Anything I learn in this class either angers or depresses me. And it's not even about the slaves and the Indians -- I've already become disillusioned with that way back in middle school -- but it's the hypocrisy and the way they treat their "own," the other white Christians. They go and form mobs to pelt a handful of young soldiers who committed no ( Read more... )

For some reason, the board of education decided to trade in perfectly good, beat-up volleyballs for new volleyballs that feel like bricks. They're hard and heavy and hurt like hell if you bump them. The entire underside of my wrists and forearm ended up being bright pink for two periods. And now I see a bruise forming. =/ Stupid school system. IF ( Read more... )

I fucking hate Nina. So much. What's all this bullshit about not knowing how powerful her bomb would be? It's a fucking nuke; what did she think it was, a Euphie-killer seeking missile? And she's a goddamn scientist, isn't she? She made a bomb without bothering to check and test its area of effect? She couldn't calculate its power? It's called E=mc ( Read more... )