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Today I had the wonderful experience of renewing my license. I got there and found out that my license had been suspended for the entire year of 2006! I'm so lucky i didn't get pulled over... I would've been screwed.
So 83 dollars and one permit test later I am good to go (that test made me nervous... I thought I was going to totally screw it up).
I started reading a book caled "If You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden." It's a provocative book that uses remade (sarcastically in most cases) WWII propaganda posters to start off short chapters about modern society, and what individual Americans need to be doing to help our country.
At this point it has made me think, offended me, vindicated me, and hooked me all at once. Great book so far.
The chapter I just read was about how during WWII U.S. citizens totally gave a crap about the country, and actually did things and made sacrifices to help our country... they didn't just put flags on their cars to make themselves feel better and then whine about the war without doing anything to help it. I liked reading this, because it was exactly the same point I brought up in my history class last year. I pretty much got shot down.
Now on to the rest of my day, which includes but is not limited to: Aimee's b-day dinner, three children to teach guitar to, homework/reading, studying for midterms (two tomorrow) and writing an opinion piece for the Gavilan Press (extra credit).
So 83 dollars and one permit test later I am good to go (that test made me nervous... I thought I was going to totally screw it up).
I started reading a book caled "If You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden." It's a provocative book that uses remade (sarcastically in most cases) WWII propaganda posters to start off short chapters about modern society, and what individual Americans need to be doing to help our country.
At this point it has made me think, offended me, vindicated me, and hooked me all at once. Great book so far.
The chapter I just read was about how during WWII U.S. citizens totally gave a crap about the country, and actually did things and made sacrifices to help our country... they didn't just put flags on their cars to make themselves feel better and then whine about the war without doing anything to help it. I liked reading this, because it was exactly the same point I brought up in my history class last year. I pretty much got shot down.
Now on to the rest of my day, which includes but is not limited to: Aimee's b-day dinner, three children to teach guitar to, homework/reading, studying for midterms (two tomorrow) and writing an opinion piece for the Gavilan Press (extra credit).