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I love how smart this little girl is haha. She knows she needs to take care of business.

If you can remember back a few months, I had a root canal done on the bottom right tooth right next to my wisdom. At the time, the dentist only put a temporary filling in because he said I should get the wisdom pulled. Well, the filling finally fell out, so I went to a different dentist to try to get a permanent one. No go. He said I have to get the wisdom tooth pulled and get a crown on the one I had the root canal done on.

This poses a big problem for me. It’s going to be expensive. I’m estimating between $1500 – $2500 just to get everything over with. I’m probably going to have to borrow cash from my dad and pay him back over time. That should be amazingly fun.

So where do I go from here? As soon as I get my schedule for next week, I plan on calling up the oral surgeon to set up a consultation. After that, I’ll schedule the surgery and go with it. This guy uses a pill to sedate his patients instead of nitrous oxide. I’m a little nervous about that, but thinking about the cost of this all tends to preoccupy my mind well enough. I’m hoping he can, perhaps, pull the tooth and fit the other one for a cap at the same time.

Wish me luck guys and girls. I’m freaking out about this and really want to get it over with as soon as possible. My work schedule and the need to go buy a suit this weekend for my cousin’s wedding are simply making it difficult to squeeze everything in.

I don’t like movies that ask you to think too much. I’ve been a pretty generic movie viewer and I thought that was fine. That changed tonight.

I’m going to break tradition here and put my summation first: V for Vendetta is now my personal favorite movie. The ideology of the passion for truth and the lust for freedom, not for one self, but for one’s fellow man, permeates throughout this film and stirs the soul of anyone who has ever felt a shred of rebellion flow through their veins. Some label this film a rehash of old ideas. Surely, it is not a new idea to wish for something better. Our own country was founded on the belief of fighting against a tyranny designed to suppress the freedoms of thought and passion. That is what V does. It was the villain in “Batman Begins” that taught the important of theatrics. Where Batman uses theatrics, V encapsulates the idea and mesmerizes all who lay eyes upon him. It’s not his stylized finesse, though. No, it’s the words that captivate and move the being. Delivered with a ferocious pace and with an elegance found in few, the words are bound together by the truth that everyone, at one time or another, felt that same wave of passion encompass them. It is this idea that enables this film to quickly mean so much to the viewer. I watched it and I listened. She was right. V is all of us.

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It’s amazing how there is so much information out there for us to consume.

Today, with the horrific events that took place at Virginia Tech, this idea of complete access to information outside of what’d given to us by the major media outlets has really shone through. Let’s start with the coverage of the actual event. The best video footage we have of anything related to the shooting did not come from a camera crew. Instead, a student, who immigrated from the West Bank, stood close enough to police to capture video of them rushing a building as twenty seven shots were fired. Without him there, the chaos of the situation would have much less of a face value, so to speak.

Beyond that, though, and what really drove me to post this, is the fact that while news programs and websites do not have specific information about the event, people over at Neowin, both members of the VT student body and friends with those who are part of the college community, have a lot of information regarding the likely motivation. It seems to be that the shooter’s first victims, at the dormitory, were the RA (Residence Adviser) who told him to “Get the fuck out” [1] and then his ex-girlfriend. He then proceeded to the next building in search of his ex’s new boyfriend. [2] [3]

Now, I know, none of this is proven, just yet, but that information is already there and, unless you are a member of Neowin or Facebook, you’d probably have no idea. We’re always informed these days. With a phone or a keyboard, you can talk to someone who knows someone involved or, in this case, hear it from those directly affected or on the scene. [4] [5] [6] The world can seem so large, but it has become increasingly small. We always have access. We’re always informed.