Ramblings of a Constipated Mind

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.
--John Donne

Quotes of Da Moment:
"Is death the last sleep? No--it is the last and final awakening."
--Sir Walter Scott

"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."
--John Taylor

This weekend has had great moments.
This weekend has had okay moments.
This weekend has had really depressing moments.
But most of all, this weekend has been full of stress stress stress.
People at school have been having breakdowns and collapsing onto the floor in a heap of tears, screams, and mangled limbs.

I might be next.

*gets a pillow ready just in case*

Quote of Da Moment:
There isn't one. My brain is fried.

The only major thing that I've done recently is watch High Fidelty. It's a movie I've been wanting to see for a while, and James gave it to me for my birthday.

Whoa, this movie is...this movie is...this movie just is. I can't really put it into words. After it was over, I couldn't decide what I thought about it. There's just so much it's trying to say, and so much lurking below the surface, I couldn't get it all.

Basically, it's about this guy named Rob who just broke up with his girlfriend Laura. So he thinks back to his "top five most memorable breakups" and tries to figure out what went wrong. Why can't he seem to successfully handle a relationship? He searches for the secret of true love while running a record store and trying to figure out what to do about Laura.

Thank God for a movie that takes the time to seriously explore questions that plague the average male and people involved in relationships in general, such as: When is it time to move on? Is it worth getting involved with someone just to avoid being single? What role does sex have in all of this? When should I stop focusing on me and start focusing on the other person? What can we learn from heartbreak?

I really want to write a full review of this movie, but that will depend on how much time I have and whether or not I can see it again - since I feel I really need to. I'm not sure if I agree with all the messages this film is presenting, but I do consider it a good movie. A very good movie. Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure if I really really like it or not. I'll have to watch it again to find out. Right now, my brain just can't fully grasp it all.

Quote of Da Moment:
"Hey, I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I've read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I've understood them. They're about girls, right? Just kidding."
--High Fidelity

This is an interesting article on male frontal nudity in the movies. Some of you might be happy of recent developments regarding the rapid dissolving of this controversial taboo, others of you might not. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Do I feel all nudity should be abolished from films? No. Nudity can be used effectively and not gratuitously (eg. Fight Club). But these days, it seems like it's harder and harder to find movies that actually use it for a purpose. I suppose it's good that now Hollywood isn't being prejudiced and just making women expose themselves for audiences - and possibly awarding them Oscars for it...

Hm. Part of me wants to see all four of those movies mentioned. Kinsey because it just sounds interesting, Sideways because I remember Paul Giamatti's preformance in American Splendor, Alexander because it's an Oliver Stone movie, and maybe Bad Education just because it sounds good.

And now for some random video clips:

Kozo - This short clip was made to promote the next video listed. Basically, it shows the main character, a sumo-wrestling hippo named Kozo (that concept is just so weird it's awesome) dancing to "Thong Song". Shake it, shake it!

Kozo vs. Vending Machine - Kozo has an amusing "fight" for what appears to be sushi or some other Japanese food against...the machine he's trying to get it from.

The Snowman - This funny short from the same company that invented Kozo is about what happens when a snowman gets abducted by aliens. It doesn't matter if you think it's funny or not - those computer graphics are nice.

Stapler Fahrer Klaus - This is a hilarious live-action short film. It's in German, but you should still be able to understand what's going on. It starts out kind of slow, but after about two minutes it starts to get really good and funny. This could be used as a video to encourage safety in the workplace. It's very Kill Bill-ish in terms of the exaggerated use of blood.

If only this had been a real campaign during the election...I'd have supported them:


They'll not only be the best leaders for the USA, but for the rest of the galaxy as well.

Here's a picture of Souwa and me at Empowerment Day. Ignore the right half, the left looks a lot nicer. I look stoned. If only they had taken a picture after I'd had some coffee instead of right at the end of Empowerment Day when I was feeling sleepy... Oh well, people still say we make a nice-looking couple.


Somebody get me some CAFFEINE!

On another note: the traffic on my movie reviews site is rapidly declining. That isn't much of a surprise though, consider how little I update it. The traffic for my blog, however...that's been going up ever since I started it. Right now it averages about 15-20 unique hits a day ("unique hits" means the times it's accessed by different computers, so presumably different people), and a little more than that in terms of normal hits. Last month I received more than 400 unique hits, and about 600 normal hits. This month my blog doesn't seem to be quite as popular though. Oh well.

Happy 1-week anniversary of "officialness", Souwa!

Hm. That's enough randomness for now.

Quote of Da Moment:
"Change can be so constant, you don't even feel the difference until there is one."
--Life as A House

*hums* I've got the power! Dum...dum, dum dum...

Hm, today I had to get to school by 7:15 for this annual activity they have for 11th and 12th graders called Empowerment Day. Basically, we all split into teams and do a bunch of activities designed to inspire teamwork, leadership skills, blah blah blah. Some of the activities weren't too bad, but others were kinda dull. And it lasted until around 4:30. That's more than 9 hours of being at school. On a Saturday. I am now convinced that the staff of the school's sole mission in life is to make our lives a living hell. Somebody bring some marshmallows.

Hm, I don't feel very empowered. You failed, stupid school, bwahahahaha! I resisted your attempts to make me conform to the rules of the system! Bwahahahaha! Who's laughing now?!

Oh wait, they are, because we still have school on Monday and the workload hasn't decreased at all. Ugh, they've covered all the angles.

After that, I went to get coffee with Souwa...we had a good conversation about this and that...and the caffeine really helped. Now I'm back home. I watched North By Northwest. It was good, as I remembered. I don't think I consider it Hitchcock's best though, at least of the ones I've seen. And I can't believe they got away with that many sexual innuendos in 1959. Whoever wrote the script (I don't know if Hitch did or not) should have written Bond movies or something.

Life is good. End of story.

Quotes of Da Moment:
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
--Woodrow Wilson

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nooooooo. Just as I had finished typing this long post, Blogger screwed up and I lost it. I want to run over this computer with a semi truck. This post probably won't end up as good as the original, but oh well. I'll try to basically say the same things.

Yes, I know "amarrated" is not a word. Just let me continue.

Hm...I haven't updated in a while, I know. Last week I had a ton of work. History coursework, TOK report...it got really nasty. Hm. Oh, and on Friday I went with four other people from school to a thing called the Knowledge Bowl...basically a competition where the geeks and nerds go to answer trivia. We won 2nd place again. That was kind of disappointing, since won 4/4 rounds and then lost in the final to a school that didn't even seem that good. And in the round that decided who won 3rd place, we knew at least 90% of the answers! No fair, they took our set of questions.

Anyways, time to get to the main point of this post. Let me begin by giving some background info...I'm going to be really direct in order to make this quick.

Ever since October 22, Souwa Ng and I have known that we liked each other. We've been an "unofficial" couple. We've been getting stuff out of the way, like telling our parents and things like that. Thankfully, we've been able to leave things up to God and take more than a few leaps of faith, and He's come through for us. Things have gone smoothly. Christ rules.

But what about now? Well, there's this Salvadorean (I haven't heard about it in any other Central American countries) traditional action known as "amarrar". Basically, it means that a guy does something special for the girl he likes and asks her to be his girlfriend, and if she says yes then they become an "official" couple. If she says no, he goes home and cries. Boohoo.

Souwa and I had talked about it and decided we wanted to do it when the right time came. Though since I really really really like her, I thought this past weekend sounded good, hehe.

Basically, we decided that we would go out for coffee on Sunday. Since I can't drive (a major inhibiting factor in the whole "amarrar" thing), she needed to pick me up. So when she drove up, my family left - they knew what was going on - and went to dinner. Souwa called me to let me know she had arrived, and I said something like, "Come on in and wait for 5 to 10 minutes. I'm still getting ready."

I know, that was a lame response. But I hadn't expected her to call, so I just said the first thing that came to mind. Anyways, she came in, and I had stuff waiting. Woohoo!

The basic idea was a "treasure hunt". There was a note waiting for her, and at the end it had a clue. She had to use that clue to find a gift that was somewhere in the house, along with the next clue. And so on and so on.

This whole time, I was up in my room trying to figure out what part she was at and what was going on. At first I was really nervous...but then I prayed, and felt a lot better afterwards. If there's anything Souwa and I have been able to see evidence of, it's the importance of "prayer power". It's amazing. Sometimes we can see God working so clearly it's like He's right in front of us.

Anyway, the last few clues involved her following a trail of roses up the stairs and onto the balcony. This was about the time I sneaked out and came up behind her. She turned around and started to say something, but I stopped her so I could finish and give my little "speech". I had thought about what to say, and had told myself I wouldn't forget, but of course, as soon as she turned around and looked at me my mind went blank and my thoughts seemed to ooze out of my ears. I was speechless for a few seconds. Then I managed to get out a few sentences before finally ending with the famous question, "Would you like to be my 'official' girlfriend?"

"Yes I really want to...but...I'll have to talk to my parents and think about it..." came the reply.

That was a little disappointing, but I had accepted that that might happen, so it didn't hurt as much as it could have. After all, it's not like we were going to stop liking each other.

So we went downstairs, had some coffee, talked... I really didn't feel like her parents should be any part of the equation. This was about us and God. Period. If she wanted to, she should say "yes", but if she wanted to wait that was fine with me. I could be patient. No matter what happened, God was in control.

She thought about it some more...and then said yes. So I asked her multiple times if she was absolutely positive about it, and she said yes a few more times. Woohoo! Yay! We talked some more...she got about 5 phone calls in 5 minutes from people who knew what was going on and called to congratulate her (I don't want to think about what that would have been like if she had said no)...and then she left. Afterwards, I felt such an incredible sense of gratitude I just walked around the house for a few minutes mumbling "Thank you" over and over again. It was like God was standing right next to me. Really incredible.

So yeah, now we're "officially" boyfriend/girlfriend. For the past few days, we haven't heard much except, "Congratulations! You make a great couple!" It's starting to get annoying.

I'm overjoyed. I hardly know how to describe things. Souwa, you're da best gal evar. I know that God has something planned for us, and no matter what it is, we'll make it through it. He is in control. I'm so lucky to have a friend like you!

If you want more details about what happened (I've only given you a basic outline...believe me, there's a lot more), maybe she'll post something about it on her blog. If not, too bad. Hehe. Be praying for us. I know we are.

G'night!

Quote of Da Moment:
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
--Sam Keen

It's been a while since I updated, I know. But before I say anything else I have to post this link here which will take you to a cool Top 10 List. I just think it's cool because of the winner.

Hm. I had a good birthday. After driving class, I came home and ate dinner. Then I opened some presents - thanks for the gifts, people! I got Alien and High Fidelity on DVD, the soundtrack to Amelie (you gotta love that French music), and a sweeeeeet leather jacket. Oh yeah. Now I look like Ahnold. Then I was just chilling at the computer when the doorbell rang. I could hear all these people outside the door whispering: "Andrew...*mumble mumble*...cumpleaños(that's "birthday" for all you non-Spanish speakers)...sssssshhh callate china("shut up chinese girl")..." That's when I realized that I was about to be surprised. So I went to the door without even bothering to put on shoes, and there were about a dozen of my classmates standing outside. Woohoo! They brought me a cake and stuff. Yay! Thanks, people! And a special thanks to Souwa who organized it all!

We ate cake and talked a while at my house, then we left. Souwa and I went with Miguel and James to Friday's Night at Seguidores. That was cool. That was about it for Friday.

Saturday = aaaaggghh. I woke up early to go take the SAT II. We started late. Spanish was about as easy as usual. The writing part was so-so...I probably bombed the essay (the stupid IB doesn't prepare us to write like that...you know, non-academicaly)...and I actually had time to read through all of the Math 2C exam. That hadn't happened before on the practice tests, so I'm feeling optimistic.

I got out around 12:20. Then at 1, I had to go to four hours of driving theory. It nearly killed me. I think I dozed through 20-30 minutes of it. Waaaayy too boring of a way to spend a Saturday. I'm not sure if I have to go this Saturday or not...I really hope not. Otherwise I might have to slit my wrists with a sharp pencil or something.

Sunday was normal, except I didn't go to church because I had to finish homework. Bummer. Stupid school. We went out to eat at Tony Roma's as a way of finally ending the birthday celebration for me and my mom, then it was off to "Cenando con Jesus" - The Lord's Supper - at Seguidores. I nearly fell asleep, unfortunately. My body felt like it had weights tied to it. It's kind of annoying to be standing for around 45 minutes and have all these people jumping and dancing and praising God and to barely be able to clap. I wanted to scream, "Please! Let's a sing a softer, more serious song!"

Anyways, now I'm back in school. I have lots of work due. I want to go back in time and kill whoever invented the terms "extended essay", "Group 4 project", and "History internal coursework".

Driving class was so-so today. I can't seem to remember to use my mirrors, which is not good. I'm gonna crash and die. When I go back to the USA I'm going to drive a nice, easy automatic so I never have to think about when to use the clutch. Yes, I'm a wimp. I don't care.

Also, I heard this message was forwarded to lots of people. Personally, I think it's hilarious. The sad part is that I actually agree with most of it. I feel so anti-American now. Gringolandia is so backwards sometimes.

Here it is:

To the citizens of the United States of America

In the light of your failure to elect a proper President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.

The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part.

Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters.

You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise".

You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.

Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary".

Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up "interspersed".

There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.

2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".

3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to Cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier).

You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents. Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles.

While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.

4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.

5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen",
but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.

6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of football.

What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game.

The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.

Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005.

You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.

7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if they give you any merde. The 97.85% of you who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky.

The Russians have never been the bad guys.

You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler.

Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".

9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.

Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium.

Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.

11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.

12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager".

The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Knat's Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Knat's Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.

13. From December 1st the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon - get used to it).

14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.

15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.

16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).

Thank you for your cooperation.

That's all for now. Au revoir.

Quote of Da Moment:
"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."
--Yakov Smirnoff

Today is my birthday. I'm 18 now. I feel the same as yesterday, except now there's this voice in the back of my head mumbling, "Ooohboy ohboy you're 18 now! That makes you a legal adult. Ohboy ohboy ohboy."

Of course, the only reason I announce that here is so everyone who reads my blog will send me mountains of presents in the mail. Hehe. I'm greedy and selfish, but today I'm allowed to be.

Oh, and I just saw the teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. You can get it here.

I saw it twice, one right after the other, and I'm going to watch it a lot more as the days ago by. This trailer is awesome. This trailer gave me chills. This trailer rocked my socks off. I think I need to go change pants now.

Dear God, please don't let this trailer be better than the actual movie.

Quotes of Da Moment:
"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
--Jonathan Swift

"Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened."
--Cora Harvey Armstrong

Today's my mom's birthday! Woohoo!

Hm. Didn't do much today except I studied a lot for the SAT IIs. Kinda dull. Oh, and I had my first driving class. It went pretty well. I drove around a traffic circle.

Did you read that? I drove around a traffic circle! About half a dozen times. Ignore the fact that during one of those times I almost got squashed by a bus. I'm so proud of myself.

Oh. I just saw Dawn of the Dead. Pretty good for a zombie movie, I guess. There was hardly any character development at all, but that was to be expected. I suppose there are worse things you could rent if you're just looking for a fun shoot-em-up. It followed all the horror movie requirements (keep in mind these have been put into practice for decades):

1. Lots and lots of gore.
2. People die.
3. Nudity.
4. People have sex. But this one managed to follow the old rule from the 70s - if you have sex, you die. Bwahahaha.

Oh yeah...Dubbya won the election. The first thing that came to mind when I heard the news was today's Quote of Da Moment...though I probably would have thought that if Kerry had won instead. It's times like this I wish Ahnold could run for President. Then maybe terrorists would think, "No! We can't attack the USA! Their President will beat us up and hurt us real gooood!"

I apologize in advance for the profanity.

Quote of Da Moment:
"Oh shit! There goes the planet."
--Spaceballs

Today is election day, whoop-de-doo. Time to see who's going to royally screw up the United States even more than it is already - because I'm convinced, as the Aliens Vs. Predator tagline goes (and it's been used a lot in connection with this election), that "whoever wins...we lose."

Speaking of political chaos and conspiracies: I just saw the original 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate. I can sum up my overall opinion of it with, "#*!&* there's a reason why people say it's one of the greatest films of all time!" It was amazing. I've seen more than a few of "old" movies, definitely more than all of my friends, but I have to say that this one really does deserve all the praise it gets. Sometimes I'll watch movies from the 50s or 60s (Hitchcock, mainly), and although they'll be really good, it just seems like something's missing...probably due to the change in style that's occured since they were released. They just don't pack the same punch they did when they first came out. And that's to be expected...I mean, what with the new special effects these days, or considering the amount of censorship that was placed on films back then.

But this one was different. I felt like this one was probably just as good when I saw it as it was when it was first released. And it's about the threat of Communism! I mean, really, you know a movie's good if it's about a Communist conspiracy and decades after the end of the Cold War people can still enjoy it and relate to it. It had a good plot, it was suspenseful, I didn't fall asleep...in short, the fact that it came out more than 40 years ago didn't get in the way.

See. This. Movie. I plan on seeing the re-make with Denzel Washington now...it should be in theaters here soon. But I honestly can't see why they would remake a movie that's widely regarded as a classic. It's like redoing Gone With The Wind (I didn't care much for that movie when I saw it, but that doesn't mean I don't think it would be stupid to make a "modern" version). I seriously doubt the new one is as good as the original. Either way, nothing can change the fact that the original one really is a masterpiece of cinema. The one criticism I have against it is that I figured out the "surprise" ending before it happened...but oh well, I suppose everything that was made 40 years ago can stand up to a modern audience.

Anyone who says black-and-white movies aren't as good as more recent ones is stupid. Just watch this one for proof. This is a movie that the word "timeless" actually does appeal to.

And to think, I first saw it on November 2, 2004 - election day. The whole plot revolves around a conspiracy to get rid of everything the USA stands for. How appropriate.

/cynicism

Quote of Da Moment:
"Why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?"
--The Manchurian Candidate

I just found what I should have put on my birthday/Christmas list.

*stares in awe*

The only phrases that come to mind right now are really dramatic ones that need to be said with an extremely strong British accent:

Dear God!
Good gravy!
Holy mother of pearl!

This is what I'm talking about.

Isn't it beautiful?

I had some X-rays taken of my face today, to see if my allergies have healed. Fun fun fun.

Hm. We stopped by ACES (the driving school) to work out the schedule for my classes, since they needed to be changed - I'll be taking the SAT I on December 4, so I won't be able to take classes then. In the end, here's how it turned out: I'll go every weekday for 9 days, from 4-6 PM. My first class: Wednesday. Woohoo! I might have a license within two weeks! Of course, it'll be hard to cram that in with school and everything, but it can be done. The only bad part is that I'll have a class on my birthday. Bummer. Oh, and this Saturday, I have to go to a theory class for four hours. Four hours! That's too much. I'm going to fall asleep or something.

Hm. That's all the news for today.

Quote of Da Moment:
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car."
--Anonymous