Facts by the Pound

Being in Iceland means presidential debates are shown at 1 AM. Then add my thinking about presidential debate for a couple of hours and the result is; Not enough sleep. Enter previously mentioned sneezing and hollow feeling.
Kerry did well, there were a few nails he could have hammered in better, such as giving the date for Bush's saying that he wasn't all that worried about Bin Laden.
“I just don’t think I ever said I’m not worried about Osama bin Laden,” Bush said. “It’s kind of one of those exaggerations.”
Is this a wise reply?
I remember that quote very well, mostly because it was such an obvious segue to Saddam, but also because it was such a cop out. They couldn't catch the culprit and they were peeved, and W. Did what I do when I am peeved at people, I diminish their importance. Which is petty enough if you are dealing with the phone company or the infuriatingly slow cashier at the super market, but someone who just masterminded a horrifyingly simple and deadly attack on your country? Not petty - but perilous.
Also has me a wee bit worried that W. Couldn't remember that he said that, was there serious loss of oxygen during the pretzel incident?
There was an interesting trend in W.'s answers, every single time the economy, the loss of jobs and the economic reality of middle class America was brought up, he scuttled off and started talking about education and no child left behind. I mean every single time, it was kind of strange to see it.
W. Did a lot of pulpit pounding. Slam-slam-slam went his hand. Kind of like he was on Jeopardy. Didn't anyone tell him that it was a debate with predetermined speaking regulations?
I'm thinking his hand must be hurting today.
So is mine, but not from slamming pulpits, but from priming impossible to paint walls. Ugh.

Battle of the Bulge

Interesting how nobody at the White House nor at the Bush/Cheney re-election headquarters has actually denied that G.W was wired. All responses so far have been counter-questions and bad jokes. Seriously, all they have to do is issue a statement to the fact that he receives no radio transmissions during the debates and that will be the end of that .
Ah, but then wasn't the issue with President Clinton not that he had had a little fun on company time but that he lied about it?
My own personal bulge is currently located on the upper left corner of my forehead. It emerged after unpleasant encounter with a clothes hook in the wall of the laundry room. Am considering starting to wear my trusty helmet indoors. However, cannot fit helmet over bump on the head at the moment.
Other honorable bulges can be found in our our dirty laundry after about a week of no washer.
Mt. Esja, Reykjavik's local bulge depicted on various postcards, plates and water colors of questionable quality , got its first sprinkling of snow last night. The best part of that story is that our new apartment has a fab view of it.

Non-bulgy locations are:

• Bank account, thanks to our sponsoring of IKEA, rental car and food delivery places.
• Bathroom cabinets, as there are none.
• Walk-in closet - laundry room hook-smooch put a dent in my plans to swiftly organize wardrobe... All clothes in boxes or dirty. Am beginning to smell interestingly, that arresting mix of card board and dust is simply irresistible.

I can account for all of my bulges or non-bulges. Can you?