Snow is on the way

I'm looking for some free money. For school. I think my intentions are honorable. I just can't figure out why no one will just hand me a check. Seriously speaking, I need some more money for school. Private colleges are ridiculously expensive, I don't even want to think about how much books are going to cost me. I have 6 classes this semester. It's good though, it will keep me busy and it will help me finish faster.

One more year.

I'm trying to decide if I should do a summer study somewhere. I mean outside of the country. If I did that, I wouldn't be able to to work. But, I don't really mind too much about that anymore. I'm not sure though, I mean if I take classes during summer, I'll be able to finish even faster.

Raining in Gotham

It's about 630 am and I'm sitting here having coffee with my dog and listening to the BBC World Service about the death of Edmund Hillary. I remember reading about him when I was younger. In pictures he always looked so accomplished, so intrepid. I don't know, maybe all explorers naturally look like that. I always wanted to be an explorer when I was younger. How do you do that, really? I mean do you wake up in the morning and start packing and call together a team? I suppose you'd have to get funding from a rich, risk taking investor. Anyway, as I was listening to the story of Mr. Hillary, I was browsing the CNN website, what trash that site is. It's hard to get non-inflected news sources these days. It's almost as if you can't see the news your self, maybe it hasn't happened or they are lying to you. But one story I did see that made me extremely upset was the beating death of the Chinese blogger 2 days ago, I believe it was.

His name was Wei Wenhua, and this happened in the central Chinese province of Hubei. I think its important to actually name people so that their death is not in vain. He was beaten by "municipal workers" for filming them overstepping their authority. The disturbing side of this story is that it was not simply 2 or 3 men that beat him, but as many as 50 workers attacked him fo 5 minutes. Words don't express the outrage I felt when I heard about this. As well as the concern that this could happen here eventually. Who knows who your words might offend? In any event, the death of Wei Wenhua has not gone unnoticed to me..

It's funny.

I didn't realize just how much time school took up in my life until this winterim. I've been hanging out with friends that I haven't seen in months...getting a ton of work done for the label..even writing a blog. It's strange though, because it feels as though something is missing. I dont't really want to go back this semester, I mean back to all of the work. But I do want to go back to keep myself busy. I think the main thing is, I've learned that I love learning. A strange sounding phrase, but I do. I love engaging my mind in something, anything. When I was younger, I used to sit at the kitchen table and read anything that was at the table. The ingredients of the cereal, my mothers mail..everything. There is just something that needs to stay active in my mind..something that needs to be mulling things over or figuring out a problem. I just need to be active. It's a wonderful thing when you learn more and more about your self. It makes things just a little bit easier.

Yesterday, my friend Rotem and I walked around the lower east side, with no purpose really. I was killing time and she's here from Israel for 5 months so she has nothing to do anyway. But the point is, we just walked. I've forgotten what an awe inspiring city New York is. I spent so much time, especially this year, either outside of this country or trying to get out of it, that I've really forgotten how nice it is just to walk around the city. More later...