Published on 28 October 2004 at 1:06 am .
I’m sowing the seeds of discontent for myself again…
Why, Paul, why?!?
::kicks self::
I’m just not real happy with anything right now.
(Except for Joe, who is awesome to live with.)
I got this book in the mail and read it. I’m gonna write a paper on it I like it so much. I’ll probably post it here.
Oh yeah, and I’m supposed to mention something here about public drunkeness and a cake but jordan does a better job.
I got sick, still don’t feel 100%. I think just a virus because my throat has not swollen up. I think it’s because I had fun on Saturday. Or the fact that for the past month I’ve only gotten 4-5 hours of sleep a night. My insurance is STILL screwed up, they put me on a PPO and then on an HMO, both active on Sept 3rd, so my doctor’s office has no idea who to bill for my previous 2 visits. Apparently they billed PPOM and were supposed to bill Real Health PPO but really they are supposed to bill Priority Health and my deductible is supposed to carry over but it probably won’t and I’ll have to submit it to Priority Health with proof that I’ve already met my deductible on another Meijer health plan and… I’m just not gonna go to the doctor until next year.
Published on 23 October 2004 at 10:51 pm .
My hair was real long. I’d grown it out since March.
I cut it short again, in a fit of bad hair day frustration.
I love my hair again!!!!
Published on 23 October 2004 at 10:04 pm .
Well…
I have been real busy trying to be a good student and working adult. The combination is rather difficult. I made it through midterms alive.
Faithful readers might remember William from Portland. I was supposed to meet him in DC over Halloween weekend. I anguished over it for a long time, but I finally had to make a decision I did. I’m not going. He asked me last night if I still wanted to go, so I took to opportunity to say no. I know he’s dissapointed and hurt, and I’m sorry for that. I have a few resons: Firstly, homework sucks. I’ve lost too many weekends to not doing homework. I need to catch up at this point, and that SUCKS. Secondly, and more importantly, I’ve been scheduled to work. Thirdly, I don’t want to drive 9 hours and put that much strain on my car… I thought, romantiacally, that it’d be worth it. But it’s not: I need my car for my everyday going to work and schoo life. I don’t want a relationship right now, and even if I did, I can’t have the sort of relationship that I would want with someone 2,000 miles away. I don’t want to be mean. But now is my time for me to take my own self interests and put them ahead of everyone else, for the first time in my life.
I suppose I really ought to call him, but since he’s posted to his blog I figure I might as well post to mine.
William suspects that I’ve “fallen” for someone else…. Not quite.
But maybe.
Published on 22 October 2004 at 9:20 pm .
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You’re just one call away from hot one on one chat with a few Weapons of Mass… Seduction.
Published on 22 October 2004 at 5:55 pm .
Video of the week:
How to vote using the punch card PBC 2100.
This is what I get to vote with; I wonder if the machines were donated by Florida…
Published on 20 October 2004 at 4:19 am .
Published on 17 October 2004 at 8:45 pm .
Having so hooked his foot, pull his legs apart, and bring him to the ground, when you can apply the stick where and how you please.
Published on 13 October 2004 at 11:13 pm .
Published on 13 October 2004 at 3:23 pm .
This is the most retarded thing in Grand Rapids.
Published on 8 October 2004 at 11:17 pm .
Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2004 Country and Territory Reports are now online.
Note that Iraq is still not free.
Neither is Afghanistan.
Published on 8 October 2004 at 10:40 pm .
GWB apparently doesn’t even know he owns part of a timber company. He said tonight he didn’t own one. But that’s simply not true:
President Bush himself would have qualified as a “small business owner” under the Republican definition, based on his 2001 federal income tax returns. He reported $84 of business income from his part ownership of a timber-growing enterprise. However, 99.99% of Bush’s total income came from other sources that year. (Bush also qualified as a “small business owner” in 2000 based on $314 of “business income,” but not in 2002 and 2003 when he reported his timber income as “royalties” on a different tax schedule.)
From http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@DocID=265.html
Published on 8 October 2004 at 9:31 pm .
Published on 8 October 2004 at 12:27 am .
This is everything I’m presently working on for that is due at noon on Black Monday, October 11:
PLS 221
Analytical Essay #3: Political ideology in W Europe (1,000 words)
Study for exam: terms and stuff from readings + outline for essay (45min in class) about the changed in political parties since WWII
PLS 339
1,000 word essay on post-Soviet democratization in Russia
another 800 words or so: How would you argue that democracy and our different ways of thinking about democracy and other regime types ?matters? in the ?real? world? or In your view, based on what you have learned in this class thus far, what are the advantages and disadvantages of adopting a minimalist conception of democracy and studying democracy on the basis of such a conception?
(that there above is the “I love Heather Tafel” section she’s so demanding and it’s fun!)
ENG 383
I’m writing a paper comparing the styles and themes in a Langston Hughes text and a Hemingway text. 7pgs. Feels the most daunting as it’s an Ihrmanpaper and I have a lot to live up to in his class.
PHI 341 (death class)
There’s a “study question” due on Wednesday about… the public’s need to be better informed about defining death… think brain death vs. traditional definition, etcetc…
My brain hurts. But I’m enjoying it. Been up since 7am. Dying now…. sleeeeeeeeep….
Random Guster lyric: “Can we keep it together / we’re singing a new song now / and everything starts today”
Published on 4 October 2004 at 1:08 am .
“about” is a very common word and was not included in your search.
The “AND” operator is unnecessary — we include all search terms by default
Contradiction via Google.
Secondly, I have studied until I got a migraine. Then I went home and watched cartoons. Ahh… simple pleasures.
Thirdly, Joe called in sick and he’s going to get written up unless he has a doctor’s note.
Keep in mind that
1.) His employer does not provide him with affordable health insurance.
2.) His employer barely pays him enough money for him to buy food and pay rent, let alone ininsured health care.
I know I’m not the first person to point out such inconsistencies.
Published on 3 October 2004 at 10:25 pm .
“[A] country is likely to attain democracy not by copying the constitutional laws or parliamentary practices of some previous democracy, but rather by honestly facing up to its particular conflicts and by devising or adapting effective procedures for their accommodation. ” —Rustow, Dankwart A., 1970. Comparative Politics 2:337-63
I wonder if our friends in the State Department are familiar with any of the democratization theories…
Published on 3 October 2004 at 7:17 pm .
“… it is good to simply be alive, even if one is undergoing terrible experiences. The situation is roughly this: There are elements which, if added to one’s experience, make life better; there are elements which, if added to one’s experience, make life worse. But what remains when these are set aside is not merely neutral: it is emphatically positive. Therefore life is worth living even when the bad elements of experience are plentiful, and the good ones too meager to outweigh the bad ones on their own. The additional positive weight is supplied by experience itself, rather than by any of its contents” —Thomas Nagel
Published on 3 October 2004 at 1:56 pm .
So I’ve noticed I’m listening to the same two albums over and over again. I don’t know why, with the 2,000 songs to choose from on my iPod, I choose these two; probably because they’re freaking awesome.
Rachael Yamagata :: Happenstance
The Postal Service :: Give Up
Fall is here. I love it. Why can’t it just be like this year round?
