This is just something I noticed over the years. My thoughts were way more organized when I thought of it last night and have somewhat dissolved since then, but bear with me. XD

Take, just as an example, a shy person. Give them total and complete anonymity and the chance to say whatever they want. What do you get? A suddenly very out-going person, or at least considerably more outgoing than otherwise.

This is what the internet does to people. (I think another part of the internet's magical social-ability-giving power is that it allows us to skip over the "Hey, what's your name? What do you like?" stage through the use of profiles. I've noticed the same effect in places where people wear nametags.) The thing about this is...well...we can say whatever the heck we want, without fear of consequences (more or less) and therefore, we can speak our true feelings more freely.

But, riddle me this: Only in lies can we tell the truth?

On the opposite end of the spectrum, real life, we show our true faces, but not our souls. In real life, we're deathly afraid of making fools of ourselves and keep our true feelings locked inside.

So, in truth, we lie.

I just thought this was an interesting paradox. As soon as the anonymity of the internet is taken away, even by something as simple as revealing our names, we retreat back into our shells, afraid of getting hurt or of hurting others. Not that there's anything wrong with being shy--or outgoing, for that matter--but I think that it'd be a lot better if that same truth that comes with anonymity could be shared with the face truth.

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So, I got a job. I actually got this job a long time ago, but this was the first week that I actually started into it. XDD

I don't think I'm being paid enough. D:

Well, actually, there are times when I laze around doing nothing and think, "I'm getting paid for this?" and then there are times when I think, "I'm donating my freaking wages so this freaking building can get itself a freaking escalator DX" and then times when I think, "Oh flaming beacons of heaven I'm not getting paid enough D;"

Anyway~ Right now I'm in Boise, acting as a Page for the Idaho House of Representatives.

Befoe I got here, I was really expecting the Reps to be a bunch of stuffy old men, but....oh gosh, some of them have the best sense of humor in the world XD Nonini, for example. If you or anyone you know lives in the Coeur d'Alene (District 5) area, VOTE FOR HIM! He's amazing in person XDD He came into the Page Cage one day and started a competition for who could give the Pages the most snack money. We now have a bucket in our room labeled ' Pages' Wages' especially for that purpose.

I'm also living here in Boise, which is awesome because, as a 'small town girl,' being in the city is like a dream *_* It's also the city I was born in (at a hospital called St. Luke's. No, really. I didn't know this until just a couple of weeks ago. XDD) and...well, it might be the city where my birth parents still live. I really don't know @_@

So far I've gotten horribly lost three times, once on foot (Missed my bus stop and ended up stuck on an overpass a mile from home. Don't make me relive that night plzkthx), ate it on the steps inside the Capitol Annex building (where the House and Senate are meeting while the actually building is being re...re...put back the way it was originally) and stabbed my hand with a pencil (Ouchies ; - ; )...and the 'R' and 'F' keys popped off my keyboard. The 'F' key is back where it's supposed to be, but the 'R' key is....sorta hanging on for dear life. It works, but hitting it feels funny XD

Anyway, whining aside, it's been pretty fun XD Five more weeks! Woo~

Also, I suck tremendously at parliamentary procedure and embarrass myself every time they call my name D:

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Last order of business...

I've got this website, Solve My World...

AND I DUNNO WHAT TO DO WITH IT!

Originally, I had planned to turn it into a collaborative problem solving website, where everyone in the world puts their heads together to solve big problems like....global warming and whatnot, but then...I realized that, one, I'm too lazy for something that epic, and two...it would probably turn into another Yahoo Answers. So, now I've got the domain name and hosting and not much idea as to what to do with it.

So, I'm asking YOU! Yes, you. Stop looking behind you. You.

What should I do with it? It can be anything in the world, but the name's got to stick. I mean, I already paid for it and everything. XD

Meeting adjourned until you comment