A moment, a love, a dream, a laugh, a kiss, a cry, our rights, our wrongs.

Sorry that it's been nearly a month since I've last written... assignments are finally in my world and I've been doing them.  Obviously.  So I guess we'll just do a quick recap of the past month.

As I said, I've been busy with loads of assignments.  I've got one course almost completely out of the way now except for a 2,000 word essay due at the end of January.  That's a load off my mind.  I've got a 4,000 word essay due on the 10th and then I'm pretty much free until I come back here to have a comprehensive 2-hour sat essay style exam for my Propaganda class.  I'm really loving all of the classes I am taking and though I do sometime whinge about how I thought it would be more work, I guess it's a blessing in disguise.  Since I've last written a lot and not a lot has happened all at the same time.... so where to begin...

I've been to a couple of house parties and birthday parties.  A handful of people have had birthdays, so we've had a multitude of meals and nights out.  I saw a band called The Dirty Epics which you should all definitely look into.  They're pretty cool.  Anna and I cooked a Thanksgiving feast and had about 6 people over for a very nice time on Thanksgiving day.  I went to my first footie match in the UK, a QPR v Cardiff game and had loads of fun, besides the fact that it felt like my toes were going to fall off.  I saw HP7 Part 1, which was great and I can't wait for Part 2 this summer.  I've been drunk a couple times and hit on at bars/clubs even more.  Anna and I have rapped in public and been stared at in amazement by all the British people around us as we follow along to all of Weezy's words, dancing along with it too.  I've had quarrels with friends that hopefully won't effect the friendships.  I've come to grips with reality on a number of things and learned that I really shouldn't care what others think of me.  I've gotten a hair cut, dressed up, dressed down, and figured out that sometimes you just have to let go.  I visited the UK National Archives at Kew, a multitude of lectures at LSE and Kings, and job interviews.  I've been judged, sneered at, and looked down upon, but I'm just brushing it off.

I've got 21.5 days left here before I come home for break and I honestly could not be happier that it's such a short amount of time.  I'm not homesick by any means, but I could use a good dose of old friends and the comfort of home right about now.  I'm going to be on pins and needles until I turn my paper in, so hopefully no longer than December 8th.  After then, it's relaxation.  I'll be going to take pictures of the Hyde Park wonderland, so be on the look out for those.  I'm going to a gypsy punk gig on the 15th, which should be interesting, because the band sounds very trippy.  May need a bit of alcohol to go along with that flow.  If anyone in London reads this, you should come along!  The more the merrier!

I think that covers everything.  May be popping in and out of here on and off while I write my paper.  Hope all is well with you guys and that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Can't wait to see you all.  Loads of love from across the pond!

Bb bb bb Benny and the Jetssssssssssssssssssssss.

Attention Terrorists from Yemen and the World over,
STOP IT!!!! GROW UP AND STOP IT!!!! 
You're acting like a two year old who isn't getting the candy from the candy aisle at check out.  I realize that your whole thing is, by definition, to create a spectacle directed towards a wider audience than the immediate victims directed towards place destruction and/or place alienation, but honestly, your tactics have grown old, boring, and childish.  Where's the originality?  How about you try this, talking.  Wow wouldn't that be a novel concept.  Because listen, you may think sending bombs through cargo carriers is a cool and fun thing to do, but it's not.  It caused me to sit on a bus for 2 hours JUST to cross from one side of the river to the other, only to not make it to a party I was trying to go to.  Yes, so I guess you got the disruption part down.  But at the end of the day, you didn't win.  Sucks, doesn't it.  So like I said, the notion that actions speak louder than words doesn't apply to this.  So grow the eff up and get over yourself.

Oh, and another thing... even though I hate to do this, because it is my favorite Dr. Seuss story, you could say that this all fits into The Grinch Who Stole Christmas story.  Everyone you're trying to terrorize are the Who's in Whoville and you're the Grinch circa when he was a mean, grumpy thing.  You know how he went around stealing everything... the trees, presents, the roast beast, the last can of Who-hash?  Well.. those things are what you THINK we hold most dear.  Now flash forward to where the Who's are all standing around the spot where the huge Christmas tree once stood, and they are all still holding hands and singing.  That spirit is the thing you can never take, and the thing that will NEVER be effected by the things you do.  In fact, by continuing to do what you do, it's making it stronger rather than tearing it down.  So again, you haven't won and you never will.  And by doing what you're doing, you're giving a bad rap to the rest of the regular people around the world that are just like you and I... so you're not doing anyone any service at all.

You may think I'm only addressing the Militant Extremists of the Islamic faith, but I'm not.  I'm addressing every extremist everywhere, all around the world, North, South, East, and West.  Just stop.  I'm not being a crazy, peace loving idealist, though I can be at times.  I'm being real, living in the here and now.  Stop it.  You want things to go your way?  Try using your words, because doing what you're doing isn't working, and I'm baffled as to why you haven't figured that out yet.  You're all well educated, so use your brain!!!!