Holiday Fun

I can't wait until Christmas!!! I'm going to my dad's house in North Carolina, but that's not really what excites me. What excites me is my brothers flying there on the same day I'm flying there, and we'll spend Christmas there together like we used to. In fact, he arranged the flights so our connecting flight from BWI to Norfolk is the same! We're going to have a great time there, and I'm going to convince him to bring his Xbox so we can play some Call of Duty. I'm looking forward to the Thanksgiving Break, even though I'm sure I'll be busy the entire time and not get too much leisure time. Also, a week or so after Thanksgiving is my birthday, and I'm pretty excited for that.
On a different note, I'm in a great mood today!
On yet another different note, I was reading Ashleigh's research paper when I couldn't help but rebut to something in it. She claims "the U.S. is a country of change" and supports this with examples of civil rights changes. While I agree with the changes in civil rights and believe gays should have the same rights as everyone else, I disagree with the general statement that the U.S. is a country of change. I believe that the reason there has been so much change in the past few centuries is because we are still a young country and are working out the kinks. I think that civil rights for everyone were inevitable and just, but much change beyond those changes will be minuscule because there won't be much to change. The only things that will change will be our technology and economy, which, granted, will affect our government, but I also think that the government will simply sway back and forth around an average line. In other words, new bills and laws being introduced and laws going away will mirror each other and the big picture of our government system will not change.