April 5th, 2006 (04:04 pm)
current mood: determined
i want to gloat about politics but i can't think that coherently. but yes, two nasty GOP'ers down in one day. it makes me want to go outside and sing. for real.
i wrote a ranty letter to one of my favorite online newsmagazines. hah, i am expecting some hate mail for that as it was expressing an extremely unpopular sentiment, but whatever, i just had to speak out. it was about people whining about United 93, that 9/11 hijack plane movie. people were just huffing and puffing about it and i just had to say stop! it was 4 years ago. it was 4 years ago. so many bad things are happening, and to be cut up about that. i realized it crashed into your self absorbed little world, but god! things are so bad right now for people who are still living and breathing, just thinking about it makes me want to cry. and to freak over a piece of hollywood drivel. anyway... i am not going to go into and i am sure anyone who reads this could pick my letter out in a heartbeat.
this world breaks my heart, and i don't know how to change anything. i do what i can right here, right now, but i want to do more. i am still trying to figure out what that should be. i would really like to do some work with climate change, but i don't have the stomach to go back into research. not at all. there are other people who like routine boring crap and they are better suited to being in the lab. i love being outside but not enough to want to pull fucking soil cores all day. seriously. i guess i want to do climate change work because it hurts me personally. my life is different from global warming. i don't care what people say. it is not as cold where i live, there is less snow. the summer is longer, the forest composition is changing. this sounds like climate change affecting my life. i really want to live in the arctic before it is gone. i don't even know if that can happen. i am not in a position to move to alaska, or the canada even though my bf and i both want to do it. its sad, its the end of a culture, of a way of life, and no one fucking cares. its incredible. but i guess if no one cares about darfur, afghanistan, korea, sudan, how can people care about this?
anyway, i am sad enough for today. i am going to go outside and enjoy my abnormally early spring. yes, it is an early spring for here. i don't think i have seen many snow free aprils before.