Between a Culture and a Hard Place

I have been watching CNN over the past week in regards to the crisis in Louisiana and soaring gas prices. Watching the news, it feels like America is so foreign to me now. Really things just seem crazy in L-town the gas crisis too. There is crime of unspeakable sorts all over that city and when I see this I think, "that's my country?" But even here I still feel out of place after two months. So here I am in Santa Cruz in a Michael Landon-esque limbo. The another night at Equi Petrol a girl I met asked me why Bush wasn't doing enough for the people in Louisiana. Truthfully I really didn't know how to respond. There just seems to be a lot of anger regarding the situation. I suppose all that can be done given the magnitude of the situation is being done. Watching the news things here are crazy enough. Watching the news you can see people getting beaten up the streets with the "Eye of the Tiger" in the background. I can only imagine something like that happening here...it would be chaos.

Guess I need to listen to more NPR. If only Flem was here. Swine!

Here is a picutre of my apartment, which of course has nothing to do with my entry.