Does everyone who owns a blog get excited to see the number of views on their page? Hmm, it's a new interwebs high.
In two days, I will fly out of Seattle to arrive at 1:30 in the morning in San Antonio, Texas. Now, this may seem a little rash, but in fact, it has been planned for two months. I'm visiting a friend, James, as well as catching up with my very good friends Kate and Curtis (and their new-to-me daughter Allegra). Texas, based on my week long stay a few years ago, has some things going for it: Austin, breakfast burritos, and beautiful historic missions (a la the Alamo).
This trip will involving venturing out of said cities to alternate and remote areas of central Texas (I think) - Enchanted Rock and the Lower Pecos area. Rock art aplenty. Lots of good fodder for prowling archaeologists with cameras.
My main concern currently is, upon flying out of Texas, should I let someone search (fondle) me or (essentially) photograph me naked. I feel like this is what, in the business world, people would refer to as a lose-lose-lose situation. I lose my personal bubble and it goes downhill from there.
The interference with our (proudly referred to) "freedom" is endless, and escalating at a precipitous rate. Does this scare anyone else? I had the unfortunate mental image this morning of America with caged bars around it to "keep terrorists and immigrants out" when all it actually did was look like a zoo exhibit to the rest of the world. I remember visiting the Oregon Zoo a few years ago, the last time I actually went, and saw the Hyena exhibit. There was a track worn a foot deep around the entire perimeter of the pen, and the hyena was just pacing around and around and around. Can't have taken her that long to wear that track down, and I wonder how she survived or if she did.
There was a point to this ramble - ah. Are we becoming a macrocosm of the caged hyena, pacing and getting crazier and crazier?
Okay, the end of my ramble is upon us.
Hope everyone has a kickass New Years.
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