Laura Lee:: I am vegan. I am tattooed. I love the earth. I believe in love regardless of gender or race. I will spend my life fighting oppression and spreading compassion. Sometimes my dogs are my favorite people in the world. My family has a second home on the big island of Hawaii, and that is where my heart is. I wish I could fly away...
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02/12/2008: "Mortality...!?"
music: Default - "Wasting My Time"mood: Iffy
My CGI has been having tons of random errors so that is why I haven't written until now. Anyway, several things of interest have occurred. Last Thursday my mom and I saw Cloverfield which was both good and depressing. Friday I went with some friends from school up to DC to visit Paola and Rebekah, and we spent the night in their apartment. It was a lot of fun and I feel like I am finally reconnecting with friends after last semester kind of not being around them much. Liz and I have finally worked through things so that we're at the point now where we were friends just like before everything happened. It's still kind of weird and awkward with some things and I really don't know what's going on. I think it's just one of those experiences that's never going to leave me. I also gave Pao and Rebekah some presents from Costa Rica and a cute hooded frog creature thing from the claw machine that Josh won (we both have one too and we call it the Naked Green Guy - long story).
Saturday night was a party for Eve, Plummer's girlfriend who lives in Bulgaria... She's going back home this Friday. It was fun until a bunch of people I didn't know started showing up, and Josh was still at work. I was getting nervous because of my social anxieties and frustrated by this one really drunk girl who was causing a scene... so I left and waited for Josh at work before we went back. His friend Sean made these really good drinks called Sex with the Captain, and Josh and I won beer pong again (we've only lost once)... so again, I didn't have to get drunk. I hate drinking. Haha. It's interesting to see how different parties with my friends are from parties with his friends: card games and gossip vs. beer pong and loud metal music.
Sunday... back to school. I went to the movie with Fe, Mayjean, Aaron, Liz, and Elicia... the six of us in one car trying to avoid getting pulled over. We saw 27 Dresses which was cutesy but not really worth the 9 dollars. We were the only ones in the theater which was pretty cool because I've never had that experience before... so we all spread out and talked loudly.
Now I'm in the middle of my first week of the semester. I'm taking Computer Applications in Business, Political Communication, Tai Chi, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Problem Solving II, and Drawing. FULL schedule, but I have to do it. Everything seems to be going really well so far... Environmental Ethics should be very interesting, but I was surprised at the number of people who never really thought much about these topics before, like our impacts on the earth. I feel like my life's work is going to go to shit if people continue on this path. Problem Solving is going to be extremely hard... this time, there is no structure, we set our own schedule, our own deadlines, but it's going to be INTENSE. I'm also working 8 hours a week and still have all my clubs and stuff.
So Josh has hurt his back somehow and can barely move, which makes me sad, and I also won't be able to see him till the weekend... so no Valentine's Day for us. 
I want him to feel better.
I talked to my dad for the first time in a while tonight. Things in Hawaii are going well and the house is supposed to be done in a month.
Oh yeah, and I have my first hostee! Once her site is up I'll give you the link!!
Alright, another poem. This one is pretty old and more than mildly cynical as a forewarning. I'm not sure why I wrote it, exactly - I was probably in one of my depressed phases of my teenage years. Now I'm only sharing it because it represents my pessimistic feelings about our overpopulation and effects on the environment. But I know - despite how I feel, I must persist or nothing will change!
Mortality (November 5, 2002)
What am I?
I want to know
my place in this world
when there's no where to go
I want to see
the reason to be
trapped in the space
of eternity
The human race
is a deformity
slapped onto a hunk
of poverty
A soil filled with grunge
A sky sick and weakly
A vast galaxy
of rapid mortality
