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1. the days just keep on going. morning, night. giorno, sera. i wish they would fly by! or i wish that i could fly...one of the two.
2. had a long day of homework today and a long day of talking. 
3. i think 13 is a good place to start.

i just wish that someone had invented floo powder by now, geez. or a portkey. or even flying brooms! what are we muggles doing wrong?! oh well, c'est la vie outside of hogwarts. anyway, my exciting blog topic for the evening is...the holocaust! perhaps exciting is not the best word...but i've been reading about it all day and it always shocks me how the holocaust happened. i read a statistic today in my reading that hitler's "wars of aggression" cost 40-45 millions lives (including all the mass murdering). that is unbelievable to me. that's basically 1/6 americans (maybe closer to 1/7) just being wiped off the face of the earth (based on current population of america). some of the testimonials in my reading were so upsetting, especially the ones of survivors. what was almost more upsetting were the accounts of the absolute certainty and with which the higher-ups carried out the holocaust. there were no moral qualms, in fact great lengths were taken to prevent any questioning from citizens/troops/officials. it was so calculated, so vast, so evil. but another one of my readings claims that the holocaust is unique in several ways but one of the ways it is not unique is that it does not exist in a vacuum. essentially, he argues that the capabilities for such good and altruism could not exist in this world without the similar capabilities for evil and horror. i agree with the basic principle of this argument purely from my background as a psychology major. it seems like a yin-yang kind of theory...only with good can there be bad, and only with bad can there be good. it's like both have to exist in order for any sort of frame of reference for the other to be available. but that's just how i see it. there are plenty of people who disagree with me. for now, it's more holocaust reading, shower, then bed. let's hear a hoo-rah for the longest day of the week (monday)! not.

bucket list item: make good decisions. it's broad and it's intended to be slightly joking/funny, but it's also entirely true and an acceptable item, in my eyes, and that's all that matters!