So, thanks to Jess and my increasing frustration with having no freaking clue about what's going on in the world, I've started reading BBC news (and listening to the Global News podcasts, but that's mainly just to listen to the accent for a half hour or so). Anyway, my favorite article so far today is probably this one:
Dead Mayor Re-Elected in US Town
The article talks about how this Missouri town re-elected their beloved mayor, weeks after he had died. WEEKS! And the thing about it is as follows:
1. They HAD to have known that he had died.
2. It wasn't the FIRST time this happened in Missouri.
*facepalm*
This makes me feel really bad about people in the United States. Dear Missouri.... FAIL!... All the best, Nicole.
In other news, North Korea's evil grandmother, Kim Jong-il appeared in public for the first time in years, looking thinner in his (rather un-) stylish khaki military track suit. Everyone thinks he had a stroke last year (blast! He's still alive and kicking!), and N. Korea made changes to their constitution during Grandma Kim's Day Out. Assumption: he's going to kick it soon, and is trying to assure a successor that he approves of. The UN is still sitting around, twiddling their thumbs, wondering if N. Korea should be punished for their little 'rocket launch' escapade on Sunday. I mean, I can understand the UN's hesitation. It was only a little ROCKET. And it was only shot into the OCEAN.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME, the UN? N. Korea is BAAAD. EEEVIL. Grandma Kim Jong-il is an evil despot who has been terrorizing North Koreans, and the rest of the world, since 1994. That should really be brought to a stop. With the Evil Baby Orphanage.
That's what I have to say about news for today. I feel really bad about having not blogged in a Very Long Time, so I'll try to remedy that problem in the near and coming future. As Jess said, pictures of our freaking sweet t-shirts will be posted shortly, mostly when I upload them off of my camera.
In other news, my senior fellowship defense is Monday, I've got a novel, a comic and a movie in the works, and I need to stop going to bed at 5 in the morning. I should probably go do that work now.
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PS Nicole: what time is your fellowship defense? (and is this the one I want to see or is that later in the semester?) ... because if its the one I want to see, I'll try to be back at school for it if you tell me the time...and stuff... : )
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PPS: what the heck is this annoyingness that makes us figure out who the heck we are in order to post a comment?? (please note that I really didn't feel like signing in anywhere I had previously. duh.)
PPPS: I still had to sign in somewhere! WTF blogspot?
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