Only Because The Sun Is Still Up

and I am taking a break from all things important...well they are really unimportant in the long run but they only seem important due to our undue pressure on doing well in school. When does your homework really matter anyway. Critical thinking is much more important.

Is it not amazing that they took an hour from us last night. The ubiquitous "they"...I guess it's the government. I don't know how they did it, but I awake and find that I sleep a very long time, but I didn't feel like I did. Very strange. and then the sun is still up, here it is 7:10 and the sun is still in the sky. It is amazing. Only in America can they make the sun stay up in the sky simply because they want it to.

Eggers is a cool dude. Still has the edge of neocolonialism about him, but I can deal with that. Even the best natured people are the product of a violate racial history. For example one person with whom I ate dinner said "look at the demographics, they are 60/40, that is ghetto," to which I responded, well the free and reduced lunch is the only number that shows shifting economics in the area which is a more telling social barometer, and then another person said that they hate free and reduced lunch. That took me aback. I then went on to tell the story of my elementary school where a good deal of the kids were bused in from housing projects and got two square meals a day simply because they were free. They were also some of my best friends. The most telling thing, I couldn't get one guy an invitation to my birthday party because he didn't have a phone (before commercial cellphones, he didn't have a land line). But, demographics make an area ghetto somehow. It doesn't matter about the economic situation, no, no. Rich people of different races make things ghetto. Okay, whatever.

Eggers though, funny guy. He would like the flock of seagulls haircut if you asked him...and trust me, someone asked.