Overwhelmed
I am overwhelmed with shock and sadness. I have to stop watching CNN. After 9/11 I watched CNN 24 hours a day, sleeping for a couple of hours, going to school, and heading right back to my television. I did this all the way up until the beginning of the actual war. This kind of news watching is so unhealthy for the psyche. You don't even realize how it's affecting you until you scream at people for no reason even when you're not PMSing. I tried not to watch too much news after the whole tsunami thing, but I've ended up watching more than I need to. Not that I don't want to know what's going on in the world, and not that I don't care immensly for those people, but watching CNN reportings can just suck you in, and change your brain little by little without even knowing it. The geographer in me has also been doing research (yes, research that I can't do to write a paper in school, but seem to have been doing a lot of lately) on the actual physical aspects of the tsunami . . . you know like the causes, and which plates are the ones colliding, etc . . .
Some good stuff has happened this weekend, and some not so good stuff, but right now the devestation in the world seems to be what's on my mind.
I am overwhelmed with shock and sadness. I have to stop watching CNN. After 9/11 I watched CNN 24 hours a day, sleeping for a couple of hours, going to school, and heading right back to my television. I did this all the way up until the beginning of the actual war. This kind of news watching is so unhealthy for the psyche. You don't even realize how it's affecting you until you scream at people for no reason even when you're not PMSing. I tried not to watch too much news after the whole tsunami thing, but I've ended up watching more than I need to. Not that I don't want to know what's going on in the world, and not that I don't care immensly for those people, but watching CNN reportings can just suck you in, and change your brain little by little without even knowing it. The geographer in me has also been doing research (yes, research that I can't do to write a paper in school, but seem to have been doing a lot of lately) on the actual physical aspects of the tsunami . . . you know like the causes, and which plates are the ones colliding, etc . . .
Some good stuff has happened this weekend, and some not so good stuff, but right now the devestation in the world seems to be what's on my mind.