Maybe

Maybe, just maybe, I caught the break I needed. At least a break that should help to keep me sane for another couple of days. The exam that I wasn't prepared for at all this week was pushed back a couple of days. I have time, I need to use it.

As for the keep me sane comment... I really feel like I'm starting to lose it. Like edge of a nervous breakdown lose it. I think I've been riding the edge for the last few school weeks. It's not a fun place to be. So if you read this please pray for me. I can use all the prayer that I can get.

Two and heif weeks remain...

Currently Listening to... The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

Currently Reading... G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

All I know...

... is that Rumsfeld is no more. That alone is enough to make me a happy Dan. I'm going to go out on quite a thin and long branch here and say that when eight retired generals are calling for your resignation in an army that has traditionally supported each other no matter what and not questioned leading officials, that you've probably done a poor job.

As far as the elections go... I don't know. I'm happy that the Democrats took control of the House, maybe even the Senate, but that alone will not right the ship. Now is the time to set aside partisanship and really try and work out this Iraq debacle and figure out the best resolution, Rumsfeld's ousting being the first key step. Unfortunately, this leave few to no good choices. With Saddam gone, leaving before a stable government is in place will leave an Iran that's itching to take control when we leave. As bad as Saddam was, is it possible that a strengthened Iran could be worse? I hope not. I don't know... I still don't know what could possibly be done that will help us in this situation and to think that the elections of Democrats to power will solve the situation is assanine. After all as Steven Colbert would say, "It's only been a day since they've been in power and already we're stuck in this unwinnable war!" I pray that a good solution would be found and that sanity would be restored. Maybe we should just take Rachel's advice and become a neo-mercantilistic country.

I don't know if any of that made any sense whatsoever...

Now Reading... G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
Now Listening to... Emily Hanes & The Soft Skeleton - The Lottery

I Hate, Hate, Hate the UP

Why you ask, I'll freakin' tell you why. No Borat... anywhere. All I want is to go see the movie, and I don't believe it, but I don't think that it's playing in a single movie theatre in all of the UP. How is this physically possible? Even here I should be able to see the big blockbuster movies, (and don't tell me this isn't one, any movie that tops the box office is). How did no theatre in the UP see this coming? Seriously? Okay once more to vent and for emphasis... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Reason #2... I'm absolutely sick of school at this point. I know that's not the UP's fault, I've just been here for too long and I'm fairly certain that my head is going to explode. This week, if I don't slack off, should be especially rough with still more catching up to do and more work piling in. I feeling like I'm trying to climb up a mountain that gives way with every step... or run up an escalator that's going down, at Mach 3. Any standing around for a second and I'm all the way at the bottom again.

Okay, so maybe hate is a strong word and maybe the UP doesn't deserve it... but I'm fairly certain that if I was back home in Chicago right now, I wouldn't be feeling like I'm about to have an aneurysm.

Currently Reading... G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
Currently Listening to... Damien Rice - Rootless Tree