Fencing, Politics, Picnik, and Glee

(But not necessarily in that order.)

So today's fencing session was punctuated with  a lot of talk of politics. Or, to perhaps put it more correctly, one of the scary-fencing-eleven-year-olds' ideas of politics (and/or how to fix the United States's copious debt problem). You see, the scary-fencing-eleven-year-old (we'll just call them SFEYOs) is of the opinion that the United States should somehow buy up the Sahara desert and then get people to build a giant solar panel across it. This would generate lots of energy for the US, which would then presumably be sold to China (it's always China, China, China; never anything else) so that the US can pay off its debts to that same country. It's a terrible plan, but he seems convinced of its greatness, and no amount of dissuasion seems to have done any good.


Much of footwork was spent discussing the monumental flaws of the SFEYO's plan, and so we didn't actually do all that much exercising today. :)


Oh, and speaking of China, it's so stupid that people think that it's China's fault that the US's economy is screwed up. I mean, really. China is not "stealing jobs"; in the words of Virgil, China was merely doing what was good for China, and that's really all that it should be expected to do. The United States screwed itself over by depending so much on China.

And, lastly, on the topic of politics--Ohio, where we 6LCF live, is now apparently entirely Republican. And apparently the Republicans are going to cut money from schools/libraries/things that matter. How lovely. >.>


Politics, in my opinion, is just a very silly business.
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In other news, today, in a fit of hilarious juvenility (I just made up a word!), Momo, Lynda, and I made a quite hilarious picture on Picnik. It was originally supposed to be the cover of Lynda's NaNo novel, but it turned out, er, well.
I'll just let you see for yourself, yeah?

:D
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Darren Criss apparently now has a role on Glee, which is wonderful news for the Darren-Criss-loving and/or Glee-loving Curly Fry community.
I was originally going to watch Glee and write my first impressions of it in this post, but there was an unfortunate event called piano practice which I must do, meaning that I will, sadly, be unable to watch said show during the time in which it is airing.
I guess I'll watch it on Hulu if/when I have the time; perhaps my first impressions will come next week.
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And, finally, the NaNo usual. . .


Wordount: 26,741 (I haven't had the chance to write much today, but I will.)
Last sentence: “I will,” replied Ellie, clutching the scribbled-on piece of paper like her life depended on it. Her brain was rapidly churning out random, disjointed, highly panicked thoughts.