In Which A Song Is Stuck in the Head

23.12.2008

Я назову планету именем твоим! Ты любовь моя, ты любовь мояяяя!!

Song. Stuck in head. For eternity. YARGH.

So I also have a toothache that is bothering me, and I'm chewing gum to satisfy that. Perhaps that's an awful method to treat a toothache, but I care not. I went to Pizza Hut (ПИЦЦА ХАТ!!) for the THIRD TIME, today. Maybe I should try to eat ethnic cuisine while I am abroad? .... Nah.

I woke up at HALF PAST NOON today, which is NOT what I had in mind. Indeed, it is 7pm and I still haven't started on my paper. Well, I mean, I have a little over five pages written so perhaps it is not fair to say that I "haven't started" on it. But I haven't started on FINISHING it. I think it's going to end up being one of those things where I'll go to write the last big chunk, and it'll get out of control and I'll end up writing 20 pages because I didn't get to finish saying what I wanted to say in the 10 page minimum. I think that's happened the last two major papers I've had to write. Which I suppose isn't necessarily bad, but it doesn't leave much time for else.

Can I admit something? Every time I read something about cooperation between the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) it instills a *little* terror in me. Because I really think that cooperation is going to spell the death of American hegemony in world politics some time in the not-too-distant future. Especially if the US doesn't get its shit together. And I'm not going to say that the US will get its shit together under Obama, because I have to say that I have a hard time believing that he's going to get half of what he says he's going to do, done. Simply because ... well ... I don't think he CAN. And who knows what the GLOBAL! FINANCIAL! CRISIS! will do. If it's as bad or perhaps worse than what some economists are projecting, then I'm sure it'll be somehow blamed on 'democratic politics' and it'll just start the whole terrible process all over again. But then again, maybe I shouldn't worry about any of this, since the chances of the world becoming completely inhabitable within the next 20 years are more likely than anything else.

After that cheery forecast... Hm. I guess I don't have much else to say other than what I have already said. I'm kind of tired.. hm .... Maneka and I printed out bus tickets and made hotel reservations, so everything in terms of Latvia and Lithuania should be dandyriffic.