"Holiday" Gauntlet

Mood: fidgety
Listening to: EON - Spice

Just dreading the impending holiday events I am obliged to attend this year. Usually, I am safely out of town and exempt from such events. This year we opted to stay in Lexington and celebrate Owen's first Christmas at our house. This means we're going to be invited to some holiday parties (or maybe we won't if anyone reads this?) My problem is with the surge in political conversations over the last several years that I end up in at get-togethers. Somehow politcs cannot be avoided these days and rather than be faced with the choice of ignoring a comment which should get a reaction from me (basically, tacitly agreeing for the sake of peace) or engaging in a pointless arguemnt which will only anger the person on the other end, I've been socially withdrawn as much as possible for about a year or so. Let's face it if you are an artistic centrist with an open mind, you won't have many close friends. Artistic people almost always lean way left and most conservatives or centrists are going to be intimidated by creativity.

I know, I'm exagerating and stereotyping. I'm sure those people are out there. They're hiding, just like me. Maybe some of them will be dragged out to the same holiday events as me and a new friendship will be forged? We'll see. As a former DJ in the "rave" scene and a college educated architect, most of my old acquaintences are going to be in the left column. People do change... so I suppose, I'll take my shower, shave, get dressed and hope that either there is enough wine and food to occupy everyone outside of politics or else the game will be called on account of crying baby. Or maybe I'll just keep my mouth shut and save my griping for this blog?