New semester

So classes finally started up again this week, and they're really interesting ones. I have a module on Social/Political Movements (eg. Green movement, Civil Rights movement, Landless Peasants' Movement, etc.); a module on Antonio Gramsci (Marxist philosopher, leader of Italian Communist Party, Jailed by Mussolini); and perhaps most interestingly - a module called "The Sociology of Death and Dying". This last one is pretty intense. It's all about the role of death in historical and current societies. Some people are already dropping out. I don't blame them, I might too if I wasn't a Christian. The whole thing gets you to focus on death in society, and it seems like it will be darn interesting.

Anyhoo, that's it for now. God blessings to all my friends in Canada and elsewhere.

We wuz robbed! (the sequel)

Well, this time we were actually robbed. Or at least Beth was, and mostly her dad. Her card (or card number, we're not sure which) was stolen and the person spent all her money on online gambling.

Normally it wouldn't have mattered, as she never has money. However, her dad had just deposited money in her account because we were picking up a suit for him in Leeds. Lame hey?

We wuz robbed!

Well, almost, at any rate.

I was sitting in my armchair playing a little xbox after a long day of essay writing, and all of a sudden I see an arm coming through my living room window. I ran up to the window, flung open the curtain, and saw about 5 or 6 people in the little garden in front of my window. I stuck my head in the window and started yelling obscenities at them, then I ran out of the front door in my sandals and chased them (about 6 or 7 of them now) into the grave yard at the end of my street where it was all dark. I got to the gate of the graveyard and hurled more obscenities at them. I don't really believe in swearing but I think it was a natural reaction.

When I got home I called the cops and they came and took a report. Beth and her friend were here and were a little shaken. They had no idea what was going on.

I hope I scared though people, Beth said I must have done and that I sounded like a man possessed.

Whew!