A jumble of thoughts

Hello world,
Josefin Fundin is coming to America. I couldn't be more pleased. I think she is coming at just the right time too. I am so excited and looking forward to seeing her that I can't even think about the end of the semester anymore. Josie = peace of mind :).

I have an interview at SU on Friday. I'm currently trying to come up with questions to ask because every interview inevitably ends with "so, do you have any questions for us?" and my inevitable answer is "uhhh wellllllll I can't think of any right now." Word on the street is, that response is frowned upon. So I am just going to blatantly walk in that place with a list of questions right in my hand. Who's prepared? I'm prepared. I'm also resting on the idea that actually going to the school and meeting and interacting with the faculty and seeing the counseling clinic, etc. will make me feel confident in a grad school related decision, one way or the other. I'm pretty much assuming that I'll get there and just become really excited about learning and becoming involved. But on the flip side, I could get there and be like what the heeeezyyy was I thinking?! Either way is fine by me!

After the interview, I'm obviously driving back to Oneonta for Halloween. I don't have a costume. I think I'll go as a college student. Creative, I know.

I haven't gotten my absentee ballot. I filled out the application weeks and weeks ago in the quad and they were supposed to send them all out. Mine still had not arrived. I'm fairly certain its too late and I'm pretty pissed about not being able to vote. Considering that New York has voted Democrat since the dawn of time, I'm not concerned about the outcome of the election based upon my vote. I still wanted to do it though. Bureaucracy sucks!

Also, I've been doing tons of reading about the environment because of my environmental ethics class. I was thinking about it last night and trying to figure out why people just do not care. I mean everyone talks about how we need to save the environment and fight global warming and everything else but how many people actually do anything about it. I mean, I try to do my part to lower my carbon footprint but I like to have a warm house and sometimes its easier to drive to rite aid instead of walking. I always try to remember to bring my reusable mug to campus, but sometimes I run out the door without it, and its not like I can go a day without coffee. I feel like such a hypocrite because I am actively pursuing knowledge about where the environment is headed and how fast its going there but I still don't do much to fix things. I think we're just all so incredibly desensitized to tragedy of any kind. From the violence in the news and on tv to movies about every single type of natural disaster possible, we just can't bring ourselves to take reality seriously. Its like its all this talk about how disastrous things will get if we continue on this path environmentally is just the beginning of a movie plot. And never fear because at the end of our 2 hour cinematic masterpiece, everything will be on the road to recovery. Unfortunately, real life doesn't happen to be so simple...