Zhanga: October 2004
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Sunday, October 31, 2004 (1 comment)
My mom dragged me out of bed at 9:30 today. How lame is that? I will be so dead tomorrow. But who cares... Tuesday will be deathwork day, and tonight will just be massive datasheeting.
Math tournaments are always good, especially when you have to get up early for them on Saturday mornings. I guess the chance to talk to Marie for a while after so long makes up for that. She told me I won something, which is spectacular because no one (not even Hausdorf, which I can't spell) stayed to listen to awards or collect trophies or anything.
Today was rather uneventful, other than going to the mall, spending way too much money, and then my mom get really mad at me over uselessness.
Gene's forcing me to write stuff but I have nothing nothing nothing to write. Except really useless stuff...
Warning: g33k sp33k follows...
I have decided that Longhorn will be banned (just like Barron's science books) from this house. This is the only new thing I noticed in Control Panel:
Longhorn looks a lot like XP for Newbies. Some of the new things I noticed make using the computer easier if you are completely clueless, but if you're old-school and liked Windows 3.x, then Longhorn seems absolutely worthless. Also, it ate over 400 MB of RAM on the first boot. Compare to Windows 2000 at about 45 MB and Windows XP at maybe 60 MB.
There is a "Windows File System" service which eats over 90 MB of memory by itself. Interesting how Microsoft has managed to eat memory out of nowhere. This service didn't even exist on 2K/XP.
Warning: more geeky stuff...
I've always liked WinZip, but I decided to give WinRAR a try a few days ago. To my surprise, I found that my 250 MB Zip file became a 96 MB RAR file. Typically the results aren't that good though, and the RAR is usually only about 15% smaller. But that's still a whole lot. The only problem is that RAR compressing/decompressing is a lot slower.
11:43PM
Saturday, October 30, 2004 (5 comments)
I have come to a sad realization.
My sister is better than me at everything except calculus.
Sigh.
12:14AM
Friday, October 29, 2004 (3 comments)
So I had a random funny dream last night while I supposed to be reading that book. I wasn't going to post this, but Ronjon demanded that I do, so I will. So let me summarize the dream:
- I forgot the beginning.
- I'm going out with Kristen. (?!)
- Ronjon completely flips.
- Gene flips too, and says something like, "I thought I was next!"
I woke up immediately after this, laughing really hard. Then instead of reading Song of Solomon some more, I fell asleep again.
The cow costumes were fun. It was a little hot inside that thing, though. Everyone had fun with the utters... haha
Tomorrow is the math tournament. My mom's going to drive Marie there, too. Talking about the past three years of our lives is going to make for a fun little car trip.
Life was actually fun three years ago. Minus the fact that my dad was not too great to me, life was perfect compared to what it is now. Wasn't it great to whine about actually having six minutes of homework in a single night? What a ridiculous amount of work.
9:41PM
Can you say... government essay?
I've tried to read Song of Solomon every afternoon (except Monday) this week. So far, I've fallen asleep every afternoon and then looked up to find that it's 11:30. Then I end up staying awake way too late because I have loads of other homework.
Since I hate government essays I'll tell a story. Yesterday morning, we were in Barnesville or whatever you call it (where Gordon College is), and we went to McDonalds. So I ordered a chicken sandwich meal or something, and they asked me what drink I wanted. So I said tea. Then they charged me $1 more than the listed price, so you can guess what I did. Apparently the "drink" can only be coffee, so I said I don't want the drink. I paid the lady with a $5 bill, which she held on to. She then made me wait about 20 minutes, until everyone else had ordered.
Then she handed me 3 dollar bills and some coins. I just assumed that the other dollar and something would give me the meal minus a drink. Well, I waited and waited. I waited a few more minutes, during which time no one else was in line. She just stood there looking like a buffoon. Eventually, she asked, "What are you waiting for?" My food, you useless dolt! Then she got angry and told me she gave me a refund. So I got angry back at her and told her that $3.something refund for a $5 bill was not going to cut it. She argued with me for another few minutes. She even tried telling her coworker that I paid in exact change. Yes, that's really possible, considering that the only bills I had were $5 bills and the only coins I had were quarters.
Eventually I got my money back after threatening to blow her brains out with an electric flyswatter (well maybe I made up that part), and then I bought a $1 sandwich. Yujing asked me what was going on, and I mumbled, "Aaauugghh she's sooooo stupid!" She was already pretty angry by this point, and after hearing that, she shot back a loud "I am not stupid!"
I favor the complete extermination of annoying idiots. (umm except Ronjon I guess)
And I still have to do the econ card... AHHHH
Speaking of econ, here's Murphy's Law again. I've made a pretty large chunk in the stock simulation thing so far. Now, one of two things can occur (obviously): he can give bonus points or he can not give bonus points. If he gives bonus points, my stocks will swiftly and magically plummet at least enough to put me in the red and possibly give me the incredible embarrassment of losing more than the initial investment. If he does not give bonus points, however, then my stocks will continue growing. Rather than growing at a decent rate, they will most likely shoot ridiculously high and make me jump up and down in anger while whining about how making $4 million out of $100,000 doesn't get bonus points.
Also, let me make it clear that I'm not distributing any copies of Maple, so don't bother to ask for one.
3:57AM
Thursday, October 28, 2004 (3 comments)
Yesterday in bio, Greenberg passed out a fruit fly manual. It gave lots of information about fruit flies, like their life cycle and some of their characteristics. In the table of contents, there was a heading called "Sexing." Just about everyone laughed, but of course CiCi had the most fun with that one. After flipping to that page, you can read in the manual about how to sex fruit flies. An interesting subtitle in that section was "Sexing Pupae."
Today was the Gordon College Academic Contest. According to Ms. Martin, the only reason we go is because we win every year. Sure enough, we owned this year just as we have in the past. Six of the ten seats on the College Bowl thing were occupied by Walton.
Pat and I had lots and lots of fun with programming. It's an hour-long event where they give you objectives for three programs, and you have to code it. Well, neither of us have used their gay MS Visual Studio .NET or whatever the heck you call it, so we were totally stumped by the interface. For 25 of the 60 minutes, we tried to find the compile button. (If you don't get it, this essentially means we have no way of running/testing our programs.)
After 25 minutes, we decided that it was more more advantageous to lose face by asking how to compile than to lose life by losing the competition and then being killed by the Walton crew. The computer science contest had a total of five contestants working on three teams. It would be ridiculous to not win this one, especially considering the first program. The assignment was to output our school name. That requires... one whole line of code.
Oh, and there was this really funny guy. He was holding a book called Visual Basic 6, and before the competition, he was telling Bobby how he got second place last year and would win this year. Of course, I was amused... he looked like a total stoner. A few minutes later, people were going to their events. Pat and I were next to him, so we started talking about how we were the programmers who made Counterstrike and some of its mods. That's how awesome we are at programming. (Ummm.. I wish.) Bobby then went on a funny tangent about Jay Sun.
After the five contestants went into the lab, this guy started talking about his second place finish again. I just looked at Pat and silently laughed again. Everything was made good in the end when he finished dead last.
I'll finish today with a picture of Ronjon and me at White Castle. Is he freaking gay or what?
The spotlight is a digital one. Now how ownage is that?
6:33PM
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 (5 comments)
Funny how I came home one day and found a noticed for a bounced check for over $21,000. I wondered what on earth my mom was thinking. Not long afterwards, my mom noticed that the utility bill demanded payment. She had put way too many zeroes on the check. That is totally something I'm going to be doing in the future. It's a good thing that check did bounce, or else... wow that would suck.
My sister was being weird the other day:
Her: "When you grow up, are you going to smoke?"
Me: "Nooooooooooooo."
Her: "Why not?"
I obviously need to isolate her completely from society now by locking her in a closet and never letting her watch TV or talk to her friends ever again.
You know, no matter how hard I try to sound sarcastic, someone is going to think I'm serious about that.
They're doing the drugs and alcohol program at Timber Ridge this week (and maybe more, I don't know). My mom actually managed to brainwash my sister so thoroughly that she said she wouldn't eat any more chocolate or drink any more soda. Major props to my mom for achieving that. I wonder if my sister will soon do the Falun Gong thing and never eat any more medicine, either.
So far, every time attempt I've made to read Song of Solomon has been a failure and has resulted in my being asleep before finishing 10 pages. Today, I am not going to let this happen. I'm going to go drink a liter of Coke if I have to.
7:09PM
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 (4 comments)
Yesterday was weird. I sat down on the couch at around 7:30, hoping to read Song of Solomon. Instead, my sister began playing the piano, and I kind of entered a dream world with really beautiful piano playing. The last thing I remember was thinking, "Wow, she's really good at this." That semi-conscious state, when I knew I was dreaming but didn't wake up, was weeeeeeird.
I fell completely asleep before my sister stopped, and then I woke up at 11:30 in a panic. But I did manage to get a total of like 8 hours last night, which was good.
Why does econ suck so much butt? I'm doing worse and worse in that class. I guess this could be due to the fact that I sleep more minutes in econ than there are in a class period. He really needs to be less boring though. I just can't help it.
Would someone like to tell me what stocks I need to buy? Apparently we can't stick with the same stocks all year, so we actually have to sell... are we supposed to learn something from this? Because I'm just buying stuff blindly.
I give up on Camp. I sent her an email detailing step-by-step (with screenshots!) how to use FTP. Then today when she was talking to me, she asked, "So how do I get the files to you? Can I email them?" She obviously missed the entire point of File Transfer Protocol - transferring files...
Why is she so USELESS? The fact that she can suck so much frustrates me.
9:49PM
Monday, October 25, 2004 (3 comments)
Take a look at the time. Now take a look at the time of this post. Can someone tell me how I'm seeing my grade 5 hours in the future?
Dutter wants to do WISC, and I really don't. There goes my sleep for the next two weeks, and I'm not kidding at all. If I have to stay up writing questions and putting them together and doing other stuff related to WISC... I'm going to jump. Like that insurance guy.
Last night was a failure. I did manage to get a lot done, but geez I should have slept so much earlier. I will make it a point to sleep at least 7 hours tonight.
Oh, I just remembered I have to set up the apes.servebeer.com site. There goes the sleeping idea. She gave me this completely blank look when I said "Do you want FTP access?" Great. How does she expect to update the site?
It seems like as soon as I think of APES today, I suddenly have more to write. So we were totaling a bunch of stuff and calculating averages. I gave her the sum/total for set 1, then said' "The mean is...." She write it down hesitatingly and asked me if this was relevant. At first, I didn't understand her question. Then she asked me for the average (after being told the mean) and everything became clear.
If anyone sends her to my site, I have stupididiotface detectors installed on this site and I'll come neutralize your house with 6M NaOH. So don't do it.
11:34PM
Sunday, October 24, 2004 (3 comments)
I got back like two hours ago. If Edelstein drove, we would still be on the van. The sad part is that I'm not kidding at all.
We placed 3rd at Vanderbilt after somehow losing to Dorman in the semifinals. Guess what? We lost on a protest. At least this time, it was a legitimate protest instead of complete crap.
The only other thing that matters during the tournament was the second playoff round. That was the one playoff round I didn't play in, so obviously I fell asleep. I was awakened around question 13 by lots of laughter plus a SAG slapping my back. Apparently there was an Evanescence question and Patrick got it. Why did I have to sit out during the most awesome question ever!?!? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
That's about all you have to know about the tournament. Nothing else was important.
Well, we did destroy Dunbar in frisbee. After pounding them like 9-3 while outnumbered by the Dunbarmy, we noticed that half their team suddenly migrated away. The pounding became more intense after that because for once, we actually had more players than they did.
Stereotypes are great:
NyCbased989: man i met a hot azn gurl today
NyCbased989: at a party
icydog1: sweet
NyCbased989: a serious hott azn gurl
icydog1: was she chinese?
NyCbased989: she had red highlights in her hair
icydog1: korean?
NyCbased989: does that mean she's krn?
icydog1: lol
I'm still wondering about this one. If she's hot, she has to be Chinese. But she also has rigged hair... hmmm......
3:27AM
Friday, October 22, 2004 (0 comments)
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."
Now that is one A-Bowl question I will never forget. I guess obnoxious flashing scrolling Bible text on Xangas (aka Eva) is good for something after all.
I love how College Board's server decides to die the day that scores come out. This makes me very happy.
I could have been asleep by 11 if the stupid site didn't die... ahhh!
2:24AM
Thursday, October 21, 2004 (5 comments)
I like this statistic, found in the Raider Review or whatever you call that newsletter:
Teens under 15 who have ever consumed alcohol are twice as likely to have sex as those who have not.
So... if someone drinks while under the age of 15, that person will be twice as likely to have sex later in life? What an incentive to not drink! I also like the implication of causation.
[Edit: guess I didn't make this sound sarcastic enough. The reason I picked that statistic is that it is STUPID.]
Today was a pretty good day, but only because I ate a bunch of Snoddy's food. I've been soooo sleepy this entire week even though I've slept more this week than most weeks (which is like three times more sleep than I got in any week last year). I was so dead in homeroom that I slept past the bell and only realized what happened after some random teacher told me to go to class. I don't know who that was. A bunch of chompies were laughing at me too. I thought it was pretty funny myself.
After putting some of Snoddy's chips on a plate, I headed to fifth period lunch. Some girl walked up to me in the hallway and asked for a chip, so I held out my plate and let her have one. For some reason, she grabbed one and started laughing at me with her friend. Why do these people exist? It disgusts me. I let you have a chip, so you laugh at me? Wait till I set Bill loose on you.
Tomorrow is Vandy. This better be good.
In other news... I got a 50 on an econ quiz. Wow, I suck.
8:28PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 (1 comment)
Best error message EVER...
Reason: Runaway CGI program, killed after exceeding execution time limit.
Think about it. Now think about it again, replacing "execution" with the "put to death" definition. That is totally the funniest sentence ever.
I heard that I made an awesome face in zero period today when Overstreet talked about the uselessness of science. Just as with the Karie Haglund incident last year, I didn't realize at all that I made any kind of face. Oh well. It must have been funny.
Just to confirm that I am as boring as I have always been... here I go:
Have you ever...
- Been drunk: no
- smoked pot: every day
- kissed a member of the opposite sex: yes
- kissed a member of the same sex: not unless I was so drunk I don't remember
- Rode in a taxi: duh
- been dumped: =(
- shoplifted: I haven't stolen anything since high school.. but let's forget about middle school, ok?
- been fired: not yet
- been in a fist fight: lol (yes)
- snuck out of your house: seldom
- been arrested: close enough
- made out with a stranger:who does this remind me of.
- stole something from your job: no
- celebrated new years in times square: I wish
- went on a blind date: No, and if you need a Chinaman to tell you that you switched went and gone, then you really suck.
- lied to a friend: I'm pretty sure we all have
- had a crush on the teacher: lol this is retarded
- celebrated madi gras in NO: no
- been to Europe: no
- skipped school: of course not... lol yes, I have
- thrown up from drinking: I drink lots and lots all the time.
- lost a sibling:I better not...
- played clue:Probably, but I don't remember
- had a sleepover: of course
- went ice skating: yes
- cheated on a bf/gf: sounds like my kind of thing to do (kidding...)
- been cheated on: sounds like something that may cause a loss of life (and not mine)
- had a sweet 16: no
- had a quinceanera:huh?
- had a car: yeah
- drove: Well, we all know what happened to that.
Do you..
- have a bf: ...
- have a gf: no
- have a crush: maybe
- feel loved: NO!
- feel lonely: sometimes
- feel happy: the rest of the time
- hate yourself: occasionally
- think your attractive: =(
- have a dog: my sister?
- have your own room: no my parents can only afford one room in the house...
- listen to rap: eww
- listen to rock: yeah
- listen to soul: no
- listen to techno: YES!
- listen to reggae: no
- paint your nails: lol NO
- have more than 1 best friend: that's impossible by definition
- play an instrument: used to play piano
- have slippers: yeah
- wear black eyeliner: no... these questions are lame
- like the color blue: yeah
- like the color yellow: kinda
- like to read: depends... I don't like reading The Awakening
- like to write: yeah if it's about how much I hate people
- have long hair: no
- have a cellphone: yeah
- have a laptop: I am SO getting one before college
- have a pager: no
Are you..
- ugly: I wouldn't go that far...
- pretty: no
- sexy: duhhh
- ok: huh?
- bored: yeah, I never have homework and/or distracting person(s) to occupy me
- happy: See above ("the rest of the time").
- bilingual: if I can count as knowing Chinese, then yeah
- white: yellow
- black: yellow
- Mexican: yellow
- asian: YELLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- short: of course not, I'm really tall
- medium: see above
- tall: see above
- sick: carsick.. Drew took me home (I'm not kidding)
- naughty: lol
- lazy: never!
- single: yup
- taken: no
- looking: maybe
- talking to someone: just finished talking to my sister
- IMing someone: Gene
- scared to die: I'm not sure
- tired: always
- sleepy: I'm a little more awake now than during econ, but of course I'm sleepy.
- annoyed: not at the moment
- hungry: yumm
- thirsty: Lilly gave me good orange juice, and I drank a liter of Coke, so I'm not terribly thirsty right now.
- on the phone: no
- in your room: this is basically my room
- drinking something: saliva
- eating something: my tongue
- in your PJs: no
- ticklish: Of course not! Don't ever try to tickle me because you know it won't work.
- listening to music: Everytime (Above & Beyond)
5:56PM
Monday, October 18, 2004 (7 comments)
Dragos: Though I love the definition, for some reason I don't think she meant that... anyways, I tend to just hear "liver" every time she says a funny word now.
KT: SET DAVID FREE Day will happen... never. Because whores will always whore me, and there's too many whores to whore back.
And in other news, I was at Marie's house for a little while two days ago, and she was doing AP Chem when I showed up. So I sat down with her and tried ONE problem for 15 minutes. It was the most massive failure of a chemistry problem ever. Is it possible for me to embarrass myself any further? I didn't even know where to start. It was ridiculous.
10:30PM
YES! Pat owns! He definitely owned that question (the walkie-talkie one).
Is it just this year, or has she always said "heterozygote"? THREE times today! I love Ms. Greenberg. My sister asked me, "What's a liver?" The first thing I thought of was "enzyme." That class is frying my brain.
I think today may be the boringest entry on record. Ever.
8:42PM
Saturday, October 16, 2004 (4 comments)
Just back from Waffle House and Starbucks. I was thirsty from two hours of frisbee, so I got some tea with refills. Charles drank half of the first glass, then I finished that. She got Dave and me refills, and accidentally got Dave Coke instead of his tea. She handed me my tea, which she filled correctly, and I drank it before she was done switching Dave's glass. She looked at me and gave me this really awful look, like "you KNOW you aren't supposed to do that!" She didn't refill me after the fourth glass... but I was still thirsty!
So then um, Ai gave me something that I'm supposed to talk about but it's way too gay to write about. So I'll let her do that for me.
My sister checked this out from the library. Does she own or what?
11:37PM
7:01PM
Question: 37
You are the network administrator for a toy company. One day, during a slow period, you decide to play with the walkie-talkies with your friend. Which of the following best describes the type of transmission used during your walkie-talkie conversations?
(a) Your walkie-talkie conversations are an example of half-duplex transmission.
(b) Your walkie-talkie conversations are an example of full-duplex transmission.
(c) Your walkie-talkie conversations are an example of three-quarter duplex transmission.
(d) Your walkie-talkie conversations are a sign of a much deeper problem relating to an unfulfilled
childhood.
I love it when multiple-choice test makers run out of choices because there are only two possible answers (half- and full-duplex, in this case).
1:00AM
Thursday, October 14, 2004 (5 comments)
Edit: I forgot to mention that my alarm consisted of a really loud and obnoxious song lasting for 3m 39s.
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I love really lame days like yesterday. That lit essay killed me. 
After getting home from High Q at around 10:20, I began working on my application, some econ homework, and then the essay. At around 3:40, I became so sleepy that I just could not finish my essay. So I set my alarm for 5:00 AM so that I could wake up in time to finish writing. I turned my speakers up pretty loud, and by pretty loud I mean really loud. If you've seen my speakers, you know what I'm talking about. If not, they appear here surrounding a 36" TV and its stand. (Not coincidentally, our house also features the TV and stand.) The front speakers are almost as tall as me.
So I slept with my head about a foot from the subwoofer (bottom) of the front right speaker.
I woke up at 6:40 AM, 100 minutes too late. My first reaction was to get very angry at my computer for not functioning properly. Ten minutes later, my mom showed up and told me that something sounded like an earthquake at around 5. Remember that she sleeps two floors up, and not only that, but also across the house in the opposite corner.
She didn't even bother to try to wake me up when my own devices were obviously failing me. Useless.
I opened the grades site and found that I now have a 75 in econ. Ummmm..... great. Whatever. It'll go up.
I think I forgot to mention to all the un1337s that the icon in the top left says "I <3 Firefox." The 我 is Chinese for I or me. Actually, I'm pretty sure everyone has figured this out already. Except Ronjon. This is mostly for him.
It seems like I'm always out of things to say. I had loads last year. Oh well.
6:58PM
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 (6 comments)
Ok, Gene. New post just for you. Geez, you're almost as demanding as someone else I know.
Let's see, what happened today...
Well, there was a bio test this morning. I did very poorly because I keep falling asleep in that class and telling myself that I'll read the book. Well, I tried reading the book last night and fell asleep after two pages. That got me approximately through G1. I didn't even get started on meiosis, and only kind of touched on mitosis. Great. I look forward to failing that.
Ah, I just checked my grades. The bio test isn't out, but I got a 40 on my calculus homework and that slaughtered my grade.
Bill's being funny again. Note the abrupt transition from GA Tech to endoskeet here... soooo random:
ChinkBoi101: pretty good for a school in the south
icydog1: they would not have accepted you as a freshman student in 8th
grade
ChinkBoi101: dude
ChinkBoi101: since monks can't have sex
ChinkBoi101: eventually
ChinkBoi101: wouldn't the condition of endoskeet occur?
Ok, back to what happened today and yesterday. Umm, there was an APES test, which I was going to study for after studying for the bio test. Well, yeah, never got to that.
I've been spending most of my time these two days doing applications and essays... I wish essays would die.
Oh, CiCi thought it was funny when I said something about pro-death or something. I forgot what it was.
And then Science Club was canceled today because Dutter somehow managed to teleport away... again.
That's the end of my laundry list, because I can't remember more. That might be explained by the fact that I can't remember things that happen while I am asleep. Hmm.
Last thing before I get back to college stuff. If I've been ignoring you on AIM or responding about ten times slower than usual, it's because my mom has been watching me often these past few days. So I can't do much IMing.
11:18PM
Sunday, October 10, 2004 (1 comment)
I slept for a long time in the afternoon yesterday. While I was asleep, my grandpa called and my mom happened to tell him that I took the SAT II: Writing test. They eventually landed on my essay topic... which, if you forgot, was Truman's decision to nuke Japan. My mom told my grandpa the topic and according to my mom, he said "对 ！！就应该炸！" (The first word means "RIGHT!" and I don't know how to properly translate the rest. It basically that means that it was a proper decision and Japan deserved being bombed.)
I love touch typing when a hand is one spot off:
ash esnelnais ntew vtes ntey vele avake
and entertain them when they were awake
My right hand was one key to the right, killing everything but the vowels and k because they're on the left half of the keyboard.
It's still kind of early today, so I'll try my best to write essays while avoiding distractions... which clearly won't happen.
9:29PM
Saturday, October 9, 2004 (6 comments)
SAT was ok. I wrote my essay on bombing Japan, for which I'm sure my grandpa will praise me. Anyways, I was on my third (out of five) paragraph when time was called, so that was really great. I did the multiple choice questions quickly and then went back to writing.
The physics was not that fun. I missed some really gay questions. Apparently, sound waves can refract and diffract. LAME.
Oh well, that's over and done with. So during check-in, you know how they check photo IDs? Well, I noticed that I had only my school ID, which of course doesn't have my picture on it. So I tried looking for a yearbook, but I failed to find one. So then I decided to just go for it, and well, white people can't tell the difference between Charles and me. All Asians are the same.
Since I slept a little late last night (I wonder whose fault that was!), and barely managed to stay awake during the tests, I'll go nap now.
4:34PM
Friday, October 8, 2004 (3 comments)
Shelley... I didn't mean to make you mad...
I don't think the ACLU is against Christianity. I mean, if a white, Protestant male is denied the right to practice his religion, I'm pretty sure the ACLU would side with him (in theory). In practice, though, it's pretty obvious why it doesn't happen. In America, how can anyone be denied the right to practice Christianity?
Let's take a look at Christmas and Yom Kippur. They are obviously both religious. However, one is on the school calendar and one is not. Why? Because the rulers make the decisions, that's why. We're guaranteed the freedom of religion, of course, and observing either holiday is part of that right. Putting Christmas on the school calendar, however, can be seen as imposing a religion on all students.
To truly make things equal, schools would have to treat religious holidays equally. Removing Christmas from the school calendar would not deny Christian students the right to celebrate the holiday. By the "religious holiday" excuse, students would be completely excused from school on the 24th and 25th of December, which is what Jews can do for Yom Kippur.
This is not denying the right of Christians to practice their religion. It's just making everything equal for everyone.
Don't get me wrong, though. I don't support cutting Christmas break, Easter, or any of those holidays. To me, it seems that they are more national holidays than religious holidays now, anyways. They're just as much part of America as Independence Day. I mean, I've exchanged gifts at Christmas (who hasn't?), and I've gone Easter egg hunting in the past. Was I celebrating the values of Christianity? Of course not.
12:51PM
Thursday, October 7, 2004 (4 comments)
"Whoreface"?? Whore, what have you turned into? A Yük?! Please don't scare me like that. It's not good for my heart. Anyways, I'll show up at your house randomly one day =) How I will get there is another issue.
Shelley, please don't forget that the ACLU was the organization that brought the Scopes monkey trial through. Without the ACLU, the evolution/creationism thing might be a lot different today. (Of course, I'm assuming that you share my views on evolution because you gave me a Darwin fish...) I also happen to share a lot of views with the ACLU. For instance, on the issues of abortion, religion in schools, gay rights, and privacy in technology, I have essentially the same stances as the ACLU. I don't like thinking of myself as a crazy, self-righteous Nazi, but I guess if it comes down to that, then I am one.
And My Prerogative is awful. The video is just another stripping party, and like Toxic, it's only good on mute. Well, not really good, but it happens to be better on mute than with the sound on. Actually, scratch everything I said about the video. The song is better on mute than with the sound on.
I love filling out the data sheets for really boring books. The Awakening is the most paradoxical title ever assigned to a book. The author employs effective use of diction, syntax, and other elements of style to create an instant loss of consciousness in the reader. Sleeping pill companies should sue.
7:45PM
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 (14 comments)
Someone sent this to me:
[Was a link to boycottforequality.org, an event for gay rights. It has been taken down.]
Act on it if you're able to.
7:21PM
The Atheist, Agnostic, and Apathetic Alliance [Against Auerbach] is actively recruiting. I want YOU!
Ok, so let me tell the story as I know it. The Twins Club wasn't allowed to form, and Fleenor got mad. He also thinks that religious groups should not form at school, I think. Actually, I'm not sure about that one.
Also, "gay" and similar words are not allowed in club names, which personally I think is a stupid, stupid rule. If you're offended by the word "gay," then you are worthless and should go live under a rock some more. By the same reasoning, I should be able to complain that the word "Christian" in FCA, or perhaps "cooking" in Cooking Club offends me and therefore should not be in the name.
So Fleenor offered to sponsor some clubs, and I don't think anyone else is taking action except for us. So please join the AAAA[AA]. I don't think it will actually form. I'm not looking forward to creating work for myself, so I don't really even want it to form. Anyways, the objective (which is to make a point) would be best accomplished if Auerbach puts up resistance. The more, the merrier.
Now I'm in the mood to make fun of Bill. What a NOOOOOOOOOBBBBB!
ChinkBoi101: well dude
ChinkBoi101: if ur not going out with her [her = CiCi]
ChinkBoi101: u really should put the pic in ur wallet
ChinkBoi101: cus that makes u seem lyk a stalker
icydog1: i really should or shouldn't?
ChinkBoi101: brb
icydog1: did u typo again?
ChinkBoi101: u should not put the pic in there
ChinkBoi101: for now at least
ChinkBoi101: brb
ChinkBoi101: dude
ChinkBoi101: wats her sn
icydog1: why?
ChinkBoi101: tell me her sn
icydog1: why?
ChinkBoi101: and i'll tell u y
icydog1: no, tell me now
ChinkBoi101: actually
ChinkBoi101: h/o
ChinkBoi101: is her sn pandaface00?
Ok. WHO is the stalker here?? Alright, on to making-fun-of-Bill #2:
So he whined that all he sees on my site is the page making fun of him. Well kiddo, maybe you should try opening your eyes and using those things that we call "links." I write in here every one or two days, which means there is "new content." I also don't think that "this is getting old" because, well, you and your butt-loving never get old. So your page will stay there at least until May, when I may or may not take down this site. Have fun until then.
Oh, and I'm sorry that you have to go around telling people you're not Bill because of me =)
The NHS meeting was productive, as usual. Lots and lots happened. Hmmm, after blatant lies like those, I might as well just turn into Ronjon.
I'm at the bottom of A18. They butchered my words, but it's ok because as long as they preserve the gist of my comparison between cigarettes and sex, I'm happy. I wonder what my parents will say about that. I did NOT write that with the intention of showing my parents...
OMG OMG OMG what's the new Britney song? Lyke, how did I not hear about diz~?
1:30PM
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 (5 comments)
I copy/pasted yesterday's post from Gene's Xanga because I happened to agree with what he said.
Anyways, so here's my life story for today:
It seems like everything is going wrong. I got called gay 545 times yesterday alone from 62 different people. I have a crap grade in Fleenor's class. I don't like APES. Our presentation sucked balls. I got almost no sleep last night, even though it was one of the most productive nights I've spent. I won't even start with all the college stuff I'm worried about.
I think I'm going to have to get four wisdom teeth pulled soon. This will result in me not consuming a lot of things for three months, most importantly:
- Orange juice
- Coke
- Spicy stuff
- Citrus fruits
- Meat
- Meat
- Meat
- MEAT!!!
Damn it. There goes the point of life. (I live for meat.) Even meat perfume won't work after this because it will just remind me of what I can't get. Ok, so what else has gone wrong...
Pepple seems to have changed. She got mad at me for not sending an announcement to the morning announcements people about the NHS meeting. She got mad at me for this on Friday. Our meeting is Wednesday! I went to ask her right after homeroom today whether she had heard the announcement, which I heard very clearly just a few minutes before. She said no. How can she complain that I don't make announcements if she doesn't listen to them?
I also have no idea what goes on the NHS site, and she was angry about this, too.
Then today at the meeting, she was talking about the librarians and using the media center to tutor. Her story was essentially like this:
- Librarian tells her that two NHS members were tutoring in the media center
- Pepple tells her to not ever talk to her about this ever again, because "this is making me [Pepple] angry."
- Librarian counters with a similar "this is making me angry."
Until today, I could not have imagined her doing this. Actually, I still can't imagine her doing this.
Then she was on the computer and thought she pushed the wrong button. She said "SHIT!" really loudly. That has definitely never happened before, or at least not in my presence.
Continuing with what has gone wrong, let's move on to the librarians. During seventh period yesterday, I was sitting on the sofa in the media center, reading The Awakening. Unsurprisingly, I fell asleep pretty quickly. Well, soon enough, I was awakened by some lady (Payne, I think). She told me that sofas are not for sleeping! I was forced to open my eyes. How cruel is that?! Then I looked across the room, right at Erica laughing at me. I'm not sure if she was laughing at the expression of bewilderment on my face, or if she was laughing at the lady saying that sofas aren't for sleeping.
Oh, but one good thing did happen. The AJC called to tell my mom that they're going to print my homework (the letter to the editor) in tomorrow's paper.
I'm not a girl, Whore. And I'm not gay.
7:25PM
Monday, October 4, 2004 (11 comments)
Girls can never be honest.
They have nothing to hide by lying.
Guys see through their lies, and even if they don't, the girls aren't benefiting from their lies.
Girls are confusing.
Girls are UGH.
8:36PM
Sunday, October 3, 2004 (7 comments)
(Anything that says "today" means Saturday. This in an early morning post.)
Spam of the day (subject): Tiffany31 has invited you to open a Cheating wives account. Not only am I not a wife (and in no need of various enlargements), but I also find this "Cheating wives account" absolutely hilarious.
Frisbee tonight was pretty crappy, with the teams being as balanced as me and the rap worksheet. (We're treating the worksheet and me as comparable objects here, with the worksheet owning me by a lot.)
So on to the real subject for today.
WAC went worse this year than any of the other three years that I've worked. The first two years, I was just a pawn so I didn't do much and only knew what was happening in the rooms near me. Last year, I was doing the same scorekeeping stuff in the tournament center as I did today, so this gave me a chance to actually see what was going on.
Last year was a lot of work, primarily because it was my first time doing so many things for the tournament. Schools' buzzers had lots of problems, there were a few protests, and I kept worrying about the Excel score sheets. That put me under a lot of pressure and gave me a stress attack, because I was in charge of buzzers and also most of the scores. By the end of the preliminary rounds, I was not mad at anything, but I seemed so because I was so exhausted and used up from the morning.
So last week, I reflected back upon this and decided that I would maintain my composure and be a little more friendly to everyone this year.
Well, that didn't really happen. Some teams launched some really stupid, retarded protests, and that one with Westminster and Heritage was an enormous pain. Edelstein and Martin were not pleased with this, either. Ronjon's flame with Ms. Martin didn't reduce my annoyance level very much. All the stupid teams coming into the tournament center with all the questions... I did not enjoy running around kicking people out.
At least I didn't release the steam on any teams. I'm sure Ms. Martin would have fired a Beehive shell at me from a range of about six yards. You could tell I was more than just a little unsettled when CiCi came up behind me and hugged me. I just gave her a look saying "HOLY CRAP I HATE YOU GET OUT OF MY FACE WHY DID YOU JUST DO THAT AHHHHH YOU ARE SOOOOOOOO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!" I didn't say anything though, for fear of being ejected due to inappropriate language.
Sorry to anyone that I pulled a Drew on. Nothing personal.
12:05AM
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