Its been a while...

I finally logged into my blogger account today and the first thing I saw up there displayed very prominently was "last post on April 22". I know! Its been a while.

I can honestly say that I have missed airing my views on cyberspace but a series of unfortunate events have kept me away from my niche longer than necessary. This has made me a little superstitious and I am wondering if not blogging on January 1st was a mistake. Anyway, I am back and feeling really good about it.

Whats been happening so far is that I have put an awful summer behind me and am back in school. Have been for about a month now and its just been one thing after another that's prevented me from posting.

Stuff happened over the summer that I don't want to go into. Suffice it to say however that my exposure to more of America was quite interesting and at times scary! I travelled by bus quite frequently and met the most random people. I like the public transport in Broward county and enjoyed most of the rides. One thing I noticed on the buses though was how they put up posters at the top near the hood. I saw quite a variety of them up there: advertisements, information about various things, articles, poems, drawings. One thing I noticed on most buses was this particualar poster educating gay men about safe sex. The thing about it that caught me was that they never used the word "gay" and the posters always had pictures of black men. I thought that might be just because the people who travelled on the bus mostly were immigrants from the Caribbean but still I thought that they gave the wrong impression. I for one know plenty of white gay men. So much for equality.

Right now what has my attention is Mr. Ahmedinejad. What a circus his trip has been turned into! We were discussing it in one of my classes the other day and the professor was telling us about how Americans play right into his hands by giving him so much attention. There were other world leaders who spoke at Columbia university, but does anyone know who they were? I for one have no idea. I guess it all fits nicely into what the politicians like to do to get votes, IE fear mongering. Especially given the frontloading with regard to primaries going on and the sheer number of contenders for the presidency, it makes sense. Every one wants to cash in on the fear being generated.

Finally, on a personal note, Philosophy sucks! I am doing the intro course this semester, just because it is a core requirement. I thought it might be interesting though and looked forward to studying it, until I actually got to class. Plato is one boring guy and I told my professor that. Well, not that exactly but in so many words. He got it though.