TinselTiara: May 2012

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Saturday, May 5, 2012

I checked my Google News ticker this evening, as it had been some time since I'd last read up on what's going on in the world (there were 52 new stories) and these are the headlines I saw (seriously...no editing was done here):

Ohio men indicted in adoptive father rape case
Lee's Summit toddler died after being left in car all day, police say
ICE agent killed after disciplining son, 14, law sources believe
Ill. Senate votes to end Legislative scholarships
Slain ICE agent's 14-year-old son arrested on suspicion of murder
Pa. man in jail for 1966 slaying commits suicide
Lynn man nabbed on mom, grandma murder charges
Detroit police holding, questioning 2 men in slaying of women linked to online ads for escorts
Baby Avery, whose parents created 'bucket list,' dies
2 teen girls sunbathing on Pa. road struck by car

...it just goes on and on! What the hell are we doing to each other?! And to ourselves?! Nearly every headline on there is about someone killing (or harming) someone else! There's so much hate in the world. It makes me sick.

Totally Random.

So, everyone knows that once you select a program in undergrad, you tend to see a lot of the same people in your courses. Well...I was a comm. studies major and English minor. For whatever reason, I started thinking about this guy today (I think his name was Eric. Aaron? Alex? Evan? Something like that...) who was in a lot of my English courses at UW-La Crosse. He was so smart and so well-versed. His writing was impeccable. Anyway, I remember how sometimes, he'd talk about his family. He was married the entire time I knew him, and he had a child. I don't know how I found out, but I learned through other people that his child wasn't actually his. His wife used to be his roommate and she got pregnant by her boyfriend at the time. Apparently, her boyfriend wanted nothing to do with their child and left her, so Eric/Aaron/Alex/Evan/Whoever ended up marrying his roommate and adopted her baby.

Don't ask me why I thought of that, because I have no idea. I just always thought it was so noble, gallant, and romantic.