Regularity
I am incapable of writing a daily summary of my activities. I don' t normally do this in real life, and will not be doing so here. Why the explanation?
A person, who shall remain nameless, informed me that my blog was not really a blog. Uh, excuse me? I don't know what it is, but it's mine. So therefore I (and let me emphasize that) I get to decide the content of my site. If you don't like it. Don't read it. And find something more productive to do with your time.
People.
And besides, I know you're not interested in hearing about my cramps. But you've just seen my crabbiness. Aren't you the lucky one? ;)
Anyhoo. Watching the news today I realized that few, if any, places exist in the world anymore that are safe. Safe being defined as,"Secure from danger, harm, or evil."
Part of the decision to head to Finland centered around the belief that no harm could conceivably happen 'up there'. As Tarja put it," We're too far away from anything important and no one remembers we're over here."
And so I ended up in Finland. In the 2nd largest city.
In the time I've been here the following events have transpired:
... Car bombing on a major street in Helsinki (as soon as I arrived)
... Shooting in Mikkeli townsquare (where I studied). (On the night we drove into town, but were too pooped from our trip to socialize.)
... Two children (ages 16 & 17) were sentenced for planning and executing the murder of their employers (resellers of stolen goods, but still)
... Attempted robbery in Turku with machine guns. (men still at large)
The last one happened yesterday. Granted, we don't normally go to that shopping center. Point being, safe is a relative concept.
posted by irene @ 8/06/2002 05:00:00 AM
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