It's been a long time

I would like to apologize to the one person who reads this blog. Hah. Now there may be no one since I've been such a terrible updater. I don't blame you.

Life has been CRAZY since the return from Italia.
Here are some updates:

1.) France was amazing. Jillian, Mom, Dad, Aunt Ruth, and I stayed with my cousins in the South of France (where Johnny Depp lives... WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS BEFORE I LEFT? I would have found his amazing villa and stolen a geranium) for the last week we were overseas. It was amazing. Talk about the good life! :) I was so happy to finally meet my cousins and their house was fabulous.

2.) School is... almost over. I found out this week that I will be finished with school in ... TWO SEMESTERS. That scares me. I have to get a job or go to grad school or... eek! It's quite daunting. I can't believe I will actually graduate early when I changed majors midstream. Who knows...

3.) I'm a political activist now. Heh. Well, at least technically. I went to my first protest. I'm in the Progressive Student Alliance and we marched in the homecoming parade for Living Wage for UT workers. I feel like a better person when I try to help others. Doesn't everyone? I have a difficult time knowing something is wrong and that people are being treated unfairly (esp. so close to home) without wanting to do something. Now I can.

4.) I am completely Anti-war - especially this one. Watch "The Ground Truth" and you'll understand. America is doing things in Iraq that are very very very illegal. No wonder so many countries hate us. We need to mind our own business and take care of the problems here at home. We have homeless and starving people. We have unfair laws and inequality.

5.) VOTE. Everyone should vote November 7th. If you don't know about the Vote No on No. 1 campaign, here's a link: http://votenoon1tn.com/issues.html
Everyone in our country should have equal rights and on November 7th, in Tennessee, we have the power to make that happen. Sacred marriage can be up the individual churches, but civil unions are up to the government and NO ONE should be denied. Thank God for Massachusetts.

That's all I have to say right now, and I promise I will be better about updating this thing.

"The people should not be afraid of their government;
the government should be afraid of its people."

Mari