Treading familiar ground

Some things just never change.

SC 2007 is right around the corner.
I find myself listening to No Doubt.

Finals are looming on the sunrise.
I find myself listening to Alice Deejay.

Summer break plans are starting to come together back at home.
I find myself listening to Vertical Horizon.

General sentimental-ness emerges.
I find myself listening to Goo.

What do these all have in common? They all have close similarities to situations in high school where I'd listen to the exact same things. The only artist I haven't retreated into yet is Sarah, but then again nothing seriously bad has happened (knock on wood).


Don't you just love how predictable you can be sometimes?


Rachel's brother Michael died yesterday morning. I was severely disappointed in myself when I woke up this morning and realized that I had done nothing since finding out. No offered hug, no phone call, hell I didn't even write on her facebook wall. But I suppose I'm still at a loss as to what I can actually do. What's the right thing to do in a situation like mine? I feel like bringing it up is something that's outside of what I'm privy to, but ignoring it seems wrong too. Maybe it's just because I feel rather ridiculous in general.

Nevertheless, it's not about me in the end. My thoughts are with her and her family.

Poise and rapture

I'm so fed up with politics.

There is no right, there is no wrong. However, there is legal and illegal. These are not to be confused with right and wrong, and subsequently moral and immoral.

Party lines are a farce. People hide behind them to push their values onto others and avoid the appearance of zealous righteousness. It is not the right of any politician, no matter what their office is, to assert a blatant moral decision upon others. Law may be derived from morality, but morality cannot be the law. Sadly, we can't seem to realize this in the international arena, much less the domestic arena. It has become a juvenile system of "us" versus "them", not too dissimilar to high school rivalry. You're a conservative, so you must be either a stupid hick or a selfish millionaire. You're a liberal, so you must be a dirty treehugger or a naive intellectual. What the fuck does any of that have to do with anything that matters? No one cares about the good of the whole anymore, just what they think the world ought to be.

I look out across the face of American culture and what it has become, and I see this reflected in almost everything. Is this really who we are? Are we so obsessed with taking sides that we let it permeate the very fabric of our daily lives and allow it to dictate our reactions before we can even think about them?

Money and power. In the end, that's all a politician sees... most of the ones currently in office, at least. Visions of grandeur that defeat the purpose of their job and title always seem to foul it up. Whenever they get elected, you always hear them say how honored they feel to have gotten chosen. But so few of them actually grasp the most important trait they could have: humility. Instead, it's all about keeping their so-called constituents happy. Newsflash for you all: your constituents go beyond those who give you money and who voted for you, and those other people are no less important or deserving of your time. You may have been elected in a ridiculous high school popularity contest set-up, but your position calls for you to unify both sides in effective policy.



I yearn for the day when I fear for my job prospects because my degree is suddenly not useful.