VIET

Was studying halfway before I got distracted and watched an episode of Criminal Minds. And reading a very very very long article about the Vietnam War.

Read through all 3 US presidents trying to control the army situation and was almost half way through it before I got distracted again.

Watched a silent (either that or I didn't know how to work the sound button) video where the US army captured a whole village of suspected Viet Cong soldiers, pestered my dad to tell me more about the war before reading a chapter of Nam - The Vietnam War In The Words Of The Men And Women Who Fought There. Got distracted for the Nth time and typed this out before heading back to finish the article.

I don't even remember I bought the book. Think I read through 3 odd chapters before giving up because it was soooo content heavy, albeit a little less than the Perfect Hostage by Justin Wintle. That book had like 15 chapters dedicated to the geographical and political history of Myanmar and it was backdated to something like 325 B.C please. Spent a massive amount of time plowing through that book and I only got to the point where they were talking about Aung San, who is Aung San Suu Kyi's FATHER. The woman's face is on the cover of the book! You would think they would have 15 chapters dedicated to her instead.

Wow I can even get distracted while typing.

Back to finishing the article and hopefully not get distracted anymore. I was studying management accounting, you know. How in the world.

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Caught a few episodes of The L Word and came across this quote.

"The Greek word, eros, denotes want, lack. The desire for that which is missing. The lover wants what it does not have. It is by definition, impossible for him to have what he wants, for as soon as it is had, it is no longer wanted..."

Did some light reading about Eros and I really like Plato's take on the word.

"Even when it seems to give, eros continues to be a "desire to possess", but nevertheless, it is different from a purely sensual love in being the love that tends towards the sublime."

It may seem kinda lame here but I am reciting it all in a very heavy and sexy, french accented English in my mind. Marina can say anything and it would sound desirable. I bet she could make celery sound desirable. "Celerrrry." Bam.