I was trying to borrow from my boy's rhetoric. He likes to say "let's be clear" when he's trying to set the record straight. I can't wait for him to win.
Yes, I'm that sure he's going to pull it off. However, I wasn't so sure that someone else would be able to pull off converting a well-known standard bearer with his upcoming presentation. Indeed, I doubted his powers of persuasion so much that I said I'd vote for John McCain if he were successful. The only problem with that proposition . . . Election Day will have already passed by then. Guess I'll have to go ahead with my plan to Barack the vote, then. Sorry, but that's the way it is.
Now then, I will admit that sometimes my fingers itch to give someone a pseudonym. There's a Where-You-Can-Find-Me-ish urge to shine the blogular limelight upon his yet unintroduced soul. But the more staid part of me resists. It prefers to continue to allow the blogosphere get but cryptic glimpses of his existence. It prefers to instead allow him to be seen through a glass darkly and to be spoken of in parables. Each time the overindulged blogger in me wants to lift the curtain, the ascetic rationalist in me arises and appeals to restraint. A friend of mine once called me a 'walking dichotomy' and I laughed about it for days. My tendency towards cryptic clarity reminds me of that. Everyone's got some kind of tension to reckon with, I suppose.
But anyway, the occasion of my non-update this time is the fact that a week from today I will sail away to a far away land to escape the doldrums of grad school existence for a couple of days in a more natural (albeit colder) habitat. And as fate would have it, I shall meet again with the non-updateable one, among others, and will, if the polls concerning the probability of an Obama win could somehow be indicative in this case as well, have fun.
That is the hope. Yes we can!
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