Gasoline

Bet you all feel real stupid for making fun of me riding my bike with the red tires all around town now, don't you? Hahaha, those automobiles don't run on people power now do they? Anyway, my best advice to all of you is to go out and steal a bicycle so you can start saving gas too (or if stealing is one of those things you have a personal hangup about, as I hear its immoral or something, you can always buy one). Yes, the world is quickly spiralling out of control, with general chaos in New Orleans the likes of which have never been seen before in a major american city in the modern era (yes, 9/11 was amazingly terrible, but it wasn't 80% of the city underwater, now was it?), 90% of the east coast's gasoline pipeline infrastructure out of commission, and a stampede in Iraq killing more people than I imagined possible without some sort of explosion. And paleing in comparison to these, UNC has recommenced classes in the fall semester of 2005. Yes, the new crop of Classes has come along, and right up there are a few promising prospects: History of country music, The Political Economy, Shakespeare, and 18th-20th century English lit. I'm enrolled in Classical Political Theory, but since I didn't make it to the first day, I'm skeptical about the chances of keeping it in the lineup. In a gross example of university misappropriation, the Union has given us Nextel Push to talk phones to use while on duty. Wow, do we need them? Nope, not at all. But this gives us the capiblity to remain in contact should we have to go to say, Hinton James on a random mission in the middle of the shift. Which means you will be seeing much more of me in the Union shirt in buildings not considered the Frank Porter Graham Student Union (unless they get smart and take them away...)