I forgot to add yesterday:
We got an email sent out from the school telling us not to be alarmed by the few thousand police officers hanging out on campus (although they sent it out rather after the fact...) Apparently they were swearing in several thousand new cops for security at the inauguration today. From the videos I saw of the protesters today, I think maybe they shouldn't have been sending so many newbies out to deal with them. I saw some beating with nightsticks, tear gas and pepper spray being rained down upon people in long strong jets (although some people came prepared with raincoats, I heard). Also, they avoided arresting people, instead "taking them into custody." Apparently this helps because then they are not obligated to trouble the prisoner strike team of EMTs to help these people. Great. Also, they were sure to station only 4 of these thousands of cops at the entrance to the caged-in protest-approved area, meaning that the line to get in was reportedly 2 1/2 blocks long (AWAY from the parade-route). And, FOX has been reporting that a lot of this $40 million for the inauguration was necessary because they needed to provide this type of security. BULLSHIT, DC has to pay for it!! JC, if we are going to spend all this money on police officers, I'm thinking that we could maybe put them in other areas of the city doing other things than beating protesters.
Bush only spoke for about 20 minutes today, and nothing of substance. Surprisingly, reports from attendees also were (not that they showed this on TV) that attendance was quite sparse. I didn't expect that from Texas!!
On two other notes, I think I have an internship lined up with the Cape Verdean embassy. Although I emailed this person who said they could get it for me, as he is having lunch with the deputy chief of mission on Monday, and shortly thereafter I got an email from the other professor who was going to help me out (I told him I'd give up with him for this semester) saying that he would try to find me somewhere anyways. Garr. Perhaps the only thing worse than no internship is 2 at once. With 5 classes and 2 jobs. Yay. This semester rocks. Hard.
The Irish guy I was talking about, my mom said she emailed him back again and now they are all getting together for coffee or dinner or something when he comes through town in February. This is so odd. But - ok then.
Instead of doing the readings for Albright's class so that I can actually contribute to discussion tomorrow, I am sitting here blogging and reading news articles like this:
Sponge Bob? Gay? What?
God I wish Condi would fix that gap tooth.
We're supposed to get up to 6 inches of snow this weekend. That would kick ass. It's by Saturday night....if it doesn't melt on Sunday (and it shouldn't provided we are having more snow...maybe we could get ANOTHER well-deserved day off school! I mean, come on, I have had 4 days of class already in the past 2 weeks.
