8 more days

and today was the last day of classes. with the exception of a few more papers and a final i'm officially done. fuck ya. so random fact for the day: i got electrocuted this morning. it wasn't that bad actually. it happened when i plugged something in that i couldn't see - sad part: this has happened before. you would think i'd learn... i grab onto the metal part like an idiot and then get zapped all the way up my arm. it was kind of tingly for a little. ha. but on a slightly related note, i was reading this article about botched executions. apparently a lot of volunteer medic types administer injections, but a lot of the time they aren't really qualified to do so - i.e. they have been sued for medical malpractice several times over - meaning, that it takes these people upwards of an hour to die. people against the death penalty are calling to have information on these executioners made public so that they can avoid these types of errors - for obvious reasons, pro-death penalty people don't want this to happen so these people don't get death threats or whatever. ironically. and the thing is, that if these identities were revealed, doctors wouldn't really be able to take part anyway because it violates a bunch of medical statutes, not to mention the hippocratic oath. obviously. i've never seen the point in the death penalty anyway, and i think it's one of the most hypocritical, fucked up things this society allows. yeah, you can give me the whole, "well it serves those bastards right" schpeel, but if you want to look at it that way, the death penalty is the easy way out. sometimes it's better to die then have to live in jail for the rest of your life as some giant dude's prison wife. and then people always pose that hypothetical situation to me: well what if someone killed a person you loved? what then? yeah, i'd want to kill them. i'd definitely want to. but the judicial system should not let emotions factor into legislation. what does society get out of the death penalty? i don't think it scares people away from comitting crimes. moreover, it's sentenced in a very arbitrary manner, violating the whole notion of equal protection under the law, my friends. and think about the countless individuals that have been wrongly executed. that sickens me. and finally, the almost humorous part of this article was when this pro-death penalty chum says of people who call for these background checks: "the law should come down hard on anyone who uses someone's legal profession to raise harm against them. it should be a hate crime." there are so many things wrong with that statement. make some unreasonable accusation, but then attribute a level of severity to this "crime" that ties these people to some of the dregs of society? come on. and i suppose that you're some good sameritan because you support murdering people, even if they are killers? (only perpetuating the heinous acts you're fighting so hard against.) what the fuck? the death penalty is cruel and unusual, debases human life, and sets a horrible example, given the main crime it's trying to punish. it's so counter-intuitive. i'm starting to get ticked just thinking about this.

anyways, take home point - 8 more days til i fly back to the motherland.