The sky is burning

So, not sure how much news it's making in the rest of the country, but the San Diego fires are a big deal right here right now, mostly because most people in Southern Arizona consider San Diego their home away from home. But anyways...

On the way to work this morning I flipped to JonJay and Rich (KRQQ, Reid!) and they had on the phone one of the big dj's out of San Diego and they were asking him what was actually going on there and what everybody here could do to help - a noble gesture, to be sure, but these guys are so stupid, I'm sure it was a marketing ploy by their manager. Regardless, the SD dj was describing the horrors of these fires going on around San Diego, saying it was like something out of a movie, how 650,000 people have been asked to leave their homes, how people have been living at Qualcom Stadium for a few days, blah blah blah... Then this guy had the balls to say that "there has never been anything like this, the devastation is just unbelievable." and that, "more people have been evacuated from San Diego than were evacuated because of Hurricane Katrina." I wanted to punch a hole through my dashboard. Serves me right for listening to 93.7.

Yes, the loss of 1600 homes is a serious thing, and I feel for the families that are losing their property. But, people, for real. It is insulting to the victims of Katrina to imply that their tragedy is overshadowed by Southern California suburbanites losing their too-large and too-expensive houses. One person has died in this fire. Very few businesses have suffered. San Diego will be FINE in two years. Many towns hit by Katrina will NEVER recover. @#$&*^#!....

AND, as for something like this never happening before, just because you are an historical idiot doesn't make you allowed to claim that before. Chicago, London, San Francisco...all cities more economically pivotal in their time which were utterly devastated by fire and, in San Francisco's case, earthquakes.

Maybe this is boring to everyone else, but it pissed me off right good. Now I suppose I should work, since I'm at work.

I got King Kong in the trunk

A new post! Hooray!

My neglect of this blog is mostly due to my lack of Internet for the past month, at least Internet that works with blogspot. Both of my roommates' computers freak out when I try to access this site. So that's my excuse. :)

I'm in Kansas City right now, visiting friends I made while student teaching, and it's making lonely for everybody else I love who doesn't live in Tucson or KC. If I could afford the time and loss of pay, in a heartbeat I would jump in my Volvo wagon and tour the country, visiting California, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and then Florida, but probably only so I could go to Disney World. And the Everglades.

It's hard for me to think about, but in all likelihood the career choices I've made and am desiring to make will make it very difficult for me to see some of my friends ever again. If I go overseas or bury myself in an urban ghetto I will be doing what I believe God wants me to do, but potentially doing it alone. That's scary to me. I'm reading The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claibourne in which he talks about what it means to be a radical, and therefore real, Christian, and it makes me tremble with excitement (and a lot of conviction), but that can be a lonely life. I know God provides, but somehow I'm having a hard time convincing myself that what He provides is best for me.

I suppose it's a matter of priorities. If I want to see you all again, I will make a point of doing so, and I needn't worry. Maybe I'm just feeling this way because I slept in until 11 and I'm feeling philosophic while there's no one else around to share it with except Sebastian, my chocolate lab friend. Aww, here he comes now...

Lovin' time!