Lonely

I have abandoned you.

Okay, I haven't. Its been a busy week.

I want to start a new personal project, something research-like in my own time. I don't know how much of that I will have; I have been very stressed out, lately, and completely cut off from CNN...I am lonely, and confused, and a little heartbroken. Hopefully tomorrow I will get in some Situation Room, and, of course, tonight is my second night of commentary on AnderCandor, so I'll have 360 in me too.

But, other than that, I haven't had a chance to read the paper, and I am in the dark about any recent developments Iran/Iraq/Israel-wise, which is all kinds of depressing. Plus, with Ford's death, all of yesterday's quality television was covering his life--it's not like it should have come as a shock...I mean, he was ninety-three. I'm not discrediting his awesomeness, I am just saying. Anyway, I am hoping to turn that around some how. Manage life, CNN, and things.

So, I want to start researching Islam on a much deeper level than I have. I am speaking religiously and culturally--which is more generally the region than the religion, but nevertheless, the cultural ties to Islam are well worth looking into. And, of course, since I would love for it all to end in a paper--I really would, is that sick?--I will be updating this continuously as things develop. However, I am not promising anything (to myself, basically, because I don't actually think you're reading), but I want it, so it's out there.

What I do know, as of now, as I said to a good friend: the main thing to remember is that, Islam isn't a unified religion. Sure, it preaches unity, but before the mass communication boom in the Seventies, every region and sect had their own particular way of practicing and their own definition of what it is to be Islamic. So, to say that the Islamic world is, firstly a civilization, but secondly a unified front with the same system is to be very misinformed indeed.

And that is all, for now....

All I Want is My CNN.