to be learned in grad classes longer than 1.5 hours:

anytime that a break is offered by the teacher, YOU TAKE IT.

ESPECIALLY IN 8 HOUR CLASSES.

ALWAYS TAKE A BREAK.

&%*$&’n idiots.

/rant on

there’ve been some confusion that I’ve run into about how the nazi’s were based in christianity, the aryans being a christian sect and the swastika was a perverted cross.

no. there’s a large difference. Aryans were a people/language group of the indo-europeans, and it was these that Hitler thought that the germans were descended from.

ArIans were a sect of early christianity that followed the ideas of Arius, who thought that Christ was of a finite nature, not at one with God, not of divine nature at all, since Christ was created. Of course he was excommunicated for this.

As for the swastika, this was an ancient symbol used in hinduism and buddhism, and while it MAY look like a perverted cross, it did not originate with Hitler’s wish to show a cross. Per the Encyclopedia Britannica:

“In Nazi Germany the swastika (German: Hakenkreuz), with its oblique arms turned clockwise, became the national symbol. In 1910 a poet and nationalist ideologist Guido von List had suggested the swastika as a symbol for all anti-Semitic organizations; and when the National Socialist Party was formed in 1919–20, it adopted it. On Sept. 15, 1935, the black swastika on a white circle with a red background became the national flag of Germany. This use of the swastika ended in World War II with the German surrender in May 1945, though the swastika is still favoured by neo-Nazi groups.”

Much as some people may mistakenly attribute nazi germany and its symbols to christianity, there’s very little tie in.

/rant off

has approved my grad app provided I turn in a “Curricumlum Vitae” of their requirements. which, as I have noticed, is NOT a curriculum vitae.

so no probs there.

they’ve assigned a grad rep, a Dr. Mark Lawrence, for my oral defense.

man, things are getting closer and closer.

they’ve put wireless internet access into one of the halls here, perhaps all of them.

not a whole lot of notes are going to happen.

not really. it was raining this morning. but the temperature is about 70 degrees, so I’m not going to complain.

I’m still ill, but feeling a whole lot better. I’ve still got a cough and congestion, but man…the headaches gone.

until class that is.

of course, by that time, I am planning on having medicated myself to the point where it doesn’t matter much anymore.

2 tablets of dayquil are enough to make sure that Froyd don’t talk no sense.

which really isn’t that different from any other day.