I'm sorry!

I'm so sorry that the blog has fallen into dishevelment, you guys. I've got lots of stuff on my mind, but no time really to post it. I've been getting ready to go off to school, I move on Saturday which is exciting and frightening all at once, and I've been doing things with my friends before they all leave too, and doing things with my family before I leave. Everything has just been so busy lately, and next week will be all of the Welcome Week events. I may get a chance to post in the evenings then. I don't really know. My schedule has been pretty erratic and will continue to be for the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I don't have a new chapter of the Anderfic to tide you all over, either! I've been so busy, and so tired that I don't have the time or energy to come up with what will happen next, let alone write it down! But I do have a few things to say before running off to watch a biography on the Vanderbilt family which just happens to be coming on the Biography Channel tonight. I love that channel. Yesterday, they re-aired Salvador Dali, Jackson Pollock, Frida Khalo and Deigo Rivera (sp?), which are so infinitely interesting.

So. John Mark Karr has been cleared. Good for him? I guess. He'll be extradited to California for child pornography charges. He is so, so creepy. Maybe after this the media circus surrounding the case will finally pack up and go home. I, for one, am absolutely sick of hearing about it. It's also one of those cases that makes me wonder what it is exactly that makes a story like this one so huge. Just think about it. How many other children have been murdered in their homes, and the cases unsolved? We rarely hear about these cases, especially to the extent of the Ramsey case. So, what was it that made this one particularly special? The parents being suspects? The parents are probably suspect in many cases when a child in murdered. Was it wealth? How many children from a wealthy background are murdered, I wonder. Was it the fact that she was white? I'd really like to see the stats on murders reported in the news media vs. the ones that aren't and what the racial majority is in each case. Was it that fact that she was a beauty queen? Which is so strange and creepy that you really can't look away, much like a car accident. I think it's a combination of the three, wealth, colour and the beauty queen thing. Now, just so people don't go off saying I'm playing the 'race card,' I'd like to clarify that I'm white, and that from my own personal observation I've seen a lot of the cases reported extensively have mostly to do with people who are white. Just think about it. Think about the cases we here nothing about, and the ones you hear so much about it makes you want to vomit. Think about the reasons why.