First of the First

For some reason I have decided to undertake writing a blog. I don't actually have many friends to follow a blog, or many online friends, either. However, I think I have enough things going on at this point to entertain myself by recording them.

Around the 18th of July, I am going to New York with my father and my boyfriend, Chauncey. I will be visiting a number of restaurants, including Peek'N Peak, near Chautauqua, which has a total of one vegan dish, (naturally it is pasta,) and the Strong Hearts Cafe, in Syracuse, which has only vegan dishes. We are actually there to visit old stomping grounds, namely Ligonier in Pennsylvania, Chautauqua Institution in New York, and Boonville, New York. We'll drop by Panama Rocks and Old Forge, I think. I'll be writing from there.

This fall I will be attending the local (as in an hour drive to Fort Myers,) college via Pell Grant (assuming I am approved, no word yet.) I am going for a AS in computer programming. I would have preferred an AA, but trigonometry and calculus are simply out of my league.

Also, since my political efforts consist of the communist manifesto, various bits and pieces picked up along the way, listening to CNN and conservative talk radio, and a few online news papers, I have decided to read some proper literature on my political views. I picked up Das Kapital for the Kindle. Only, it's pretty heavy. Near the beginning, Marx is going into commodities, and he gets somewhat mathematical and I begin to lose him. I am considering getting A Companion to Marx's Capital, which helps explain it, and it is by a liberal enough author that it won't be a constant "this sucks because". I want to understand what Marx was saying, not whether he was right or wrong, Until then, I have some smaller essays by Trotsky and Marx.

I realise I sound somewhat uneducated with regards to communism, but I have a strong grasp of the basics from years of debating it. Whether my views follow the original views as strongly as they should remains to be seen, and I am still uneducated, regardless. Don't let the name of the blog fool you though, I am aware that Communism, (as opposed to communism,) went very bad. It is my belief it was always the difference of the building being built from the top down, rather than from the foundation up.