Politics and other stuff
Just realized I never mentioned Halloween. Dressed up as the color pink (scary, right? :P ) for school, but didn't trick-or-treat. I'm stealing my brother's candy instead. :) I did however pass out candy and listen to my mom's friend rant about women at work. It's like a feminist blog come to life!
So I dunno if you've heard, but Obama won the election. It's weird, I expected that, will all the tension and etcetera, the result would be more ... explosive. But for me it felt relatively mild. Like, I was happy, but not all emotional or anything. Like, I guess by the time the results came out, it was no surprise that Obama won. Granted, I am pretty biased. Especially against Palin. You may or may not have noticed. :P
Proposition 8 passed. Apparently, Californians like trains more than they like gay people. Huh. Although there are a lot of people ranting about how ashamed they are to be Californian, and people ranting at those people. In all honesty, ranting bugs you, don't read it. Ranting at those who rant will most likely just make them rant back. Plus, I know many people (myself included) didn't quite know about everything involved. Does 8 make current marriages invalid, for example? If it hadn't passed, what would happen to the churches that don't want to marry gays (are they given a choice or will they just not be funded)?
I'm starting to feel like I'm not educated enough to have a valid opinion. >.<
On another note, I am screwed in the fact that I have 1 week to read Invisible Man. A 20 page introduction plus 15 page prologue to a nearly 600 page book? Rawr. Plus, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is overdue, and I still have Mr Riley's copy of Lolita. Wish me luck, I guess.
Sky Hype is coming back up again, meaning I will be keeping in touch more with my New Zealander friends. :D [btw, is that spelled right?] Also I've been joining lots of other RPGs lately that die out pretty quickly.
Lolita is SUCH a well-written book. I know a few people who have seen me reading it and had 'wtf' reactions, but seriously. Don't judge. "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." Fancy prose style indeed. Wonder if Vladimir Nabokov wrote anything else interesting...
Also, I've been listening to a lot of Amanda Palmer. She's amazing. She wrote a Beach Boys-ish song about abortion and dedicated it to Sarah Palin.
Songs to check out: Oasis, Guitar Hero, Runs in the Family, Ampersand
Oasis is the abortion song. Guitar Hero is just a cool song, as is Runs in the Family. Ampersand is AWESOME. "I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand." :D
1 - Starting to edit out 'movie' about fetching a crane from the Japanese room, aka "crane's nest". I'm not sure if the class will get some of the humor (Crane's nest, reft) but meh.
2 - Test tomorrow. I should be fine. At least I did the extra credit.
3 - That TI parody (Obama on the left, McCain on the right) is starting to grow on me. Also, we're learning about national versus state government powers.
4 - Just finished developing pictures. Why do I always post when we finish something in this class?
5 - THE BRAIN HOMG. It sucks that they don't teach about the brain in high school biology (only physiology, which I'm in) so I don't think I've learned about the actual brain since 7th grade, or before. 5+ years. O.o
6 - Don't really like Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises) but I get his boring writing style now; he used to write for a news paper.
So I dunno if you've heard, but Obama won the election. It's weird, I expected that, will all the tension and etcetera, the result would be more ... explosive. But for me it felt relatively mild. Like, I was happy, but not all emotional or anything. Like, I guess by the time the results came out, it was no surprise that Obama won. Granted, I am pretty biased. Especially against Palin. You may or may not have noticed. :P
Proposition 8 passed. Apparently, Californians like trains more than they like gay people. Huh. Although there are a lot of people ranting about how ashamed they are to be Californian, and people ranting at those people. In all honesty, ranting bugs you, don't read it. Ranting at those who rant will most likely just make them rant back. Plus, I know many people (myself included) didn't quite know about everything involved. Does 8 make current marriages invalid, for example? If it hadn't passed, what would happen to the churches that don't want to marry gays (are they given a choice or will they just not be funded)?
I'm starting to feel like I'm not educated enough to have a valid opinion. >.<
On another note, I am screwed in the fact that I have 1 week to read Invisible Man. A 20 page introduction plus 15 page prologue to a nearly 600 page book? Rawr. Plus, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is overdue, and I still have Mr Riley's copy of Lolita. Wish me luck, I guess.
Sky Hype is coming back up again, meaning I will be keeping in touch more with my New Zealander friends. :D [btw, is that spelled right?] Also I've been joining lots of other RPGs lately that die out pretty quickly.
Lolita is SUCH a well-written book. I know a few people who have seen me reading it and had 'wtf' reactions, but seriously. Don't judge. "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." Fancy prose style indeed. Wonder if Vladimir Nabokov wrote anything else interesting...
Also, I've been listening to a lot of Amanda Palmer. She's amazing. She wrote a Beach Boys-ish song about abortion and dedicated it to Sarah Palin.
Songs to check out: Oasis, Guitar Hero, Runs in the Family, Ampersand
Oasis is the abortion song. Guitar Hero is just a cool song, as is Runs in the Family. Ampersand is AWESOME. "I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand." :D
1 - Starting to edit out 'movie' about fetching a crane from the Japanese room, aka "crane's nest". I'm not sure if the class will get some of the humor (Crane's nest, reft) but meh.
2 - Test tomorrow. I should be fine. At least I did the extra credit.
3 - That TI parody (Obama on the left, McCain on the right) is starting to grow on me. Also, we're learning about national versus state government powers.
4 - Just finished developing pictures. Why do I always post when we finish something in this class?
5 - THE BRAIN HOMG. It sucks that they don't teach about the brain in high school biology (only physiology, which I'm in) so I don't think I've learned about the actual brain since 7th grade, or before. 5+ years. O.o
6 - Don't really like Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises) but I get his boring writing style now; he used to write for a news paper.