Is it wrong of me to think the "online disaster training module" for Red Cross is laughable and mostly useless?
Honestly, I want to help already, you don't have to set up attacks on my sympathy.
Anyway, so I'm going to see about getting down to New Orleans because I got really annoyed at the idea that I am just lazily comfortable up here and there are a lot of people dying down there.
Also because I was disgusted by a rather rich mall while in "Talbots" seeing trousers for ~$80 and jackets for ~$100 and shirts for ~$50 and by expensive (admittedly tasty) food at a rich restaurant with rich smiling laughing people.
If someone who reads this has good advice about ways to help out down there (as in actually going) they can give some of that info if they so please (hint hint Jessica, I think you would know this kind of thing).
On a side note (I do this too often), money sucks because even when you are just spending it on necessity you will run out eventually.
I enjoy "I Love Huckabees" too much.
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Hehe, I love I (love) Huckabees too. But it might be dangerous to base one's world-view on certain aspects of it, yes.
Nope, you're wrong, it's totally acceptable and in fact encouraged to adopt a world-view based on I Love Huckabees.
:P
But I do. Is that dangerous? Probably. But I accept having little, living in need - in "poverty" even to be of use, to be what I'm meant to. To move people how I'm made to move people.
And, Fate, what about the South Asia quakes? Thousands upon thousands have died - and are dying there. And we do nothing. We sit in our churches and our homes and our univerisites. And we do things like start "Project Mocha", and we ask for everyone to not buy a fucking Starbucks coffee and put a few dollar bills in the offering plate - and we feel we've done our part.
We're just lazy, self-pleasing, materialistic bastards that satiate our guilt with a few dollars donation when our "heartstrings" are tugged by a moving powerpoint slideshow. But we aren't actually out there changing the world, because we're too damn lazy and preoccupied with our lives and degrees and careers.
And this anger aimed at myself as well; it's infuriating.
Colorado?
Nope still here in Smelly Onions.
Thanks for the info, I got a giant stack of forms from the Red Cross which I think I am going to get the training for.
I mean it's not like I'm qualified for anything really.
Dude, like, I just realized you changed your "about me". I must confess that it almost made me cry. Well, you know how you sometimes have a... "sensation" before you cry that's akin to what gagging is to vomiting? Anyway, I had that when I read that last part... Although it's been happening a lot lately it seems and a lot of the times for really stupid things like lame movies, certain written things, or some pictures, and even some commercials. It's really weird. Not that your "about me" is stupid like those things. It was really sweet and like, really poetic. I've been reading a lot of poetry lately for a class and almost all of it was really good. I'm developing a new-found respect for poetry. Of course, that respect seems pretty far from my mind right now as I'm struggling to write this contrast paper about two poems... It's 3:34 and this is my latest method of procrastinating. I can't believe how long this comment is getting. I'm really gonna regret this in the morning. Now it's 3:35!!!! So like, where the hell are you nowadays?
I promise no substance other than caffeine was in me at the time of the above comment.
OH the whole Colorado thing is because I was talking about snow in Denver earlier and how it delayed a flight. But it wasn't my flight, it was someone else coming from Denver.
And thanks Cognac for the um...compliment on my ability?
But yea I know what you mean. Music does that to me sometimes and Corpse Bride did that to me too.
You should see it, it's brilliant.
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