This has been a week for some heavy news with tsunamis and an earthquake killing tens of thousands of people, and NASA releasing information of an asteroid that has a chance of colliding with earth in 2029.

First of all, my thoughts are with everyone affected by the Indian Ocean earthquake...such a terrible tragedy. Reading everything that the BBC is pumping is quite depressing, and, yeah...I'm so sorry to hear all of that.


Second: why the hell would NASA spread this kind of infection? This story went from "there's a chance" to "it's more likely to hit than not" to "not at all". Of course they're going to end this story with "there's no chance that this asteroid will collide with earth" when the asteroid is not even due to arrive for another 25 years. Bah, I say. I couldn't imagine the mass media getting a hold of this story...my god I don't think I could handle 25 years of CNN's "Asteroids: The New Terrorists" and etc.

On a happier note, Good Bye, Lenin is fantastic. The writing, the directing, the acting--everything worked brilliantly. (David Bruhn is hella hott as well).

On Boxing Day I was able to see almost all of my friends for my friend's birthday. Found out someone I know is now serving 25 years for drug charges--apparently being caught with 2 blocks of coke, over a hundred pills of ecstasy, kilos of weed and all sorts of illegal guns is frowned upon. As the story goes he tried to pin it on his 16 year-old brother; the brother would only get a maximum of 2-years and a clean slate come his 18th birthday. Ah, the people I knew.

(Where else can I take this entry to add to the degree of disjointedness of it all?)

I like this "doing nothing" bit; I've grown quite accustom to it and I fear how I will have to adjust when I go back to school. Ah, okay, I'm done.