The hard disk with all of my art on it is still kaput, but I salvaged some things I'd uploaded and finally made a gallery. There are so many details I want to fix and backgrounds I want to add but there's no sense in editing jpegs. Every section of the site's now up and running, in any case.

The election is still half a year away and already I'm getting worn out from anticipation. Meanwhile, I'm slowly admitting to myself that Bush is going to get reelected. It doesn't matter what horrible facts turn up about his administration or his plans or his two-facedness or his blunders-- most other people don't know and they don't care, because they think he's good God-fearing American and that's all there is to it. Every day I ponder why it is that my opinion on every single issue that matters to me is the exact opposite of the general public's. It's not because I'm some special little snowflake; I'm no better than anyone else. Am I just wrong? Was I born with some defect in my American gene?

Being an outsider wouldn't be so bad if one could do it with a ton of other people.