need to vent
i need to vent about life. i hadn't even thought about all these things before going to my hiv/aids class today and it makes me mad that if i didn't have this class that i would be walking around in this "self-centered" little bubble. when i say self-centered i mean me, my surroundings, and my country as all "self." the bc bubble i live in, the
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While in my apartment, my roomate has done everything she can to avoid hearing coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, i have unconsciously found myself doing the complete opposite. I have been consumed by the television coverage, sitting in front of the tv for hours, afraid that if I walk away I will miss something... miss the most up to date news. I think it took until last night, when I fell asleep on my couch and woke up to the stream of extremely terrifying photos of the killer playing on repeat on the screen that I finally REALLY woke up. Nothing hit me until then... I was obsessed with the story, but wasn't really getting it. I think that is part of the reason I was unable to sleep last night. Everytime I closed my eyes, I saw a gun pointing at me, imagining looking down the barrel of a gun and feeling helpless to stop anything.
I guess Kristen touched on this, but I think the coverage is so intense because it is a REAL threat to Americans. Along with the thousands of people that die each day from HIV/AIDS, which gets no media attention, there were hundreds killed in Irag yesterday. And it's not just yesterday, it's everyday, and that story gets mentioned in passing on the news, but then the
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