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So I did end up going to the Kal Penn thing for Obama on Saturday (even though it wasn't in the location they said it would be - this is probably why I wasn't able to see him last time he was here). I got a picture but it's pretty blurry, so I may or may not post it later. It was pretty much just him talking about how he's an Independent and he was really cynical about politics and other backstory stuff until hearing Obama speak at the 2004 convention and finding that he really believed in him and he looked up information about him and all this stuff. It was interesting too, that because of the writers' strike last year, he didn't have a job for a few months, so he ended up going to Iowa and volunteering for the Obama campaign by making calls and all that. He actually has met Obama (I'm not sure how many times) and has asked him about his policies and stuff. It was really interesting. It was less a "Vote for Obama!" event and more a "Be sure to vote and be sure to get all your friends to vote because the youth vote can really make a difference!" event. So yeah. Before the event, the mayor of Minneapolis went around and met every single person in the room (ok, there were only like 200 of us, so not quite as impressive as it sounds) and asked us where we were from and then told us whether Obama needed our vote more in our home state or in Minnesota, which was pretty smart because I think a lot of people wouldn't really think about that stuff. I would totally vote in Minnesota (since obviously Minnesota needs my vote more than California), but I really want to be able to vote no on the proposition to ban gay marriage since Minnesota is relatively safely Obama's.

Today and tomorrow is the poster sale at school. I'm glad I bought some posters during the allposters.com sale since these posters were more expensive than the ones there. I got 2 posters for $22 rather than 6 for $33 like I did at allposters.com. Then again, at least I didn't have to pay ridiculous shipping costs. I got one of Moulin Rouge and one of Amelie (two of my favorite movies of all time). The guy said he'd be there again tomorrow with some more posters, so I might check it out again. I really want to get more movie posters, especially older movie posters, but they only had a few today. My room is in such disarray right now, though. I don't remember if I mentioned this, but I put up a lot of stuff on my walls so it does look nicer, but I'd rather have these posters up there, so I'm probably going to have to take some stuff down and rearrange things. sigh. I also (VERY STUPIDLY) decided to take my mattress from where it's lofted above my desk and put it on the ground because I really wanted to have a bed on the groud this year rather than lofted. Of course, I did this and then had no time to tidy anything else up and so now it's just impossible to get anywhere in my room. sigh. And putting the mattress back up is a lot harder than taking it down. Oh well. I'll probably leave everything how it is now and then mess with it more this weekend.

Anyways, Wind Ensemble starts today. I think I am going to end up being glad that my German lab isn't on Monday nights anymore since today already feels like it's going to be really long just with Wind Ensemble. Plus, I would have had to find time to do my lab homework sometime today which wouldn't have been fun.