...and here we have part deux of GiddyIguana's "Where the hell have you been?" update.
As I alluded to in my last update, Spartanburg was really beginning to get under my skin. So, I took my financial aid check and did what any sane, fiscally responsible young adult would do: splurged on a vacation to Hilton Head Island. You know, it's funny--I spent nineteen years of my life in Barnwell but less than four years on Hilton Head Island. Yet, any time I get homesick, guess which of the two I'm missing.
So anyways, Gina and I went and shacked up for four days and three nights in a smoking room at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, conveniently located on Coligny Beach. It was great fun...I got to visit all my old hangouts, eat some great food, worship with my adopted family at the Hilton Head Seventh-Day Adventist Church, and see nearly all of my old friends who are still living in the greater Beaufort County area. It didn't really matter that my cousin punked out and didn't show up...he just doesn't know what he missed.
Also, as I alluded to earlier, I got to complete the circle with Jinx.
He's buried here...down near the Earth's core where it's still warm, if you ask Gina. Well, I'm sorry...he was my best friend, and I'd rather not have him disturbed.
I need to hurry up and graduate so I can go back home.
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But now school is back in. This semester I'm taking Logic, Russian History, Western Political Thought, French, and Research Methods in Political Science. Ah, the life of a political science major. Nothing that should be too difficult...well, except for French, since I have absolutely no ear for languages whatsoever.
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And in news completely unrelated to the GiddyIguana:
This is got to be some kind of a record: it's only January, and already the most ironic statement of 2006 has been made. In response to the victories by Hamas in this week's Palestinian elections, President Bush had this to say:
"A political party, in order to be viable, is one that professes peace, in my judgment, in order that it will keep the peace."
Wait a minute. Did I hear that right? Did he really just say that??
This, coming from a man who's directly responsible for the deaths of over 2,000 US servicemen and women and 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians--"more or less." Following his own logic...might it be time to disband the Republican Party?
And, oh yeah, while I'm on a roll...
So he's not going to "deal" with Hamas...never mind that they now have a clear mandate from the Palestinian people. (Much clearer, I may add, than Bush's own 51% "landslide," which they won in an election that international observers called free and fair.) But, wait...I was under the impression that one of the reasons why we went into Iraq in the first place was to spread democracy throughout the Middle East! Am I right?
Well, apparently democracy only counts when the people vote for whoever the United States wants to "deal with."
As I alluded to in my last update, Spartanburg was really beginning to get under my skin. So, I took my financial aid check and did what any sane, fiscally responsible young adult would do: splurged on a vacation to Hilton Head Island. You know, it's funny--I spent nineteen years of my life in Barnwell but less than four years on Hilton Head Island. Yet, any time I get homesick, guess which of the two I'm missing.
So anyways, Gina and I went and shacked up for four days and three nights in a smoking room at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, conveniently located on Coligny Beach. It was great fun...I got to visit all my old hangouts, eat some great food, worship with my adopted family at the Hilton Head Seventh-Day Adventist Church, and see nearly all of my old friends who are still living in the greater Beaufort County area. It didn't really matter that my cousin punked out and didn't show up...he just doesn't know what he missed.
Also, as I alluded to earlier, I got to complete the circle with Jinx.
He's buried here...down near the Earth's core where it's still warm, if you ask Gina. Well, I'm sorry...he was my best friend, and I'd rather not have him disturbed.
I need to hurry up and graduate so I can go back home.
___
But now school is back in. This semester I'm taking Logic, Russian History, Western Political Thought, French, and Research Methods in Political Science. Ah, the life of a political science major. Nothing that should be too difficult...well, except for French, since I have absolutely no ear for languages whatsoever.
___
And in news completely unrelated to the GiddyIguana:
This is got to be some kind of a record: it's only January, and already the most ironic statement of 2006 has been made. In response to the victories by Hamas in this week's Palestinian elections, President Bush had this to say:
"A political party, in order to be viable, is one that professes peace, in my judgment, in order that it will keep the peace."
Wait a minute. Did I hear that right? Did he really just say that??
This, coming from a man who's directly responsible for the deaths of over 2,000 US servicemen and women and 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians--"more or less." Following his own logic...might it be time to disband the Republican Party?
And, oh yeah, while I'm on a roll...
So he's not going to "deal" with Hamas...never mind that they now have a clear mandate from the Palestinian people. (Much clearer, I may add, than Bush's own 51% "landslide," which they won in an election that international observers called free and fair.) But, wait...I was under the impression that one of the reasons why we went into Iraq in the first place was to spread democracy throughout the Middle East! Am I right?
Well, apparently democracy only counts when the people vote for whoever the United States wants to "deal with."
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*jealous*