I used to be very, very political. I was quite adamant in my political beliefs, and it showed. But I’m not so political anymore, and I think social media has something to do with it.

This isn’t about what I post on Twitter. It’s what I don’t post and what I don’t talk about. It’s what women should be able to talk about, whether they choose to or not.

I figure some politics, gigantic iPhones, and a great song from an awesome Denver band will make for a great start to this week. This week just has to be better than the last!

It may be yet another week following far too short of a weekend, but there’s really no choice but to own up to the Mondays and dig in anyhow. I guess that’s part of why I write this on my blog — to get over my “Mondays” and start the week with something good for me to share, and hopefully, something good for you to read.

I’ve been told that there are two topics gentlemen should not discuss: politics and sports.

Well, I’m obviously not a gentleman, and sometimes I’m a little too brash to be called a ‘lady’, but I can definitely tackle politics and sports at the same time. It’ll be easy this time because there is one clear winner the last few days: the city of Chicago.

I’ve spent most of my week at the Conference on World Affairs, a yearly event here at the University of Colorado, held in the spring on our beautiful Boulder campus.

This guy knows his game.

When I first heard this phrase, I was sitting at the desk in the UMC and the awesome New Era Colorado kids were arranging their materials in the glass display case across the hallway. “That’s foul,” a passerby said, laughing heartily. “But it’s still funny.”

CU-Boulder attracted a little celebrity today.

After a brief caucus training with the Boulder for Obama staffers at the UMC Ballroom on the CU campus, we were treated to a short speech and a Q&A with Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, Phone Booth, The Crying Game).

As I was watching the coverage of Hillary Clinton’s three-percentage-point victory over Barack Obama in today’s New Hampshire primary, I have to admit that I was not terribly impressed by the media’s insistence upon this being such a huge victory.