thursday: shaft! damn straight
We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running.
-Bill Watterson, SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
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I looked over my Japanese exam last night, counted up the points, and saw that Hatanaka-sensei shafted me 3 points. Instead of adding the 1.5 extra credit points to my grade, she subtracted them. So the actual score I made on the test is 70%. As shitty as I'm doing in the class, I need to claw for every point I can get. 'Cause it sure seems like she's pulling any switches she can to trip me up, that crafty bitch.
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In white houses.
-Bill Watterson, SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
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I looked over my Japanese exam last night, counted up the points, and saw that Hatanaka-sensei shafted me 3 points. Instead of adding the 1.5 extra credit points to my grade, she subtracted them. So the actual score I made on the test is 70%. As shitty as I'm doing in the class, I need to claw for every point I can get. 'Cause it sure seems like she's pulling any switches she can to trip me up, that crafty bitch.
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In white houses.