The Wire

That's what everything is coming down to right now. I'm really sort of blech right now with all of this school stuff. It's Monday and I need three more days to go by really quickly before I can start hammering as much as possible with April and May stuff.

I'm working right now, which is somewhat rare. It was sort of serrendipidous (sp issues here) that I am here, because I came up here to work on my immunology presentation so that I would not be bothered b/c no one up here has science on their brains. However, the person who has the 2-4 shift never showed up, so I'm here now. At least I get paid basically $20.

My dad got me the Celtic Thunder CD yesterday, which I suppose is alright. Nowhere near as good as Celtic Woman, but they have a few good songs, most of which are not celtic. Whatever.

So today is St. Patrick's day. Not, as I have seen here on campus "Happy Shamrock Day", nor is it a "it's not important day so let's forget about it" as some people in religious places are wont to say. TODAY is St. Patrick's Day. It's a day of historical significance for all Irish people because it represents the change that my ancestors and those of all other Irish descendants made from paganism to Christianity. That movement was DIRECTLY responsible for the conversion of the Scots, English, Germans, and many Franks to Christianity also. It also represents a day of significance for all Irish men and women, the suffering that they endured under the British and the discrimination against them here in America. It is a remembrance of their survival despite all oppression. Any change to that memory as has been done by the politically correct and by the Catholic Church is a direct violation of that heritage. As a descendant of those men and women who sacrificed so much, I am equally as violated that their memory deserves to be discards because it either has a religious connotation or because the Catholic Church is so damn picky about all its rules that it thinks it has the right to violate a heritage not based in religion but in blood. I was born Irish first, and if anyone thinks that I will diminish that remembrance because it happens to fall on the week that it does is sorely mistaken. I will always be an Irishman. I can easily choose not to be religious.

So, I probably should get back to work on my immunology presentation so that I can get it out of the way.