I finally have a blog on OpenSalon!

 It sure took me long enough to get here.  Two months ago I was turned onto OpenSalon by a friend, and I love the articles and other blogs that get posted here.  But I have been met with untold difficulty in signing up for an account.  Apparently, the image verification system was not appearing on the sign up page and I needed to simply go through a couple more steps to get that verification system to work.

I think the IT guys at O.S. need to rectify this soon or there will be more frustrated wanna-be bloggers out there.

 Well, with that off my back, I am very excited to join this community.  First and foremost, I'm gonna put it out there, I'm a liberal.  Call me in the tank for Obama if you want, say I'm drinking the Kool-Aid, whatever.  I have been following Obama's career since his beginning in Illinois state legislature and since then I have and probably always will admire the man.  I don't always agree with everything he says and does but for the most part I think his policies are in line with what's good for America.

That being said, don't count me in just for the Dems.  I have always been willing to follow a Republican candidate if his policies make sense to me.  I like Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee, for instance.  And I even liked McCaine for the 2000 primaries.

So, with all that said, will this blog be political?  Not always.  I follow politics but I am interested in much more than that.  I have a Bachelor in Science for Theatre/Directing from Illinois State University, my original major way back when I started in '98 was English Education.  I enjoy and appreciate anything artistic, especially music, the art of filmmaking, Theatre, and dance.

I love to cook.  Cooking and recipes are one thing that, were I not involved in Theatre/film arts as my primary career of choice, and were politics not my secondary pursuit, cooking would be it.  So occasionally I'll trade a recipe or talk about some wing-ding quickie thing I came up with on my own.

Thank God for the internet.  If this wasn't available to me as I am stuck here in Bloomington/Normal (hence the title of this blog), I might just do something drastic.  I know this is an old tune, but, it's boring here!  Hopefully, soon I can find a theatrical job in Chicago or New York, or even - God willing - find an agent and sell one of my screenplays, and get far away from here.  And when I get there, I won't even have to change the title of my blog.