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[e_is_for_erin]

i'm sleepy-ish
and bored-ish
and restless-ish
and i sort of feel as if there is something i should be doing right now
but i'm not thinking too hard on it
because i don't really want there to be something i should be doing
i kind of just want to smoke some drugs so that i can enjoy this feeling to it's fullest extent
is she kidding?

but in other news
last night i did a really cool thing
a bunch of my friends went out and partied
but instead I gathered up a few blankets
a book
and myself
and i went to the south oval for "camp out to stamp out genocide in Darfur"
all by myself
i mean, there were some alpha chi girls there
but no one i really know

so i went and they had the championship game on a big screen
and i watched that
then they played a short movie about darfur
and i watched that
then they played hotel rwanda
and i watched that
and then they played a movie about the lost boys of sudan
and i sortof half listened to it as i was trying to fall asleep
and it wasn't fun
because it was freezing and the ground was hard and it was outside and uncomfortable
but it was good
really good
because it was DOING something
and this whole genocide in africa thing has been going on for WAY too long
and it's really REALLY awful and heartbreaking
and the only reason people aren't doing anything about it is because it's far away in africa
out of sight out of mind
and it's that whole mindset that these african tribes are somehow less than human
that they're uncivilized and so their lives don't mean as much
and that is just the farthest thing from the truth

so i mean
it wasn't much because i just slept outside for a night
but it made me aware
and it made other people aware
and i plan on doing a lot more with this organization in the future
because i mean, what's more important that saving millions of lives?

that's all for now