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April 05, 2005 ( life )

I was chatting with another RPCV (China, 2000-02) the other evening, and she asked how I was re-adjusting. It occurs to me that I've now been back almost 6 months, and perhaps some things are more permanent than others.

I'm still much colder natured, I continue to be very anti-consumerist and pro-simple living, and I still like chicken, rice, and peas.

More importantly, I seem to be slipping towards being a raging, ranting liberal. I saw what I can only presume to be the MTV realroadrules-whatever "reality" TV kids being filmed riding up congress in a pickup after leaving the theater, and blurted out a few obscenities aimed towards MTV. Unfortunately, no good diatribes about media or the pretenses of reality TV shows; I'll have to work on being quicker next time.

I've also been opening up the rant on people at a drastically increased rate. I didn't used to really rant much at all.

Eh, it's a good thing, and really, I aspire to become a more tactful and informed ranting liberal (hence grad school).

Posted by griffjon at April 5, 2005 11:34 PM

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