So, I was walking back from CVS with a bunch of bags, and on my way home I head towards the library. These two kids, 10 and maybe 13, are walking ahead of me and sort of arguing about something - the younger one almost comes back towards me, then stops and goes back. And then after a little bit he came back towards me and asked if I needed any help.

It was incredibly sweet, and unexpected, and it really made my day.

On the other end, I'd been communicating with CDS (dining services, where I work) several times because I knew I hadn't been paid for some of my work. Nothing happened until the last time I emailed them, when I cc'd the head of CDS. Then the student employment person finally checked the time cards. It turns out she "missed" 25 HOURS of my work. That's $214. And I'm certain that's not even all that I've not been paid for. It's insane.

This is a brilliantly written article, attempting to explain to the educated of Europe why 32 deaths by a legal gun purchased with minimal safeguards will have no effect on the gun-happy of our country:
"It is part of the national religion...To gun-control advocates, this [that concealed weapons permitted on the Virginia Tech campus would have stopped the shooting] is self-evident madness."

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9030529&fsrc=RSS

Happy Birthday, the song, is copyrighted.

boston people, come to ny whichever weekend i'm gonna be there. it's only $15 each way. That's cheap.

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODetc.
I'll tell you on Saturday.

I bet Jedis never get songs stuck in their heads

CompUSA had CDs on sale for 90 at $10, and DVDs for 50 at $10. I need neither - I have plenty of each. So what did I do? I bought both. Because they were cheap.

I am going to finish my fucking wolf and make it into a pillow before I leave Kansas City, god fucking damnit.

Pembroke Hill School class of 2005 (the people I should have graduated with; my friends, classmates, and peers for 5 years):
Number of people in the class: 91
Number of people going to Ivy League schools (or MIT): 10 (11%)
Number of people going to generally considered "very good" schools: 34 (37%)
Number of people going to generally considered "decent" schools: 16 (18%)
Number of people going to KU: 8 (9%)
Number of National Merit finalists/semifinalists/commended: 31 (34%)
Number of people who got into first/second choice schools: 85 (93%)
Number of people on facebook before they graduate high schooll: 7 (8%)
Number of those who are not preppy girls but rather, very surprisingly, nerdy tree-loving boys: 1 (14%)

General Pembroke Hill:
Number of products in bookstore only because they're in Ivy league bookstores: 31 (about)
Number of points in the Strategic Plan: 35
Number that have to do with academic quality: 4 (11%)
Number of people drug tested on 4/20: 3 (1%)
Number of APs taken this year: 466
Number of teachers with doctorates: 10 (8%)
Number of those teaching math or science: 0
Number of highschool math teachers who were not jocks/cheerleaders in high school/college: 0
Number of really really hot guys who were in a class with me even though they're three years older and who once asked me and Chloe if he could watch us debate and who according to rumor is gay but according to facebook is straight: 1
Number of bitchy principals who almost wouldn't let me have a senior picture last year until my mom made a fuss, and who this year decided to take the results of a health/wellness survey and use them to justify drug tests, so that now students won't feel comfortable answering honestly on surveys of that type, destroying their utility (on the other hand, the students left are so drugged up/drunk they might not figure out they shouldn't answer honestly):1

BVN class of 2005 (the public school I should have gone to):
Number of people I know: 105
Number of people I hate(d): 72, give or take (69%)
Number of people I know going to "good" schools:
Number of people I know going to "decent" schools:
Number of people I hate who are on facebook before they've graduated: 3

To be completed later, when I have the BVN college list in front of me

I watched the end of Titanic tonight. I'd never seen any of it before. It's awful, thinking about it. How do you act when you know you're going to drown and there's nothing you can do? What do you do when you see children with no way out? The half-empty lifeboats didn't go back. They let the people die out there. How...how do you do it?

Needless to say, I cried. A lot.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning, come home in the evening and have nothing to say?

I ran into Blake Goza at blockbuster tonight. it's nice when people recognize you and actually seem pleased to see you

I love the title of the Shins song "Caring is Creepy"

Feif, I finally finished that diary. It's funny: I didn't start it till January, I didn't keep a diary first half of this year. But on the other hand, it only covers 5 months. Fastest of any diary I've had so far.

and to make matters as bad as they can get, from the trailer it looks like they fucked up the sisterhood movie, especially the part about lena. Alexis bledel isn't a) gorgeous, b) at all greek-looking, and i think they got kostos totally wrong. plus, they'll prob. want a happy ending, so they'll make the part about bridget end happy, which it totally doesn't in the first book. god fucking damnit. jesus fucking carpenter. what the fuck is wrong with my life?

at least i know the meds are working cause i'm not actually feeling suicidal for once. wheee!

"What was it about little sisters smashing their heads?"
My sis has had stitches three times on her head - twice in like the same place on her forehead, once on her chin

According to facebook, my roommate for two months this summer listens to, among others: Snoop Dogg, Beyonce, Maroon 5, Ludacris, Outkast.

At least she likes Jon Stewart

There is currently a handle (I accidentally typed handfull first) of smirnoff and a handle of whiskey, both like 1/4 full, along with a full bottle of another kind of vodka, in the fridge in burton basement.

1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video: um...I think 46 on DVD, and 2 or 3 on video. Of the DVDs, three were purchased (but two of them are on the same disc)

2. The last film I bought: Charade/His Girl Friday (Cary Grant and Hitchcock and Audrey Hepburn in the first = yay)

3. The last film I watched: Love Actually

4. Five films that I watch a lot: Um...this is hard cause I watch a ton of movies on my computer, in pieces...The Philadelphia Story, Pretty Woman, 10 Things I Hate About You, Moulin Rouge, Chasing Amy...shut up, I adore sappy romances

5. Tag 5 people and have them put this in their journal:ldswimmer1, crimps4, bardilicious, ecogreen2000, anne_archy

Anybody up for going to see the circus tomorrow at 7:20? If not, how bout Sunday at 7:20?

You scored as Goth. </td> Goth 100% Loner 94% Punk/Rebel 69% Drama nerd 63% Geek 50% Ghetto gangsta 50% Stoner 31% Prep/Jock/Cheerleader 6% What's Your High School Stereotype? created with QuizFarm.com

I like that I'm only 50% geek. Of course, it helps that I was answering half for high school me and half for current me - and those are two pretty much totally different people, as some of you know.

Yay for 5 a.m.!!! Seriously, if anyone at Oberlin is awake at 2, please please PLEASE come up here and yell at me to go to bed, and maybe even close my computer half way or something. I need to stop doing this.

Good news: I have two boxes fully packed, and am starting on a suitcase. Bad news: I packed really poorly, putting all my clothes in one box, which makes it a lot harder to pack other, more fragile stuff, and I may have packed stuff I can use for work this summer, so I may need to partially unpack one box.

1. Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
2. I will then tell what reminds me of you.
3. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, it would be...
4. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
5. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
6. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
7. Put this in your journal.

Let me warn you though...I'm really bad at coming up with words