13th March 2004, 9:58 PM
Wait a sec, just realized something. Was it St Patrick's day today? Not a single person while I was out was celebrating it in any way shape or form nor were there any decorations. Oklahoma barely acknowledges it's existance, and there's a lot of people of Irish decent here. Of course, not a single one of them can actually TRACE themselves that far back. Family trees aren't a hobby for people here. They can trace their histories as far back as the oldest people in their family they've ACTUALLY met, and that's it. Myself included. This might be part of the whole mindset people here have towards life in general. With no grand story of arrival, they just ARE, so what's the big deal?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)