First Day of School!

I'd just like to document how much I really love the first day of school. I'm so exhausted though. I may not move for a week after this rush at the bookstore is over.

Confirmation bias. I've realized that no matter how open-minded I'd like to believe I am, I will never completely escape it.

The past few weeks I've been trying to puzzle out my mother. She listens to Rush, but I've never heard her dicuss polictics (just make a few snide remarks about Obama). She's extremely conservative in the way she runs the household and the rules she implements, but she's addicted to soap operas where the people behave amorally. She can be so very nice, but she so tense all the time it doesn't always translate well when living under shawdow. She loves us, of that I've never had any doubt. The biggest puzzle, is that she's big into alternative medicine, de-toxing, and the green movement; but doesn't buy into the politics that I think are associated with all those movements. How can you listen to Rush and still be so hypercritical of the pharmacutical companies? She will disregard anything a commercial tells her is 'good for you' or will 'cure' this or than, but she doesn't question the veracity of random studies that claim some random Brazilian nut will stave off cancer. Of course, this is all me, trying to put my mother and the rest of the world in a nice little box with organized labels. So much for an open mind.

Then, I was making coffee a moment ago and stumpled upon a realization.