It usually takes me...

[akujunkan]

...about 15 minutes to get home from the Korean Embassy. Last night, it took over double that, due to the massive police blockade and the seven or eight trucks laying down cement barriers in the road.

Incidentally, all of this was taking place in front of the Naval Observatory, where Homeland Second in Command Cheney lives.

Oh dear, I thought. I wonder if he's had a medical emergency.

Nope. Turns out they were barricading the road in preparation for the Pope's visit, which begins today.

Which also means that I'm going to have to find another way home, as I understand the streets will be impassible.

Ah, ::cough cough:: Christ.

That will be all.

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If you happen to see the Pope could you...

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

Could you please ask him HOW in the F*ing world catholics are the only assholes that think slavery is slavery *only* when people are chained and half naked? WHY a cardinal (a high ranking catholic priest) DOESN'T want to admit that people forced, by debt, to work their whole life, with no chance of education and health IS/MUST BE considered slavery?
YEsterday my faith in catholic priests was crushed... but I am happy I FINALLY realised this.
/end of rant
BTW your post about the mouse was SO cute I died XD

Re: If you happen to see the Pope could you...

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Are you refering to this (http://www.alternet.org/story/82478/), perhaps, or is there another facet to this story of which I'm unaware? Unfortunately, if you're being more general, I think there are lots of governments that would adhere to the line you described above. (I just finished a unit on labor trafficking in Malaysia yesterday and that is something that will give me nightmares for weeks to come; what's worse is that I know Malaysia can hardly be the only country where this shit goes on.)

Haha, glad you liked the MOUSE post. We are still locked in combat, btw. It knocked my soap into the sink drain in the kitchen last night, just because it knew I was listening and would hear the big scary BUMP!

Re: If you happen to see the Pope could you...

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, no.
And after reading that, I think that my resolve to distance myself from catholicism (without stopping my faith in God, Jesus and Maria) was a good thing.
My dad was right, I am sad... why are we still catholic, dad?
I am going to post the whole article (the one from my country) so you can rage with me.
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That mouse is using tactics... you must use them, too. Like go around and sing "I am going to have a pet, a CAT pet" then start watching "chi's sweet home" and if that doesn't work rub some cloth on a cat and put it on a place where the mouse goes... it will give him nightmares.