What a day. First it was horrible, then it was great, then it was bad, then it was awesome, and then it was just what the fuck.

So I will bulletpoint my day.

• I got woken up at 0440 hours to drive my mother and brother to the airport. This would not be as annoying if I had been asked or something, rather than told the day before.
• I got back home before ( Read more... )

Okay.  For those of you not in the know, I was called to jury duty on Monday.  After being dismissed from a civil case (all the students were), I got called in on a criminal case -- specifically a DUI* charge.

*Driving Under the Influence, also known colloquially as Drunk Driving

Now, I want to make some points here:

1. The "UI" part of it was never in ( Read more... )

Dear ARC School Admin, specifically the people in charge of late-adds and petitions:

FUCK YOU.

I have been waiting for the results on my late-add petition for nearly two weeks.  I have yet to buy the software for my course because like FUCK I am plunking down $75 for specialised software if I'm not going to be in, so I currently have a 74% ( Read more... )

Altered Mural Fuels Racial Debate in Prescott

A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school.

The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity. But the school's principal says the request was only to fix ( Read more... )

Maine GOP Forced To Apologize After Convention-Goers Vandalize An Eighth-Grade Classroom

Although Maine is known for its two moderate Republican senators - Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins - last week's state GOP convention showed the growing influence of far-right activists. An "overwhelming majority of delegates" voted to "scrap the the proposed ( Read more... )

I kind of like the timing on this, purely for the... is irony the word I want here?

Anyway.

Shortly before I wandered off to class, I was talking to the guy next to me, Simon. Simon found out that I'm going to be twenty-four in ten days. His reaction is probably one of the most infuriating, insulting things I have ever been told in my life.

Ladies ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you come across something that brings to mind Terry Pratchett's axiom about multiple exclamation points. Other times, you come across something that just proves that this truly is the era of entitlement.

Sometimes, you find these things together.

And every so often, they are submitted to Miss Manners.

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:D

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