
i'm really starting to think that taking this Holocaust class was a) one of the best ideas of my recent college career or b) one of the worst ideas of my recent college career. this is an absolutely fascinating class. i enjoy every minute of being in that class but it's incredibly painful. it actually is a struggle for me not to cry in the class room even though i know that i'm not the only one. today we were watching part of Shoah and one of the survivors was talking about digging up the graves that held the victims of the Vilna ghetto liquidation so they could burn them. he was talking about how he saw his whole family lying in the graves. and his face was just trembling and i had to look away, concentrating instead on something else. i picked at my nailpolish for a next few minutes until that part was over.
and now i'm sitting in the computer lab listening to chick rock and writing up the bar scene take two for walt whitman's grave. chris is paining me. a lot. poor thing.
and i got an email from joe. ::looks around, waiting for kate and karen to pounce:: i'm hopefully going to get to see him tomorrow again which will be nice. i need to talk to him about some stuff. like the whole boy and puppy and happiness thing from a few days ago when i was trying to pretend that i wasn't falling into a deep, deep depression. i've just accepted it at this point. i can't fix it and i refuse to go into therapy again so i'm just going to keep moving and trying to survive with it. i've done it before. it was called high school. and most of my childhood.
i wonder if it would be bad if i just skipped my class tonight. i mean, the midterms not that important, right? ::shakes head:: i'm gonna go. don't worry because i'm spineless and i need to pass for some reason even though i hate the class and everytime i say that it's professor levitt people shudder. for good reason too. i shudder.
erf. i'm going to go write some more. ta-ta for now.