I guess this feels weird coming from a guy who wore a shirt that said “Tree Hugger’s Posse” on it today…hah

I was walking to class through the white flags that represent Iraqi’s killed in the war. I saw this quote, must be a fairly new sign. “You can bomb the world to pieces but you cant bomb it into peace.” Now I definitely appreciate the sentiment, but if you give it a second thought and be realistic you’ll realize this is why hippies live in a fantasy world, hah!

You can bomb the world into peace. I’ve seen it done. Well not personally, but it’s a pretty well accepted historical fact that we managed to accomplish just this task twice in the last century. World War I and II. (Though WWII is a much clearer example). Sad, yea. But to all you bleeding hearts out there. This is why no one cares about your opinions and your marches. Far too many pacifists love the outcome…but don’t want to get their hands dirty. Put a pacifist in charge of the country, and we’ll see what happens. Sounds great in theory, but who’d vote for that? Is that because we’re all angry war-mongers….or that we are aware we live in a reality. And that reality is a violent world.

Now I assume a pacifist would respond. Sure, but this is why it’s a violent world in the first place. I’d say that throughout history it’s been proven that people interests are not mutually exclusive. Sorry to be cliché, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

by the way this is a general comment, not necessarily in support of the Iraq war in particular, I’ll leave that for another time.

When I can’t even find a real copy of the State of the Union address online, just a bunch of parodies.

Bad times, hah.

On the bright side this weekend was off to a good start, the Initiation party went well last night even though I was admittedly pretty doubtful about the theme, heh. The AKO girls did a way better job dressing up than we did. Not to mention I found a beer I like here in the States, Henry Weinhart’s Hefeweisen, mmmm. Not too spendy either, I could get used to it~

Short lived weekend though, woke up sick today and I think I’m going to stay in tonight. Maybe catch up on homework, but probably just waste time

Picked up a W on my transcript today, and lost 200 bucks. When they were going to hand out a quiz I didn’t even know about in Math today I decided to just cut my losses and try again next term. Just got over my head and realized it after I was in too deep, whoops! At least now I can focus on Spanish and catch up on a bit of reading, have too many unfinished books.

On a brighter note, it’s been sunny for 3 days now, which is excellent~ While I’m a big fan of overcast, I needed a bit of sun

Man, got 0/20 on my first Calc quiz, and 70% on my first Spanish quiz. Granted I’m in over my head in my Spanish class and haven’t taken it in 3 years, I still need to focus a lot more on both. I just hate tedious things like memorizing math and vocab. Especially since I’m not good at math, which makes it far less ‘enjoyable.’

Alright, so aside from my Salsa class I need a bit of academic refocusing, but nothing I can’t recover from~ Looking forward to the weekend, its action packed with party friday, learning some dancing on Saturday and saving some children in the process, hah

If you know me at all, I over think things sometimes. At least I can make fun of myself for it.

Today I had just talked to a friend the night before about Europe and was determined that this isn’t the right place for me. Fleeting thought, its true, but definitely still on my mind. Although the grass is always greener on the other side. I do have some pretty legit reasons to consider it. I get bored with tedious things. Business here is like how do we manage our companies. The rest of the world realizes that EVERYTHING is changing. The US still teaches what it did 10 years ago with no fundamental paradigm shift. At the same time a 40 year old cold war paradigm is gone. If you have two sides and one is removed either we will live in a non-communist utopia, or it sides will split again. After Germany was gone in WWII, did the Russians and the other allies remain together happily in a world free of fascism? or did the power system shift?

The great mistake of America is failing to take notice that both militarily and economically we are no longer the superpower. No, I’m not saying China will take over America. I’m saying that America no longer has the sway it once did. America is not necessarily declining, but others are ascending. The West has a declining population, stagnant economy and tired princibles. Muslim, African, Sinic, India countries have a vision of a new future, have a rapidly increasing population, and imperfect yet rapidly growing economy.

I think I made my point sufficiently. I’m bored of taking Macroeconomics and getting a business degree which increasingly seems to be a total waste of time. After going abroad I can’t get American superficiality and egotism off of my mind. Not to mention going from a city to Eugene is a bit of a downer. I’ve never been in a city before Copenhagen and never had that experience before I chose a college.
I don’t have the answers but it gets me thinking.

Nothing interesting here~

Managed to oversleep a 11o’clock class today, yes its possible…really need to work on getting to sleep earlier. Problem is I get to watching one episode of Battlestar Galactica(sounds geeky…but really its good! and I am a geek at heart, sorry) then I can’t just turn it off because I want to know what happens! The episodes are unlimited and free because of tv-links.co.uk. Anyways, one episode passed into another and it ended up being 5am, hah!

Ended up almost missing my economics quiz(she let me take it at the end of class, whew). Bad times!