I Sorta Wish I Was Back In The States

But only because of the "Occupy Wall Street" thing that is happening. I want to be there. I want to stand up for my country. It's our way of life that the people in Wall Street (and Washington) have endangered, and I'm angry about it. It's time that we stop listening to what they tell us. We need to be courageous. We need to have guts. We need to rip ourselves from our comfortable lives and do something worth while. I've said for a long time that people should be pissed at America. When they had the riots in the Middle East, I said people should be as mad here as they were there. And now we're getting there.

I'm proud of all those people who are standing up to the Police, taking time from their jobs, their classes, their comfortable lives that the rich have successfully pushed onto us that has numbed our brains and made us complacent with everything going on. We need to stand up and fight. The boondocks called for this revolution long ago. In "Return of the King", a Boondocks episode, aired January 15, 2006, Martin Luther King Jr gives a speech. Here it is.

What happens at the end of this clip, is that the black community rises up, and starts standing up for themselves. They gain respect for their community and then America becomes a better place. This is what should be happening now. They should be angry now too. It's mostly white people from I can tell. What should happen is that minorities should be up in arms as well. What they don't realize is that these banks and the rich have been keeping them down for 200 years. They should be angry about that. Aaron McGruber (the creator of the Boondocks) is truly a head of his time. He saw the corruption and the flaws of this system 5 years ago. and the rest of the country is just now realizing it. C'mon America. Make this count. Here's more I have to say on the subject.

I wonder if there was an actual revolution, if I could even get home. What if I'm stranded in the UK for a while? lol.

Week 2 of classes! I got through the first 6 chapter of Ulysses. and man was it hard going. And I haven't even gotten to the hard parts yet. Sheesh. Some book told me that reading a book that helps explain Ulysses on your first time is cheating you out of figuring it out for yourself. Basically, "You're doing it wrong". I don't think so. I can't get through it otherwise. I'm not smart enough. Sorry.

Finished up the trilogy of plays called the "Oresteia". Now I'm on the Oedipus the King for my Tragedy class. I check out a book from the library about the last play "Eumenides". I brought a lot of the ideas from that book to my seminar and I think I sounded really smart. Little did they know....Anyway, one of the tools thats helping stay really organized is Microsoft Word. I've been putting everything about the books I'm reading and the lectures into it and its serving as a really good central resource for everything. It sounds really lame, but I think I'm more excited to study here than to see the country. There's different things to be gleamed from traveling abroad. One thing I KNOW I'll never get another chance to do is study at their institutions. Anyone can sight see. Anyone can drink a lot all day. But how many people get to go to school here? Not many. I'm going to be taking advantage of that opportunity so much.

Started this book called "Waiting for the Barbarians" for my Postcolonial Literature class. I got about 5 pages into it before getting distracted. I'll finish it soon though.

These are the books I have so far. Still waiting on most of the ones for my Tragedy class. Yes, on the left, that is a casebook for Ulysses (collected essays about the book), Ulysses (the version for my class. has interesting notes at the end), another copy of Ulysses (from my Irish Lit class. Has lots of notes and annotations in it. Very useful) and "The New Bloomsday Book: a Guide through Ulysses" (a chapter by chapter summary of what happens in the novel). When I read the book, I have that and I go through the book at the same time I'm reading the summary, just to make sure I know what's going on.

I've been skating a lot and I actually got the ollie down. Don't care if 10 year olds can do it. I never could. It took me a while. But like my father taught me: "Practice, practice, practice". That's the only way you can actually get good at anything. Now I've got to just keep practicing and I'll get even better. Too bad the weather is about to go south.

I'm going to Manchester on Saturday the 15th. Should be fun!

I'm seeing A Day To Remember on the 14th of November. Should also be fun. 3rd time seeing them, but they put on a great show. August Burns Red is going to be supporting them, so maybe I should listen to them. And Living With Lions. And A Ghost Inside.