I Got It!

I'm sitting here at my stipend job just screwing around.  And why not?  It's a fairly boring job, but who can argue with full tuition reimbursement and a stipend?  Usually I do the web programming for their web site, help them write grants, and stuff like that.  Meanwhile, outside, spring actually decided to make an appearance.  We're talking temps in the 70's folks (without humidity)!

This will probably last for a week and then we'll wake up to temps of 102 degrees and 80% humidity.  Yea New England!  Then we'll all start wondering what the hell was so bad about winter after all....

I had to take a mailing from my office two doors down to the campus post office.  I had no idea we not only shared the same building, but the same floor, as the post office.  This makes me nervous. 

The VT shootings have been in the background of conversations here on campus.  On one hand, I don't really feel like discussing it all too much.  On the other, I wonder what I would have done if I were teaching my class and I heard the shots ring out.  We don't have windows that allow us to jump out in my department's building.  The other thing I've noticed, is how people are using the words like "pure evil" to describe the shooter. 

Turns out the kid had autism.  That coupled with a possibly abusive environment at home or lack of understanding of his disease, no resources to treat it coupled with a pressure for him to achieve may have all been deciding factors in his rampage.  I say this, not in his defense, but rather to understand how human beings morph into rage driven machines.  I mean, think about life in Iraq.  Yesterday 182 people were murdered.  But that's different.  It's war.  Yet, the people driving it I think are very psychotic.  Anyway, the whole VT thing, I wonder what change will come of it in the end?  How can you prevent people like him slipping through the system?

Enough with all that.  It's a beautiful day out and I'm going to a Yo La Tengo (which means I Got It! in Spanish) concert tonight with friends.  This will be the fourth time I've seen them.  And still, I leave the ironic tee shirts and horn rimmed glasses at home.

 

 

Comments

[King Of The Hill]

Blimey, are Yo La Tengo still around? That is a name from the past!

[Oedipa]

They're still around and they still totally rock the house!