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Jun. 7th, 2006 04:12 pm-( I dreamt a new episode of LOST last night (spoilers, duh, since it takes place after what's come already) )
-Lizzy Lobster isn't dead! I couldn't get her on the phone all weekend, and now I did, and I am much relieved. Not least of which because this means that I won't have to get a new roommate come the end of our current lease. Kidding! I love you dude!
-I registered for a class through the Continuing Education school today. Now all I have to do is see what the department requires for approval for that registration and then get it for them. Oh, and the tuition exemption forms. Must get those. I also got a new student ID. Same picture, new ID and new sticker! That means many a museum is free for me again, so maybe I'll go over to the Met some weekend while we still have convenient access from our apartment.
-Having just finished Sex in History (there's another post entire to be made about that book), I read my Newsweek cover story over lunch and nearly tossed my Wendy's. The cover story is about the possible crimes of war perpetrated by American soldiers in Haditha. I'd heard rumblings about this, and was loath to pick up and learn more, but it's a train wreck of a story. I couldn't put the magazine down even as parts of it made me gag. The part that nearly made me cry was not the story of the twelve-year-old girl who was the sole survivor when the soldiers broke into her house but the fact that these same soldiers ordered four students out of a taxi along with the driver and allegedly shot all of them dead. Can you imagine if they did that in absolutely any other country in the world, what the response would be?
Newsweek seems to have indicted them, and I'm trying to remain impartial myself, but the truth is I expect there's a lot of this kind of thing going on. When I read Jarhead, the tone of the first Iraq war was so different from this one, I almost wished the first one had never ended and could have co-opted this one. The writer, Swofford, he wrote about how utterly boring the war was--being fought primarily with airstrikes and the like--which seems a blessing in comparison to the training of "Kill, hate, kill--oh, but when you're done, make friends?" that's being doled out today. "Fire the Generals," indeed.
-Lizzy Lobster isn't dead! I couldn't get her on the phone all weekend, and now I did, and I am much relieved. Not least of which because this means that I won't have to get a new roommate come the end of our current lease. Kidding! I love you dude!
-I registered for a class through the Continuing Education school today. Now all I have to do is see what the department requires for approval for that registration and then get it for them. Oh, and the tuition exemption forms. Must get those. I also got a new student ID. Same picture, new ID and new sticker! That means many a museum is free for me again, so maybe I'll go over to the Met some weekend while we still have convenient access from our apartment.
-Having just finished Sex in History (there's another post entire to be made about that book), I read my Newsweek cover story over lunch and nearly tossed my Wendy's. The cover story is about the possible crimes of war perpetrated by American soldiers in Haditha. I'd heard rumblings about this, and was loath to pick up and learn more, but it's a train wreck of a story. I couldn't put the magazine down even as parts of it made me gag. The part that nearly made me cry was not the story of the twelve-year-old girl who was the sole survivor when the soldiers broke into her house but the fact that these same soldiers ordered four students out of a taxi along with the driver and allegedly shot all of them dead. Can you imagine if they did that in absolutely any other country in the world, what the response would be?
Newsweek seems to have indicted them, and I'm trying to remain impartial myself, but the truth is I expect there's a lot of this kind of thing going on. When I read Jarhead, the tone of the first Iraq war was so different from this one, I almost wished the first one had never ended and could have co-opted this one. The writer, Swofford, he wrote about how utterly boring the war was--being fought primarily with airstrikes and the like--which seems a blessing in comparison to the training of "Kill, hate, kill--oh, but when you're done, make friends?" that's being doled out today. "Fire the Generals," indeed.
