On the second anniversary of 9/11 a woman came to the White House for the screening of a movie that had just won an Academy Award. Her husband, a firefighter, had died during 9/11. What follows is the conversation she had with our Commander in Chief:

"they called us into the screening room to see the film that was made about John Vigiano and we got ( Read more... )

So i just spent a few moments making fun of my old camp. I even went as far as to pull up an application to work as a counselor there....I truly enjoyed looking through the detailed questions about my current paster and which denomination I belong to, though I think my favorite part is where they asked me if I have ever "struggled with ( Read more... )

so i've been working on this monologue for my acting class about a female foreign correspondant in Iraq...

"One day we passed a neighborhood that had recently been hit by air strikes. As we got walked through, we passed a house with 17 people buried under the rubble. Some of the residents became aggressive, so we left. Then, a few hours later, the ( Read more... )

This just in: Barack Obama is NOT black.

........yes folks. apparently, in Debra Dickerson's book The End of Blackness, she states that Barack Obama is not black.....

?!

Froth, fear, and fury

Cartoon devices spur antiterror sweeps; two men are arrested

By Suzanne Smalley and Raja Mishra, Globe Staff  |  February 1, 2007

Enraged city and state officials yesterday readied a legal assault
against those responsible for a guerrilla marketing campaign that dotted
the city with small battery-powered light screens, setting off ( Read more... )

So I just spent the past week in Colorado with family. A good portion of it was spent helping my cousin keep control of her three kids. I swear to God, I never want kids if this is how the act. The kids are 5, 3 and 8 months, and INSANE. i swear, I think they have Energizer batteries in them. THEY NEVER STOP MOVING.  EVER.  
On the flight home I ( Read more... )

http://www.legacy.com/herald/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=20447331

I hate politicians.

so this weekend I hung out with someone I haven't seen in three months. That's right folks. LHP's own 4/c Christopher Salinas came to Boston and hung out with me :) (Danny was supposed to come too, but apparently there's a rule at the Coast Guard that upperclassmen can't "fraternize" with freshman. :( sad day ( Read more... )

So today I learned how to use a table saw. ^.^ That was the whole purpose of one class today: table saws. I love this curriculum :p