Life is so boring right now. Never thought I would post such a diary but it has been a boring week once they began actually doing something for the stranded and dying in New Orleans. I have spit fire about Iraq for like forever and then a soothing balm was applied two days ago. I spoke with a reporter over the phone who is part of a very well covered story coming out in a few months about soldiers coming home with combat stress and being redeployed while taking meds and she is also hunting and finding soldiers who experienced it in theater and were given meds and their gun back while still in combat. She shared one interview with me where the soldier had been told that because of the meds he wasn’t allowed to drive but he could still carry a gun………God it’s getting pathetic over there isn’t it? She told me that Military Families Speak Out had sent some emails out and she had received fifty replies when she walked in the office the next morning, I’m sure more will follow too. Below the fold is a story from my daughter’s life and I asked her today if I could share it because maybe someone will get a chuckle or a kick out of it and we all could probably use a few.
As this nation struggles against and with racism at least some of the youth are having fun with it, and flirting too in the process I think. Leave it to my daughter though to be really jacking with people’s minds here in Bama. I can’t imagine where she gets the internal drive to pull some of the things that she does!
I will give her credit for being the most color blind person I have known in my life thusfar and in the midst of high school in the South she is still who she is. She has the style though to pull of challenging things and getting away with it. I guess she has made a new friend too who is male and black. I haven’t met him yet but she says that he is smart and pretty (no flirting involved in all of this I’m sure!) and his name is Lamarius.
My daughter and Lamarius have had a great week this past week staging attacks all over the high school. My daughter claims that they really freaked out about 5 teachers so far (including the principal) by playing “pretty white girl being choked by the evil black boy”. They make it look serious up until the targeted teacher is freaking (usually my daughter has her back to the teacher and Lamarius is facing them with his hands around her throat but looking out of the corner of his eye slyly towards the target) and then they dissolve into laughter and walk away pretending that they didn’t even know a teacher was nearby and freaking out and running towards them. Just high school kids at horse play you silly freaky teacher!
Apparently the two also say things to each other about their racial roots that are a little off color also, and they both find it terribly funny. On Friday I guess my daughter was really saying some “bad” stuff, and behind her a whole group of black students were walking by and she hadn’t a clue. He let her finish and then spun her around so she could see the other students and he said, “Gee, you almost died.” I do pray. I pray nightly to that wonderful angel who saves so many teenagers repeatedly over and over and over again so that one day they too can have such a teenager to pray for!
