Haiti

Let's be honest, Katrina doesn't come close, not even in the same ballpark to the earthquake in Haiti. And to be brutally honest, to the point of being a bastard, I never felt truly sorry for Katrina victims that chose to stay. Why? Because staying in a city that's below sea level with a hurricane coming (mind you, you can see a hurricane coming from a week away) is pretty much the definition of stupidity. Oh, and Katrina happened in the U.S. and despite the aftermath, people were quickly, for a bureaucracy, shipped out of ground zero to better shelter. The U.S. has infrastructure, Haiti doesn't. Which brings me to my point, and to quote myself from recent conversations, Haiti was a (crap) country to begin with, and that is why I feel terribly for them.

Here's an article that mirrors my feelings. I'm rather pessimistic about the whole thing, it's not like countries haven't tried to help. Goodness knows, we've messed with their politics and shipped tons of money there. We can't ship them to Houston and give them debit cards. I fear that Haiti will emerge worse off than before, with political officials pocketing the insane amount of aid money (let's be honest, our country kicks major ass: $300+ million dollars) and local gangs hording supplies a la Blindness.

I hope that it ends up being Etch-a-Sketch Haiti and the country rebuilds into something better. Here's to the future.

It is what it is

So, I recently watched Star Wars Episodes 1-3 and came to this conclusion... Anakin/Darth Vader = Jesus, if he hopped off the cross, gave Caeser a high five and then slaughtered the Jews. George Lucas is anti-matter incarnate.

Also, people are apparently getting depressed because they can't go to Pandora from the movie Avatar. I'm depressed that I can't become a cartoon fairy and be wisked away to Ferngully, so I suppose I can relate.

Insert something witty here.

School starts on Tuesday and with it, my final semester as an undergrad. To be honest, I'm currently overwhelmed by fear. Being an undergrad has a certain sense of comfort to it, people don't expect more form you because you're still "in school." Regardless of what happens, I'll never truly be able to lean on it as a crutch anymore. That said, at some point in my life I'd love to get another bachelor's degree in something else.

Do me a favor and pray for me. The coming months are likely to frazzle my brain even more.