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So nothing is really happening at the moment. I am just sitting here doing this blog with a towel wrapped around my hair. What's with the towel you ask. Well, i shall tell you. i got home from karate about 40 minutes ago and i took a nice shower. i didn't feel like having wet hair around my face so it is all wrapped up in the towel on my head. yep. you thought it was gonna be some interesting explanation didnt you. haha, i tricked you. So i haven't done much lately. I have basically lazed around at home doing homework. Ohh, i got my paycheck last night - $172!! That is record for me because i subbed for a girl twice and i had to come in 45 minutes early on two occasions. so that was cool cause i was like, oooh money. It is always nice to have the assurance of making your own money. yeah... anyway. my muscles are tired. yesterday at karate was a really hard workout class. we did a lot of sparring. It wouldn't seem like it but your arms get really tired because it takes a lot of energy to block a person's arm out of the way so you can punch. then when i had karate today we did a lot more of that sort of stuff. so yeah. that was interesting and now my arms feel like jelly and my fingers are tired. it was really funny last night though because for a lot of the sparring we wear hand pads (not like boxer ones, but they still have a lot of padding on your knuckles etc..) anyway and then we did this exercise where we just blocked and didn't attack and we didn't need the handpads. since we had been working with handpads for so long that night it felt really weird to just be using my hands. so yeah. that was weird. i am all tired. i think i am just gonna sit here and almost fall asleep. gnight.

just kidding, its 1:30 like i could sleep.

yeah, cya later.

oh yeah, something i forgot -
is it weird to anyone else that it is september 11th? that didn't even occur to me til on the way home from karate. I just wanted to pray for all those that were affected by 9/11, especially those that died and their families. It seems weird that it was 3 years ago already. time goes by so fast. it also seems weird that there aren't any big commemorative things like there were the other years. I was thinking about that the other day. I was thinking about how september 11th will always stick out in my mind and whenever i hear that date my mind twitches or something, it like sparks something in my mind for a second. i was thinking about how someday my kids will just see it as any other day, like the day pearl harbor was attacked for our generation. i doubt that most kids will ever be able to tell you the day it happened (Dec. 7th? Am i right?). The fact that Pearl Harbor Day was never really commemorated never bothered me until after 9/11 and i was almost frustrated that there wasn't something for 9/11 this year. It just started me thinking about how i never understood the way those people felt until i had a similar experience. its weird now though, thinking about how much 9/11 has changed our lives. because of it we now have huge lines at airports, a "terror alert system", a paranoia, and a war. It is weird because in politics we were talking about the past election and how Gore would have won had it not been for the electoral college (had it just been popular vote). I was thinking about where we would be today if he was prez? 9/11 probably would have still happened. But would the war have? Would Gore have had the same reaction as Bush? Would he have implemented the same tactics? It is weird to think about what could have been.

ok enough rambling. :)