Life goes on
17 April 2007 at 11:36 pm

I'm...upset about the shootings. It's a tragedy, but I can't say it was a preventable one. The most upsetting thing about it is the interview I heard today on NPR with the son of one of the victims, the Holocaust survivor who barricaded the door so his students could escape and was killed as a result. The questions the interviewer was asking of the son, which were along the lines of, "So how do you feel, knowing that your father survived the Holocaust and was shot down at random trying to save his students?", questions that were asked barely 24 hours after a father had died, were unbelievably crass and unanswerable, like, how do you think I feel, jackass? I burst into tears on my way to work after listening to this journalist asshole rape the moment for all it was worth. The media is not handling this well, but it's not an event that can be handled well under any circumstance.

But besides that.

I can't write anything on here without consulting my mom first, since she reads this and also because I hold her opinions and advice to the highest standards, but I've decided to buy a scooter. It's only a frame at this point, and we're going to pay for it in segments for the next three or four months -- the custom paint job first, then the engine, then all the odds and extras -- so it's not such a financial hit, but I am supremely excited about it. I had to take my car in on Monday for routine repairs ($360 holy fuck! I should be a mechanic) so Aaron was escorting me around town all day, and it was amazing. I woke up hungover at 9 in the morning, dropped my car off, and riding on the back of the scooter to get some Coffee Bean totally revitalized me. I think it's going to be a good thing, and if it's not, we're getting the scooter at cost and I can resell it for a profit.

I deserve to be financially irresponsible right now.

With that in mind, thanks, Sears, for not having anything that you claim to sell in stock ever so that Aaron and I could not impulse buy an LCD HDTV. No, seriously...I'm grateful.

P.S. For working the same jobs I've been working to pay my extraneous bills through school, Aaron and I are making a shitton of money, even though our rent has doubled in the last month since The Outing of the Roommates. And I intend to take full advantage of that. Because, you know what? It's crossed my mind to start saving for my hypothetical kids' college education. That's the type of person I've become. I'm at least five years away from having children, and I'm already thinking, how will I afford their college if tuition keeps rising the way it has been? Don't get me started on thinking about buying a house. I need to relax.

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Hi. Morgan, 27, of Santa Barbara, CA. I am a hypocritical admirer of rhetoric (when it is my own) and an observer of literary trends. A secret: I don't take anything very seriously, and that includes myself.