Oy Yoy Yoy...
So, I switched from the International Bacculareate to A-Levels. I was relieved at first that I wouldn't be up to my ears for a little while, but WHOAH MAN I was wrong. I've been dumped a pile of sheets by every teacher I see, and told to get them done within three weeks. I'm seriously in trouble...
Yesterday, my Sister picked up the Newspaper, and read out that The Police had made, I think, 38 arrests of Iraq War protestors. Having read One Sentence, she turned the Page, muttering, 'Police are a bunch of Idiots'.
I was immediatley thrown back to an Episode of M*A*S*H I had seen just the day before, in which an Army Doctor (Hawkeye Pierce, played by Alan Alda) is continually refusing to send his patient out after she's healed, because he knows that the General who wants her will torture her to get information out of her.
When the General eventually gets hold of her, there is an angry confrontation in which the Woman - an adamant Communist - swears that she wishes to kill everyone in the Camp, the Doctor included. The General took her by the arm, and exclaimed to the Doctor's assemlbed around: 'You did your Job. Now I do mine.'
Hawkeye then advances, Proclaiming, 'You Son of a Bitch -' only to be stopped by the Soldiers around the General. And here's the thing - Alan Alda, who wrote and directed this Episode, had it that the General actually does look offended at Hawkeye's insult. Alda was explaining to us that he was really in the wrong for saying it because, as the General said, he was doing his Job.
And that's hwy I don't htink Police are idiots. They're doing a Job. It says in the RUlebook: Arrst people likely to cause a Riot.' They Arrested People. It might not be pretty or nice, but it's the truth. You do the Job in front of you, and don't ask Questions.
Anyway, getting away from that: I'm still floundering in areas of Romance. I met a rather nice girl on the bus home yesterday, but she already has a Boyfriend. I don't know: I just say hello to people, and beyond the usual small talk I can't make any real conversation. Maybe things will pick up in future. Ther's a Halloween Ball on Friday; I'm going to be there. Maybe My Luck will change.
Maybe.
Yesterday, my Sister picked up the Newspaper, and read out that The Police had made, I think, 38 arrests of Iraq War protestors. Having read One Sentence, she turned the Page, muttering, 'Police are a bunch of Idiots'.
I was immediatley thrown back to an Episode of M*A*S*H I had seen just the day before, in which an Army Doctor (Hawkeye Pierce, played by Alan Alda) is continually refusing to send his patient out after she's healed, because he knows that the General who wants her will torture her to get information out of her.
When the General eventually gets hold of her, there is an angry confrontation in which the Woman - an adamant Communist - swears that she wishes to kill everyone in the Camp, the Doctor included. The General took her by the arm, and exclaimed to the Doctor's assemlbed around: 'You did your Job. Now I do mine.'
Hawkeye then advances, Proclaiming, 'You Son of a Bitch -' only to be stopped by the Soldiers around the General. And here's the thing - Alan Alda, who wrote and directed this Episode, had it that the General actually does look offended at Hawkeye's insult. Alda was explaining to us that he was really in the wrong for saying it because, as the General said, he was doing his Job.
And that's hwy I don't htink Police are idiots. They're doing a Job. It says in the RUlebook: Arrst people likely to cause a Riot.' They Arrested People. It might not be pretty or nice, but it's the truth. You do the Job in front of you, and don't ask Questions.
Anyway, getting away from that: I'm still floundering in areas of Romance. I met a rather nice girl on the bus home yesterday, but she already has a Boyfriend. I don't know: I just say hello to people, and beyond the usual small talk I can't make any real conversation. Maybe things will pick up in future. Ther's a Halloween Ball on Friday; I'm going to be there. Maybe My Luck will change.
Maybe.
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