What is this world coming to?

Yesterday was a snowday.  Today started out as a two-hour delay.  After realizing that the power was out on the east side from the river to almost twenty miles out,  the administration finally canceled school.
But it's not the snowdays or delays that make me wonder: It's the increasing frequency and intensity of these storms.
Last year, we might have used up three or four snowdays.  It is only February and we've already had at least six.  And last year, March was the snowiest of all.
The last time we had snowbanks deep enough to tunnel in was six years ago and even then, my parents haven't seen a winter like this since they were children.
I wonder if humans have lost that natural connection, our global conscience, if you will.  Perhaps generation after generation, it slowly diminished, almost disappearing.  How else could we willingly inflict this much damage to our own planet?
How I long to be able to see this planet at its birth, in its most pure and peaceful state.  But unfortunately, I know that will not be a reality until our Lord comes and makes it so. 
That day cannot come fast enough.

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Gimme A Break!

Yeah, MelissaFeelsPhilosophical has decided to take a little break.  I don't know how long; knowing me, it'll be back tomorrow, probably. 
Today was not a cool day.
First off, I had a ginormous project due in Bio and I hadn't finished it, so I was planning to finish it at school.  But the school computers wouldn't recognize my flashdrive, so I went to the library at lunch to try to type it up, and write the new stuff, all in twenty minutes.  I gave up and hoped that my PowerPoint would work.  It didn't.  I had to give my presentation ad lib.

Then I forgot my algebra and latin homework and I can't make a sketch for my huge art project to save my life.  I've literally run out of ideas!

Ugh, I'm sorry, no one needs to hear me complain this much.  Philosophical Melissa better return really soon.

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No More 4x4! M.F.P. Episode 4

So I wasn't planning on this being a whole ragey, ranty sort of thing.  As the title implies, I'm feeling more philosophical today.
As you probably already know, I am completely opposed to the proposed 4x4 schedule change.  And as I was listening to my iPod the other day, Les Miserables came on and I couldn't help but notice the similarities between our struggle against the 4x4 and the songs "ABC Cafe/Red and Black" and "Little People"  Here are the lyrics, or at least abridged versions.

"At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!
At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!
Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side!
The time is near
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don't let the wine go to your brains!
For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
With the men and the arms that we never can match
It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
But the national guard will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!
It is time for us all
To decide who we are
Do we fight for the right
To a night at the opera now?
Have you asked of yourselves
What's the price you might pay?
Is it simply a game
For rich young boys to play?
The color of the world
Is changing day by day...
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!"

"Liar!
Good evening, dear inspector
Lovely evening, my dear.
I know this man, my friends
His name is Inspector Javert (*cough* Anastasio)
So don't believe a word he says
'Cause none of it's true
This only goes to show
What little people can do!

And little people know
When little people fight
We may look easy pickings
But we've got some bite
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows up!"


anyway, don't give up the fight! 
we can show the people of Augusta that we are a force to be reckoned with.
Along the lines of what Allie said, why save kids who don't care at the expense of martyring the honors students and those who want a decent education?

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