so, i wake up and go to use the bathroom.
the suitemates had left a hefty dookie in the toilet to greet me.
wonderful!
i flush the toilet and the water wasnt going down. it keeps rising. suddenly i think it's going to stop, as it reaches the brim of the toilet. but, NO. the brown poop water proceeds to overflow out of the toilet, filling our bathroom and room with POOP WATER.
yes.
POOP WATER.
jeb and i had to just sacrafice all of our paper towels and towels to clean it up. we ended up just throwing our towels away rather than washing them....how could you ever feel clean drying yourself off with a towel that was used to clean up POOPY WATER?

so, thanks alot motherfucking asian suitemates for leaving us that ginormous dookie.
STOP EATING SO MUCH FIBER.

other than that, today was beautiful.
we drove around murray and eventually ended up in mayfield at the cemetery. i'll upload pictures tomorrow.

also watched 'the last kiss' which i disliked very much. it makes my intense love of zach braff waiver quite a bit.

I love old book smell.

So dinner with my parents turned into a debate about capital punishment.
Basically it was just me and my Dad discussing it.
And now I'm really thinking, is there really any perfect solution to abolishing the death penalty? I am definitely against the death penalty. Personally, I don't see how taking a person's life could possibly compensate for the crimes that they have committed.
When a person takes the life of another, why is it that we as a society are compelled to "see them fry"? Is it the comfort of knowing that they are getting what they give? Are we all stuck on the "eye for an eye" mentality?

Personally, I don't feel that killing should be a legal means of punishment. We are seen as such an advanced and civilized society, yet we use such barbaric means of punishment to this day.
In the 1700s public torture, mutilation, flogging, branding by hot iron, and public hanging at the gallows were common means of punishment. Such punishment is seen as cruel and inhumane, but how far have we progressed from that point? How is a lethal injection any different?

Just recently Saddam Hussein was hung (never mind the fact that his trial was a shabby affair, marred by serious flaws that called into question the capacity of the tribunal to administer justice fairly, in conformity with international standards. Of course he had to be held accountable for the massive violation of human rights committed by his regime, but his trial failed to satisfy international fair trial standards. i won't get started on that.) But, what does that say about society at this current point in time? We believe that killing one person makes up for the loss of one, hundreds, or even thousands of lives?
Modern hanging is where the subject is dropped a long distance with the intent of dislocating the neck and severing the spinal cord. It is by no means a painless or instantaneous death.

Lethal injection is given in three separate steps. The first is to induce a state of unconsciousness intended to last while the other two injections take effect. The second is to stop all muscle movement except the heart. This causes muscle paralysis, collapse of the diaphragm, and would eventually cause death by asphyxiation. The third is to stop the heart from beating, and thus cause death (read: cardiac arrest). Death usually occurs within seven minutes, although the whole procedure can take up to 45 minutes. The first shot, thiopental, is an ultra-short acting barbiturate that may wear off and lead to consciousness and an excruciatingly painful death wherein the inmate is unable to express their pain because they have been rendered paralyzed by the paralytic agent (this has been seen in some cases. One inmate in particular was in pain for 35 minutes before he died because he required another shot of the initial thiopental before he was unconscious.)
Barbaric? Cruel? What do you think?

Whoever thought up the electric chair was a sadistic bastard, if you ask me.
The head and legs of the condemned person are shaved and the prisoner is strapped into the chair. A moist sponge is placed on the head to aid conductivity. One electrode is attached to the head and a second attached to the leg to provide a closed circuit. At least two jolts of an electrical current are applied with the time and current depending on the physical state of the condemed person. Typically an initial voltage of around 2,000 volts is applied for up to 15 seconds to attempt both to induce unconsciousness and to stop the heart. The voltage is then lowered to reduce current flow to approximately 8 amps. The body of the person may heat up to approximately 210°F (100°C), and the electric current will generally cause severe damage to internal organs.
Regardless of how the execution is performed, cleaning up afterwards is unpleasant. Skin is inevitably burned and prison workers have to separate the burnt skin from the seat belts. The initial flow of electric current may cause the person to lose control over many bodily functions, including muscle movement, urination and defecation. To mitigate this, alterations to modern electric chairs include padding and inertia style retractable seat belts and the condemned may wear a diaper.

Interesting fact: A record was set on July 13, 1928 when seven men were executed, one after another, in the electric chair at Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville. We should've gone to the prison museum, Sobbid!

Not only is capital punishment cruel and barbaric, it is a blatant violation of human rights. Everyone has the right to life.

But, what do we do with the guilty? How do criminals pay for their crimes?
Rather than kill them, do we lock them away for the rest of their lives?

I know nothing of costs of running prisons and the probability, or practicality of abolishing the death penalty.
I just think it's ridiculous that we think of ourselves as such a high and mighty country. The morally superior and morally righteous.
The morally righteous will not allow gay marriages, but they will endorse and promote the barbaric killing of a human being.
Does that make sense to anyone? Anyone at all?

Okay, so no one will probably read this.
But, whatever. This was for me to vent.

Bowling / Do something awesome this weekend?
I'm leaving sunday, so YES we must.
(Saturday afternoon = bridesmaid/wedding dress shopping. EW)

I had this dream last night where I was with all my friends on a bus, but there were alot of people I didnt know.
I started talking to this guy that was sitting across from me, he was really akward and dorky and lame but he was really nice and he made me laugh. He asked me to go out with him sometime, so of course I said yes. My friends who were sitting further back asked if I could go do something with them and I said "No, I have a date!". They ask me who with, and I point to the dorky boy. They all freak out like "With HIM?!" because they think hes not cool and what is conventionally "hott".
So, I call my friends shallow bitches and I get off the bus at the next stop with dorky guy. He's totally sweet and beckons me to follow him because he wants to show me something special. We were with all of his friends (who were like, the badass "I do what I want!" kind of guys) and we go up to this huge building that looks like a court house or something, but its surrounded by towering chain-link fences. Dorky boy pulled open a large opening for me to climb in through and all of his friends climbed the fence to get in. We walked into the building and it was like going into another world. There was a giant pool and it was surrounded by jungle-like vegetation. Somehow we were all in bathing suits and we jumped into the pool. But, as soon as we went underwater we all turned into dolphins. Yeah, insane, right? It was so cool. We were swimming around and there were all sort of weird creatures swimming around, so dorky boy was careful to stay near to me and make sure that no one hurt me. All of a sudden there were like nets or something coming after us, so we all swam to the top of the water and we turned back into normal people, except dorky boy didnt look the same...he had kind of the same features but he was gorgeous.
There were scientists or something surrounding us. Apparently we werent supposed to be in this pool, and they were intrigued by the fact that we had turned into dolphins. "Whaaaat!!? Dolphin people!?".
So, then we had to slyly escape, and dorky guy let me go quickly why distracted the scientists, then he took off after me to make sure I was alright.

Thats about all that I remember.
I wonder what it means.

Dude, I WISH THAT HAD REALLY HAPPENED.
Maybe soon I'll find my amazing dolphin boy.

I was walking around campus and found a deceased squirrel laying belly up, with it's little rigor mortis affected limbs sticking up into the air.
I walked by a few more times just to look at him.
Eventually, I named him Chester.
What an untimely death.

The next day he was gone. I guess that the janitor people who walk around wearing space pack-looking leaf blowers got rid of him that morning.

I liked Chester. He was much cooler than the rabid squirrel that ran around campus who was missing the fur from his tail. That one always made me think of an oversized rat that would be in a horror movie.
I avoided naming THAT squirrel.