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Current music <3: Sigur Rôs.

...Laur, I hadn't really thought about the lyric to that song before...hrm. ..yeah, it *does* totally fit what you went through...but...you sound like you've put this all behind you now...I'm glad you've figured it out, settled it down, then..(..wish *I* could...but that's another story...).
And *I* don't think you were being overly melodramatic at *all*. ^_^

Daffy, you ever gonna update your blog..? ~_^

..had an interesting evening. Went over to my grandparents' house for supper with Dad and Teraa, and my Aunt Pat and Uncle Larry (no relation - or resemblance - to my fav drummer..which is a very good thing, I think..). And it was fun, after dinner we got into this whole big discussion..basically about how bad society's gotten, and whose fault *is* it? ...and debates over there are always fascinating, cos you've got like, my dad, who's a self-described red-neck conservative; my grandpa, who is..well..definitely of the elder generation ~_^, holds to all the standard values of good education, etc; and my aunt and uncle, who're tree-huggers (who both, oddly enough, have cpu-related jobs) and hold a rather liberal viewpoint on things. So yeah...it's interesting. ^_^ Great fun.
So Aunt Pat's talkin' about all this stuff...and asks what *I* think of it, being of the younger, current generation, y'know? So I got into the discussion...she's tryin' to put some blame on video and computer games, I said no, I won't blame those at *all*. Matantis and Brian spend *hours* playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein, happily shooting away at Nazis - but they'd *never* *really* hurt anyone. ...even Teraa made some valid points, she was talking about how this one kid in her grade is like, psycho-violent and basiaclly just..bad, and he gets all this special treatment, aids goin' around to classes with him..they gave him a frickin' *hamster*, so he can build "nuturing skills"---! ...and even Teraa sees that this just makes it worse, and isn't fair in the *least*... Talked about school, how there's no respect for teachers, for elder students...and Grandpa went off on this thing, one of his teachers would leave fingerprints on this one kid if he was out of line, would just grab his arm or whatever, and he *got* respect. And Aunt Pat's like no, no, a teacher should *never* hurt a student...and I pointed out that maybe not a teacher, but at home - heck, *we* were spanked when we were little, an' it didn't scar us for life at all..tho I would've never thought so at the time, it prolly did us *some* good, anyway...
And yeah. Just went on and on... it was fun, it really was. I love debating. ^_^

..but I'll go now..*should* get some sleep tonight, picnic at B's tomorrow...carp, I've gotta get some food together--! -_-;; ...ah well... ...wanna try to get another desktop pic done tonight, tho...(ehmm, even tho I've done like, what, *four* already today? ~_^;)

*Ananda Daydream * 11:28 PM * *

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