This is a picture of my harvest. And a big EFF YOU to those out there who said I couldn't grow a tomato plant indoors :) More veggies to come! Hooray.

And I also wanted to write about the Republican National Convention, because I know at least Erica is interested. Some dude gave me his Club Level ticket so I could mingle with the masses. I was hoping I'd get on TV since I was one of the 5 brown people there. Sadly, I did not.

So, my reaction: They are crazy. Crazy about everything. At one point thousands of people in the crowd were chanting "drill, baby, drill" (or something to that effect) and it honestly made me feel like I was in the belly of hell. A lot of their issues I can at least see how they are misled to support, but this one is INSANE. I can't relate to it at all. Like, the way it was chanted was almost vindictive, defiant, and destructive over any virtue like logic and rationality. It made me think of "Wimp Factor". For those of you who read it, I know you have my back.

McCain and his wife are both pretty terrible speakers. Mrs. McCain recited the words like she was reading them, but she looked stunning, in my opinion...maybe because of all the work she's had done ;) She does a shit-ton of volunteer work across the world, which I really respect and love about her. I guess you have time for it when your daddy established Budweiser. I think they adopted two kids from her work, one of which was at the RNC. It's crazy because she is from Bangladesh, so kinda looks Indian, and I feel connected to her somehow :) I'm not sure what happened to the other adopted child...they mentioned there was one, but s/he wasn't present, and they didn't talk about it anymore. I almost barfed when she said, "all women look for men who will make good fathers".

McCain was a pretty bad speaker, too, but I do like how his style contrasts with Obama. He much more soft spoken, and even though he's not a good speaker, he kinda does come off like a grandpa. An insane grandpa, but still. I really wanted to puke when he said, "education is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century". Yeah, easy to say when you're a rich, white, sexist, straight male. His focus was mainly on his military service: shocker.

They are CRAZY about Palin. No one could say her name on stage without the crowd rushing to their feet and cheered like raving lunatics. It was really, really awkward. She is the perfect female politician for dude republicans (and even some dude democrats). Not intimidating and emasculating like Hillary Clinton because she's so young and inexperienced, knows her place well enough to emphasize her attractiveness and sexuality, and hates on women to be part of the Boys Club.

They are CRAZY about how many children they have. McCain and his wife-y brought it up a number of times that he has 7 kids and Palin has 5. And both times I remember it being brought up, the crowd cheered wildly. And they presented this total lie of their romance together. 30 years together isn't that impressive when you're 75 years old, btw. And they conveniently forgot to mention how he cheated on his first wife with her for a while before he ended his first marriage. Funny how they're able to overlook such glaring hypocrisy when it's their own lives their trying to sell.

Some other liberal got through the doors and screamed out "get out of Iraq!" while McCain was speaking. Obviously, they kicked her out, and I thought McCain actually dealt with it well. He said something like, "don't get caught up in the background noise". And the crowd started chanting, "U! S! A!...U! S! A!...U! S! A!...U! S! A!".

Actually, they chanted that a lot through the night, and it's not the way you or I would have chanted it, with pride and with hope. In fact, we never would have chanted it in response to any of these scenarios at all (did people chant "U! S! A!" at the DNC?). Their chantings struck me as taunting more than anything else. And it made me feel like these people are not the patriots that they want us to believe. They're just creepy.