Jenny and I were discussing earlier this month how we kind of live in our own little College of Biological Sciences Honors world when we're here. We tend to forget that not everyone devotes 8-12 years of their life ot higher education, and not everyone has a course load that requires doing homework whenever possible every semester of their college career. It became glaringly obvious that we're really in our own world, when I found out last night that North Korea has been conductiong possible nuclear weapons tests. I don't know when the first one happened even, i just know it did recently. But it's definitly been going on long enough that i should have heard about it by now. So last night I looked at the international news on the Star Tribune site, and remembered why it is that I don't keep on top of the news. It was so depressing, nuclear testing in North Korea, fighting and death in Darfur, the war in Iraq, child labor laws forcing children to lose their only source of income, so sad.

So, I don't really know whether I think I should stay on top of the news or not now. I really should know what's going on, but what can I really do about it? With the whole North Korea thing I decided to not worry about it unless something does come of it, then I can worry. Because as I figure, that one I really can't do anything about, it's much bigger than me, and why worry and lose sleep over it when I could be working on school and things instead? But what about things like Child Labor laws, and the problems in Darfur can I realistically do anything about those? I guess we'll see. I'm starting to understand Anne's desire to save the world, and am becoming jealous that she has the physical capabilities to do so. I don't think I would be comfortable living in a country with subpar health care, even if it would help save the world, becasue if I got sick, well I'd no longer be able to save the world.

Man, this is a heavy post, but I don't think it's going to get much lighter. On a bittersweet note, my O Chem professor is having a family emergency, I'm wondering if someone in her family died, and so we're not having class today. And not having class is a good thing, but I really do feel bad for her.

I did not sleep well last night, during Health Advocate class I got a wicked headache, and so I came home, took some tylenol and sudafed, and layed down for 45 mins. It didn't really help, so I called my mom and she told me to take more sudafed and some motrin, so I did that, and then it did finally go away, but I was so not tired until 1, because sudafed is a stimulant, and I took two doeses, one close to 8. And then I kept waking up, I woke up at like 3, and 5, and 5:30, I've never had trouble sleeping before this year, with the exception of prednisone induced insomnia.

Anyway, this is really long, and heavy I'm going to be done for now.