Today I slept most of the day, trying to sleep off this cold. The highlight of my day was later in the evening. I went out to eat with this Russian Korean girl. She's real pretty, and we seem to have a lot in common, but it was our first time hanging out, and we didn't have other friends around to keep conversation going, so it was a little bit awkward sometimes. Luckily, during the meal, we were able to get a lively and interesting conversation going, which lasted from about 6:40 to 10:00. I remember most of what she said, but the only thing I can remember saying in the conversation was "why did we wait until the end of the semester to hang out like this?" or something like that. At the end, when we said goodbye, she did this thing that I catch myself doing a lot, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone else do. She stopped and said "I'll see you..... " and thought through her schedule and what was happening and then guessed at tomorrow "tomorrow?.. let me see.." etc.. Just based on that, and if she was doing it the same way I normally do, I think she's looking forward to meeting again. Not that there's anything there. We've got less than a month to get to know each other, and we'll be lucky if we keep in touch after that.

That's pretty much all that happened today...

Last night I watched a lamb get slaughtered Mongolian-style. They cut the suckers stomach open while it's alive, and this big bubble immediately appears. Then they reach in and grab a vein and yank it out. Once they've cut the lamb open completely, they pull out this massive pillowy sack of crap which makes up the majority of the lambs insides. The blood pools cleanly in the lamb's chest as they pull out the other organs. In fact, the only time the guys hand got dirty (besides when pulling the vein out) was when he cut the heart open and drained the blood into the blood pan, which would later be boiled with flour and poured into the lamb's intestines to make blood sausage. Just looking at it, I think I could do it. However, it would take some practice before I could get that vein quickly, and the lamb would suffer until then. It's a cleaner kill if you do it that way, I think.

Oh yeah, North Korea shelled a South Korean town today, and SK is drafting. The border is already the most heavily militarized border in the world, and in the next few months or maybe a year or two, we could watch WWIII begin. The USA has pledged to loyally defend SK. If anything goes down, we'll be right in the middle of it. Also, Nigerian police stopped the largest shipment of heroine and weapons in Nigerian history... Somehow, I can't place any value on the Nigerian incident, except that the shipments were from Iran, which means that NATO decisions have yet-again proved useless, because the only countries which follow the rules are the ones that make them and the ones that survive by the help of the ones that make them. Iran is pretty much un-tamable. Nobody controls them; they don't even control themselves. They can do whatever they want, and nobody can tell them anything about it. What will NATO do? Hold another meeting? Complain for a few more hours? Send another shipment of food to a country which isn't making enough food for itself? Even if they send troops to Iran, they will do about as much good as every other country which has sent troops there has done... and what little that was was temporary. Can any of their words stop the war in Korea, or just postpone it until North Korea is more powerful and more angry, and South Korea is biting at the bit.

Idk.

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