Happy Anniversary to Me!

Interesting day today, most interesting indeed.

This morning for the first two periods, we (meaning my Military History class, and all the other Military History classes at Central, along with some students from North) had an assembly in the auditorium, where, coordinating with the army, set up a live satellite feed with this U.S. 3-star general in Iraq, and this other Iraqi general. I'm not sure why I was looking forward to it, maybe because of the promise of media coverage. Ultimately, the entire thing was a let down, in my eyes. It was blatantly obvious that this whole "interview" was just a ploy to make the war more popular among todays youth, as we are (generally) not in favor of it. As well, the fact that the teachers screened everyone's questions in the days before and picked out all the challenging ones, only added to the facade that was this morning. One question in particular stood out, and that was when the Iraqi general was asked what the Iraqi public and media thought of the U.S. Troops and their presence. I don't remember his exact response but I do specifically remember the words/phrases: "Heroes," "Liberated," "Dreams have come true," "Gracious," and "Overjoyed". Based on all the news coverage I watch, and read, I am certain this is not true. If I wanted to be spoon-fed answers about how well this war is going and how justified it is then I would have just watched Fox News and the O'Reilly Factor (Yes, that is on Fox News). I was foolish enough to actually think that this would be a learning experience. The good part of the entire thing was that I got a valid excuse to dress up and show off my fantastic skinny tie.

I used to hate dressing up but when I find a picture I want to model off of, then I enjoy it (though 9/10 times it ends up not looking nearly as good on me as it does on the model/celebrity I theme my outfit after. See: This Picture was my source of inspiration) Clearly, I didn't look nearly as dashing as that young man. Hey, nothing wrong with trying!

Every day that I read political stuff (like the news, lol) I always think What would I do in that situation? Then I arrive at an answer and am like Now if I could actually do that... and that leads me to want to be a Senator more and more. The more corruption and Narcissism and bribery (aka lobbying) going on with politicians the more it makes me want to be able to do something about it. I'm excited for tomorrow morning though, I'm going in at 7 (yikes!) to talk to Mr. Hopkins about different types of lawyers and different kinds of law you can go into. That'll be most exhilarating, and probably help me decided exactly what type of lawyer I want to be.

In other news, at my moms school every year they have an American Idol competition among the staff, and for some bizarre reason my mom volunteered me to play guitar for the show. I really want to do it but I don't know what songs I'd have to play! Hopefully it won't be hard stuff so I can actually play my first "show", that would exciting! Majorly.

Well, I have to cut this post short because I have a lot to do, both homework-wise and leisure-wise. I hope you all had a fantastic day!

PS: The reason my title involves My Anniversary is because this is my 60th post! Yay! 40 more to go!