Dude... maybe now they will institute a non-drinking section in the stadium. Now that they can admit that people drink there. You have to love compus politics. Or something like that.
And in unrelated news, it is now legal to drink and or posses hard alcohol on campus... but beer is still illegal on most of campus. Go figure. The dean said they changed the policy to "reflect the action on campus." Heh. If a bunch of people go around killing students at random, will they make that legal, too? I mean, since we're changing the standards to fit the lowest common denominator. We might as well.
Hell, why do we have rules anyway? People are just going to break them. If enough people break them, we'll have to change the rule, and that's just way to much trouble. We should abolish rules. And rulers. And protractors, dadgum it. I hate protractors.
Dorinne seems to have a fear of looking bad or of crossing boundries. It will be easy to work with Dorinne on a team, because Dorinne will usually follow the rules. However, this desire to respect the boundries can often be construed as a lack of confidence and people will walk over Dorinne if she is not careful.
Dorinne is sarcastic. This is a defense mechanism designed to protect her ego when she feels hurt. She pokes people harder than she gets poked. These sarcastic remarks can be very funny. They can also be harsh, bitter, and caustic at the same time.
Dorinne tends to write a bit smaller than the average person. When a person's letters are small and tiny, this indicates an ability to focus and concentrate. This character trait is a huge asset in careers like math, science, race car driving, and flying planes. However, if Dorinne writes tiny all of the time, she will also display characteristics of someone who is socially introverted. Dorinne will often sit on the sideline and watch others get the attention at parties. she might be willing to open up and be warm, but only in small groups or a select group of people. When she is busy working on a project, it is common for all other noises and distractions to just fade away and her ability to focus is incredible. When she says she didn't hear you... really, she didn't hear you.
I guess those are the most important parts of what it said... interesting, anyway.
Apparently, my body has decided that we cannot survive on less than like, 12 hours of sleep a night. Which is annoying, not to mention impossible to maintain.
And MySQL is giving me fits. Says I can't login as root, or set up an anonymous account, even after I've reinstalled it a million times. So I downloaded the other installer... or, am trying to download, I guess. For some reason, my super spiffy business class line... is only supporting 1KB down at the moment. Weird.
I'm sorry. I forgot that friends are only supposed to say nice things that don't piss you off or hurt your feelings. Stupid me, I thought that pat of being a friend might possibly be voicing concerns and worries, and I don't know, possibly trying to figure out why you make the decisions that you do.
But then, I regularly ditch my friends to do homework. What do I know.
Dude... they are drilling holes in the second floor of Butler today. It's loud. And all my classes are on the first floor. Apparently right below where they are drilling. Which is annoying, because it's freakin loud. But funny, beacuse I have visions of a worker dude drilling right through the ceiling and falling into the classroom.... which would be a very entertaining. Very. Entertaining.
Ha. If you're ever looking for a good article on why user interfaces don't necessarily make or break a project... try an article called "Heckel’s law: conclusions from the user interface design of a music appliance — the bassoon." It was published in Personal & Ubiquitous Computing (Jul2004, p208). If you can't find it, e-mail me and I send you a pdf copy (I'd post it, but it's not online... copyright laws and all that). A must read if you ever even thought about playing a woodwind instrument. Really.
You are Prowl. Quiet, loyal, logical and you have the patience of Job. Good for you. You are a brilliant problem solver as long as it's not an illogical situation. If so, you are lost. You don't have much of an imagination. You are friendly, but not too sociable. You listen more than you talk. Rock on with your thinkin' self.
The internet pisses me off. I mean. I can deal with the over abundance of porn, spam, hate, misinformation, and general crap. But a paragraph like this:
Duhz.. Hope i figure out wat all these blogging stuffs r all abt.. Kinda chim leh. Well, i'm definitely BOREd. Or else i wun be here figuring out this blogging stuff. Kinda fun in a way. Kills time. But hmph... Isnt it weird letting ppl invade ur personal daily stuffs? Anyway just a plain jane. Wat else can others know
more abt me?!
[Excerpt from XiNYi's Daily] Now. really. I don't proof my entries. I don't have time. And I use some odd contractions (prolly comes to mind). And I use the word "like" like, way too much. And I'm addicted to elipses... but. Come on people. At least try and post something readable? Even if you are a Junior High / high school. The entire world is reading this, after all (potentially, the entire internet world, anyway).
Oh yeah... Chad's christmas presents have started arriving in the mail... so I made him come with me to WalMart and buy wrapping paper. And some of his stuff is already wrapped and set out (though not under a tree yet as Chad absolutly refuses to set up our tree until after Thanksgiving) :-) Yay for presents. And for actually having a place of our own to decorate.
ok. So in this entry, I am going to attempt to talk politics. Because it is election day. And you've probably already voted. However... if you are one of those type of people (you know how you are)... the type that gets all whiney and hatey and weepy over politics. Don't. Read. Thank you.
Now. The presidential election. Just in case you wondered, I am voting for Bush. Now... don't get me wrong. I have no great love nor loyalty to the Bush family. I like Dubyah only slightly better than his father. He has made some questionable or possibly even bad decisions as president (stupid us, we elected a human). But. Overall, he hasn't screwed up that badly. I mean, really... he hasn't let any part of the US fall into the ocean. He has only sent our troops in to quell one war that wasn't ours (and we had a vested interest in it, unlike say, Bosnia). No one is trying to impeach him (other than in rumors). The economy, which is so not dependant on the current president but we like to think it is, is... well, the economy. I actually don't know if it's up or down. Huh. The job market is up, for the moment, anyway. No other counties are invading us (other than Mexico).
So, in short, I think that the president is oding an ok job. Maybe not a great job. Maybe not a spectacular job. But it works.
Now. Kerry. I can find very few reasons in Kerry's campaign to actually vote *for* Kerry. Socialist Medical Care? Eh... I (strongly) don't agree with it, but sure, you cold vote for that. Raising the minimum wage? Ok... bad idea, but if you have no understanding of economics, you could vote for that... but that's it. I mean. If you get your political input from the TV (and most people these days do), you would think that Kerry's campaign slogan was "Don't vote for Bush!" How constructive is that? I hate voting against people... I much rather vote for someone than against their opponent.
My prediction? Bush will win, albeit not by so much... and Hillary Clinton will run in 2008. My conspiracy theorist mind thinks that maybe it's planned for Kerry to lose just for this reason... but that's just me.
Next topic: the Mississippi Constitution. Did you know that there's an amendment up for vote today to ban gay marriage, and in fact to refuse to recognize gay marriages from other states. I personally think this is great, while it lasts, but that if it passes it's only a matter of time before the Supreme Court overrules it. But... no one I know really new it was on the ballot until they saw it there... granted, the college community is not informed. I would think that this would be bigger on a college campus, as we have a more outspaken (if not larger) gay population. But no. If we read the Clarion Ledger, or something like that, we might have seen an editorial on it. But there were no "Vote yes on Amendment ###" signs (or vote no, for that matter)... it hasn't been heavily campaigned. Is that because people just expect it to pass? Or is it less of an issue in Mississippi? I'm really not sure...
Ok... political rant over. Go and vote, support democracy, free your mind, and all that. Yay.
So I started playing Dark Cloud last night.... Oh yeah. Big mistake. So addicting. I crawled through like, 6 or 8 levels of the dungeon before I finally stopped and went to bed. I have to say though.... after playing kinddom hearts, the graphics and cut scenes and stuff are somewhat lacking. I am so owned by SquareSoft. Maybe at Christmas break I'll be adventerous enough to start on the the Final Fantasy games.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
