Almost Interesting

Despite how horrible this man was, I can’t help but be unsettled at how much jubilation there is at his death. A mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf called his forthcoming execution, “God’s gift to Iraqis.” Even as his executioners taunt him with chants of “Muqtada” (a Shiite cleric; Saddam was Sunni), Saddam calmly throws their shouts back in their faces and continues to pray.

Does anybody actually believe that this was the work of the Iraqi government? Truly it smacks of the inquisition, where the church handed over heretics to a “secular body” for the actual executions. Doesn’t it seem less like justice and more like one king executing a rival king?

Not to mention that nobody in the media even thinks to mention the repugnance of execution in general. Must we continually sink to the level of our enemies? I’m left here, scratching my head.

I took down the All Animals Are Equal post because I think there is only so much filler I can do off of a copyrighted work. If you still want to read it, I’ve kept the pdf file here. I’ve been a lazy, lazy girl when it comes to updating this blog, but can you blame me? I’m trying to hold down a 4.0 with 16 units this semester. (In case you aren’t familiar with the unit system here [and that's very likely], a full-time class load is 12 units.) Next semester, I’ll be taking seven classes, adding up to 20 or 21 units. Why? Well, it’s mostly my inner show-off.

My speech teacher was doing some end-of-the-semester activities on Monday and asked the whole class what they thought they’d remember most about her class. She then told the class that the expository speech I gave about Wikipedia was “one of the best speeches I’ve ever seen. I was, like, wow.” And this is from a professional! If it weren’t for the fact that everybody in the room was stuffing their faces with the spoils of cruelty, I’d have reacted with a proper blush instead of a “thank you” coupled with a prompt return of my face to my hands. I was really searching for an opportunity to leave the room, but finding none, sat there feeling sick.

I was worried that I might’ve gotten a B on my latest math test. Lo and behold, I got the only A in the class! This looked especially good for me, seeing as this professor always calls out the names of the people with A’s before letting everybody else take their tests from a pile. I have to note that, though I got a proper A (90%), I saw a test marked with a D- at 35%! I guess you’d have to try very hard to fail this old man’s class.

Last month on the 19th, I sat outside all night long to buy a Nintendo Wii. It was well worth it! I’ve beaten Zelda already; you should buy one, too. It’s alot of fun!

It turns out that my old man was in the hospital for a while a few weeks back with heart problems. The man’s had three heart attacks, yet continues to eat meat several times a day. What the heck is he thinking? I keep trying to talk him into eating better, but he’s just so damn lazy that he keeps waddling, driving, then waddling to those murder-turned-filth peddlers all the damn time. Death begets death, I suppose.

Damn, this isn’t a very good post… I just wanted to write something down here before I get back to studying for my Computer Science final, which is tomorrow. There are lots of other things on my mind which I just don’t have the time to discuss right now.