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| It's all fine.
I'm not mad at anyone, by the way.
I am probably one of the most forgiving people you'll ever know.
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| I'm so glad I found this album.
I'm ready for Christmastime now!
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| At this point I'm excited for the Winter season/Spring Semester more than ever before.
- I'll finally be buying my own snowboard, and going to the mountains more often.
- I'm
going to drive (road trip!) to Jacksonville, FL and spend New Year's
Day watching Texas Tech's football team play #20 Virginia in the Gator
Bowl.
- I will get to work and save up some much needed money!
- I'm taking nineteen hours of class!
- (There are no Friday classes)
- I am going to give good Christmas presents.
- We're all thinking of getting a tattoo?
- (My childhood/high school friends and I)
- I still appreciate music.
- The
presidential preliminaries are going to occur, and hopefully Ron Paul
will make it to the GOP Candidacy, this country needs it so badly.
- He's the only Republican candidate (and one of the most vocal of all candidates) of pulling out of Iraq.
- He'd set this country back on track, by following the Constitution.
- He just seems more honest/reasonable than any other hopefuls, especially Giuliani or Romney...
- If either one of those two asshats is elected, I may stay in Germany while I'm there next Fall.
I just have a good feeling about the next year or so of my life.
Today in class, our professor, instead of doing a lecture (because it's the last week of school) showed us An Inconvenient Truth, the Al Gore documentary about global warming.
It was good to see that in a class at Texas Tech, and I really hope it opened up at least a couple more minds to the concept that we are at least in some way hurting this earth by living the way we live.
It was a 400 person lecture, so even if only 5% of that class was affected, that would still be 20 people who wouldn't have otherwise knew what was going on.
Hopefully some of those people will think twice about driving their big trucks, and make a conscious effort to drive them less, or trade them in for vehicles with better miles per gallon and emission rates.
Which, in addition to a conversation I had last night with a friend of mine from Paris, really gets me thinking on the state of America's transportation and our dependency on automobiles as our primary transport vessels.
How is it that we completely missed out on the whole trains, successful mass-transit in metropolitan areas, and fuel consumption standards while the rest of the developed world seemed to be aware of the benefits of these wonderful things and utilized them from their conception?
Granted, a select few of United States cities and areas have used public mass-transit, and fuel/emissions standards to great avail (New York, San Fransisco, Baltimore, and Chicago are a few that come to mind) while the rest of us are left sitting in Rush Hour traffic jams, behind some jackass in a lifted 4x4 with huge tires and a loud exhaust (that he will never have a need for) that gets less than ten miles per gallon and could feed fifteen children for a month with the cost it takes to fill it up!
But the majority of United Systems either are lacking mass-transit systems, or have sub-par systems.
This can also be due to the systems just recently being developed... Dallas, TX for example, has only had a light rail system for about a decade... and plans to double the size of it by 2013... expanding to close to 100 miles of track throughout the Metroplex. (Dart Wiki Article)
I just wish the United States as a whole was more "connected" in terms of rail, mass-transit, and fuel/emissions standards.
I do my part by riding my bike to class, and riding the train in Dallas when I can, in place of driving my car.
Hopefully this situation will drastically increase in the U.S. as our resources for living the way we currently are drastically decreasing.
Other than getting out of Iraq (and the Middle East and Asia in general), I think this is the most important issue facing Americans in this day and age.
What do YOU think??
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| I just wish I knew what to do...
In so many different aspects.
Cancun with new friends?
Angelfire with old friends? Home with old friends?
Spring Break Dilemmas.
I am not sure what to write my final paper for ethics on:
- Schaller (duties can in some situations be satisfied only if we have the corresponding virtue)
- Kant (actions are morally praiseworthy only when your motivation is your recognition of your duty)
- Oniel (and her interpretation of the categorical imperative... tough...!)
- Wolf (moral sainthood)
And in addition to that, to add to the Philosophy dilemmas, I want to study (as in Minor, if not more) both Philosophy and English, and continue to major in Anthropology. However, the dilemma is will it make any sense to triple-minor? Surely that's not cost-efficient.
Double-major and double-minor? (Anthropology/English/German/Philosophy...?)
I'm interested in all four!
There are so many books I want to read.
And so many I have read.
I find that to be so cool.
It's not that cool.
It is getting cold,
I love this time of the year.
Cold, but warm inside!
I don't really want any material things for Christmas.
I mean, I'd like some things, but I'm not severely wanting anything.
I would be fine with nothing.
But I want to give, give, give!
I'm usually like this, but this year more than ever.
I want to make a blog-blog... you know, a real one.
I think I'll go do that on my day off.
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| So today, at Barnes & Noble, they had a section of $8.00 good*
hardcover books. (I'm pretty sure it's a normal thing, I just haven't
been to a real B&N in a while... the one on campus doesn't have
everything.)
But I spent some dough! Lemme tell ya.
I still hate driving this fuel-hogging, hard-to-park, big honkin' truck.
And to add salt to the wound, my poor Volkswagen was hit in the Texas Instruments parking lot while my mom was at work.
The lady who ran into it is paying for it, but it's hurt!
It's been just about the perfect weather as of late.
You know, sweaters, books, and pumpkin spice coffee weather.
I'm not gay.
I've got a newly acquired fondness for the library.
Not sure why.
I wish I had my guitar, especially when I listen to music.
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