Wow, my last full day in Omaha until November. Finally the endless string of “lasts” is coming to an end, and I will actually be experiencing some “firsts” before the week is out. I apologize for my tardiness in updating this blog, but these last few days have been pretty hectic. I (+ mom) managed to get most of my stuff packed yesterday, but there are still a million little things to be taken care of before departure tomorrow afternoon. It hasn’t been that long since the last time I’ve moved, so you’d think that the packing would be fairly straightforward, or at least familiar, but such is not the case. At least when we moved to a new house I had some idea of what it would look like, but this time I’m sort of flying blind. I’ve never seen my dorm room, and I’m constantly concerned that I have too much stuff or too little. I suppose such confusion is typical among new students, but it certainly doesn’t do much for one’s sense of control.

Last night I hung out with Matt and Ed until about midnight. (Yes Ben was really out until midnight, unbelievable I know). We played tennis for a while and then watched Bowling for Columbine, which was certainly thought provoking. It was acerbic, unfair, and controversial, but it definitely raised some interesting questions and revealed some of the hypocrisy towards firearms in America. It was definitely not an objective documentary – it was clear Moore knew his position before he started out – but that doesn’t mean that some of what he said isn’t true. I agree with with a lot of what he had to say, and I agreed with it even before I saw the movie, so maybe I’m not the best person to judge, but seeing Charleton Heston claim that it was ethnic groups rather than guns that cause violence in the U.S. certaily revitalized my hatred towards the NRA.

I leave for Northfield tomorrow afternoon, and I move in to my dorm on Thursday, so I will try to post again sometime Thurs. afternoon assuming that my internet connection works right away. After that (starting on Friday) I’ll be incommunicado until next Tuesday or Wednesday because I’m going on a pre-frosh trip into Minneapolis. Hopefully whenever I post again I will have something new and interesting to discuss.