Blog of Josh Hall

So i am coming home on a 2 lane highway, going about 65 mph, and there is an ambulance in the right hand lane. It has all those crazy lights it has going wild, which is enhanced by it being 10:30 at night. So i am slowly approaching it, and i am hit with this sense of not knowing how to act to its presence. am i allowed to pass it? do i just get behind it? if i do pass it, am i allowed to get in the right hand lane infront of it? I am quickly approaching it, and everyone else that was infront of me passed it, so i did. at one point, i could see in the back windows, and i saw an EMT girl turning around getting something from the wall cabinet and turn back around to what i can guess is someone on a stretcher. I forget at what point, but some where between 10 feet behind and 10 feet infront of it, it gives out a loud “whoop” once. Why? was it trying to tell us it wants over? there are about 4 cars immediately infront of me. With all those lights going, it’s kind of hard to notice a turn signal. What does it want? What can i do to help this ambulance get to its destination? I felt dirty passing it. And really, if i can pass it, and it has someone in the back, why can’t they go faster? why have its lights on at all? or, if it is an emergency, why not it’s sirens too?

granted i never read my driver study book before i got my permit, so maybe i missed something, but dang, what a weird thing.

Threw up last night at 2am. Havent thrown up since i was like 12. so i stayed home from work today. Dunno what’s going on with my body. It might be the weight loss thing. this morning i woke up and weighed myself, and i was 192. at the beginning of the year, i was around 210. It’s been a lot of running and working out, but also a lot of diet changes. to be honest though, i havent been to the gym for 2 weeks or something, and i’m still losing weight. maybe i have worms. i just seem to be on a downward spirl now.

I can’t seem to turn off my head for the past few days. Been thinking about love and life and the future and the past. I watched another richard linklater movie, before sunrise. I feel so stupid for not knowing about it until recently. It was made in 95, and sets up the story for before sunset, another great movie. i dont think i should be allowed to watch movies like that alone though. I have so much i want to talk about after watching them, and no one to talk to, so i just go insane inside my own head until i pass out.

school sucks.

my manager went down to new orleans since he’s in the national guard. i have no idea when he will be back. things are worsening at work. I just want my bachelors. i just want my bachelors. i just want my bachelors.

the house doesnt have the northwood realty sign in the yard anymore. that might be a sign of it coming up for foreclosure soon. or it might not.

i’ve got a lot on my mind.

Look at the triple qualifiers.

“Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to an extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility. ”
– George W. Bush

wtf? looks like the memorial will be in the shape of a red crescent. could we get any more stupider? craziness. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003513.htm

I was thinking about how easy it would be to disappear if you lived down in new orleans. Get your family to claim your life insurance, and live off that. So many of the bodies are not going to be recovered because they were swept out to sea or alligators ate them. How hard could it be?

I’ve been trying to stay away from all the internet rants and topics on the lack of adminstrative response to the situation down in new orleans. I can’t get past one thing though, that hasn’t really been commented on much. here we are, 2 weeks away from the 4 year aniversary of 9/11. A catostraphic distaster in a huge american city. Not a year after the president was (re-)elected to office. He’s too busy enjoying vacation to do anything. You’d think after 4 years that we’d be able to deal with this a little better than having anarchy break out in a city after 4 days of lack of action from the government.