positive vibration

ok, so once again forever without any post. however, no-one outside of me reads this, so no worries! surprisingly, i've been pretty content today with the workload at work... there always too much to do, although, i feel like i continue to learn quite a bit recently.

in discussion of the recent events at virginia tech, i have been thinking recently about how the world has changed so much in the past few years, at least it seems so to me. i've been listening a lot to the new arcade fire album "neon bible" and for me it epitomizes the post-september 11 structure of the world, the overall fears, full people either holier than thou or pushed to turn things upside-down. after thinking about this, i tried to remember what life was before planes hit buildings... and surprisingly, i can only remember fractured pieces of it, but it seems that we are locked into the reality that now exists, almost without any ties to what was before. i remember barry loukaitis in moses lake, kip kinkel in oregon, then later columbine... interesting how it seems different from what i remember when i was younger, i remember much less fear. the xenophobia, an increasingly fragmented community of individuals, and society based on consumption, competition, and the whirling news and technology that surround us. just some thoughts.

despite all this, i'm having a pretty damn good day.