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and i can't spell... but this is it for now so enjoy... or don't .............An
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friday was a night out in twickenham and then we (fiona, fiona, laura, abbe, aidan, and i) came back to the su. i guess i ran into some americans (danielle and charlie) in the su and had a lengthy discussion with them but i don't remember any of that. but a pretty good night all in all.
saturday night was a quiet night in the su. i took the bus home and went to bed at around midnight. i woke up at seven this morning, ate some 'super noodles' which i guess would be the equivalent to ramen, watched the news for an hour and then went back to bed at eight and slept until fifteen thirty, so about a total of fourteen hours/ fourteen and a half hours of sleep.
this morning i had two very odd dreams (and one pretty decent one at last night). the first dream i remember this morning i was laying down and couldn't get up, couldn't move, in somebody's living room. the living room was at the front of the house because there were three big windows looking out the front of the house, the center window being the largest, widest. it was day time and i must have been laying on something that was at least two maybe three feet off of the floor. on the far right of the room along the furthest wall (next to the windows) was the front door. along the right wall there was lamp on a table. centered in the room was a three piece set of furniture, two two-seaters on the left and right, the three-seater in the middle facing away from me. on the back of that couch was a table with one picture frame centered on it facing towards me. i could see all of this but couldn't move so i'm just staring at this stuff in the middle of the day because light was coming down thru the windows as if it were about noon. i see two people walk by on the sideway outside and then i just stare at this room for about three minutes, just looking around. i was think i was expecting someone to walk in the door because i was just looking at it and the lamp on the table. so i'm just looking at this for what seems like an eternity. then i see a woman's head come up from behind the center couch and then i scream at the top of my lungs. thats when i woke up scared out of my mind.
the second dream i'm in a sort of run down building. i'm with a couple of people looking to get on the lift. i look at the first lift and it is clearly out of order because it has fallen apart, i look at the second lift and since its the only working one me, the two people, and the land lady gets in (because she needs to go up as well). the elevator is pretty shabby, its just one big metal piece for the floor and four chain ropes (one in each corner) that hold it level, no walls except for the elevator shaft walls. i hit the button for the eighth floor (out of tweleve) and the outter door closes. the elevator starts moving up and the the back part of the floor is pulling up faster than the front part so we all slide to the front and are scrapping up against the wall. then the elevator stays at that uneven level and starts going faster up. we pass the eighth floor at rollercoaster speeds and then get to the top floor and it stops for a second, then the back chains holding the floor break and only the front chains are holding the floor so we are hanging on to what we can. then the lift starts free falling without any control and we're all hanging of for our lives on to it (this is when i get that 'i'm falling in a dream' feeling). when we get to our floor we all jump out thru the open door and the lift crashes at the bottom of the shaft. we're all freaked out because of what just happend. i think i woke up after that.
last night when i was talking with (mankato) jenny and eric, jenny said that one of her proudest moments in life is when she shot a buck or some other helpless animal and i thought to myself 'do i have a proud or defining moment in my life?' i've been trying to think of something all day and i haven't come up with one. its really pretty sad i think. not sad like hundreds of innocent iraqi civilians dying, but close.
speaking of which, i was thinking did we really 'accidently' bomb a kurd convoy? because one of the leading political kurd officals and a top kurd military offical happend to be in that convoy... do the kurds know that they are not going to get their own state after the war? i guess i kind of see it like how the u.s. told the shiites to rise up and fight saddam during the first gulf war and then did nothing for them after we left. and if they give the kurds their own state then the turks and iranians would be so happy with the u.s. the u.s. also isn't going to hand over iraq to the majory population of shiites... it'll be interesting to see just how much everyone is going to hate the u.s. after all is said and done. also i think the u.s. should have its u.n. membership suspended for a couple of years because what's the point of the u.n. if one of the counties in it is going to disagree with a legitimate veto and then just go around it and do what they want anyway. no other country in the u.n. could get away with doing something like this. true the u.k did the same but would they have really done so without the u.s? its like the league of nations all over again.
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somehow i wrote 1200 words last night and finished my paper. its sort of funny in a way because i already had about 1300 words and was just going to go in to the computer lab to finish it off, as in i didn't really care about the 2500 word requirement, i just wanted to finish it soon and at whatever length. it turns out that i met the word length... fancy that.
i just found out from my host 'dad' that the school is not paying for my stay at my host family's house during our two week easter break. he mentioned something about paying rent if i was going to stay during that period and i was stunned. i later found out when i asked other u.s. students about it that saint mary's sent a letter to our host families and told them that the students were encouraged to travel during this two week period and that if they wanted to stick around host families could ask for rent. its a good thing saint mary's told me about this because with only £300 left i was just planning on taking a day trip or two and then spending roughly twelve days just sticking around the area and possibly working on some papers i've got to do. it seems very likely i will have no money by the end of this semester in england. i may be spending my last week(s) here sleeping on park benches in addition to this. i wonder how much i can get for my bike... anyway, i have been thinking about going to northern coast of france so i might do that and hopefully find a cheap hostel and hang out there for a while. if i can't find a cheap hostel then i'll just be hanging around here (the twickenham, teddington, hampton hill area)... um, sleeping behind the school or something.... there is really no way i can stretch out that £300 over seven weeks if i have to pay for two months rent so i'm basically screwed.
i think its time to hit the pub...
this seems a wee bit odd eh? i'm trying out new things with the header of this page. in the process i've been collecting flag images as seem on the right and upper left. i suppose they represent my interests right now. importance as i see it (as shown in the header)... england first and the uk behind it; irish history/culture/music; the u.s. because i live there; and china because thats where my ancestry lays. at some point i'll clean it up but these are busy times for me, papers and such.
speaking of irish music, if your into the tradition type of music i suggest you check out the band planxty. if you want to download a song then look for the song the good ship kangaroo. its good stuff, i think. (thank you kristine for letting me borrow the planxty cds). also in music, travis, death cab for cutie, modest mouse, and the strokes are still good.
i come to realise that i have been trying to avoid letting people know that i am from the states. it's almost become an insult to me being called an american. its not that i don't like to recognise where i'm from, its just that most americans here fall into the typical american stereo type, as seem by the rest of the world. some people are proud to be an american, i'm not. but it is a great nation to live in. but then again doing whatever we want like telling other nations what to do and going to war with other nations just because we think we should isn't so great. how many iraqis have died today? believe you me that i will dodge the draft if there ever is one for this bloody war.
