Land Down Under

NUDIE RUNS!!!

This week Whitley was divided over the issue of streakers. On Wednesday night at 2am there were two derelicts who ran naked around the corridors screaming "CELLULITE CELLULITE!" This woke many people up (including yours truly), and as you can imagine, there was an uproar the next day on our web forum. Jacko was so upset that he and Boosh went outside to wrestle (imagine a very skinny 5'9 or so guy tackling a more solid 6'3 guy). I must say it was very amusing, especially since Jacko was so angry that he managed to almost lift Boosh off the ground by one leg. A bunch of us stayed up rather late discussing the whole thing. The thought that kept crossing my mind was, "YAY for once I'm not considered weird or crazy for thinking that nudity and loudness at rediculously late hours (or at any hour, really) is inappropriate and should be punished!" I think it amazed me that there are other kids my age that think like me. Can we transport them all to Williams please? That place needs an injection of morality and decency.

Yesterday I got my social work paper started. I read a book called Tell Me I'm Here by Anne Deveson. It's the story of her son's battle with schizophrenia, which ultimately ended in his suicide. It's the most frustrating book I've ever read. She describes how she'd go from police to hospital to social workers and back through the cycle over and over again, trying to get someone to help her son, but no one wanted to deal with it. They all told her to call someone else, or that he'd have to be in a psychotic episode to be admitted (which he would pull himself together enough to not appear psychotic in front of authorities), and whenever the police would finally arrive several hours after she called, Jonathan would have already wandered off into the night. It's a very good book, and I highly recommend reading it. Anyway, I think I'm going to focus my paper on the inefficiency of the mental health system, and how her story is too common when dealing with schizophrenic relatives. I'll be working on it today before going to the aquarium and then afterwards, and hopefully I'll get a good portion of it done by the time I go to bed tonight. I'm excited to go to the aquarium! I've been wanting to go since before I got here. Anyway, it's lunchtime now so I'm off!

posted by Christina @ 11:31 AM