Hi.

There's a lot of bitter, touchy subjects out there that people hesitate to talk about, I realize.  Maybe I knew it all along; we all knew.  We're all just waiting for someone else to talk about it and get the finger pointed at them so that we don't have to take the blame. War. Death. Descrimination. Religion. Poverty. Terrorism. I admire the people with the audacity to stand up and say something, anything, while the rest of us feel compelled to shut up and listen.  Some people like to recoil with criticism and insults towards trying to help and speak out for themselves.  Shame.  If anything else, you should be grateful that you even live at the same time as these people.

One that I felt hesitant to talk about was Hurricane Katrina.  It was just going to be the stuff of grieving and hopes for people to donate money at links I'd provide, but everyone already knows that, don't you?  Watch any television station, go to any store, go to any major website.  I don't need to patronize any of you with information you all already know and have probably been spilling your hearts out towards (& i'm very lucky i don't have a big bank account or else i'd be emptying it and throwing it all to Red Cross in tears).  But the situation is serious.  Thousands have died and when I took the time to remember that that's not just a number, but it's people.. children, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, lovers, friends.. I unashamedly cried.  My prayers go out to them.

On a completely different note (because it'd be a really odd moment for me if anyone related this to the above topics), thank God for the Simpsons.

High school for me.. well, it's okay.  Not as great as I hoped, but I'm alive (although admittedly not really living.. you get it, right?), and that's a good start.

Today's lesson: Music packs a punch.  It can change moods, lives.  "I've learned more about life in a three-minute song than I have throughout sixteen years of school."  Preach to the choir.

wake me up when september ends

Bye for now.