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One thing I look forward to since 2001 is Shakespeare in the park. My friend Tonye introduced me to it and I've been hooked ever since. She is letting me know today if we got tickets to see Hamlet. I'm going to try and sneak in my video camera. I don't think you're allowed pictures or videotaping. I wanted to see my favorite Shakespearean play "A midsummer nights dream" last year but there was an accident on the train and I missed it. So far, by far "Two gentlemen from Verona" was the best because it was a musical. I was blown away and hope they do it again pretty soon. It starred Rosario Dawson, during the time she was doing "Rent". I had great seats.

The one thing I love about summertime in New York is you can attend great free events. I plan on spending most of my summer outside this year. I will be going to concerts, fairs, festivals and anything popping out doors...I will try to be there. I also plan on hitting the beach, pool and whatever. So that is why the 5 pounds or less weight lost. I know I don't need to lose weight. I just want to tighten up. I thank God that I'm not weight conscious and never felt the desperate need to be a size zero. I don't diet and have no desire to. I want to take fencing and dance classes as soon as I get myself together. Other than taking classes that will keep me in shape, I don't feel the need to do anything else to change my weight. I want to include more fruits and vegetables in my diet, but that is more to improve my skin and insides. I like having a few curves. Bigger boobs will be nice but I'll survive. There is one thing that I have that everyone wants, but I'm like whatever. I wish I had a smaller ass. I know people are shaking their heads, like "Are you crazy?!" especially the guys. Yeah, I want a smaller ass.

How did this get from talking about Shakespeare to talking about asses? It reminds me of this crazy guy on the 2 train who used to come in. People would think he was about to preach, than he would say in a Caribbean accent "Men, stop lusting after women's butts. And women stop wearing tight  clothes that make men lust after your butts." He would say this every time I saw him.  People would be telling him to shut up. I would be cracking up  because he reminds me of the perverted men I would meet in church. They would be preaching with one eye closed and the other would be roaming. "shudders". I don't want to even think about it.

Oh that reminds me of another thing that happened . Yesterday, I made the mistake of wearing a mini skirt to a Muslim mosque.  I know, that was disrespectful. I  didn't think about it that way until one of my co-worker almost had a heart attack. He had me laughing with the stories he was telling me. I will share one. I plan to make them into skits. He was telling me how in Africa, while in school. The girls used to dress provocative. So one day a girl was sitting in the front and the professor was teaching. The Professor got excited and kneeled down behind his desk and refused to move. The students were trying to get him to come help them with problems because they knew what was going on...but he refused to  get up from the floor where he was kneeling behind his desk. I almost felt bad for men and their weak will power.

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Take control of your mind and meditate
Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)
It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality
Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity

I felt the need to write these lyrics from The black eye peas because I feel that my generation is going crazy. We are becoming mentally unstable and it bothers me. It saddens me, it makes me cry. We are all so desperate for love, that we are looking everywhere for it. We are willing to take it from anywhere we can get it. Whether from strangers or people who say the right things at the right time. A person just gives a little bit of attention and we want to give them our body and soul. "Where is the love!!!?". Someone please tell me where the love is because this is not love. That is not love. So if this is not love, than where is the love? My generation lack love...because the past generation has failed to teach us. The sad and scary thing is, you can't teach what you don't know. So when did the love leave...and is it gone forever? Are we going to live our lives like zombies, deceived and force fed an artificial kind of love? A love that makes you lose your mind and all sense of reasoning? Who told you that was love? Who told you it was okay to love that way? Who? You tell me, what do you know about love?

Tell me brothers and sisters...lovers and friends...what do you know about love?

You don't know shit about love and it's okay to cry about it.