I’m in california, enjoying the weather, the wireless internet here is finally working…I think I found out why it wasn’t. Last time I paid MSP airport for their wireless, and it(I think) screwed up my wireless until I got home. Regardless, now the wireless is working and in half an hour I can register for classes.

I think.

Anyway. Don’t forget to freakin’ vote on tuesday.

So my brother comes and picks me up in his winter jacket. I’m a little flabbergasted, as the temperature is a balmy 61 degrees farenheit. I mock him.

You really aren’t an author until you’ve received a rejection letter(and the rejection letter from rivers meeting from 2002 doesn’t count, as it’s freakin’ BSU).

And I’ve just received my first one! Ben Bella Books responded to my query letter by saying ‘Thanks, not for us’ that’s it, no more.

Wheeeee! They’ve validated my existence.

And in all actuality, after checking out their website, and seeing books for ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ and ‘Stargate’ on the front page, perhaps it’s all for the best.

is getting more interesting, they’re actually putting in phrases and quotes that don’t have anything to do with what they’re selling, but are thought provoking anyway. An example:

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Now they don’t say who that’s from(it’s from Lord Byron), but it is an interesting question.

The answer: I do.

SO START GLORY STEPPING!!!!

Are two of the greatest innovations of human kind. Disagreement NOT ALLOWED.

Actually, I’ll drop it off at the courthouse today.

So who did I vote for?

This is what the Political selector test gave me for compatibility among candidates:

1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%) Click here for info
2. Cobb, David – Green Party (49%) Click here for info
3. Nader, Ralph – Independent (49%) Click here for info
4. Kerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat (47%) Click here for info
5. Bush, President George W. – Republican (47%) Click here for info
6. Badnarik, Michael – Libertarian (47%) Click here for info
7. Brown, Walt – Socialist Party (37%) Click here for info
8. Peroutka, Michael – Constitution Party (36%) Click here for info

And I researched their actual positions last night…and I don’t like ANY of them. In fact, I disagree with every single person up there. I thought very seriously about writing myself in, but that would truly be a vote tossed in the garbage, as I am too young to get the presidency by votes. When I have my armies however… woops. Tangent there. Back to the issue at hand. A vote for Bush is a vote wasted as well, in this state, as it will go Kerry. I figure, a third party would be brilliant to get in there and shake things up with federal funding and all, so I did what I said I was going to do since this election running started.

I voted for Nader.

wasn’t too bad.

Now, tonight, I can get the 5 page paper for mythology written and ready. Tomorrow drop off my absentee ballot at the courthouse and be done with that.

Yep.

And just so people know that, like jon and alex, I am well aware of my character flaws, here’re the things that are wrong with me:
I’m an egotistical, angry, ranting, (RABID), at times self centered, at most times irritating, ignoble lump of fatness. and I’ve got a beard. and I like to hunt. and I like video games. A LOT. and I’ve got absolutely no social skills. and I like Beer and alcohol. hmmm…oh yeah, and I’m judgemental.

that about sums it up. I’m no masochist, so unless you really find that I’ve forgotten something of utmost importance, I really don’t need comments. Also, that just goes to show how arrogant I am…I don’t NEED more comments. bwahahahaha!

yes, Jon, we do need the State.

Without the State, there would be no technology like the internet, no one protecting our freedom of speech as we have this debate, no one protecting the minorities from the might is right doctrine that rules without a social order, no one insuring that this technology continues running while we toss back and forth pithy comments and drivel.

Here again I find the fault that annoys me the most: you are willing to throw the ENTIRE CONCEPT of a State control, because of the abuses that have been done. You don’t take into account the privileges that living in a state allow. Is fixing something that is broken that hard? I kind of see anarchism is the consumerist politcal idea…”whoa, something doesn’t work anymroe. Let’s throw it out!”

The same for your argument against christianity, you are MORE than willing to trash the whole concept because of abuses by a few.

Without the state, there is barbarism. People like those in the GNN videos would be even more free to terrorize and murder their neighbours than they already are.

The concept of anarchism is indeed at the most interesting, but as humans have lived under some social structure for all of recorded history and probably before that, it is something that has no precedence in actual practice. Like Santa Claus, anarchism promises much, but in reality is nothing more than a child’s dream.

Usually when working at the hospital, my abilities are hampered for doing good deeds. I’m basically a deficient secretary who pushes papers all the time.

Occasionally, though, someone needs their car jumped, and if I’m working I’ll jump it. I know what it’s like having a car battery drained, and having received many many jumps in high school, it’s my way of paying back for all of those.

This morning however, a guy needed a ride back to Super 8. I normally draw the line at giving people rides, for a multitude of reasons, my car is my sacred place, my mess away from mess. That’s actually the large part of it, my car is usually a mess and I’m embarrassed by the thought of someone else seeing it.

This morning, though, the car wasn’t as messy as usual, so I volunteered to give this guy a ride, so he wouldn’t have to pay a taxi or a bus(whenever they start running). I originally told him no, as I couldn’t remember what state the car was in. But on the way out to the car, I was hit by the chance to do something nice, and this was it. I could do this, with little or no trouble. I thought about Lindsay’s Making Days blog, and decided that maybe I could try something too.

Not only did I give him a ride back to the hotel, but I stopped and ran into a gas station for a lighter and a 2 liter of pepsi for him(his foot was injured).

So that’s my good deed of the day. As such, I’ll have 20 minutes LESS sleep today than usually on thursdays. If I’m grumpy in class today, you know who to blame: Lindsay.

proof in the bhagavad gita that Krishna is an English Major:
Chapter 10, #33:
Among letters I am A, among grammatical compounds, I am the dvandva.

dvandva (dvän´dva), n. a compound word neither element of which is subordinate to the other, as in bittersweet.

now, c’mon, which god in their right minds would refer to themselves as a grammar tool?

I AM THOR…GOD OF THUNDER, AND…UM…CONJUNCTIVE VERBS!!!

I AM PAN…GOD OF THE PASTURES AND WOODLANDS…AND ADJECTIVAL PHRASES!

I AM LUG OF THE SILVER HAND….GOD OF ONOMATOPOEIA!

hahaha….grammatical compounds…these hindu gods, always good for a laugh!

is typing colonoscopy. I knew that I was fully trained in 4 years ago when I could type that without any hesitation or problem at all. wheee!

colonoscopy colonoscopy colonoscopy

man. there’re a lot of ‘O’s in colonoscopy.

Yeah. That’s really how low this job is, when one of the perks is getting type ‘colonoscopy’.

I can’t wait until Saturday. I drive down to the cities and fly out for my mythology classes.

5 days of paradise…and I’m not talking about just the weather.

BSU is killing me…with it’s almost regressive turn to McCarthyism and its decrying of anything to the right of the politics line, and it’s intense hatred and denial of the religioius.

And I’ll be honest. It isn’t JUST BSU. Its this town. 23 years is too long. I’ve tried toughing it out through traveling(which works for about 6 months), but lately that has lost its effectiveness in keeping this feeling of suffocation away.

I’ve just got to breathe into a paper bag, repeating the mantra ‘One more semester of classes, and then next fall just thesis and comp exam’

And even next year, there’s really no need to be here. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve got a pretty sweet gig going on, my own place, a non-intrusive roomie, a cat, a really good paying job, and the freedom to do pretty much whatever I please…

but, in all actuality, what is there to do here?

My biggest problem is this: I’ve stopped learning here.

I stopped learning about 2 years ago, and I’ve just been sliding since then, down the hill. Occasionally there were bumps like Tolkien class, but on the whole, nothing. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m just in it now for the degree.

I wish I could chalk this up to cabin fever, but when it lasts all year, that’s the clearest denial of that. Practically anywhere that I visited on the greyhound trip this summer would make a definite improvement over this town. Wait…except kentucky. that place was horrid.

As soon as possible, I’m moving to Killarney, Ireland.

I had an amazing egg casserole type of thing. At least I think I’d classify it as casserole.

I put in 4 eggs, a cup of milk, 2 cheddar cheese sticks, about half a cup of wild rice, about 3 tablespoons of chopped turkey, perhaps 2 teaspoons of basil, a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of pepper, a teaspoon of onion flakes.

Microwaved on high for 4 minutes, mixed it up. Microwaved again on high for 4 minutes, mixed. Microwaved it for one minute. Made enough for two meals.

Man. that was tasty. Looking back on it, it sounds kind of disgusting. But it was colorful and tasty. And how often do you get that nowadays?

half way done. Finished editing the typos/sections that I needed and that I saw, so it is officially done. I’ve got a couple of readers going over the rest of it, and I’m sure there will be a few things that need changing.

No problem there, and I do thank them. One is Stephen, and the other is David Hanson.

If you’re interested in reading it, drop me a line or comment.

And if you’re interested in reading it to make fun of me, I’ll just not listen to you, because I don’t have time for that immaturity.

Neener Neener.

go to the Senior Project Blog and let me know what you think. I’ve allowed comments now, and I’m just wondering if people want me to continue posting what I’ve got up there.

let me know.