The following represents the wanderings of a college mind...
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Alright - I'm not stupid. I know we're at war. I keep up with it, I have a pretty good clue of what's happening. But you know what? For a while out of my day, I like to live in denial.

I see CNN on all the tv's in the student center. It's the front page of the newspaper. There are protests on campus. I have to hunt for a station without "breaking coverage" of a campaign that's 11 days old. I can't miss the posters hung throughout the halls of all my buildings. The news of the war is everywhere. But tonight... was the last straw.

It's late. I'm tired. I have to use the bathroom and get some water before I crawl in bed. And what am I confronted with when I close the stall door? More propaganda on Iraq.

What the hell? I don't even get privacy in these fucking dorm bathrooms and now I have to be reminded we're at war, reminded of all the friends that are risking their lives over sea, reminded of the danger we're all in everytime I enter?

That's ridiculous. Leave me in my ignorance for a few moments. Give me some time for denial. Let me forget, if only for a minute.

-sigh-