i feel kind of bad for my poor son. he’s not having a very good time in alaska at all. i spoke to him several times on the phone yesterday and he has come to the conclusion that it would have served him better to have stayed home and done survey work here with the job he normally has. when he talked to the guys who did it before, it sounds like they had really cool guys to hang out with, and chris doesn’t really get along with the guys he’s with. i mean, they don’t NOT get along, but they all know each other already and so he’s sort of like the perpetual outsider. this is an odd place for him to be because he’s used to being the center of attention and being surrounded by people who love him for who he is. he hasn’t been the outsider for a long time. but, he is finding good ways of dealing with things. he called his uncle, d’s brother and he works all weekend, and then there’s another friend in alaska, but when he tried to call them, they are out of town for the holiday. so, basically, he’s really lonely. i feel for him. but i have also been there for him, too. i am unsure what he would do if he didn’t have me to talk to. i can look stuff up on the internet for him….yesterday we sent him to the alaska zoo, which he said was kind of sad, but at least it was something to do. he will be home in another six weeks, though, so it’s all good.
i am at work right now, and it’s looking pretty deserted here about now. i actually work in a converted apartment in the back from the main building where everyone else works, and i am the only one here. it’s quiet and a little creepy, but not too bad. i could be getting lots done, but why would i do that when i can be here?!?!?! hahaha
this weekend was quiet in the extreme. i even cooked this weekend, which is a rarity these days. we have bbq’d the last few days and it’s been fun. it doesn’t heat the house up, and i get to have fun cooking. it’s funny, when you have to do it all the time, it’s drudgery, but when you don’t, it sort of becomes an adventure.
last night d and i watched the movie "munich" about the killing of the israeli athletes at the 1972 munich olympics and the subsequent response by the israeli government to eliminate those suspected of being involved in planning the attack. i studied this situation in a "political violence and terrorism" class i took, unique in it’s own right because it was taught by a jewish man who has been a visiting scholar at the university of jerusalem. it brought up many questions for me. do oppressed people know they are oppressed? what is the human obsession with having a "place"? what is a country really, except a geographical area governed by a collective of people who all live there at the time the country is formed. i can’t really understand the plight of either the palestinian people or the israeli people because i have never been either of those things. my country is a melting pot and i have chosen to take on it’s more liberal aspects in my own values in thinking people should be valued based on their character, but that becomes more and more muddied if you look at the characters from this film. was the israeli musad who did the killing a counter-terrorrist or a hero? it ruined his life, that is safe to say…killing those people. i think looking at these situations doesn’t really present any solid answers, it just brings up more questions for me. i don’t understand how people can do those things to other human beings. interesting times we live in…..
i think that’s all for right now.
peace.
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