No, but it helps

So, sorry about that, I'm still going crazy with lack of sleep and way too much work up here, but it's getting better. Or rather, I'm getting slightly more used to it. I have two massive papers due this week, more work for tommorrow, and all kinds of crazy stuff, but gee, isn't it fun. Today I went to the 17th most beautiful spot on the planet, up on this massive mountain next to campus, several kilometres straight up. You can see Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, the Olympic Mountains, Racerocks, Pearson, and we even saw a submarine crossing the channel next to us. I finished Kitchen duty yesterday, no more pot scrubbing for me until after Christmas. I still need to get some tickets back to PEarson after Christmas, but at least I have mine going home. There are so many people not going home, grrr...I wish I'd have known that, I would have invited more of them back with me. Anyways, life is hectic up her, absolutely a madhouse. One more thing, before I have to go write my English Oral Presentation. We had a guest speaker today, a canadian journalist, whose book is on the top ten bestsellers list, and at one point was fairly close to the top. Very good speaker, has a very, very weird point of view, which, if correct, would tend to make me highly pro-war. I mean, it seemed to make sense at the time, but I was trying to do spanish at the same time and so I couldn't take notes, but the gist of it was that the neo-conservatives who were in power during the first bush administration, and under Reagan, thought that they had found a way to change the world, using the US's power both militarily and economically, like the way that we 'made' the USSR fall. So thusly, they were all ready to spread democracy and freedom and the free-market across the globe, in '92, but then Bush lost. After Clinton, the same people were back in power, and they needed an in, to kickstart their shot at world peace, or pax americana, as it were. 9/11 was a Godsend, so they could invade Afganistan, then they shifted their focus over to Iraq. Basically, what he was saying was, the USA's leaders put out a statement saying, back off, we're changing the rules, we're willing to make the sacrifice to reorder the world into harmony, which to me seems like a fairly good idea. Probably because I'm american. However, this means war, and destroying the 60 year effort of the United Nations, which outlawed war. And then the rest of the world rejected that offer, except Britain, which was dragged kicking and screaming by Tony Blair, and Australia, who sent a Marching band and a plane which couldn't fly high enough to get into Iraq. So...this guy was quite the character, and fairly interesting too, but as I said, I was doing my spanish homework at the time, so...probably a bad call on my part. Anyways, I have much, much, much work to do, sorry about this massive lag time, I'm trying as hard as I can to keep up. Have fun all, see you soon

Nathan