i download the nbc nightly news everyday via itunes podcasts. and i watch the nbc nightly news every night after i get out of the shower. it is my daily dose of american reality. if you know me well, you know that this is the one and only show i actually make it a point to tune into. i adore brian williams. i have loved tom brokaw since i was in third grade. i want to marry richard engel.
but damn, i gotta say, the news is fucking depressing. the dow is under 8000. WHAT? i ran away to korea, i will admit this. i did it because i knew i could get work here and make a decent amount of money and live very comfortably. id be shit poor in america right now, probably only able to keep the job ive had for the last four years at the bloody bar. i did it because i needed a change. i needed to save my sanity, to make myself happy again. and here i am, thousands of miles away, reminded by an itunes podcast why i decided to move my life to korea. but shit, man, i am feeling for you who are still in america. all i can say is, escape if you can.
the news ended on a positive note, though. ann curry is climbing mount kilimanjaro. for the last few years of my life, ive tried to do something unusual, something crazy, each year. my sophomore year, i jumped out of two planes. my junior year, i ran a marathon and a half marathon. went to france (and morocco...alone) my senior year, and then again my super senior year. and now im in korea, which i could consider to be my crazy thing. but i think i want to climb a mountain. that sounds fun. cold, but fun.
and finally, i gotta say, you always hear people say, 'you don't know what you've got til its gone.' but i like to say, 'you dont know what you were missing until you get it.' ive left things behind in america, most of which i really don't miss. and ive gained things in korea, things that i didnt know i needed until i got them. it makes me wonder why i spent so much time and energy caring about things that, in the end, dont really matter. its the big changes in life that put stuff into perspective, make you realize what you're capable of, what you can life without, and what you really need in your life. things get so cluttered up with the things we should do that we forget to live, to really live in the moment, to take it all in and just be, experiencing life for what it is, not what we've decided that it should be.
'should' is a modal. sentences do not need modals. they add details to the sentence, giving it a specific feel.
fuck the modal. keep it simple.
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