Formations

Saturdays go by way too fast I have decided. I need like twice the time—half to sleep and half to do stuff…. Plus I always have to do laundry Saturdays (it’s the only time the girl who lives in the basement isn’t home and I am) which ties me to being home a couple hours. Once again, I have made no progress so on homework thus far. Prolly means no super bowl party for me tomorrow…I need to get this and next week’s homework done.

This morning I went to the national archives. They have really set up an expansive museum since they opened a lot of popular items from the vaults last year. I got to read the declassified 1946 papers on waging a war with the USSR if it became necessary. Made me wish we had attacked back then cause we’d have easily won and saved tens of millions of lives. Listened to the tape of the oval office discussions about the Cuban Missile “crisis” … not surprising contents but interesting nonetheless. I think Kennedy is being concreted as my most despicable President. I still liked Jackie’s scarves though… =) The rotunda itself was pretty crowded by school kids so I didn’t stay long…I’d rather go back when they’re gone. Btw, There are gaurds posted on either side of the Declaration of Independence and they didn’t know that in the movie (whats it called? The one about stealing the declaration…) but I wondered if they were posted in response to the movie and copycats. Prolly not but who knows. They do have those little rolled up version of the Declaration though… =) Looking at the original Constitution is so powerful to me. It’s hard to explain, it’s like supernatural or something… I feel that I am looking at the United States…its very foundation in the deepest sense of the word. It really is amazing to think about those 4 sheets of paper….NOT the men who sit in office on the hill or across the world… as the TRUE government of the USA. I can’t even look at it without tears coming to my eyes…so much blood was shed for the right for just law to rule in this land. So few Americans have any idea what the Constitution says and even fewer recognize its significance in our nation. To me there is almost a tangible …presence around the articles….the essence of freedom and democracy itself and the dream of the men who penned their names to the bottom of that document … a dream they dared believe it was ludicrous to imagine. ….I know, I make it out to be like the Bible or something… and I’ve obviously never seen original scrolls of the Biblical texts… though it seems our copies of the Bible are so cheap and plentiful they just become words and ink except for the Life they contain when read. I guess that’s true of a textbook’s reprinting of the Constitution as well…the original is so much more impacting. And NO I’m not really comparing the two because there is an infinite difference in authorship and significance… I was just thinking….

Anyways, after the Nat’l Archives, I made my weekly Target trip to Maryland which was mainly grocery shopping (I know that’s a strange place to grocery shop but it’s the most convenient and cheap!) …. Then tonight I went to the dance theatre performance. It was interesting… good for the most part. It was multiple renditions of creation stories from different renditions (African, Asian, Biblical, etc) It wasn’t Christian, of course, but it was very intriguing. It was all done by one choreographer...it was “modern” which, as usual, incorporated a lot of different styles of dance and gymnastics. Towards the end it got repetitive and long… 2 hours of dance with one guy and one girl (lots of different Adam and Eves in the different dances) and the same choreographer…even with varying music it was too long…I had the idea after the first hour and ceased to be fascinated…plus the end was more modern and less dance so that made it less enjoyable. I was glad I went though… and as always, seeing dances makes me miss dancing….

Well, I’m tired so I better get revise my paper, email it to my prof, and get to bed…