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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
11:33 pm	*breathe* Sometimes I have to breath and make myself not care about what fundamentalism is doing to this world. In the last two days Ive found two of my close friends reading material that basically says "atheists/those of other religions are evil and should be eradicated. Also, the use of political force is a necessary means to an end in bringing about christ's work." I dont know how, but I never encountered this sort of christianity in Flint. I heard horror stories sure, but pretty much, the most christian person I knew had a "well, I'll pray for you" reaction to finding out I don't really believe in god. Which is actually quite nice, as the sentiment really is "I want the best for you." The religiosity of it is a bit much, but it's not particularly invasive or mean spirited. What I've seen from those around me now is downright...hateful. I have no morals? Nothing means anything to me? I deserve to rot in hell? I should be marked as a danger to society? (all of these are claims I've seen in the past week) Also, my idea for a Statistics project was rejected by a team member because I had shown a significant, positive correlation between condom prevalence in a country and it's life expectancy. It "interfered with her sensibilities." I believe some of her words were "I disagree with that." She also disagreed with including "adolescent fertility rates" and "total fertility," also significant correlations (pretty much, the more contraceptive use and the less babies people have, the healthier the country...a few caveats with that interpretation, but that's what she was running from). I'm sorry reality impinges on your religion, it must be horrible for you. We'll take every controversial part out of the model, leaving only density of physicians and access to clean water in it, even though yes, contraceptives made for more of the model than even those obvious parts did. And then theres the everypittstudent.com thing. Tons of posters, tons of chalk messages on the ground, just saying everypittstudent.com. And what is it? An evangelical christian missionary site. I'm a bit upset about it. For one, I was thinking it was some kind of forum for discussing issues around campus. Which, if you think about it, is a pretty good idea. A message board to talk about things like what should the program council be doing, what we'd like to see from PittArts, comments on how things are managed..I think I should suggest this. But its not that, its this other thing. Which seems kinda sneaky and dishonest in the first place, but then seems to imply that every pitt student should be a christian. And really, a lot of us know what we believe and to make such a broad statement is rather demeaning and patronizing. I don't know if this genuinely upsets me or if I'm just taking out my frustration about the number of my friends who seem to think I'm subhuman out on these fliers by altering them to say things like "Not everypitstudent is a christian" and "everypittstudent will be devoured when the old ones rise." (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
10:18 am	New blog Hey, you all should go to www.knitstudysleep.com I mean it. Awesome site, that is. go! off with you! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
10:57 am	I love my lunchbox. I made mini onigiri today, can't wait to eat it. Onigiri is possibly the best dorm room cooking I've done yet. They sell little tuna salad kits at the campus quick mart, and with one of those and a cup of rice, I have myself way more of a meal than I could have hoped for. Lunch today is onigiri, crackers, peanut butter mnms with almonds, an orange and baby carrots. Everything but the orange is nicely snuggled in my little bento box. Its so cute. Well, I could make it cuter, but I'm new at this, okay? My onigiri does not smile back at me quite yet. I have nothing else worth posting, can you tell? btw, If you don't know what onigiri is,...well, its a ball of rice with stiff in it. Mine have tuna and mayo. Lightly salted. yum. Though I think I could get creative with the fillings. You take a clump of rice, mush it out in saran wrap in your hand, put filling on the layer or rice, a little more rice, and then lightly squish it into a ball of rice. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
3:44 pm	Schools back. I think this semester will be hard, but enjoyable. My professors all seem clear, organized and generally with it, although perhaps a bit strict. I think I might get interested in prob and stat 2, or at least it would be the best thing for my sanity, as apparently the threat of 10+ hrs of homework a week is not hyperbole according to ratemyprofessors and various people who have done this before. Macroecon is going to be good, though it means more time with Laura(more on this later). Its funny, its a giant bunch of non-engineering freshmen. Those folks are strange. Also, signing up for the 1 credit "Aquatic conditioning". Two times a week, it will get me in the pool. The instructor was like "look at it as a mandatory light workout. with a grade." And Sri's taking it, and I love Sri. So for all of this, yay. ( But... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
2:58 pm	( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
11:23 pm	I want to knit a specific sweater- I even have enough yarn for it and in the right gauge! like the exact gauge! just need needles (24 inch circular, size 4) and the pattern, which is seven bucks. when I get money...*sigh* oh, and photographic proof I gave blood: (Comment on this)
Monday, May 12th, 2008
12:04 pm	OOOH! Okay, Junkyard wars is on, for the first time Ive seen in years. Best show ever, by the way. ..hm, if thats my favorite show, youd think Id be going into mechanical. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, March 28th, 2008
2:10 pm	Barack Obama waved to me today at lo, it was awesome. He was giving a speech at soldiers and sailors today. I was very bummed when I was unable to get tickets so I arrived at eleven to physics in full knowledge that sometime very soon, the love of my political life would be speaking in the building across the street. However, as I am not the only one with a crush on Obama in physics, we got the great idea to run oer and see what we could see. We exit thaw hall at the same time Obama is walking out of his bus and into the back of the building (the back faces thaw right where the door is). We screamed, he turned and he waved at the four of us. It was awesome. We stayed out front for another hour and listened to the audio feed of the speech. I was geeked. Life is good. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
3:49 am	A few things. 1. Its four in the morning. I lied down to go to sleep over four hours ago. This happens way too often. 2. This past round of exams went much, much better than the last round of first exams. 3. I love my family. You guys are awesome. 4. Sword fighting is awesome. I'll put up with the bruises, this is way too much fun. 5. I am way out of shape. I could barely do 100 crunches the other day, and well...Ive never had strength in my arms anyway, so saying I couldnt do a push up is really nothing unexpected. 6. I need to buy shampoo. 7. I really think Lady K's crossover game needs to happen. I want to know if I can make programs on my laptop and have them transfer to the staff(kinda like spells). 8. Its four in the morning. I have class in five hours. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
4:18 pm	So its halloween. Im not really going to do anything other than homework. I did rocky last night, it was a good show. I really like this cast, though Im not sure what they think of me. Im a little awkward. Theyre nice people though. Its always surprising just how welcoming people actually are, how there really are good people...and that theyre wearing fishnets. I might join the more year round cast, too, a few of the people in the pitt show are from that cast and said I could just come to a show, meet the full cast, and if no one wants to kill me, I can be a trannie. Which would be cool, I think I like being a trannie better than a cast member anyway. But yeah, everythings pretty cool ight now, Im looking at next two weeks being full of exams, and I feel much better about these ones than I did about the last ones. Also, figred out that my final grade in calc 2 cannot differ from my grade on the final by more than one letter grade, so my "ohmygodohmygodohmygodicantdothisimsofuckingtired" exam in calc can be forgiven because I actually do know whats going on in there. Notice, I havent had a quiz that has not been perfect. If only they were weighted more. And chemistry is going to be amazing, because its redox reactions and all the cool reactions I worked on so much last year and can still do rather easily, and I was able to do all the problems in the practice exam before we even started covering the material on it. Physics....well, circular motion, some trig stuff and I need to sit down and have a long chat before I feel prepared for that one. I have a history class in my next semester! Whooo! Its not western civ, that didnt fit in my schedule. Its american history 1875 to the present, which I thought would be fine enough. f I want the major or minor in history I have to take either it, western civ or the pre-1875 american. I really wanted western civ, becuase I dont have a good knowledge of it, but I do kinda like american history, so its okay. American Way of War wasnt offered this semester. Anyway, that my post for the next age, if anyone wanted to know I still exist. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
8:57 pm	oh, screw japanese. My double major will be theatre. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
4:02 pm	There is a guy who plays violin on the corner of fifth and Bigelow everyday. Hes really animated about it, too. He plays with all the passion and enthusiasm of all the greats, standing there lunging into his rendition of "twinkle, twinkle little star" in a rolled up sleeves and suspenders, his faded purple ponytail sticking out of a faded brown bowler hat. He's truly, truly terrible. I walk past him everyday and wonder where the cat-torture is. I think he picked up a "learn to play violin in five days" book, but thats where Ive seen all the songs he plays in one place. Im making socks. Theyre awesome. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
4:59 pm	Activities Fair whoo! I found karate club, theyre nice. Also found a club that helps people in inner city schools apply to college. Japanese speaking society, and thinking about the glbta society, but I dont really know about that one. Engineers without borders, and engineers for a sustainable world both seem cool... I dont have the time, but damn it all sounds fun. Definitely going to karate. Starts tomorrow Now I just have to work my schedule out, but I think I can. I have to catch doc, Ive missed him every time Ive tried to talk to him in the past week, he left a message on my phone with his home number, his wife keeps telling me he'll be back in a few hours. But other than that, theres an open Engineering analysis that works, and a calc 2 that is only at capacity, not over like most of them are so I think I'll have a better shot at getting signed in. Im okay, I think. It should work. *crosses fingers* (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
7:53 pm	allegenee genac genac genac! in pitt, whoo. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 14th, 2007
10:57 am	hee, theres a 2 credit lifegaurding class and a 1 credit beginning karate class...lets see, I need three elective credits.... okay, so I'll probably go for the karate and "japanese culture through film," but at some point I should get my life gaurding cert.. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 11th, 2007
10:28 am	wow, havent posted in a bit. meh, not much to post about. Valedictorian, got scholarships, going to pitt....yup. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
2:49 pm	hi ho, hi ho, its off to disneyworld I go... (Comment on this)
Friday, February 16th, 2007
11:08 am	Best Midlife Crisis Ever My mum needs a vacation. We're going to Disney World. Soon. Like. March 1. I love my mum. also, we're going to have to vote on American Idol. Theres a Flint Central graduate, c/o 1998. Lakisha Jones. I looked up the audition on YouTube, shes pretty good, Simon really liked her, too. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 8th, 2007
10:33 pm	theres a spot on the couch that smells like joe. It is not the same spot that smells like vomit, though, which is why Im sitting on this side of the couch. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
10:36 pm	I love joe. A lot. I could probably expand on this topic for ages, but I'll spare those that still read my journal. If there were a way of subjecting those that dont read my journal, now... anywho. Full tuition honors scholarship to pitt, I'm going, of course. didnt really apply elsewhere, and it was my first choice anywho. I love joe. happy. (Comment on this)