A little while back, Heaton and I did a little list of the things we learned in high school. It began as a joke - we never thought we'd actually make it to 101. Actually we made it farther, but for the sake of a nice number, I'm going to sacrifice some of my lamer ones. If we seem to have left anything out, just let one of us know. :-D (I should add that some of these are inside jokes and may make no sense to ANYONE else; just assume it's funny. UNLESS it looks serious - we did have a couple serious ones in there.)
101 Things We Learned at NP
1. Fruitopia = life.
2. 2:13 is the best time of day.
3. Pepsi + laughter = severe pain.
4. Never, under any circumstance, ask Mrs. Trujillo about anything.
5. Psycho Miko.
6. Sparknotes.com has saved more lives than anyone alive (or dead) today.
7. Mr. Wade + blood = free time.
8. Two words - Mrs. Louck. Yowza.
9. Joe Smith + geometry = a 4 sided triangle inscribed on your picnic table....
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So here's the situation. We, the entire physics class, are all failing. I've had the rumor confirmed that the prof is either quitting or getting fired after this semester, so basically he can keep on screwing all of us over and not get screwed over himself (I believe it's that he's getting fired for his poor teaching ability, I can't remember how my source put it). I have two friends in there with me who are in a couple other classes with me. Jordan, a former top ten student in his school, never below a 3.5 in high school, is withdrawing ASAP so he can keep his basketball eligibility working for him. Joe, another top 10% in his class, a freaking genius, had said in the past that he wanted to follow through to the bitter end. Unfortunately, however, if we take this F, our GPAs will go from 4.0s to 2.5s - definitely not a good thing. So I wanna know what you guys think. Drop it? Or stick it out? (I've already decided my course of action, but if someone m...
This woman is just too cool. Er...was too cool, I guess. Though tediously wordy at times (gee, we don't know anyone like that do we?), she makes a hell of an argument for her point. Most of you know that The Fountainhead is my number one favorite book ever. The Virtue of Selfishness is a nonfiction collection of essays. Not as fast paced, but much more blunt. And we all know blunt is good.
A few things:
~ Just because I'm a math major and this has been irking me, I would like to correct an earlier equation that I derived:
x loads of laundry = 45x + 26 (minutes).
~ Would everyone who saw nothing wrong with Sarah's Mistletoe dress please stand up? Well...and comment that you agree with me (that there was nothing wrong with it).
~ Is it just me, or is it harder to hear when you don't have glasses or contacts on/in?
~ How big a dork would you think someone is if finding out that the copy of War and Peace that they bought is abridged totally ruined their afternoon? Totally hypothetical question of course.
I have here a column that I read as regularly as I can. I don't want to say much more than that, I just want to hear some input. Praise it, tear it up, do whatever you want, but let's hear it. I've got a couple things I'd like to say, but I want to see if anyone else sees what I do, or if I'm just stupid.
I don't know about you all, but this parable about the workers in the vineyard has always [been] a tough one for me to swallow. There just doesn't seem to be any fairness in it. And, as we all know, "fairness" is what it's about in the United States these days. Ever after the Gospel, when we say, "Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!" many of us think, "I do give praise to Jesus Christ but it still isn't fair!" It's so easy for us, isn't it, to identify with the workers who've worked all day long in the hot sun? You see, the main stress of the parable isn't on the early workers. It's on the ...
Ya know, it must suck to be deaf. Why? I can think of at least one good reason. What if you need to fart? Maybe you think you're letting it out nice and easy but in reality it's a long, high pitched screamer. You sit there assuming that no one will notice or pass it off on someone else (pun acknowledged), when in reality everyone in the room has just gone absolutely bug eyed in abject fear of the cloud that surely must be making it's way around the room, sufficating victims left and right. Or let's say you just decide to say "Excuse me" every time you fart. Well, then you're going to let people on to a LOT of farts that you could have gotten away with.
It does have a couple upsides. You can't really get yelled at, you can NEVER have the music too loud (Music? What music?), and you can't hear all of the nasty things people say about you. You can bet they'll be saying those things anyways, though, especially when you interrupt so...
I almost think I should be starting a book review in the sidebar, because I have to post another...
...Interesting read of the week: A Tale of Two Cities is a really smooth thing to read when you're taking a history class that covers the French Revolution. If you didn't like Great Expectations, you can stop right now I guess, cuz it doesn't get any less Dickens-like (ie - more readable). I still think it's a good book, though.
Cheers to He for VI 2.0. :-)
OK, how soon does everyone start their Christmas shopping? I usually start thinking in October, saving in November, and buying in December (hey, I'm a procrastinator, so sue me). Mom on the other hand does things year round.
***Warning: The following made up story is not only typical Ho, but contains suggestive dialogue. Actual facts, where present, are credited to Chapter 31 in Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past and in bold . Viewers beware.***
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