Trying to stay awake

I'm at work, well at the office and I'm trying to stay awake. My work hours officially ended 20 minutes ago and now I'm biding time until my class starts at 8pm. Since I'm on crutches it's very difficult to go anywhere so I decided to stay in the office and do some homework etc.

Right now I feel like I could take a nap. I don't know why all of a sudden I'm so tired. School's been going on for few weeks now and I've been working 3 or 4 days a week. I get decent enough hours of sleep, usually at least 7 if not more but it seems like I had none last night, which I did. Weird. I'm having a cup of coffee from my awesome penguin thermos but it hasn't kicked in yet.

I'm surprised that not many people have asked/ commented on the school shooting yesterday. I think 2 people asked me about it yesterday and today my co-worker commented on it. Last year when the Jokela tragedy happened, people from left and right were telling me about it. Might also be because I was living in the dorm and had a Norwegian roommate. Obviously the newspapers there were running the story.

Reading the articles here about Kauhajoki are very misleading, as I'm sure a lot of the other articles about other places and happenings are. I have read them on Yahoo which gives the impression that everyone in Finland owns a gun and knows how to shoot and go hunting. As far as I know, none of my family members or friends own a gun. I don't have one. I've never been hunting and it's not something we do in my family/ circle of friends. The picture the articles give is that everyone has a hand gun and is carrying it with them all the time. Now I have a picture of wild west in my mind. That's not the Finland I know. That's not the people I know. I don't think hunting is something that you just pick up by yourself. You either need to have family traditions or know a person who hunts. I'm so clueless when it comes to hunting that I'm not even sure what exactly people can hunt in my neck of woods. Moose, yes. some birds, yes. ( Don't know the birds English name so we just call it a bird). We don't have bear or wolf problem so those are out. I think it's more of something that people in the east and north do, not in the south from where I am. That is not to say that the people living in eastern or northern Finland are more barbarians that we in the south are but the article was very generalized. There might be 5 million of us but it doesn't mean we're all alike.

I know there's a store that sells guns in my home town. I've never been there though. I don't know what the procedure is to buy a gun if there is one. I was told by my co-worker that apparently we can buy a gun at 15. If that's the truth then we need to do something about it. I've never even thought about buying one, I guess I've been lucky to have been living in areas where guns were not needed. I don't really know what to think of all this except that I'm disappointed that this is the picture that is given of Finland. It's a tragedy on it's own, what happened in Jokela and in Kauhajoki, but it's also not fun to open up your computer and see that when Finland is in news here, it's because of something like this. That's how I started my day yesterday and I was not happy about it. And no, this is not about me so please don't take it like that.

I'm not sure if any of that made any sense but I just needed to unload.

I went to see my advisor today because I need to apply for a final audit by Oct. 3rd. I'm not really sure how the whole school/ college system works here but I need to have a final audit to determine that I have enough credits to graduate and that those credits are from courses that are relevant to my major field of study. My advisor said I am on schedule and shouldn't have any problems. Obviously I will need to pass my courses for this and next semester and pass the comprehensive test in March but overall I'm on schedule to graduate next May. Then it's time to find a job. Ugh!