zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

[intertribal]

I think I know where all my cynicism comes from.

I'm a Marxist, but I believe in Malthus too.

Which basically translates to life sucks and then you die.

God, I'm awesome.

Also, the mother of my first best friend from Indonesia has liver cancer.  The woman was one of my mother's good friends while we lived there; both Western women married to Indonesian men.  Apparently liver cancer is one of the particularly bad ones.  Ugh.  So of course I had to tell my mother (both because I felt I should, and because I needed to).  Ugh.