The cleanup

The Change Contest is still going on. You could win a guest post here at The World of Stuff! Just make sure to include your e-mail address with your guess; otherwise, I might not be able to contact you.

I have been cleaning my room. This, I believe, is an event worthy of first billing in a post (not including nags to enter contests). The area of focus here is my closet, which I don't believe I've ever actually cleaned -- and it shows. So, why this once-in-a-lifetime occurrence? Because I feel like it! No, not really. Because my days at home are numbered, and I'll never be living here again. Our home is for sale, and there's going to be an open house the weekend I leave for college. I already frustrated the real estate agent by not having a spotless room that he could take a picture of, so in spite of my best efforts to the contrary, I have to make it look presentable inside and out.

Going through one side of my closet, I'm finding that a lot of things I'm throwing (or, more often, giving) away I have absolutely no emotional attachment to. And I have found all kinds of things, including things I didn't even know I had. But the things I knew I had I didn't really mind getting rid of. This is a change from the past, when I wouldn't throw anything away because I had some sentimental reason to keep it. Am I losing my sentimentality? Am I getting old? Are the rigors of life setting in? Am I paranoid? Does that mean they're not after me? Am I asking too many questions? Oh well. At least I'll have a closet that's pretty empty. Well, not quite yet. I still have to clean up the other half of the closet: the messy half. (Yes, I might actually have to throw away those Teenie Beanie Babies.) And then: the desk. Oh, the desk.

And now, an informational edition of Ask Jordon.

Genna Ruffin: Hi Jordan: I've been reading all the posts about installing the "hide bulletins" thingie for myspace and can't figure out WHERE to paste the code?

MySpace Ignore Bulletins is a Greasemonkey user script, which means you need to be running the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox in order to use it. You seem to be using Firefox, so all you have to do is install Greasemonkey, and, after being prompted to restart your browser, go back to the script's page and click "Install this script" on the right.

The November 2008 presidential election is just around the corner! Do you know who to support yet? If you're like me, you'll probably need a little help. You're probably not like me, but here's a presidential candidate selector -- a quiz to determine which presidential candidate is most in line with your views. Here are my results. I've never heard of some of these people.

1. Dennis Kucinich (88%)
2. Barack Obama (83%)
3. Joseph Biden (75%)
4. Christopher Dodd (73%)
5. Hillary Clinton (72%)
6. Mike Gravel (69%)
7. John Edwards (68%)
8. Bill Richardson (60%)
9. Ron Paul (50%)
10. Elaine Brown (47%)
11. Mike Huckabee (26%)
12. Rudolph Giuliani (25%)
13. Tommy Thompson (24%)
14. John McCain (21%)
15. Mitt Romney (17%)
16. Sam Brownback (10%)
17. Duncan Hunter (8%)
18. Tom Tancredo (8%)

That's not including people who've dropped out of the race or haven't announced their candidacy yet.

Wikipedia has a list of first occurrences.