Current mood:	cranky
Current music:	silence

don't blame the owl

at the start of the semester, i would attempt to get to school by 7:45 am on tuesdays and thursdays for my 8:30 class. this was for several reasons.

1) to prepare for class
2) to avoid traffic and thus road rage

as the semester has progressed, i have arrived 2-3 minutes later every day. today was no exception.

the motivation is gone! my first final is in ONE WEEK. why are we still in class?? why?? give me one good reason, i beg of you!

in addition to leaving my house later than i should, and thus encountering more traffic than should be humanly possible, my drive was dampened by the fact that my radio station is GONE. replaced by some public access nonsense. where did it go?? it was just there last night at midnight when i was driving home. 7 hours later, it is gone!! :(   i need to do some research on it (yes! yet another distraction to keep me from my brief!)

this entry seems meaningless (and perhaps it is) but all that information is leading up to my frustration with society....

since my wonderful station was sleeping in this morning, i was forced to listen to the other drabble that tulsa passes off as radio. on 2 stations i heard the same story. the second time around, i was hoping that they would tell it in a less-annoying manner. no such luck. here's the story...

so there was a fire last night in glenpool. not that surprising since there are fires all the time in oklahoma now. even when it snows, there is still a fire danger. this fire, according to the "news" was caused by an owl.

yes, an owl.

so, at first, i kinda chuckled to myself picturing an owl carelessly tossing away his cigarette onto a field. 

but that is not what happened. 

mr. owl (his close friends called him tootsie) was enjoying his evening perched atop a lovely oklahoma tree. suddenly, a bolt of electricity raged through his little body and set him ON FIRE. what kind of tree sets owls on fire?? ohh, the only trees we have left in oklahoma---electricity poles. he fell off the pole and set the field on fire as well. The news said he caused it. 

I have taken enough torts and criminal law to know that he was not the proximate cause. it was the electrical company! leave some trees for the owls! it must have been WAY out there because 40 acres burned without destroying a single structure. 'no one was harmed', says the news. No one except for poor tootsie and his buddies. 

don't worry. i'm not going to join up with PETA and forgo electricity in protest (obviously not, since i'm writing this), but it just makes me sad. My pastor made a comment the other day that is so true of most humans. we feel like we can do whatever we want to the environment because why does it matter? Jesus is coming back so we might as well be as destructive as possible.