general shittiness
I turned on the little TV in the kitchen about an hour and a half ago just to see what was going on. Watching the footage from Baghdad and hearing the air raid alarms started to make me physically ill so I started flipping around the channels to see if anything else was on. I stumbled onto Fox and found, to my dismay, that Jerry Springer was on. I really don't understand how this show ever became a pop culture vice to millions of college students. It's really not even entertaining. Apparently they have just done away with the chairs for the guests and make them stand and fight. At one point, the two women both flashed the audience for no discernable reason. Seriously. The conversation was something like, “You're not allowed to sleep with my husband anymore.” Titties. “Well, you're an ugly bitch.” Titties. It sounds funny but it wasn't.
But anyway, we did the whole funeral scene yesterday which was sad, but c'est la vie, no?
In related news, my WW is going a little better today. No out-of-control eating like yesterday or the day before. I'm still struggling with a general lack of healthy food at my disposal which makes me even more eager for my license. Going to the store by myself, with the baby, on the bus is just such a laughable situation.
I'm doing my immersion for Nonfiction 2 on midwifery. I called this birth center on the North Side today and the receptionist sounded offensively suspicious of the whole thing. I'm not sure what she thinks I'm up to. Oh well. She said she would have the midwife call me back but no word yet. I'm just going to have to call tomorrow or something. It's pretty hard to get anyone interesting to talk to you when you're “just a student.” I fear that my immersion will go from this interesting topic to something like, “A Day at the 61C Cafe.” Fuck. Of course, half of the kids in my class stated that they were going to do their immersion on their favorite bar because, “it's much more interesting than your average bar.” Yeah, right. I think I went through this phase (although I can't totally remember) that most people in their early 20s went through. They all think that these bars are really fun places where all of these great characters hang out. They're not. One kid actually said he wanted to write about one of his frat's parties. Give me a break. Basically, most people were saying, “I'm drinking this weekend, assignment deadlines be damned. I'll just write about where I'll be anyway. Hopefully I won't be too smashed.”
Anyway, I feel compelled to go off on a politically-charged rant. I'm enraged that we are attacking Iraq. I can sincerely say that I wish nothing but illness and misery for George W. Bush. I hate him. And I don't throw that term around lightly…not seriously anyway. It baffles me that he can talk so much shit about establishing democracy in Iraq but in order to do that he feels the need to defy every democratic process on the way there. But I don't know what to do about it. I think we are wasting our time with protests. They are obviously falling on deaf ears. But what else is there to do? Violent action? That would be just as hypocritical an action as Bush's war.
Sigh.
