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Should I get a Mac?

So little to do, so much time to do it! Wait. Reverse that.

Hi everyone! How are you? I feel like it has been decades since I have made a real update. Know why? I suck. But only mildly.

And Clark Kent hated Vietnam.

Home has been wonderful, but insanely fast. I can't believe that I am heading back to NYC on Sunday. Where does the time go?

But I have really had a wonderful time. I've spent a lot of time with my sibs, which is always a treat and last night I got to have dinner with eep1313 and deeablo! Ha, ha! Jealous?

Christmas was fun, but exhausting. I got some wonderful treats, like The O.C. season one from my brother, and a beautiful Italian scarf from my sister. My mom gave me a Julia Childs cookbook and is giving me new stationary (once I figure out what I want) and a bit of money toward my new computer, whatever that may be.

By the by, I might really be gone for a while as I haven't yet gotten the new notebook and I don't want to rush into it so I am thinking that maybe I'll just get it back in New York, which would be about million times easier, though it means that it may be a week or two before I actually have it. *le sigh* I really am a person of instant gratification.


Oh! And I'm thinking of starting my own religion. Eep says I have charisma, so all I need now is a hook. It'll be the new Mormon, which is what half my extended family is anyway, so it could be meant to be. Wheee!

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So, I have a lot to say about the Tsunami, but many more people, like ghoulchick and rahirah have said it much more eloquently than I ever could. I can not grasp the magnitude of the event. I can not begin to wrap my mind around it. I remember not being able to comprehend the magnitude of the loss on September 11th, and that was the tiniest fraction of the loss in southeast Asia (please don't think I am discounting the 9/11 loss, though. Subsequent horrors do not negate the previous ones). Other than donating to Unicef and the Red Cross, I feel that there is nothing I can do, and I hate feeling so helpless. I have friends at work who are from that region of the world, and have family who still live there. A bunch of people from thailand and India, and even a man from Sri Lanka. I mean, what do you say? Other than letting them know that I'm here as a friend if they need me?

And that there really was no way to prepare for something like this. I don't know a lot about earthquakes and Tsunamis, other than what everyone knows, and so I know that predicting an earthquake is pretty much impossible although I am heartened to know that people will never stop trying.

As for the government's reaction to this tragedy? No words.

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I hope everyone is happy and safe tonight and has a wonderful time celebrating the new year. I have no resolutions because I am fairly certain I will break them, so I just want to continue trying to be the best me I can be and continue to love my friends and family.

Happy New Year, Everyone!!!

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I got a Mac.

Also? I got a student discount.

Also? They are going to install all of the software for free.

Also? Yay!