I am happy that it is October. For some reason I like October so much better than September. The first month of school was extremely compact and so much happened in such a short period of time that it was a bit overwhelming. By October things usually calm down, which they have. I am almost finished with my essay for english which is the major project I have to work on. I just need to make artwork to accompany it and write a journal type entry to include with the essay.

In art today I was very unhappy because Mr. Gleason said that he has no time to shoot slides this week, and I need a slide of my mardigras piece (see the art section) by Friday because it is going to be in a show to be sold. I don't have slides of a lot of my work because I have given it to people or sold it, and I really wish that I did. The show will be at the courthouse on Friday. I took my finger painting home today and Mr. Gleason asked really sarcastically if I was planning to sell it. Sigh, I really am not enjoying that class. I left for awhile today and wandered around and ran into Kevin and Marissa.

Michael called me right before I was going to leave for city college tonight and told me that Beth sent him a postcard after not speaking to him for a month! I just feel bad because she only shows interest in him on her own terms, and he cared about her so much.

I realized how out of touch I am with reality because Michael's philosophy class is right across from my environmental history class and I didn't even know! Our class is at the exact same time, too. I met him during break and gave him a hug and talked about the situation with Beth. He has moved past it, which I was glad to hear.

Jenn has been sick which is sad. She started laughing because the professor was talking about government conspiracy theories, and she told me that she predicts I will grow up to be really paranoid and have lots of conspiracy theories of my own because I am always talking about genetically engineered food, corporate corruption and such. I think it is important to be informed.

We read an article in class on Bush and Gore, and their policies on oil. If I talked about all of the reasons they both are corrupt I would go on forever, but it was especially interesting that Bush proposed drilling on an Alaskan wildlife reserve. He said that there would only be "footprints" left to marr the "small" 19 million acre area. What was especially interesting was the part of his plan that suggested using revenue from the Alaskan oil to fund the preservation of wildlife reserves. Seems to defeat the purpose.