06th Jul 2009
Sunday is prep night
I am prepping class right now — something I would have done earlier but I had a migraine. Yay. And my poor tutor, Jorden, is home with the flu and will be out tomorrow. I think the long, wet spring left us with lots of weird bugs around.
Ugh. My upstairs neighbor is playing his radio AGAIN at top volume. And stomping around. At least his wife isn’t wearing her heels for a change. I wish I knew what they looked like so I could give them the stinkeye when I saw them around the building. I swear they know exactly when to be loud when I am trying to write and/or work and their stereo is located directly above my desk. Lovely.
At any rate, I am supposed to be writing about Pakistan and Afghanistan. I have been reading a lot this summer about not just those countries but Iraq and our role from 2001 on — I really didn’t know much about the wars and so have been reading lots of nonfiction: books, articles, online stuff. I should have known more, we all should have known more. We supported people who supported the war, I thought Saddam should be removed from power (at least now I know more about the kind of tyrant he was) but wow, so little did I know about politics in these parts of the world. I still don’t know much — but I guess now I know how little I know. I know enough to know that we weren’t just nation building and all the simple answers we were given at the time are proving themselves to be much more difficult now.
i miss your blogging:(