| March 24,2003 I have quite a bit of homework to do today so I'll make this quick. Actually, compared to last year my homework is nothing..I am just so used to about twenty minutes or less that anything more is a big deal; I am very, very spoiled that way. I am not sure if I mentioned that the Catholic Elementary School next to mine has insisted on keeping the entire campus locked (save the morning and afternoon). This makes it very inconveniant for someone like me who goes in an out of school throughout the day..never at times when it is unlocked. The nuns are taking this code orange alert VERY seriously, which is strange considering they are supposedly very faithful people with confidence in "God's providence." If the nuns have even given up hope for mankind you know it must be bad..I mean, I am this cynical, negative person and even I feel no danger or worry when it comes to terrorists. As if Al Queda is interested in a little Catholic school in Key West, Florida! It is absurd. Like my Dad so kindly reminded me, a worse inconveniance would be tredging around in the desert storms plaguing the middle east..even worse yet being a prisoner of war. So when it comes down to it I really don't mind having to go a couple blocks out of my way to get in and out of school. The weather has finally cooled a bit. I think it is 76 degrees right now with strong, cool breezes. Very nice indeed. I have to explore the internet tonight for information on a book I'm reading called Murder In The Cathedral, which, coincidently is exactly what those nuns are trying so hard to avoid. The Oscars were entertaining last night. I watched the entire show, all three and a half hours of it. The only really interesting thing that happened was when Michael Moore won for best documentary. He made the same statement that I saw him make the previous night on the Independent Spirit Awards. He said we live in fictitious times with a fictitious president elected by fictitious votes and we are now fighting a fictitious war for fictitious reasons. I could not believe it, but he was actually booed off the stage. How lame of Hollwood. I thought actors and actresses were keyed into humanity..because of their craft they were inherently compassionate..yeah right. It was as though Moore was speaking to goons at a football game, it was very odd. The point I really wanted to hear him make, which the crowd at the Independent Spirit Awards was willing to hear, was that the president..the war..is teaching the kids at Columbine and every other school that the way to solve a problem is with violence. I couldn't agree more..the same people that scream "whats happened to our kids?" are the same people who've created them. We've created one big, mean, fat ugly monster and its biting the hand that feeds it. Back |