Just reading the newspaper this morning, and realizing how much trouble America is in.  Does anyone even disagree anymore - whether we are liberal, conservative, or whatever, it seems like we can all agree that things are getting worse and don’t look to be getting better anytime soon.

So my question for the WEF minions is this - at root, why are things going so wrong with America (and with the world).  I mean not only politically, not only economically, but also socially and culturally.  The whole deal.  If you can isolate one thing, what is it?  My answer is in the comments.

I broke up with Kelly. Mayhem has ensued as he informed me that the only reason he isn’t committing suicide is because his parents couldn’t afford a funeral. Needless to say, the likelihood of our relationship being even somewhat civil next year is pretty low. With Kelly out of the picture, my circle of friends is a small, small affair.

Katie and I are close but her family lives in town, so, even though we’ll be roommates, I won’t necessarily see her that often. I’ve already begun, through facebook, to send out probing friendship tendrils. I have an acquaintence from freshmen year picking me up from the airport and I have another acquaintence from last year who has invited me to meet some of his townie friends, based on the theory that no one sane can survive only Johnny friendships. So, there’s hope there.

But I find my thoughts returning to Annapolis. At this point I have a group of four people I would know over there and I like them all quite well. Further, I’ve always sort of wanted to transfer to Annapolis and the ties holding me to Santa Fe at this moment are pretty soft. But transferring would mean that I would have a new set of tutors and students to deal with, which would affect me academically. Further, since we have to write our senior essays next year, it would be difficult for me to find a tutor to be my advisor. And at our senior paper orals there is a panel of four tutors; in Santa Fe I have a good chance of knowing them…in Annapolis, not so much.

Any advice? I can’t seem to see this picture clearly enough to make an intelligent decision. Of course, even if I decided Annapolis, it would take quite some finangling to transfer so late…thoughts?