You are not an arrogant ass for speaking your mind freely, I like and respect that part of you. You are arrogant though for having the audacity to think that you are too good to worry about the health of our environment. You are arrogant for thinking that you could be anything without this earth. You are arrogant for thinking that you can just go on with your life and ignore the facts that are staring you right in the face. You are arrogant because you think that humans are the only important being on this planet. And finally, you are arrogant if you think that we can continue living the life we are living without paying the consequences for our arrogance.

But in the interest of our friendship, I will let the issue drop. I apologize for approaching you so hostilely about it as you will now probably not listen to a single thing I've said. But, I've simply been too tense lately and you happened to be the first who crossed my path. Again, I apologize and hope we can restart a civil conversation from here.

Huggles

First I was numb.

Then I was enraged.

Now I am simply resigned to my role in life.

I will constantly be fighting. Nothing will ever be easy. I don't know why I ever expected anything to be different. I'm not the type of person who can just devote their life to only a family, kids, and a desk job. No, I have to go where I feel that I am most needed. I will be spending my life fighting for what I feel is right. I have the fire and it's time to light some torches. I refuse to be as ignorant and complacent and many around me are. I will leave the proverbial cave and walk into the light of truth!

It surprises me to no end that my peers seem to have grown up in a completely different world than I have. Sigh.

Alright, I am off to research a prose piece for the speech tournament in December. Wish me luck.

Huggles...

So, I voted today. I am proud of myself. I have done my duty and become a part of history. All I can do now is wait and hope everyone else does their part as well. I pray that nothing goes wrong like last election because I know I will be immediately disillusioned, towards not only my government, but also towards the whole of humanity. I managed to muster enough faith to convince myself that Bush will be exposed for the terrible president he has been shown to be. I simply cannot see how anyone could look at his record and then vote for him. The environmental issues alone are enough to turn my stomach. I'm keeping my fingers crossed but there is nothing more now I can do. I hope you voted, and even more so hope you voted for Kerry. There were at least 200 people at the polls this morning at 6:30 am so I know this is going to be quite a turnout. The people will have their say and hopefully the government will listen this time. Let's not elect Bush, again.

Huggles.

Happy November!

Wow, I haven't been online in three whole days! How amazing! Over those three days I kept thinking, wow I should post this in my blog... But now I can't remember what any of it was. lol.

It was quite a weekend. I went to Ray's house for Halloween festivities everynight since Thursday. I adore hanging out with him and the gang. I think the best part was Saturday night when we went on a scavenger hunt. We split up into girl team vs guy team and gave each other a list of 20 items to collect from around the town. We couldn't get anything from our own house and we couldn't purchase anything. Well, we all ran around the city from about 10 until 2 am (+ 1 hour for daylights savings) and created havoc! Road signs, cops, cemetaries, roadkill, and bras. Teehee, I'll leave it at that for now because some of the details are rather wild!

Ray and I had our first fight last night... =( I was being playful and bit him lightly on the chin while we were all hanging out in his living room. Well aparently I accidently bit him on a cut or a zit or something so the playful little bite turned into terrible pain... And he freaked. He blew up and yelled something and then got up and walked away. Afterwards everyone could tell he was embarassed... but he never apologized and didn't say anything to me the whole night. I just felt like an idiot and couldn't help but get increasingly upset as he ignored me... Eventually he got up and went to bed... and still said nothing, though he hesitated noticibly. So I sat and bs-ed with Higs and Jules and Jim and Deanna until about 2:30 AM and finally got up the courage to go talk to him. His light was on and he was awake worrying about me. So we sat and talked and I cried a lot and I think we worked it out... and then we snuggled until 10 am this morning. That part was definitely nice. However, I don't like the way Ray explodes when he is angry. I hope he doesn't do it often or I won't be able to handle it. It may be shortlived but it's simply too intense. Sigh.

I spent the first hour at work Sunday watching kangaroos playing in a huge pile of leaves. It was really cool to watch. It was a fitting way to spend my last day in Australia for the year... It will be closed now for the winter. If the levy passes tomorrow, then I'll be staying on weekends to post in koala and jungle lab and Africa... So we shall see.

I will be severely disheartened if the election goes badly tomorrow. If problems arise like the last time then I will be fed up with the system. I can't even express how badly I want Bush out of the office. He has sucked any progress we have made for the environment back into the ground.... I'm terrified of what he will bungle up in the next four years.

Ok, so I've covered the main ideas that have been in my mind these past few years. As I think of more... then I will post them.

Time for blissful sleep so I can get up early enough to vote before college.
Huggles!