Journal

four days to first quarter
february 6, 2003 ~ 3:30 p.m.

Well, I haven't written in a while, but nothing's new anyway, the world's still going to hell.

With North Korea threatening a strike against the US, how can the government possibly claim Iraq is more of a threat? How can they say that North Korea can be dealt with in a diplomatic way, while Iraq must be attacked in a "pre-emptive strike"?

I am amazed by the people who still insist this isn't about oil; I'm even amazed by the people who say it's possible but aren't entirely convinced it's about oil. Come on! It doesn't take a "nucular" scientist to figure this one out.

Anyway...

School is going okay, although Chemistry II is really fucking hard...somehow, with little grasp of anything we were learning, and having skipped half the labs, I got a B in Chemistry I. And now I'm having trouble with the first few skills, when we're going to be doing even harder ones as we go on, so I'm kind of freaked out. But I'm about to take a test and I think I'm going to do okay on it, so maybe it's not so bad. Calculus is easy right now; I got a 92 on the first test and a 100 on the second. Philosophy is pretty boring, but I got an A on my last paper, so I'm doing okay. The only hard part of Weightlifting is getting up at eight in the morning, and Guitar is fun and I think it's pass/fail so I have nothing to worry about there.

Right now I'm working on finding some kind of internship to do this summer in DC, something with a park working with plants. I think I'll also take some classes at the USDA school and hopefully those credits will transfer, and I'd like to take guitar lessons at the House of Musical Traditions as well.

I've seen two movies since the last time I wrote: Bowling For Columbine and Rabbit-Proof Fence, which were both fantastic.

I love Michael Moore; he's an absolute genius, and Bowling For Columbine was a hilarious and informative documentary on gun violence in the US. I think the best part was when he was interviewing Terry Nichols' brother, who's a gun nut, and pointed out that since nuclear weapons and such are also "arms", the second ammendment protects the right to those as much as it does the right to guns. So he asked if this guy thought people should have the right to own nuclear weapons, and he said, "No, there's a lot of nuts out there." But still insisted that the second ammendment gave him the right to own guns. Interesting example of doublethink. Or maybe the best part was the interview with Charlton Heston, where Heston explained that the US has so much gun violence because we have so many different ethnic groups.

Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian movie, a true story about three Aborigine girls who escape a boarding school and walk thousands of miles across the desert to get back home. This is such an amazing movie. I cried during the scene where they're being kidnapped by the government. I never cry at movies.

So go see those movies, right now.

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