Yesssss. Man, I do love me some Dixie Chicks, their stuff is almost always awesome.
I was over at LJ poking at their new entry page and am not quite sure what to think of it, really? It seems a bit like they are trying to mimic... idk, Tumblr or something. I suppose that might make sense. How's LJ even doing, now? I know it's still owned by some Russian company but I don't know what that means for the financial side. I have it all backed up, anyway - probably need to save my newer entries but they'd be over here, too.
Have been keeping half an eye on the US politics situation but don't know how to feel at the moment. God knows how I'd feel if I was American, so those of you who are have my sympathies :(
To be honest over the last year I've found myself scarily... disenchanted or maybe even depressed by the news. I mean there's always been negative stuff in the media but it seems overwhelming, now. Everyone seems so divided and unhappy, the economy is rocky, governments everywhere are going to shit and it seems like climate change is starting to catch up and bite us all in the ass. It seems like there's very little to be *done* about it at all, too. I find myself avoiding sites that have any headlines about the world or politics because I just need to distance myself and be able to *breathe* without constantly feeling like we're all in this gigantic clusterfuck controlled by the rich, ignorant and dangerously uncaring.
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