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Sunday, February 8, 2004 (6 comments)

I have always refrained from saying offensive things about Ed K on this site, but this is too much. I would like to comment on this post. This paragraph is about Science Club, of course:

I had 3 years of previous experience. I had 2 years of leadership experience and training. I genuinely loved the club. I missed 2-3 meetings because of an invitation to come to a Walton Governance Council meeting. The rest of the officers proceed to give me a letter(which has no validity), expelling me from my position.

I don't know why it matters that you had 3 years of previous experience. If you are unwilling or "unable" to apply your "experience," then it makes no difference whether you have 3 years or 30.

You missed more than 2-3 meetings and you were late (by late, I mean >30 minutes) for almost all of them, especially toward the end of the semester. Why weren't we told about your Walton Governance Council meetings when they occurred? You don't tell anyone until now? (Well, maybe I just didn't hear.) And if you love the club so much, why would you steal money from it?

The "rest of the officers," except maybe Dragos because he's nice, wanted to kick you by mid-or-late-September. What did you actually do for the club? You lied to me multiple times. For example, you said a week before WISC that you had speeches written out. Then on Saturday morning, alas, you do not have anything written out and were asking me what to talk to the teams about. The only other contribution to the club that you made was buying trophies and whisks (for which, if I heard Dutter correctly, you reimbursed yourself twice). Oh, and you "wrote" physics questions for WISC. Then I told you to actually write questions and you played stupid, as if I don't have access to past science bowl questions.

A leader with or without experience doesn't do these kind of things.

You also seemed to have forgotten that your title was supposed to be "Co-President," and instead, you just bossed everyone around. Am I right? Some of the officers were a little upset about this. Usually if you made a suggestion and I made an opposing suggestion, you simply refused to listen. It does sound harsh, but that's how it was. You seemed to have forgotten how you had acquired the position of "Co-President." I asked you last school year if you wanted to share the position with me, and you agreed. You know very well that I could have run for president either by myself or with someone else and beaten you by a landslide.

It's unfortunate that at the time I thought you would be a good leader. Your false initial impression had fooled me for a time. But don't you find it strange that as one gets to know you better, one generally likes you less? This is true for most people I talk to, anyways.

To non-orchestra people and to Ronjon, Paul, Ashley, Saumya, Leslie, agh there's too many: Thank you for letting me get to know you. You all gave my life a spice, a spark that carried me through the dark days of sacrifice. Only you could keep me awake in class.

Now in other parts of your post, you talk about people talking behind your back. But this paragraph above is just really bad. I've heard things you've said about Ronjon, both from the mouths of other people (whom I trust) and from your own mouth. I find it amusing how you say such complimentary things about people publicly, but privately it's pretty much the opposite.

Remember when you randomly inserted this into one of our AIM convos for no apparent reason?
Metldude2001: and i am no longer friends with RJ by the way

I did a bad job a few days ago of commenting about your Portis post. But that was more than made up for by your terrible excuse:

Metldude2001: i mean, any person who isnt an absolute drooling moron can tell when im being sarcastic or serious
icydog1: you were'nt sarcastic about prtis
[prtis = Mrs. Portis, AP Stat teacher whom he wrote some pretty insulting stuff about]
Metldude2001: sure i was
Metldude2001: its like a modest proposal
[read below, it's the baby-eating essay I was talking about]
Metldude2001: have you read it yet?
Metldude2001: i was trying to be as grotesque and immluminating as possible
icydog1: hmmm
Metldude2001: illuminating
icydog1: i don't think anyone saw it that way
Metldude2001: hehe
Metldude2001: maybe i shouldve made my allusions clearer
icydog1: while you're at it, your "life is good" sounds like pangloss
[Pangloss, the nutty professor who thinks everything is good, from Candide]
icydog1: is this an allusion too?
Metldude2001: hehe yeah
Metldude2001: very good

Yeah, I'm sure that everything Ed writes on his Xanga is an allusion to some great literary work. Maybe Jason can find what he's "alluding" to in each one of his Xanga paragraphs and inform him of why it's an inappropriately used allusion.

Ok. That was enough for today.

6:09PM

One of Jonathan Swift's most famous works is A Modest Proposal. It's one of the few pieces of literature not assigned by an English class that I've read. You guessed it, it was an AP Euro assignment. "But I digress." The subject of this work is that children are a burden and thus people should use babies as a food supply. Of course, it is a satire. But anyways, would anyone like to propose a theory of why we were not assigned this work, and instead assigned whatever we were assigned? Yes, you know what I'm driving at.

Well (to Dragos), it's not only the fact that I lost ten points that bothers me (but of course that makes me mad too), but it's also her insistence that she has been forced to do this by the school's/English department's rules. I told her that she and the department head were telling me different stories, but she still doesn't believe me. This makes me so mad that I want to kick her in the face. Well, I wouldn't want to do that. She could take me any day, with an arm tied behind her back. I take that back. You can't tie an arm behind her back. It's physically impossible.

Jason seems to have taken offense to my comment that all poems suck. It wasn't supposed to be a challenge. But I guess if you really want to write a bunch of poems, do entertain yourself, but I still hate poems. All that I ever do with poems relate to English assignments, and I dislike English assignments in general.

I'm not understanding A Description of a City Shower (italicize? double quotes? I forgot) at all, even though we went over it in class... this is another reason why I hate poems. Because I invariably suck at them!

1:13AM

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