active in church than John McCain is.
(Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated near the bottom of his university class, had dumped his first wife, had regularly displayed an explosive and profane temper, and had referred to the Pakistani-Iraqi border ...)
What is happening, I think, is this: religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice. In public at least, it’s not acceptable to express reservations about a candidate’s skin color, so discomfort about race is sublimated into concerns about whether Mr. Obama is sufficiently Christian.
The result is this campaign to “otherize” Mr. Obama. Nobody needs to point out that he is black, but there’s a persistent effort to exaggerate other differences, to de-Americanize him.
Raising doubts about a candidate based on the religion of his grandfather is toxic and profoundly un-American, cracking the melting pot we emerged from. Someday people will look back at the innuendoes about Mr. Obama with the same disgust with which we regard the smears of Al Smith as a Catholic candidate in 1928.
I’m writing in part out of a sense of personal responsibility. Those who suggest that Mr. Obama is a Muslim — as if that in itself were wrong — regularly cite my own columns, especially an interview last year in which I asked him about Islam and his boyhood in Indonesia. In that interview, Mr. Obama praised the Arabic call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset,” and he repeated the opening of it.
This should surprise no one: the call to prayer blasts from mosque loudspeakers five times a day, and Mr. Obama would have had to have been deaf not to learn the words as a child. But critics, like Jerome Corsi, whose book denouncing Mr. Obama, “The Obama Nation,” is No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list, quote from that column to argue that Mr. Obama has mysterious ties to Islam. I feel a particular obligation not to let my own writing be twisted so as to inflame bigotry and xenophobia.
Journalists need to do more than call the play-by-play this election cycle. We also need to blow the whistle on such egregious fouls calculated to undermine the political process and magnify the ugliest prejudices that our nation has done so much to overcome.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
The link will touch upon something that I feel strongly about, and feel obligation to share with you all. Or, it might just be something witty that I liked.
Todays article and link shows just how much of an uphill climb Obama has faced during the entire process, and just how racist much of America still is:
Here’s a sad monument to the sleaziness of this presidential campaign: Almost one-third of voters “know” that Barack Obama is a Muslim or believe that he could be.
In short, the political campaign to transform Mr. Obama into a Muslim is succeeding. The real loser as that happens isn’t just Mr. Obama, but our entire political process.
A Pew Research Center survey released a few days ago found that only half of Americans correctly know that Mr. Obama is a Christian. Meanwhile, 13 percent of registered voters say that he is a Muslim, compared with 12 percent in June and 10 percent in March.
More ominously, a rising share — now 16 percent — say they aren’t sure about his religion because they’ve heard “different things” about it.
When I’ve traveled around the country, particularly to my childhood home in rural Oregon, I’ve been struck by the number of people who ask something like: That Obama — is he really a Christian? Isn’t he a Muslim or something? Didn’t he take his oath of office on the Koran?
In conservative Christian circles and on Christian radio stations, there are even widespread theories that Mr. Obama just may be the Antichrist. Seriously.
John Green, of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, says that about 10 percent of Americans believe we may be in the Book of Revelation’s “end times” and are on the lookout for the Antichrist. A constant barrage of e-mail and broadcasts suggest that Mr. Obama just may be it.
The online Red State Shop sells T-shirts, mugs and stickers exploiting the idea. Some shirts and stickers portray a large “O” with horns, above a caption: “The Anti-Christ.”
To his credit, Mr. McCain himself has never raised doubts about Mr. Obama’s religion. But a McCain commercial last month mimicked the words and imagery of the best-selling Christian “Left Behind” book series in ways that would have set off alarm bells among evangelicals nervous about the Antichrist.
Mr. McCain himself is not popular with evangelicals. But they will vote for him if they think the other guy may be on Satan’s side.
In fact, of course, Mr. Obama took his oath on the Bible, not — as the rumors have it — on the Koran. He is far more active in church than John McCain is.
(Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated near the bottom of his university class, had dumped his first wife, had regularly displayed an explosive and profane temper, and had referred to the Pakistani-Iraqi border ...)
What is happening, I think, is this: religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice. In public at least, it’s not acceptable to express reservations about a candidate’s skin color, so discomfort about race is sublimated into concerns about whether Mr. Obama is sufficiently Christian.
The result is this campaign to “otherize” Mr. Obama. Nobody needs to point out that he is black, but there’s a persistent effort to exaggerate other differences, to de-Americanize him.
Raising doubts about a candidate based on the religion of his grandfather is toxic and profoundly un-American, cracking the melting pot we emerged from. Someday people will look back at the innuendoes about Mr. Obama with the same disgust with which we regard the smears of Al Smith as a Catholic candidate in 1928.
I’m writing in part out of a sense of personal responsibility. Those who suggest that Mr. Obama is a Muslim — as if that in itself were wrong — regularly cite my own columns, especially an interview last year in which I asked him about Islam and his boyhood in Indonesia. In that interview, Mr. Obama praised the Arabic call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset,” and he repeated the opening of it.
This should surprise no one: the call to prayer blasts from mosque loudspeakers five times a day, and Mr. Obama would have had to have been deaf not to learn the words as a child. But critics, like Jerome Corsi, whose book denouncing Mr. Obama, “The Obama Nation,” is No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list, quote from that column to argue that Mr. Obama has mysterious ties to Islam. I feel a particular obligation not to let my own writing be twisted so as to inflame bigotry and xenophobia.
Journalists need to do more than call the play-by-play this election cycle. We also need to blow the whistle on such egregious fouls calculated to undermine the political process and magnify the ugliest prejudices that our nation has done so much to overcome.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
Green Party Work
Well, after a 4-month hiatus I have decided to post again.
After spending my summer in the woods (CFB Gagetown to be precise), I am now in Ottawa with the brunette.
I'll summarize them as follows:
Sleepless, mentally and physically exhausting hours, finally done, awesome 1-week all inclusive trip to Cuba, move to Ottawa, great new apartment, 2 weeks of moving in and a job search, slight existential crisis figuring out what I want to do with my life blah blah blah...etc..etc..etc..
I am now working as a Media Relations Officer for the Green Party of Canada.
It is a great opportunity and I am witnessing the inside machinations of a campaign.
However , I will post photos from the Cuba trip and from the army, as soon as I get them.
After spending my summer in the woods (CFB Gagetown to be precise), I am now in Ottawa with the brunette.
I'll summarize them as follows:
Sleepless, mentally and physically exhausting hours, finally done, awesome 1-week all inclusive trip to Cuba, move to Ottawa, great new apartment, 2 weeks of moving in and a job search, slight existential crisis figuring out what I want to do with my life blah blah blah...etc..etc..etc..
I am now working as a Media Relations Officer for the Green Party of Canada.
It is a great opportunity and I am witnessing the inside machinations of a campaign.
However , I will post photos from the Cuba trip and from the army, as soon as I get them.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Musings from Ottawa Citizen time...
Wow, its amazing how time flies and nothing gets done. I think that last post was in October. Its now pretty much summer, and I've graduated from journalism grad school and moved on to other things.
Right now in Ottawa working for a couple of weeks at the Citizen, (pretty good gig, they're giving me assignments and treating me like a pro), staying with cousin Ali and getting the feel for the town for when I come back in the fall with Laura.
Kinda tired and a bit overworked but its nothing compared to the army training I'll be going through in a couple of weeks so I can't complain.
Bed time now, but I hope to write more before I go off the Gagetown (AKA the Siberian gulag) whereupon I will lose contact with the real world for 12 weeks.
Right now in Ottawa working for a couple of weeks at the Citizen, (pretty good gig, they're giving me assignments and treating me like a pro), staying with cousin Ali and getting the feel for the town for when I come back in the fall with Laura.
Kinda tired and a bit overworked but its nothing compared to the army training I'll be going through in a couple of weeks so I can't complain.
Bed time now, but I hope to write more before I go off the Gagetown (AKA the Siberian gulag) whereupon I will lose contact with the real world for 12 weeks.
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