Obama, Rihanna, and International Relations

I'm sure you all give a hoot about my opinion on these topics, so here they are.

Ok so the new complaint about President Obama is that he's trying to do too much too early. Will you people ever be satisfied?! If he wasn't you'd all be complaining that he wasn't doing enough.
People are criticizing Pres. Obama's decision to focus not only on the economy, but also on healthcare. I completely agree with his statement that helping the healthcare system will help the economy. All the people who are unemployed are also uninsured, so they can't go to hospitals, so hospitals can't afford to hire nurses and doctors. The uninsured have to travel to India and Mexico to receive cheap hospital care. Giving everyone insurance will bring more jobs back to hospitals.

So Chris Brown. Wow. What a douchebaggins. I hope that he gets the absolute maximum punishment and that Rihanna never speaks to him again. It's not going to happen, but I can wish for it. I've heard on the news that she took him back. It's mean, but in my opinion, she stopped being the victim the moment she let him back into her life. I'm disgusted by all of both her and Chris Brown's people for allowing this behavior to happen and to not do something about it as well.

In completely unrelated news, I am now registered in Troy University's Master's in International Relations. Wahoo!! My first class is going to be International Political Economy. Yikes! I've been researching and it's going to be a really tough class. But it's one of the requirements for the degree, so hopefully I'll do good.

Also, I saw 2 movies recently that I must recommend. First is Slumdog Millionaire. I just have to jump on the bandwagon. This movie is amazing. It deserved every single Oscar it won. It was movie magic at its finest. The second is a movie that no one even noticed in 2006 when it first came out. It's called The Fall. I don't even know how to describe the plot, but it's absolutely brilliant. The settings and scenery are gorgeous and majestic. The characters are vulnerable and both human and super-human. I highly recommend it. I think it'll end up a new classic.

That's all I've got for now. Ta.

Oh wait, one more thing. The latest episode of Heroes. When Sylar cried out "Mommy?", I thought I was going to die. I love that character so much.

Notes from Work

Well, I am writing from work, again. I'm in the process of saving up to buy this awesome laptop I saw at the Electronics Market downtown, but I'm only halfway there. It's a giant pain waiting, but it'll be worth it.

So today, I watched an episode of Heroes for the first time in over a year. I've been in training for the Army for that long. And well, I gotta say, I was sort of let down. It just didn't have enough oomph. There was I think I little too much going on, and I don't understand why there has to be a new character every 4 seconds. The newest character is Daphne, and while she's cool and I understand Matt needs a love interest, I don't understand why she's needed. BTW, here in Korea, the AFN (Armed Forces Network) is like 3 or 4 episodes behind the states. So while I know what's going on in real time thanks to the crazies over at televisionwithoutpity.com, I haven't actually seen the latest episodes. Sylar is currently in an area of gray over whether or not he's evil. And frankly I don't like it. Why can't a bad guy just be a bad guy?

Speaking of which, Ian, my bf, did an impression of Sylar the other night and I almost died. It was spot on. We were discussing what powers we'd have and somehow we got onto how he would steal my power, whatever it was. I said I'd have the power to turn Sylar good, and Ian asked how. I said "with the power of love" and apparently I said it dripping with sweetness because Ian, in his Sylar voice, said "More like the power to make people vomit." I'd never heard the Sylar voice before, but I think it's my new favorite. Well, next to the regular Ian voice and the Vin Diesel voice that he refuses to do anymore because I like it too much.

So, I'm currently obsessed with http://www.goodreads.com. I did the "Official Fall Challenge" as part of the "Next Best Book" group and it was tons of fun. I've decided to do the "Official Winter Challenge" as well as challenging myself to read I think, 200 books next year. I didn't even make 100 this year, but that was barely trying. So I think I'll be ok.

About my book. I'm having trouble with it. It's like I just can't make myself sit down and write. I think of every little excuse not to do it. I'm not sure what that's about.