i hadn’t really planned on writing, but i got 15 minutes to kill and now it sounds like a good idea.

everyone’s talking about katrina. but i won’t. not my place to pass judgement.

or is it? i can write all i want about how horrible the situation is down there, how people are still suffering daily, and how the federal government really dropped the ball on this one. but that just throws my opinion out there, which is the whole point of this blog. but i don’t want this blog to be a political commentary, because i don’t feel i have enough information to actually write anything of consequence.

the news i listen to is very biased, and even though i may try to balance it out with other sources, i don’t really think it’s ever enough. there’s so much information to be gathered, to be put in order, to be interpreted. i don’t dedicate that much time to current events, it’s more like a hobby. i figure in another 20 years, i’ll have enough perspective to put in more context. i would just feel like an ass if i threw my opinion on here about anything other than myself, or things directly associated with me.

not that everything going on in the world doesn’t affect me, but this blog is not meant to capture that side of me. like i have said before, this blog is an internal dialogue for me, and i think that’s about all i can handle writing about. leaving notes to the me of the future on how to deal with this brain that has been bestowed on me. i know what i think about current events, but it’s my ideas of myself as a person that dictates how i feel about them. that’s what i more interested in with this blog. find the root, then everything else falls into place. write it down so i can reflect on it.

do something with it, dammit.