February 25, 2007

Prediction

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Politics

I was crushing on Barack Obama long before his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. I wrote a paper in the late nineties declaring that Bill Richardson would be the first Mexican-American to run for POTUS. In the early-to-mid nineties I as a VERY young girl fell in love with Hillary Clinton. [...]


February 18, 2007

Are You Legal?

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Ohio, Politics, personal

I just went to the Jacksonpike Prison.  My friend is there (don’t worry it is a misdemenor however it was her second offence so she got 30 days!)
I recently lost my wallet and as such don’t have my drivers license or even my student ID, so I had to use my passport at the prison.  [...]


February 17, 2007

I’ve got another blog

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Politics, personal

People are really into blogs. Everyone deserves the right to express themselves but we don’t need to create a blog for everything. That said if you sign up for an account at BarackObama.com you also get a blog page with an easy URL of http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/elenamary . Very easy huh? [...]


February 11, 2007

It felt like a Sunday

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Politics, personal

Sunday mornings should start earlier, at 8am. They should start with Sunday morning news programs with a bunch of white men debating over who is doing a worse job, white man number one or white man number two. Which should be watched with a warm cup of cofee in hand, Sunday New York [...]


February 8, 2007

suburbs

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Politics, personal

I grew up in a suburb.  A well to do suburb.  I hated it.  I knew I was fortunate but I didn’t understand that I was fortunate.  Not sure I completely do now, but I am starting to understand.  The suburb I grew up in was minutes from The Ohio State University, it was within [...]


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