cowboys

denver is weird. the people really love obama. in the past four hours of wandering around downtown i have been approached by at least five people asking if i have registered to vote. one guy at the university of colorado, even upon learning that i was australian and thus unable to exercise my democratic actions on his soil, insisted that i take obama posters with me back home. whilst continuing my tertiary education tour of the country, i ran into a celtic dancing competition (for kids?) at uc; quite odd indeed.

obama fanatics aside, there are a lot of homeless people here, idling lonely on the numerous park benches littered about town. people seem to like to sit around and chat, watch other people, or simply loiter. it's a little weird sometimes.

and there are cowboys! i wasn't actually expecting any, but there was one at the airport, in a cowboy hat with a horse saddle in tow. and, there are metro-cowboys scattered around town, especially in the cowboy store i found in 'lodo'. and, if you've subjected yourself to the movie 'coyote ugly', it's actually a real bar in downtown denver. yikes.

there aren't many asians here. lots of mexicans, caucasian americans, africans, and african-americans. some people gave me odd looks. but maybe that was because i was wearing a nerdy shirt. is open solaris not cool?