April Showers, Allergy Season, and Spring Break

While I should be working on writing a paper for my music history class, I just can't seem to get motivated, especially since it's due on Monday. I don't understand why professors do this to students, as I have no plans of assigning papers or homework on the weekends or vacation for the simple fact that most students aren't going to do it (unless they're highly dedicated or have no life). Still, can't get away from the reading, though (especially since for grad school you sometimes have to be able to read entire novels within a week). Unfortunately, allergies have also put my mind in a bit of a fog, coupled with this cold I'm coming down with just in time for Easter.

Weather also seems to have turned a 360, going from springlike back to winter overnight. Only our first rain of April, as after all, April showers bring May flowers, although it seems like out here in CA, it starts earlier thanks to climate change (although we maybe had only one 80 degree day, making it a normal spring). Kind of fitting considering the stuff that's been in the news. The biggest story was how they authorities found Sandra Cantu's body, bringing back memories of Polly Klass in 1992 (which hit home at the time because Polly was the same age as I was at the time). I don't understand why people do such things and hope they find this sick son-of-a-bitch that did this act to an innocent little girl. I would love nothing more than to see this child-killer dismembered, stuffed in a suitcase, and thrown into a canal just as he did to this child! I have ZERO compassion for people like that and I hope justice finds him swiftly and severely. It's no wonder parents have to micromanage their kids anymore because of these threats and perverts out there. Plus add the continuing rise of unemployment and mass killings and it's no wonder the news is unbearable to watch. But, there is hope out there considering the stock market is slowly turning around and the housing crisis seems to have settled a little bit. So, time will tell.