Good morning, good morning, good morning to all.

I'm doing AP again this year and I'm not happy with it...but oh well. I'm not going to try to start on another emo rant as those are useless.

I'M SO DAMN BUSY IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY PEOPLE. Until I get everything set OCD straight and I'm good to go I'll be on more often. I just have the most incredibly debilitating (sp?) art lull in the history of art lulls to even appreciate dA or art at all. So yeah.

Other than that life could be greater. I'm hopefully getting my drivers' license in a month or two. That'll save a lot of time, actually. So yeah. Other than that...I've told you pretty much everything. Things are normal. and yeah.

Good evening, good evening, the sun sets on us now.

I totally forgot the event that happened eight years ago. Eight years ago I was too young to remember. But I still can't believe it was that long ago.

I'm watching the History channel right now and it's making me cry. I can't believe that that had happened in my lifetime, and that today we don't pay enough respect and homage to the heros and the dead in that day and time. All we do is have a two second moment of silence and then talk about the football game tonight. I find that selfish and disrespectful on so many levels.

I knew no one involved in or was in any way related to the attacks on the World Trade Centers, but watching these documentaries and hearing these people tell their stories makes me feel as if I am a close friend or that I was there. Seeing the faces of those tough New Yorkers melt into a scared and emotional contortion is seeing the face of Humanity shocked as a whole, something rare, something moving, something tragic in this case.

Living next to a metropetolian area (Seattle) and knowing that in the past and present it has been a terrorist target brings a whole new dimension to look at. Those towers were an essential part of the skyline; and a skyline is part of your home and personal life when you see it everyday. What would it be like for me to see the Space Needle fall? Think and put ourselves in the situation and you begin to feel the sense of change and most of all - danger- that was inevidable for them and still in the balance for us.

But no. We don't give nearly enough respect in my opinion. There are people that saved countless lives that died doing so. And all we give them is two seconds of silence. What kind of memorial is that? Normal people: men and women, democrats and republicans, gays and straights - they all set aside their differences to help. They all became evenly human. Many died. Many survived. How do we honor that? I certainly think that a moment of silence is great, but for everyone just to stay silent because they were told to and forget it two seconds later? That's horrible.

Even if we were too young to understand or remember, we have to try remember by the history given to us. By doing that, we give our thanks and respect to the people who lived and died in this tragedy. People as why, and I say that it is because we learn a great deal about the human spirit, the heroic and selfish sides of humanity as a whole, and last but not least we learn about our country and the fellow citizens around us. We become tighter as a nation and come to respect our patriotic nature however silly and boisterious it may seem. We see America in a new light.

I'm sorry if I ruined your day, but please sacrifice the luxury of your day for those who did not have that simple pleasure. Thanks for listening and God bless you, your family, and the nation we live in and know as America.