I forgot how theraputic fighting can be. I fought my brother last night, and what a fight it was! I was sitting peacefully at the computer, and he came up behind me, said "dad watch this" and in one swift move pulled the chair out from under me. I went plop, I turned around and there my dad and brother stood giggling. You can imagine the rage that I flew into. In one graceful move, I jumped up, and in another, I flew across the living room and started pummeling my brother with punches! But, he had a pillow! I threw punch after punch into the pillow, as hard as I could. He was giggling and this made me angrier, I growled and roared, and kept punching, then I pulled him off the couch and started strangling him! Instinctively, I wrapped one arm around his neck, and put my other arm behind his head, and squeezed. He flipped me over his shoulder, but i still had a hold of his neck.
I still don't have a job. I feel like my life has become one long job hunt. I've had so many interviews over the past few weeks! I am waiting to hear from the temp services I applied to, and I applied at Petsmart for a parttime job. I wish I had applied for an internship or something. I'm helping my dad at his shop, and also trying to study for the MCAT. I am reading a book called "The beginning and the end" by Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian auther. I've been going on bikerides with my mom, playing tennis with my dad and walking my dog. I play boggle with my mom and dad every night. I haven't been running too much. I mow the lawn, cook , and help clean. I look at birds at the park. There are lots of them! It's crazy how that bird class has affected me. I notice every single bird now. I can't not look at them. At the park I saw some yellow crowned night herons once. Those are rare. It was really neat. There are swallows, great white herons, little blue herons, cattle egrets, and snowy egrets. I watch Days of Our Lives at 1, the Simpsons or Family Matters at 5, Everybody loves Raymond at 5:30, and Startrek at 11. I even listen to NPR sometimes. I like "All things Considered." I play scrabble almost every day on the internet. I keep up with the news mostly by the internet. I love the internet. It is my portal to the world. But it's sort of strange to read about the world every day. I looked up the population of the Congo, and it is a little less than 3 million. In the past 4 years of fighting in the Congo, about 3 million people have been killed. How is that possible? I read an article about an 8 year old boy in Bunia. He said that the first time he shot someone he felt scared and sad, but now he feels nothing. He said he has a man's job, and that as long as he kills someone everyday, he is safe. And Iraq is still a big mess. Bush made a huge mistake. There isn't any more peace in the middle east now than there ever has been. Why was there so much support for the war? It was weird to see people say things like "support our troops!" and "I'm proud to be an american." What does that mean? Why does that mean send thousands of people to Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein? Why does that have anything to do with Al-queda? I like the quote "A true patriot must have the courage to defend his country from his government," because to me thats what patriotism is about. It is loalty to the principals that America was built on. We aren't supposed to be an empire, or the world police, or the world bullies. We aren't supposed to control all the oil in the world. Iraq is still a mess, from what the news says. In fact, it seems like there is more anti-American sentiment than there ever has been. A few Imams at mosques have been telling the people to resist the occupiers. Thats us, the Americans. Saddam Hussein is probably still alive and well and supposedly sends letters to people in Iraq every now and then, telling them to resist the occupiers. Fighting is still going on, even though Bush declared the war over a few weeks ago (or was it a few months ago?) His roadmap to peace in Isreal and Palestine isn't working either but thats happened before. The News talks alot about Iran now, and their supposed weapons of mass destruction program. I am so tired of hearing about weapons of mass destruction. None have been found in Iraq, but Bush still says very arrogantly and confidently that he is sure that there are WMDs in Iraq (and maybe Iran and Syria) and the truth will be revealed in time. It doesn' make sense the he can say he is sure when there is no evidence. Oh, and the other night on World news Tonight, they were talking about a large smuggling opperation of nuclear weapon materials from Russia. But nuclear material was found in Southeast Asia! Roar! Leave it alone! I wonder what will happen in the 2004 election. I really wish Ralph Nader would finally win, but I don't see that happening.
