The World In a Coma

So I finished up my celebrity list and remembered that about about 6 years ago my friends and I had exactly the same little craze, we all wrote up lists and put them into our diaries ( I know lame, just pretend I said journal). I still have a few of my “journals” while I couldn’t find my old celeb list I did find some hilarious entries. It’s too funny to look back at my self back then, I wonder if I met my 16 year old self now, would I even like me? Boys, school, self centered, okay I guess things haven’t changed much lol, but hopefully they have changed a bit, here’s a little glimpse into teen Candice for ya, straight from the diary (oops I meant journal) pages:

July 16, 2001

Alot has happened since I last wrote, Alex (my first “real” boyfriend), is pretty much totally out of my life! Yes! and life is constantly changing, it’s strange really… but I like it. I am still having strange dreams… but whatever. me and Chad has another flingy thing, I don’t know what to do with him. It happened at my friend Angie’s going-away party. So much little stuff is going on, it’s hard to keep track of it all. Yeah I’m not too sure. My mom moved to Fort Mac for the summer to work becasue we are freakin broke- as usual. Life is slowly getting better. I’m going into Grade 12, it’s fuckin wierd. I can’t wait though, but I’m also so VERY scared. NE way I’ll write later. Love ya bye bye Candy.

 Too funny and too wierd to look back, all the things I thought were so dramatic and life changing seem to be just a little blip on the map now, I don’t even remember my “fling” with Chad, which I know was no more than making out seeing as I had only been with Alex until I started dating Carter. LOL the whole Chad thing is hilarious anyways, why I had the hugest crush on that guy I’ll never figure out. I think I was a bigger drama queen then than I am now. I guess looking back I see I’ve learned to take life more slowly and relax. There’s no point in worrying over little things, most times there’s not much you can do to change it. Well there’s a little glimpse at the Candice of old, I hope the Candice you know has grown up and improved since then, and in some ways retained her zest for life. Feels like I’m saying goodbye to an old friend when I closed the diary, but I’m just putting her away for a while, she’s always waiting.

So I’ve been coerced into joining the Top Ten Celebrities I Would Sleep with craze, as per Jeremy and Danny so here goes:

1. Ryan Reynolds- funny, sexy and real what more could you ask for?

2. Brad Pitt- mmmmm

3. Heath Ledger- Yum

4. John Travolta- I’ll grease his lightening lol

5. Vin Diesel- Muscles, all that needs to be said

6. Bruce Willis- Steals my heart in every movie

7. Sean Connery- 007 King, and the accent doesn’t hurt

8. Matthew Perry- Hot and funny

9. Mark Whalberg- Sexy with a bad boy edge

10. Adam Sandler- Hilarious

 Do you ever feel like your life is already all set out for you? That feeling as washed over me lately, not that I’m unhappy with what I see, I’m perfectly content, but that’s just not enough for me. I’m in need of some serious excitement, travel maybe just something different and dramatic. I need to broaden my horizons, too bad the damn pocketbook is stretched to the limits and refuses to budge, much less broaden. I guess I’ll dream my way there, or like millions of other poor saps I’ll hope to win the lottery, ya that’ll work. One day I promise myself and you that I will go to Scotland, and from there travel around Europe. I’d like to see Australia and perhaps Africa and South America. I want to be a citizen of the world….hmmm… maybe one day.

Well my paper is officially finished, 4000 words on reconciliation handed in and I wash my hands of it. I think it is pretty good, I’m expecting a B-ish mark. Now all I have left is working till christmas, and finals. One more paper and I’ll be free and clear of the worst semester in the history of Candice lol. I gotta thank Danny for checking my paper over for me, as it’s awful hard to find an editor at 4:30 in the morning. So anyways on to happier topics, Carter is coming down for christmas which is surprisingly nice. I didn’t think he would come as he has his christmas stuff to do with his own family, but he succumbed fairly easily. Though I doubt he would have agreed so readily had he known what my family christmas’ are like. Fighting, sharing, talking till the wee hours of the morning, and loud rucus of about 20 people, and that’s not including Christmas eve church and the bevy of neighbors and friends that follow it. I love the chaos of christmas!! Carter is used to a small christmas with his parents and brother, well is he ever in for a surprise, our christmas is days of endless laughter, reminscing, arguments and hugs. He’ll be all familied out before it’s over muahahaha!! Well with me comes my crazy family so I guess if he can handle christmas with us, he can handle anything lol. Anyways I’m rolling on 3 hours of sleep so it’s nap time for me, good-napping to all and to all a good nap!!

The struggle for peace has been invariable throughout time. Wars are waged daily and it seems that as one ends another is just beginning. How can we curb this cycle of death? Political reconciliation seems to be a strong weapon in curtailing this struggle. But where does justice and punishment fit into the reconciliation equation? It is argued that,

 

Punishment of persons charged with crimes against humanity or war crimes cannot provide the route to political reconciliation. That’s because reconciliation involves building or restoring relationships, including those between victims and perpetrators, and punishment does not deal with victims or relationships. Punishment deals only with perpetrators.

For me, this argument is much too rigid. It fails to take into account the victims feelings about punishment, and the necessity to uphold justice, especially in instances of human rights violations and serious war crimes such as genocide. It is clear that punishment and reconciliation are separate and very distinguishable tools, but I do not think we can completely rule out the possibility of punishment aiding in the reconciliation process.

According to the United Nations, “War crimes and crimes against humanity, wherever they are committed, shall be subject to investigation and the persons against whom there is evidence that they have committed such crimes shall be subject to tracing, arrest, trial and, if found guilty, to punishment”.  In the aftermath of war, I think it is more important that ever to uphold human rights, and the right to seek justice for a crime against a person should be upheld, as well as the rights for the perpetrator to a fair trial. In no way am I saying that punishment is key to the success of reconciliation because it is not, but in some cases, especially those when the violation of rights is fairly recent and the violator is still present, punishment, in some form, may be necessary for victims to begin the healing process.

Let’s look, for example, at World War II, Hilter’s Nazi regime and brutal genocide. If Hitler was still alive at the end of the war, I highly doubt apology and reparation would have been enough to satisfy the world. In this case, albeit an extreme one, punishment would have been necessary at the very least for the man who instigated the murder of millions of people.  It is important to look at both punishment and reconciliation separately and then combined in order to get a fuller picture of the tools we have to repair, re-grow, and rejoin nations in an effort not only to sustain peace, but to prevent such atrocious devastations as the wars which divide our global nation into pieces too microscopic to be mended.

Here’s a little insight into the darker side of relationships and the superiority of the female mind muahaha

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z468B8vV6XU

I LOVE Dane Cook, cheers up my day and the sexiness only adds to the hilarity!! Makes me want to fight just so I can use my Wicked NINJA skills!! Don’t ever forget guys WE ARE BRAIN NINJA’S!!!

Well it was a whirlwind of a weekend. Worked Friday, came home did some homework left for Rocky on Saturday, went out with Carter and about 20 of his friends, I was D-D so  that was pretty interesting. We were all making bets on who would fight first but luckily no body did, it was a pretty good night over all, hit two parties after then went home to bed (mmm hmmm). Sunday I got to chillax all day with Carter, then drove home today on the worst roads, till Calgary anyways, there was a car in the ditch like every quarter kilometer and I flew into the other lane, luckily I didn’t hit the ditch. Then got home and went straight to work just got home phew. Now all I have to do this week is write my 4000 word paper, so if anyone has any ideas about the politics of non-violence, lemme know!! Also my house is a disaster so if anyone loves me enough to clean it for me, be my guest lol. OMG oh yeah I saw my dog on the weekend, this chick outside 7-11 had an English Bulldog I think I actually fell in love, seriously!! He was soooo awesome, I can’t wait till I can have one, my life will be complete then!! Well anyways I know this was a lame and random blog but my brain really isn’t up to it right now so enjoy!!

Sorry I haven’t posted recently but I’ve been busy busy busy, for those who actually care what I’ve been up to and will be up to here’s a recap. Last weekend I had a good friend and her two girls over, worked tonight and the coming wed, fri, mon, tomorrow is House night at Tealka’s Thursday is Shanna’s housewarming, I have a midterm on Friday that I should really get my ass in gear for, it’s Carter’s birthday this weekend, which I’m still not sure if I will make, which will be sad if I don’t cause I’ve never missed a birthday of his yet, and to top it all off I have a 4000 word paper due on the 20th yippee lol. Actually I don’t mind the busy-ness so much, keeps me going and makes me get up off my ass.

Also I haven’t seen Carter for like 3 weeks and my hormones are RAGING, I seriously need some Carter time, just to take the edge off so I can actually think about school and work lol. Seems like I’ve been suddenly swept in the whirlwind of life, maybe I was just in the center of the tornado for the last little while, all bored, twiddling my thumbs and waiting for it to strike. I don’t know but I think I like the tornado better, gives me something to work with. Well anyways, I really really really hope I can go to Rocky this weekend, cause anyone reading this must be able to tell that I need it. Ta ta for now my faithful readers.

 MOI