well, it's another week and the beginning of another month as well, another month since the passing of my gotta-get-a-real-job deadline. monday's are the hardest for motivating myself to get out more cover letters since they take time and i've only got a 25% chance of ever hearing back. or something like that. i'm also trying to save money, and not being able to get much work done at home isn't helping since every time i go to starbucks i end up with a $3 faux coffee. instead, today i am camping out at the ultra-cheap, ultra-freezing kinkos computer cluster with my bottle of water (courtesy of the stash in the trunk of my car). when i walked in, *everyone* here was just logging on to Yahoo to check their email. i had no idea that so many people used those spam generators. my yahoo account gets the most spam of any account i've ever had, and their interface is sooo ugly.

this morning i was watching louis farrakhan's speech on cspan/cnn. the gist of his talk was that president bush should have listened to his warnings (one of those i-told-you-so things) about preventing 9-11, and that the neo-conservative jews who run this nation made up the link between osama bin laden and saddam hussein/iraq so that they can attack muslims. although i have to admit he does have an interesting point of view, he seemed to be one of those preachers who tells people how to think. as in, the facts are there and you should be able to make up your own decision if you spent a minute on it, but instead he tells you precisely how the pieces fit together, and by god, wow, he makes so much sense. at least, that's the feeling i got for the all-black audience who was seated in front of him. he really wasn't saying anything that's original, but reiterating ideas that they were afraid to say themselves. or even worse, taking these ideas and trying to string them all together to make one big nothing. it's sad that he's essentially repeating what bush has done in claiming that (a) there are weapons of mass destruction in iraq and (b) iraq is tied to 9-11, except in his case it's just one big part - the all-powerful jews are trying to kill the islamic faith. and everything in the world is tied to this. funny that i always thought muslims were the one religious group that respected people for being people and having different faiths and standards. guess not.