*CAUTION* I am NOT making a personal attack on anyone!! :) ;) :) ;)

I talk on Instant Messenger a lot. It is extremely addicting. I wish I had never been introduced to this sort of communication. My mom thinks I will be able to keep in touch better with my friends than she did. But I think if you truly want to stay in touch with someone you will without the insignificant "whats up" conversations.

It is also extremely annoying. I catch myself writing "gonna" "lata" and everything else of that sort on papers and professional e-mails, sometimes on applications, which requires me to get an eraser or start all over again. Needless to say, it's irritating and wastes my time making stupid mistakes like that.

Instant Messenger has caused me so many problems thatI would like to point a few of these out. Now.

1. I get into fights with people and I don't even know I'm fighting with them. If I'm busy and just reply with a "nothing" something is supposed to be wrong. If people start off with a heyy!!! and I put a heyy then something is suppossed to be wrong. If I leave my computer for a moment, to perhaps get a snack, and I do not respond right away: then something is wrong.

But usaully nothing is wrong.

2. My cousins in New Jersey also talk differently. People have made ONLINE accents and slang that I do not always undertand. This is what my cousin said, or typed rather... "n i was like wut and den he explained". I responded by putting up an away message. Which can have a blog post all on their own.

My biggest pet peeve though is not that at all.

3.It is those smiley faces. HOW do you respond to a smiley face? Or moreover, five of them at the same time. And is it really okay for guys to be sending five of those at the same time? I don't know.

Someone should make Instant Messenger regulations.

I would love to post more but my cousin sed dat der waz sumthin he needed me 2 talk bout.

Lataa :) ;)

So I liked my blog when I was writing it, I thought it was good...somewhat class-related you know! But after reading everyone else's blogs mine sounds like I'm 40. But I have other homework, so I apologize.

I am writing this post after just watching The OC, of course. After the show, however, they showed President Bush's address to the Nation about Hurricane Katrina. My friends and I started to talk about the situation and what we thought about it. I told them about someone in my Zoology lab who had to transfer here because his school had been flooded. While we were talking we came upon so many questions: Where do they live? What are they going to do next? Why didn't they leave sooner? What were they thinking when it happened?

I have so much sympathy for them, but I can't understand when we have so much land in the US why we would build a city when we know the problems that will arise. Everyone knew if a hurricane did come, that New Orleans is located in an area where the water can not just flow out, it would have to be pumped out. I understand that there are many economic benefits of their location being next to a coastline, but it just seems to be illogical. I can't help but think that maybe we shouldn't even rebuild the city, maybe relocate it. But by no means am I an expert on this topic.

So it's understood, I don't blame anyone. I mean it was a natural disaster, but these are just my thoughts. We can't prevent everything in life, but if we can, we should.

On another note, after hearing stories and reading articles, it makes me so happy to see how people are opening up in this kind of situation. People are renting out rooms for no rent. Schools are opening up to students' whose schools have been destroyed. It must be so hard for them, I'm certainly glad to see that people are trying to make it a little bit easier. When you watch the news nowadays it's so depressing; it's nice to see that there are still so many nice people out there.

Hey...mm...I hope this works