How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

It was today, in 1865, that the 13th Amendment to our Constitution was ratified, banning slavery. Can I get a "thank the Lord"? I can't imagine ever thinking that another human being is less than myself...how terrible it is to imagine. To mistreat someone in that way. To think of a person as property.

Disgusting.

Really. To think of yourself as better than anything. You aren't. You're just you, and you of all people know you aren't perfect.

Brings me back to my AI class, and how we wonder how the relationship between human beings and robots will be. Will they come to realization that they're our slaves and rise up? Is it immoral to have robot slaves? Do they have rights? Will we have the same kind of wars for the metal race?

And to think of those movies, where they go on without us. There Will Come Soft Rains and WALL-E. How they can just keep going...long after we're gone. Kind of scary, huh? Got me wonderin'. You know, I'm a big believer in we all gotta have a creator, right up until you get some sort of supernatural being. What if that's what's happened? What if we're God's creation, and he's just gone, and here we are...going on without him?

I know a lot of people feel like He isn't here anymore.

And I have to wonder, if he was so in-contact with them peeps from the Old Testament, why isn't he talkin' to little ole me, hm?

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I'm an impatient person. I mean, I feel like I've been patient. But a whole semester has passed by now. Plus half the summer. Hell, it's been 19 years, 4 months, and 22 days.

I'm going to be so pissed when I find you.

You're late.

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One of my professors once had a pretty kick-ass kid. This is what he did.

And you know, he's right. All you need is a little inspiration.

So inspire me. Dear World, that is your mission.

As for my Christmas break mission? I want to force myself to learn to play a few songs, at least. I want to earn some money to make up for my expenses and fender bender. I want to buy my textbooks for as cheap as possible, and actually read the winter assignment like a good mentor. I want to make a huge posterboard of to-do's spring semester. I want to teach myself about good movies and literature, even music. I want to make gifts, and I want to spend time with the people I care about. I want to cook and experiment. I want to decide on, possibly even start, my sophomore lecture. I want to paint. I want to be thankful. I want to come to closure (again?).

So keep me pumped.

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I've decided that when I'm not living in a dorm room, I'd like an odd pet.