magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

Met Chris at Kate's for brunch. I figured that if I was in the city I might have the motivation to attend today's big RNC protest. But it was hot and sunny, and I headed home to Brooklyn instead. And really, while I thing it's a good thing that people are protesting the convention, I don't really feel all that strongly about it. New York was probably a bad choice of location, but they have just as much of a right to meet here as anywhere else. And while I'm as anti-Bush as the next liberaly-minded American, I don't really see a much better option in Kerry, and never having bought into the 'lesser of two evils' argument, I'm not about to do so now. Granted, there will be people protesting whose message is simply anti-war, or of environmental arwareness, or other things that I do belive in, without a specific political agenda. But, by and large, the anti-Bush sentiments are, by implication, pro-Kerry.

I got email from Bret this afternoon, who was at the protest, and is in town for a few more days. We made plans to hang out sometime tomorrow.

And also, via MySpace, a message from Marisa with her phone number. '. i have found myself suffering from a lack of awkward conversation lately . perhaps you would be interested ?' I went up to the roof of my building to make some calls, but couldn't summon the nerve to call her.