Miscellaneous: April 2008 Archives

Now that the Pennsylvania primary's over, I'm taking this blog in a completely new direction. Rather than writing about politics, I'll be writing about my personal life. Who is this guy named Tom? What is he thinking? How does he feel about this crazy Merry-Go-Round we call life?

In fact, I'm changing the name of the blog from "Articles of Confabulation" to ...

THE WORLD OF ME

I meant to start on my diet this week, but I had an upsetting day at work. A certain co-worker I'll just call Little Miss Snooty-Face decided she was going to cop an attitude. I got so upset that during lunch, I went out to my car and had a good cry. :(

So when I got home, I consoled myself with a quart of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream and a DVD rental of "She's All That" -- the best movie of all time, IMHO. The ice cream was yummy, but now I feel fat. Bleh.

Anyway, here's my take on this season's "American Idol" ....

JOKE! That was all a joke! I think maybe I took that too far. Just writing it gave me a migraine. Yeesh. Although if that kind of thing interests you, may I refer you to ... oh ... roughly 500,000 other blogs?

No, I will continue to write about politics from a York County perspective. The Pennsylvania primary coming to an end won't change that. In fact, without the primary taking up so much of my time, I'd like to expand my focus. I haven't been writing about state politics lately, and I'd like to rectify that.

Also, let's not forget that we have a presidential election coming up. And I'm sure that, just as in 2004, our status as a swing state will ensure that Pennsylvania in general and York County in particular will be the site of some intense campaigning.

So keep reading.

I should mention that during the interviews I described in the last two entries, TV news people with cameras were hovering in the background.

A news van was parked at the Center Square in York when I interviewed Obama supporters. Two guys were wandering around with a news camera. But it turned out that the van was for a different news crew, because those two guys got in a car when they were done.

Before they did, they asked me where the nearest polling place was. I gave them directions to both the York YMCA and the Crispus Attucks center.

When I was at the local Hillary Clinton campaign headquarters, another TV news guy came in and announced himself as being from a station in Baltimore. Somebody else told me she saw a TV news truck from Washington, D.C., near York Hospital.

I wonder if this is how Iowans feel every four years.

To see additional primary night posts, see Mike Argento's Argento's Front Stoop and Jim McClure's York Town Square.

OK, I just spoke to my editor. Turns out that Mike Argento will NOT be posting on this blog. Gee. After I spent all that time hiding the valuables and the sharp objects.

But be sure to check out his stuff about today's primary on his blog, Argento's Front Stoop.

OK, here we are. Primary Day.

I must admit that I'm a bit disgruntled. I asked my supervisors if I could have the day off because, hey, I could use some quality Playstation time. They gave me an emphatic "no." Fascists.

So anyway, I understand that part of my job tonight is to provide periodic blog entries on what's going on around the county. For now, I can sum it up in a single word -- plenty.