current song: pienso en tí - enrique iglesias

Well, I'll probably pay this week for the fact that I've done no homework whatsoever these past couple weeks, with the glaring exception of the three IA's that were due. But, I seriously want to hurt Ginsberg. Bloody hell, he expects us to do all this work for his class, the week an essay is due. Not only do we have 4 frickin outlines due between tuesday and thursday, he expects us to research the russian revolutions, write a 10-minute skit about it, memorize our parts, find costumes, and perform the play... on Friday. WTF??? In acting class I had enough trouble memorizing my lines in a couple weeks, and I didn't even need to worry about writing them, or other homework. I'll basically have one day to memorize my part, and on that day I will probably be scrambling to do all the other homework due Friday that I put off in order to do his bloody stupid world war one paper. *strangled scream* Graggh!

Eh, oh well, I'll manage somehow. Nevermind the fact that I have about 5 or 6 math assignments, 40 science questions/problems, 4 history outlines (grrr), multiple spanish assignments, and a tok essay to do this week. Oh, boy, now I'm getting too depressed to actually do any of them. The tok essay, 2 spanish assignments, 1 history outline, and maybe a third of the science is due tomorrow. Actually, I have a feeling the science was due last week... Hmmm. And, technically, I was supposed to have the tok essay done by Friday last week.

Oh, I just remembered, I wanted to watch Bush's speech telling Saddam that he's going to get his butt kicked by the US. Don't you LOVE our president? *pulls out flag* Go America! Bush is the best president ever! Iraq is going down! ... I guess I'll just leave the tv on. It'll probably be over within an hour or so.

I'm sure there are good reasons for the war, I just wish that our country wasn't run by someone who actually represented the general population. How would you feel if some high school kid ran for president and decided he was going to bomb Saudi Arabia because he didn't like its policy? I simply don't see an immediate threat from Iraq, and I still don't feel that we have enough reason to go to war. Since when was Iraq a threat? Since the 80s? What the hell were we waiting 20 years for then? Has Saddam done anything recently that merits war against his country?

In tok today, Sara got upset because people like Dylan and Yuri don't seem to understand what they're doing. If you look at war knowing that people will die, young people, Americans, not just Iraqis, and you still support it, I think that's admirable. But if you support the war simply because Saddam is a terrorist or Bush says so or war is cool, I think you have no right to voice your opinions at all. I don't know, I'm probably too harsh. It's just that I'm not sure that the 64% of Americans who supposedly are in favor of war, are actually thinking about the death and misery it will bring upon us. Us. Not just them. I, personally, don't really care about Iraqi citizens. I'm sure they're nice people; I don't know them. I don't care about them much more than I care about, say, a bunch of middle-schoolers living in Alaska. I do, however, care about me, and my family, and my friends, and my country. War is not a happy thing. It taxes the economy, the citizens, and the soldiers.

Eh, well, too late now. I just hope that, if anybody I know does go to war, that they don't die, and if I have to, and I know I won't be killed, I guess I might join the war effort too. I'm just not willing to put my life at stake. Of course, since I'm a woman, I doubt I'll really have to worry about that anyways.

Wow, stupid war. Now I'm all depressed. Ugh, and Eddie won't be going to Europe with us. And we'll all have to pay 200 dollars per person since now the group's too small.

Oh, great, that's another thing I forgot about. I have to research Florence for my presentation for the trip, which will be on Monday. Another thing to work on, another thing to worry about. Oh, and we have to buy I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for Wednesday. And I still haven't finished AFTA or ASND...

Ah, well. My life revolves around the very big or the very small. Odd how that works.