Truly, there is not much to report. The past week has been relatively mellow. Highlander is fine, I'm fine, everyone's fine.

Went out with my sister a few times this past week and then the past two days have been occupied with my friend visiting from New Jersey. It was quite fun and I'm happy she got to come up. Apparently, I'll be back down there next week so we'll see how that goes. I'll also, hopefully, be seeing some Lancaster friends soon after said return venture to Jersey. I'm hoping to slip in a Six Flags trip sometime soon so that I can get my yearly dose of adrenaline junkie goodness.

In other news I passed that certification exam I took last month. The passing score is 220 and I got 266. I hope it's out of 300 (I'll get detailed results soon)--'cause seriously...? That score is pathetic. It's really kind of depressing.

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Book Review: Killers of the Dream by - Lillian Smith: I find that this is a great sister novel to The Education of a WASP by Lois Mark Stalvey. Both take a very particular point of view that is relative to their personal lives and instead create a voice that speaks out to a world of oppression and hate. What I like most about Smith's book is that not only does it encompass the problem of racism but it also touches on gender equality and sexual equality in a strategic manner. As it should, considering hate, when boiled down to the core, stems from the same truths despite whatever 'ism' you are dealing with. Smith intricately weaves metaphors and similes into her writing so effortlessly that one can easily get lost in her prose rather than her goal. Other than that, the reading is explanatory, clear, focused and affixed on a goal that could be eradicated if a few minds could just bother to change. Worth the read, especially when accompanied by the previously mentioned Stalvey book.

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"We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers."
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