Things that have amused me today:

1. This unrealistic budget at age 20 and 35 for sociology. I come back to class having no idea what they're discussing. While talking about the age 35 budget factors for the entire block....discussing how many kids you have, what you're doing and how much money you're going to make, etc. For expenses my classmates are discussing daycare for their 2-3 kids and I'm sitting there thinking, "Hell, am I even going to be married when I'm 35? I know I probably won't have kids." So as I'm drawing up my budget tonight I take a completely different spin- I'm going to be a working actress (under actor's equity...yeah!) living in say, Chicago....I don't have to worry about a mortage, loan, car, car insurance, etc because I live in an apartment and I take public transportation...eat that. I don't pay daycare and all that shit because I'm not married and I don't have kids! I'm living as extravagently as I can on my pretty ok salary. Ah, what a wonderful life I'll have at 35 compared to my classmates struggling to make ends meet in the suburbs with their 3 montrous suvs and ridiculously expensive house, not to mention the terrible price of daycare. Haha, you'll be divorced before you're next birthday.

2. TC, my favorite mock trial/social studies/high school teacher, has taken to getting up on his (liberal) soap box during pop culture pertaining to the War in Iraq and his high opinion of Bush. I attend a school that is mostly conservative minded, except the teachers- oddly enough, so it was a nice change to be in a room full of vocal liberals. So we're discussing how we can fight this war. We can't really, its an invisible force that Bush has shifted the label to finishing his father's business. And T's spouting off his theories of Bush being an ideal target for the terrorists because he's a dumb ass...no he didn't say it, but he implied it. Bush is the ultimate figure head to direct their American slander. They can point to Bush and say, this is why you should hate America because look at who they have running their country. Their country is run by a man who believes his nation is so strong they have to police everything and they can alienate the UN and all of their allies because, dammit, the US is better than any nation in the world. We compare this war to Vietnam and how we are realizing this war has become hopeless and there is no support to patriotism anymore....how to pull out gracefully (if that's possible). TC tells us he theorizes some big terroristic action is going to take place near re-election (Sept 11 perhaps?). The country will do what it has proven to do in the past, rally around their nation's leader in a crisis thereby securing Bush's place for re-election. You can almost see American money being slipped under the table to the terrorists.....damn Iraqi's, Saddam's still at large, Osama! We wave our American flags and Bush rides the waves of patriotism to the White House. I hope it won't happen, but T sounds so right.