Day 235: The Bridge to the Future

 

August 23rd, 2011On the 235th day of the year, I am still contemplating where my life will go upon graduation. With the symbolic bridge to OVT being my picture of the day, the destination remains both loomy and unclear. No matter what path I decide to take though, I will have to take into consideration the intent of our Founding Fathers – in my everlasting constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the morning I proceeded to EHS, where I actually had work to do, which took hours upon hours. After starving for a couple more hours at Price Center (coupled with talking to John Torres for 20 minutes), I met up with Pam at OVT, where she treated me to some delicious use of her meal points. Though the buffet wasn’t necessarily that great I would say it still trumps out the food at Souplantation (because it has meat), and Hometown Buffet (because that’s just disgusting). When talking about our futures, she recommended a program called City Year, and after she dropped me back home, I researched it only to find it pays very little…. it does look like a meaningful experience if I were to pursue it though, so I’ll definitely keep it in the back of my mind when I pursue my future, and the rest of my life. I ended the night more puzzled than ever.

On this day in 1784, four counties in western North Carolina declare their independence as the state of Franklin. The counties lay in what would eventually become Tennessee. The previous April, the state of North Carolina had ceded its western land claims between the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River to the United States Congress. The settlers in this area, known as the Cumberland River Valley, had formed their own independent government from 1772 to 1777 and were concerned that Congress would sell the territory to Spain or France as a means of paying off some of the government’s war debt. As a result, North Carolina retracted its cession and began to organize an administration for the territory. YEEE AMERICAAAAA. Let’s not forget the Ron Paul Revolution! 😀

THE president is in trouble. A new Gallup poll shows Barack Obama losing by 2% to Mitt Romney in a hypothetical race held “today”. Mr Obama is tied with Rick Perry. But the really interesting news is that the president wins by just 2% against Ron Paul, the guy most media gatekeepers assume too unelectable to be worth covering. For her part, Michele Bachmann, whose legitimacy as a serious candidate has been created largely by a self-justifying circle of relentlessly obsessive media coverage, loses in her hypothetical race against Mr Obama by 4%. RON PAUL INDEED.

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