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I'm back in LA, which is why my s/n is back to its normal position of always up. Btw, to reiterate-I don't ignore people, I just tend to wait for them to IM me first, and sometimes don't put up an away message when I do.
I have alot of stuff planned out for this summer and next semseter. It will be fun. I have to organize that, plus put some resolutions into effect, which if you see me breaking slap me on the head, or as the case may warrant, cyber-slap
Noted From Washington:
Sooo much prettier than LA. Actual forests, which where thicker than Ireland's, great infrastructure, cute houses in the colonial style. Barely any graffiti. Man. Here is so smoggy and graffitied and dry and barren comparatively. Though in a few months they will be hit by snow. As an idealistic eternal-summer-LA person, I still refuse to view that as a bad thing. And sooo much graffiti. Everywhere is falling down. And my lungs are commiting suicide in a last-ditch attempt to save themselves, though I'm not clear how that saves them, nor why they have to be so crappy, or rather the air should be.
Every single service person, every single low-payed low-prestige person is BLACK. It was so weird. It makes sense...but.....
Anti-intellectual peer pressure is a huge problem. Not that I didn't know that before.
Intellectuals try to hide behind arrogance to bolster themselves above this and hide their flaws. It ends up isolating them conversationally and mentally. Again, reaffermation, but an important one. I think this has a big part to play in the old intellectual class's attitude. It drys up something important. It also seems to make the justification that once you are better than somebody else at something, you are teh rox0rs pwner.
Teenage mentallity is teh suck. See above
People cannot go 11 days without hooking up.
Another reoffermation: people rely too much on the education system and think they can get by without reading.
But still, many people have lived alot more than I have, and I should keep that in mind while hurrying foward. And I have alot to learn, even vicariously. That's one to always keep in mind.
The boys there where very clannish. Except for those who weren't.
People seem to think starving or stuffing themselves will help the African nations. I think there should seriously be a campaign to reduce serving sizes.
I'll put up the actual posts one by one. I'm writing down EVERYTHING, so I'll do it day by day. Now I am tired. Byebye. Oh, but you're going to get alot of old comments from me on your ljs while I catch up with them.
And thanks to those who welcomed me back!
PS who is this annoymous who keeps commenting? I wish to know him/her. He/she seems cool. And for those of you I'm just getting to know, you'll be getting alot of random comments from me also.
And I found out I like dancing and hugs.so bwahahahha I nono:)
I have alot of stuff planned out for this summer and next semseter. It will be fun. I have to organize that, plus put some resolutions into effect, which if you see me breaking slap me on the head, or as the case may warrant, cyber-slap
Noted From Washington:
Sooo much prettier than LA. Actual forests, which where thicker than Ireland's, great infrastructure, cute houses in the colonial style. Barely any graffiti. Man. Here is so smoggy and graffitied and dry and barren comparatively. Though in a few months they will be hit by snow. As an idealistic eternal-summer-LA person, I still refuse to view that as a bad thing. And sooo much graffiti. Everywhere is falling down. And my lungs are commiting suicide in a last-ditch attempt to save themselves, though I'm not clear how that saves them, nor why they have to be so crappy, or rather the air should be.
Every single service person, every single low-payed low-prestige person is BLACK. It was so weird. It makes sense...but.....
Anti-intellectual peer pressure is a huge problem. Not that I didn't know that before.
Intellectuals try to hide behind arrogance to bolster themselves above this and hide their flaws. It ends up isolating them conversationally and mentally. Again, reaffermation, but an important one. I think this has a big part to play in the old intellectual class's attitude. It drys up something important. It also seems to make the justification that once you are better than somebody else at something, you are teh rox0rs pwner.
Teenage mentallity is teh suck. See above
People cannot go 11 days without hooking up.
Another reoffermation: people rely too much on the education system and think they can get by without reading.
But still, many people have lived alot more than I have, and I should keep that in mind while hurrying foward. And I have alot to learn, even vicariously. That's one to always keep in mind.
The boys there where very clannish. Except for those who weren't.
People seem to think starving or stuffing themselves will help the African nations. I think there should seriously be a campaign to reduce serving sizes.
I'll put up the actual posts one by one. I'm writing down EVERYTHING, so I'll do it day by day. Now I am tired. Byebye. Oh, but you're going to get alot of old comments from me on your ljs while I catch up with them.
And thanks to those who welcomed me back!
PS who is this annoymous who keeps commenting? I wish to know him/her. He/she seems cool. And for those of you I'm just getting to know, you'll be getting alot of random comments from me also.
And I found out I like dancing and hugs.so bwahahahha I nono:)