grad school huh? best of luck with that. some day i'll have a degree....one class at a time it takes awhile though. i can't say i blame you for not wanting to be in the states, however, i don't know that i would consider england safe from terrorism. the ira are constantly bombing things and killing people. certainly not to the degree of the wtc, but thinking that terrorist attacks only happen here is sort of silly. on top of which, britain is an ally so they are just as much a target of terrorists as we are. they will attack anyone whø helps us if it comes to that. as for president bush. well, i didn't vote for him. i hated both he and al gore. however, i have been very pleased with how he has handled this whole thing. i think he has done an amazing job. its funny, with most crises that occur, whomever is president can just refer to our history and see what other presidents had done in similar situations....bush didn't have that luxury. this country, or the world for that matter, has never seen such a horrendous act of terrorism (none that i can think of in the rest of the world, certainly none here) so he had nothing to base anything on. i dunno. just my opinion. i just thank god that its not gore....that guy is so clueless. i mean, i realise people tease bush all of the time, but i dont think hes an idiot, i just think hes more like a regular guy with no pretenstion and such. gore is just sooooo shady and changes his opinion to whomever he is speaking. i suppose most politicians do that. i just hate gore to the very core of my being. anyway. i shall leave you now. take care "the grass is always greener on the other side. baby's got a new car that you wanna drive, when the time is coming on you've gotta stay alive. we all live under the same sky. we all will live. we all will die. there is no wrong. there is no right and a circle only has one side. " ~stine on 10/5/01 8:14 AM, eric the half a bee at cheesebunhead@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

hello,

I haven't posted properly in almost two months. I've had this growing suspicion that I may be turning into a lurker, but I don't want that, obviously. lurkers don't get any... or is that the other way around? well, I'm not getting any regardless, so I suppose it doesn't matter much.

I'm applying to grad schools for next year, and I was planning on going to school in britain, and now with this whole terrorism war stuff I want to get out of the states more than ever. not only do we have an idiot for a president, but now stuff is getting blown up too. my roommate wants to move to new zealand and raise sheep, and really, I can't blame him. more than ever, I just want to get my masters, find a job at some small university town, and cloister myself away with students and books. the real world used to scare me, but now it terrifies me. even my desire to stay in new york in waning. I don't know where I'll be in a year's time, and that fact is oddly comforting. maybe I'll go to canada.

I meant this to be a light-hearted post. I failed at that... sorry. I'll leave on a happier note: I want a basset hound... I wish my school would let us have pets. puppies are so cute! tweeness abounds.

oh, um. I heard "marx and engels" for the first time this week. it's quite good, although I can't make out the words.

cheers, eric

ps note to ken chu: if I end up in nottingham, we'll have to meet for a drink and discuss our lack of pulling skills.

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