post-finals

The post-finals nightmares have begun again.

i'm thinking

my life needs a few more photos. That's a summer goal: more photo taking.

troubled to troublesome

In light of recent events at Virginia-Tech, the media has been covering a huge range of topics dealing directly or indirectly with Cho Seung-Hui. Roommates have come forth, bringing stories of a 23-year old who was difficult to relate to, who received tutoring in English and his writing displayed hate-induced threats to an abusive father; the police received complaints about his harassing girls via instant messaging, the telephone, and in person; he was admitted to a mental hospital in 2005 because he seemed at risk for suicide. All of these behaviors meet the criteria, the checklist, if you will, for a criminal, for a depressed person who becomes a killer, taking his own life and at least 31 others students' lives. To explain just how a 23 year-old man from South Korea could commit such a heinous crime, criminologist Jack Levin from Northwestern University explained how he met the criteria, but that many adolescents and young adults meet the criteria. He concluded by saying something that should be heard by all,

There is one thing that I think is very important to emphasize. We should be caring about people who are troubled long before they become troublesome. We should reach out to people not to punish them, but to give them our concern, our caring, and then we might even prevent a murderer too in the process.
-Jack Levin (April 17, 2007)
How Disturbed People Become Killers (CNN)

Let us not be consumed by the media, by speculation, by unimportant sidenotes; let us move forward and reach out to others, as Jack Levin suggests.

I'm sorry, so sorry, so terribly, terribly sorry

But Doctor Dictionary has been really good, when I check it.

Today's word:

spoonerism \SPOO-nuh-riz-uhm\: the transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words. (I became dyslexic just trying to write that)

Ex: The Lord is a shoving leopard ("loving shepherd").

Guilty!

Doctor Dictionary

provided such a great word for the word of today!

abecedarian \ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-uhn\ noun
1. A person who is learning the letters of the alphabet
2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet
3. Pertaining to the letters of the alphabet
4. Arranged alphabetically
5. Rudimentary; elementary

creep!

I don't care if you're wearing sunglasses. I can still see that you're staring at me.

see it in color

(Thanks Dre - stolen!)

so excited