I woke up many times last night and early this morning because of the 50 mph wind blowing through DC. Living on the 9th floor, my apartment windows were shaking so hard from the gusts of wind, it almost felt and sounded like tremors of an earthquake. All around DC, Virginia, and Maryland, trees fell down, blocking roads and making people's usual 20 minutes commutes over 2 hours long. Delays in travel for airplanes is even worse, with floods and snowstorms covering the Northeast. Even perfect California is not immune with uncharacteristically strong wind.
Then as we sat in class today and listened to the winds howl (strong enough to apparently to knock down a tree outside of our school in the middle of the day), we hear news of the shooting at Virginia Tech University, killing 33 students. Words cannot even describe how sad and terrifying that is. Prayers to all those students, people affected, and their families.
Between the out of control weather, schoolhouse shootings, and everything else going wrong in the world (war, genocide, poverty, terrorism, the usual bad stuff), sometimes I wonder if we're doomed. I know that my friends and I have talked about whether we'd even want to have kids and put them in this kind of world. Ok, we're not actually serious about self-sterilization, but after reading one too many criminal law cases, it's easy to lose faith in humanity. Sometimes it just seems like there's so much bad that is spiraling out of control, and too large for us to even do anything. I wonder if previous generations ever felt this way about the future.
On a happier, and much different note, Alex's layover in DC became a little more permanant due to the brutal NY weather conditions. So he's "stranded" at my apartment until possibly Wednesday. Plus, my mom sent me a bag of dark chocolate as a belated Easter basket and to help me with studying. For all the doom and gloom that I'm writing about today, I guess there are still people who give me hope.
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