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10 days, not bad.
Well this past week has been very very interesting.
It started Wednesday night when I began camping out for the UF-Kentucky basketball game. Well actually didn't camp out until Thursday afternoon, but a friend called me up Wednesday night to keep her company, so I spent the night outside the O'Dome. Then got in line Thursday at 5 PM for the game which was played that Saturday at 2. Yeah, 2 days before it. Which is nothing compared to the people who started camping out 12 days before right after the previous home game ended. Unfortunatly for them the campus police didn't want to have people camping outside the O'dome for 2 weeks, to they said no lines before 5 PM Wednesday. So 5 PM Wednesday comes around, and there are over a 100 people ready to get in line. Crazyness.
It was a lot of fun though, and I spent all Friday night in my chair laughing at drunk people (of which there were PLENTY) and hanging out with friends. The game itself was AWESOME and if we would have won (which we could have on a last second shot, but it missed) it would have easily been the best game I'd ever been to. I've never seen it so rowdy or so loud, and it was an amazing experiance. Plus through some stroke of luck we got into the Rowdy Reptile section, which made it even better. Plus it was my friend Sarah's very first UF basketball game, so she got really lucky in that :)
Today also marks the Tuesday of my Spring Break. It should be a good one, though I don't have any major plans going on. Just chillaxin with friends and go to the beach at some point. I personally am not a big fan of beaches, but when you're hanging out with a bunch of friends then it's ok. I know since I'm in Florida I'm not supposed to say that, but I'm just not a beach person. Well except for sand castles. I like sand castles. I also have homework I theoretically should work on, the key word here being theoretically.
Well now that war is pretty much a guarentee with Iraq, it's a good idea to start getting ready for more terrorist attacks. So thanks to Ready.gov we can prepare ourselves for not answering the door to Nuclear Radiation. Those pictures are so ambigious, that captioning contests have sprung up all over the web, including a DDR message board which has a ton of great one's. My personal favorite though is when All Your Base Are Belong To Us meets Tom Ridge: All Your Ready Are Belong To Us. Ahhhhh, internet fads, gotta love 'em.
NYT has a facinating story on luxury treehouses built for wealthy buyers. How cool is this? I want one! When I was a kid I LOVED climbing in trees, and would climb anything and everything. Unfortunatly I don't fit so well in trees now, and ther's no good one's around here, (though I might have to check around UF some more....) but it was so much fun just hanging around 30 feet off the ground and seeing how high you could go. I am definitly buying one of these things once I get enough money.
I found this week's Onion newsbrief on Iraq to be particulary fitting. Here it is to be archived: Bush Orders Iraq To Disarm Before Start Of War
WASHINGTON, DC - Maintaining his hardline stance against Saddam Hussein, President Bush ordered Iraq to fully dismantle its military before the U.S. begins its invasion next week. "U.S. intelligence confirms that, even as we speak, Saddam is preparing tanks and guns and other weapons of deadly force for use in our upcoming war against him," Bush said Sunday during his weekly radio address. "This madman has every intention of firing back at our troops when we attack his country." Bush warned the Iraqi dictator to "lay down [his] weapons and enter battle unarmed, or suffer the consequences."
And yes, if you haven't guessed, I am against the war in Iraq. Yes Saddam is not a good person, and in a perfect world he wouldn't be in power. But this war just seems far too unneccassary. He's been fine for 12 years, and now all of the sudden we have to worry about him. And thanks to Bush we've alienated a lot of our allies, and made the UN a moot organization. I predict a short "war" if the primary objective is to get rid of Saddam, but I also think it's going to cause a lot of long term troubles in the middle east and with our foreign relations. And to me it's just not worth it. If you really wanted to worry about a country, go after North Korea, which publicly has WMD's, and will if threatened use them. They seem to be a far greater threat than Iraq, and yet you here nothing but diplomacy toward them. It's because we know we can utterly destory Iraq, whereas North Korea could attack US bases and US allies quite easily. I don't have the answers to the world's problems, if I did, I would be a very sought after person. But I don't think a war in Iraq is the right way to solve them.
And finally, got to play some DDR Extreme today. Unfortunatly it was really crowded thanks to 10 Buck Tuesday (all the games you can play for $10) so only got to play it twice in like 3 hours. The mark of a truly great DDR game is if it has Butterfly though. It's the song everyone began on and took forever to pass but once you did.....
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