I voted the other day without even glancing at any of the platforms on which people were running. I solely voted for people who I thought looked honest or like good leaders. I think it's funny how I can so easily commit Andrew-atrocities, but I guess it's just De Anza. None of the candidates are actually going to reduce the budget cuts or make unit ( Read more... )

"19th century French physiologist Pierre Flournes discovered a major problem with medical anesthesia. When it contained chloroform, he believed this actually allowed patients to feel the pain of the surgery, while still immobilizing them. Yet, it would also cause the memory to fail when they woke up, so they would not remember experiencing the pain ( Read more... )

Sooo... I started work awhile ago at DACA Swim School.. teaching the little kiddies to do backstroke and butterfly and all that nonsense. I practically had to learn a whole new language for the job too. Peanut butter is streamline on the back and jelly is streamline on stomach. Pop-ups are breaths, digging hands are the swim stroke in doggy paddle ( Read more... )

Cal Day was awesome today. I walked all over campus and got a really good idea of what the next few years will be like. I officially registered at Berkeley and it is now set. No more neuroticism on my part. BEARS! For sheezee.

You know what. I finally get it. I am living my own life and not anyone else's. So, you know what. I might not go to Berkeley. I might go to Union or Tulane or somewhere where it may be a better fit for me. I cannot let the desires of any other people dictate what I will do with my own life because no one else is living my life. I am the one stuck ( Read more... )

Starting next fall, I will be attending University of California - Berkeley. I am very proud of this and I worked extremely hard for it. I do not think a better situation could have come out of the college admissions process for me.

Something that always cracks me up is when people weigh themselves at the gym before they work out and after. It's not like the person is going to start out at 250 and drop to 150 after 40 minutes of work. I think that's the American attitude. Results have to be immediate and conspicuous for people to do anything. Self-discipline is a discipline ( Read more... )

If there was ever a word that was blatantly misused more than any other, it would be truth. People refer to their own agendas, dogmas, and opinions as what is universally true, but it is not. I find it offensive when people speak of something that is not factual as absolute truth. For example, I find it irritating when people say that the "word of ( Read more... )

I love how spyware removers even use spyware to advertise. *Pop-up* Remove Spyware Immediately. You have spyware if *lists symptoms, etc* you have excessive pop-ups! Ugh.

I think the idea that there could be nothing after death simply terrifies people.