A Curious Girl: Testing, testing

(thanks Mandy for your guestbook signing! Jonathan... aaah, yes, warmth, the thing I miss most about the south) It's funny that, after writing that entry yesterday about doing something about my temper, I had it put into test when I went back to my kitchen discovering that there was a note signed by other members of my corridor (the ones who are close friends and always in each other's rooms), complaining about some of the rest of us using their utensils and leaving them unwashed. It was irritating for many reasons, not least that I have found my own stuff unwashed and my bread's gone missing and the noise and the waterfights in the actual *corridor* and all sorts of silly things - if we can live with them, why can't they live with us? *sigh* (not to mention whoever it was who drank my orange juice after I left a note on it saying it was mine and asking people not to drink it! grrr)

I know it wasn't meant to hurt feelings but the sheer anonymity of it - one person's handwriting, signed by all of them - completely impersonal - did rather hurt my feelings. It was somewhat alienating. 'They' often do things like this, and it's most disconcerting, it appears to me as if they have private discussions in which they vent their annoyance, but don't see that they should talk to 'us' properly about it. Perhaps that's the thing that irritates me most - 'us' and 'them'. We're all individuals, and surely we're all adults. Just because they're all close pals and popular etc doesn't mean that everyone else who frequents our kitchen has to obey *their* rules.

Aaargh.

So I'm *trying* not to be vindictive, I don't think they're trying to be horrible, I just wish that they'd be a little more considerate.

*sigh*. Help me God.

On the plus side, I saw Bowling for Columbine (written and directed by Michael Moore) yesterday. It's brilliant. I want to see if I can find a transcript somewhere, it is such an excellent film and I'd like to buy a copy for everyone in America. Go watch it now :) It's about America's gun-culture, and is truly enlightening, making it clear in many ways that the problem is not just a) having guns around (Canada have 7 million guns and about 10 million households) b) violent video games (Japan make violent video games) c) Marilyn Manson (who came across very intelligently actually) d) America's violent history (Britain and Germany both have terribly violent histories) e) the breakdown of the family unit (divorce rates are higher in the UK). But it probably does have something to do with America's culture of fear (over the same period of time that crime went down 20%, media coverage of murders went up 600%. The media makes people afraid, just look at the whole orange alert thing) and many poverty-stricken people. It's amazingly interesting, and is fortunately not scape-goating, which is a relief. I don't wish to upset people who are trying to advocate more praying in America (I think this is an excellent idea) but I do think it's fairly ridiculous to blame September 11th on kids not praying in schools anymore, feminists, abortionists, and homosexuals. Anyways, go buy the film, hire it, borrow it, just watch it. It's good.

Random word for today: herbaceous

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