Why can't I get my Date class to work?  I'm changing it to conform to exactly what Ms Bridgett said and maybe then it'll work, because she's no help with my code as it currently is.

Find three consecutive odd integers that sum to 57.  Sure, that's not so hard when you're sitting there and reading this but I cannot do that in my head if I hear the question aloud.  I hate It's Ac math questions so much, so very much.

County Math Team thing is supposedly tomorrow, as is the AMC12 for which I am skipping a Chem lab and a French test, panic PANIC PANIC...

Lazed around the school media center.  Calvin Coolidge (see, everything just goes back to him, doesn't it?) napped 2 to 4 hours every working day and averaged 10 hours of sleep per night.  Ahh, much respect for the man.

Homework is done for today.  Is it?  I don't care, I'm done working.  It's enough to do just what's due tomorrow but I read more for the SAP and I'm even... thinking about the generalization.  Yes, that's about three months ahead of time, but I have absolutely no hope of finishing it if I waited until then.

EDIT - Oops, I forgot why I even logged in to Pitas, here it is... The Saturday Six

1. WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW?
Shanghai Knights in the theaters, X-Men on tv.

2. WHAT MOVIE DO YOU WANT TO SEE?
*guiltily*  Daredevil, Holes, The Two Towers

3. HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED ACTING OR SINGING?
I've considered it, but not as something that I would do...

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FILM?
Peter Pan.  Disney's finest work of animation was done in 1953 without computers.

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSICAL?
Uh... Peter Pan?  Or The Lion King, the animated movie.  No... no... musicals?  The only one I can think of is Damn Yankees that RM did last spring, that was pretty good, I think.

6. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BROADWAY PLAY?
No, but I've been to Radio City Music Hall, isn't that close enough?  TPMS's NY weekend, good times...

Remind me not to type during CP2 anymore.

I spent most of last night either blowing my nose (still not completely well from my very ill-timed cold) and tossing around in bed (from restlessness... that's all) or staring at the ceiling.  Before that I sort of banged my head against the bed (not against the wall, that hurts more) in between every stupid homework assignment I scrambled to finish.  Badly analyzed AP US article is going to screw me over at the end of the quarter and I hate the way our grades are laid out.

Long breaks from school are bad.  Ms Sullivan forgot my name but that's all right because I'd forgotten hers as well.

Caught during class again...?  Shame on me.

Thank you, iMesh.  I absolutely adore you, how else would I feed these addictions?

Currently am obsessing over Three Little Bops and Peter Pan, though I have neither.  I downloaded Three Little Bops, audio-only.  Then there's Cartoon Network Groovies - Jabberjaw, and... oh, I really, really want Incredible Shrinking Day, I'll give you money if any of you will download it and burn it on a blank CD for me.  I swear, I will.

It took me longer to find the HTML for manipulating AIM than to create the stupid things!

Earlier today I had a momentary odd feeling and I decided that something intangible was inexplicably scaring me... but now I'm attributing it to stuff in the water.

What?

[This is Entry 20, don't forget to archive soon.]

George Carlin is the best.

Carl Sagan is too.

I think I'd call today a Good Day.  Despite the strange amount of reading I did considering I was in EB Games (I picked up The Two Towers for a few minutes) and the general suckiness of Lakeforest Mall, I enjoyed the day.  Props (or... eProps, or hugs, or whatever you want me to give online) go to Alex, Humza, Nat, and Nick for being (at least as a group) excessively amusing people.  Good: snowball fights (and my relatively good one-handed participation while trying to hold on to my comics and CDs and sour Altoids)... Bad: snow falling in my shirt as a result of snowball fights.  Oh good lord... it's really cold ¬.¬'

I have Blade of the Immortal Vol.7, Heart of Darkness.  Few of you (except perhaps Min) cared to know that, but I do have it.  I didn't bring enough money with me today, but I suppose that's for the best.

Min-- the next time you see Ameila, if she hasn't given you Blade Vol.4-6 you ought to tackle her violently because I gave them to her at Wilma's place and she was instructed to generously allow you to have a crack at 'em.

Experimentally, here's a plug that I'm posting without having read the actual web page, hope it's good.

fighting2win (8:35:01 PM): do I have a very bland online voice?
Sheila (8:35:26 PM): do you want me to answer that truthfully?
fighting2win (8:35:36 PM): yeah
Sheila (8:35:48 PM): then yes, you sound nothing like you would in real life
Sheila (8:36:10 PM): you sound pleasantly like a professor
Sheila (8:36:19 PM): you don't sound like a calm professor in real life

Well, I should hope not.

Calvin Coolidge fell asleep at his large oak desk during the middle of a work day.  After dozing for some time, he awoke with a start and inquired of his chief of staff, "Is the country still here?"

--Courtesy of Felton & Fowler's Best, Worst, & Most Unusual

Looking outside at the snow that keeps piling up outside my front door is a bit depressing; the snow's deep enough that I can't stroll around relaxedly in it, and we can barely open the door.  There are some people who need to get from one point to another in this sort of weather, and I'm starting to worry about whether it's humanly possible to do so.

Today, I pity any kid with a shovel and a driveway.

I finished reading both A Clockwork Orange and Catch Me If You Can (see, staying in bed fatigued and sleepy is good for something) and I love the style of Orange... is it real rhyming slang or an original product of Burgess's imagination?

Ahh.  Seeing as weekend plans are gone and hopelessly irreplacable at this point, I went to drown my sorrows and empty my wallet at my favorite bookstore.  Today at Barnes & Noble, I bought:

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale

Yeah, it was a nice day.  I don't think I should go to B&N any more from now to the end of the school year, considering how many books I've got lying around my room at this point.

Read A Clockwork Orange, maybe you can help me with some of the incomprehensible slang... speaking of slang, I'm extending my vocabulary of 19th century conversational words with yesterday's purchase of English: American Style, a relaxing but rather useless pursuit.

I went to bed at 11 pm last night with a sore throat and an aching head.  Congratulate me on being sick on Valentine's Day for the third year in a row.  I suppose I finally caught the cold that's been going around since exam week...

Hop on over to my other journal for some hila~rious ratings from the ever-glorious RMT.com that weren't fit to approve.  Come on, you know where it is.

Ahh.  I wrote in my LiveJournal about that huge sugar rush that lasted most of the day then the intense sleepiness that followed, but I pepped myself right back up with a quick trip to Barnes & Noble.  Yes yes, you get to see what I bought.

A 'Leather Bookmark Pen', complete with refill tubes of ink
English: American Style [How Americans Invented Themselves and Their Language] by Jeffrey McQuain
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual [Noteworthy Achievements, Events, Feats & Blunders of Every Conceivable Kind] by Bruce Felton & Mark Fowler
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by ... Poe, obviously
Elektra Vol.1: Introspect by Greg Rucka

That last one's a graphic novel.  And... how should I put this... I'm not going to be keeping all of those purchases.  A non-existent prize to you if you can guess which two!

Enduring Vision's gem of the day:

"France offered other diversions as well, and the U.S. military conducted a massive campaign, including lectures, posters, and films, warning fo the danger of veneral disease.  One poster declared, 'A German bullet is cleaner than a whore.'  When the French premier, Georges Clemenceau, offered to provide prostitutes for the American troops (as was the custom for French soldiers), Secretary of War Baker exclaimed, 'For God's sake, don't show this to the President, or he'll stop the war.'"

According to Switchboard.com, Mme Johnson and M Awono live down the street from each other.

Boredom is a curious thing.  I'd write a paper on it if that weren't painful similar to schoolwork... yechh!  I've done 25/37 textnotes and they're not even due until Tuesday, but this weekend promises to beat me over and over until I finally come down with a cold, just like everyone else.  Want... sleep...

I'm not finished with the Temperature class and I'm not finished with the Date class corrections!  *panics for a moment*  Okay, I'm fine now.

Time for a public service announcement: Min's page looks a bit wonky in MSIE version 5!  Go fix that code right now.  Where are report cards?  I don't have mine yet.  I'm nervous.

Humza: No practice tomorrow (which you know if you've checked your e-mail since 12:something today).  Wahh.  Curse those extremely late reminders...

Yikes... I just caught a glimpse of the famous (infamous?) Tyler Allard's face while channel surfing and realized that I completely missed his first two days on Teen Jeopardy.  Umm... oops?  Meh.  He's not even that amusing to watch.

...okay, fine, I'm just annoyed that I lost track of the time.  But no more!  I'm watching the clock closely.  And I know perfectly well that it's... umm... 7:00?  8:00?

Stupid analog clocks.  I'm just out of practice, that's all...

Wah!  I just found out that ET's doing Verne for the SAP and he's writing about Around the World in Eighty Days and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea... gah, those're the two I wanted to do.  Thanks to Lisa for the information, I guess.  I'll probably switch to From the Earth to the Moon and Journey to the Centre of the Earth now.  I'm sure I can generalize something about scientific progress or exploration.  I'm not worried about inadvertently borrowing his ideas or vice versa, but I don't want Sullivan to read two essays about the same books when there are so many other good ones out there...

Besides that, I'm starting to think that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is too long to read, so that just saved me about... 5 hours of reading time ^_^

Best true thing of the day: Hendel ate my Chem homework.

I did well on that French quiz.  A 80% is good, all things considered.  It's okay if Chao did get two more points than I did... *mutters*

Guidance and Registrar flatly said no to shadowing.

On the bright side, I made a new little image for my comments window.

Hee hee... "Choose Death"...

I don't want to go take a nap despite that I'm tired and I really ought to get more sleep per night.  I can't afford to sleep more than 12 or 13 hours at a time on weekends, so I have to get at least 5 or so hours per weeknight.  Even if I get that much, I'm still tired and stumbling around school.  I love the sudden rushes between hyperactivity and slow but not sluggish calm, but it's probably not very good for me and it's not good for my study habits.  Those stupid subjects (Pre-Calculus, Chemistry) that are supposed to be easy for me are swirling around in front of me (not literally) and I can't seem to get past any of them, or at least not correctly.  I like the feeling but I feel so impaired afterward, is that what being drunk is going to be like?  Sleep deprivation doesn't induce hangovers.  Stupid math and science word problems are confusing me while I breezed through my US History essay in 29 minutes (out of an allotted 35 minutes) yet am expecting anywhere from an A to a C since I don't yet know how Seabreeze grades essays.

Fussy little brat, eh?

I think I'll change the layout.  I'll really miss the Goblin's ugly mug every time I open this page (well, not really) but I like the new layout and I think it's time for a change; I'm hopelessly behind in new-fangled CSS and JavaScript tricks for personal web pages as it is.

<bitch-and-moan>Seabreeze is all right.  I don't like Sullivan or poetry.  Pre-Calculus eludes me.  I did quite well on today's French quiz, but I didn't get an A...</bitch-and-moan>

Oooh.  I just finished watching Shanghai Knights.  Both of my parents agree that it's better (and funnier) than the first movie, but I haven't seen Shanghai Noon so I wouldn't know.  They also said that the girl's prettier; again, I wouldn't know.  But you know what?  Holes by Louis Sachar is being made into a movie.  (Eeee!!)  And it's being made by Disney.  (...aww, crap, that's not good, is it?)  And Stanley Yelnats is going to be played by Shia LeBouf (I just horribly, cruelly mangled his name there) ... you know, the guy who plays Louis on Even Stevens?  But he's way too skinny to play Stanley!  Sigh.  It's okay.  As much as I will be ashamed of watching that movie on April 18, I'll probably enjoy it.

Back to Shanghai Knights.  All I can say is that I liked it and it was funny and I really like the music, so much that I want the soundtrack (past soundtrack purchases: Ocean's Eleven and Treasure Planet)  And also, oooooh the villain is so cool!!  This movie has what I consider the only good swordfight scene involving European swords (they're okay I guess, but they suck for movies).  And oh yeah.  I really liked the ending, but I don't want to give it away here because (gullible me) I didn't expect it.  So just go watch it if you don't have anything else to watch, but don't pay $8.50 for a ticket the way my family did because you may or may not like it.  (But I'll be mad at you if you don't.  It's funny!!)

One more thing.  Watch for lots of puns that are actually worth a laugh... quite a bit of namedropping.  Ask me if you didn't understand it.

The villain is so cool!!  *worship, worship*  I want to grow up and be 10th in line for the crown and go insane with rage!

In contrast to some of his predecessors, who seemed worn down by the presidency, Roosevelt found it energizing.  "While President I have been President emphatically . . . ," he once boasted; "I believe in a strong executive."  He enjoyed public life and loved the limelight.  "When Theodore attends a wedding he wants to be the bride," a relative observed, "and when he attends a funeral he wants to be the corpse."

I really love Enduring Vision now... and I thought they couldn't top the narrative of Bleeding Kansas and Bloody Sumner...

I'm testing out some other layout but I don't know yet if it works in the lowest possible resolution... I've tried to always accomodate below 800 x 600 but it doesn't always work, especially when that same layout looks like crap on Min's stupid computer (why do you have your resolution set so high, anyway?  Pixels are the only way, but when I use pixels, yours gets fussy and displays things illegibly small!  But I must use pixels... PIXELS!!)

Wall Street Journal's Bushism of the week: "The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein and his willingness to terrorize himself."

...oh, come on.  Even Bush supporters have to admit that line was really stupid...

Here's a plug for no reason: www

I was reading through my book on old comics and Marvelling (ugh.  bad pun) at those superhuman powers... and I was thinking, while I'm dreaming and not doing anything in real life, I'd like to have an Adamantium skeleton like Wolverine's or light on fire and fly like the Human Torch.

Those of you who've studied US History may remember the Mann Act in 1910, preventing transport of women across state boundaries for "immoral purposes" (to curb growing prostitution rings).  I have two questions, not in order of importance: 1) Would "Immoral Purposes" be a good title for something?  And 2) Does Congress actually ever bother to repeal these acts or do they leave them in place under the assumption that they will hold some sort of future use?  Pay attention, Min; stupid questions from curiosity while doing boring homework is how you pad your blog with useless yet quasi-original material.

Everyone has new layouts.  Wah... I feel so left out... (well not really)

But I like my current layout!  There isn't much wrong with it!  (Except for the excessive and unnecessary use of tables... but never mind that)

So, uselessly, I present to you my three-second image:



On another note: Yay for Blair's It's Ac!  (I've resorted to cheering on the enemy's team since they're just so cool... now to learn their names...)  They've got 2nd place in the TJ tourney (info courtesy of Sheila... who else?) and WJ got first place.  Grr.  WJ, you suck.  Very, very much.  I'd go on and wax on the amounts of suckage you possess but then I'd possibly begin to sound like certain other people (whose writing styles aren't bad... they're just... umm, not something I'd emulate)  And... yeah.

I took a practice SAT at RM this morning.  The benefits were: 1) Increased confidence that comes with familiarity with the test format, 2) Chatting with friends in-between sections, 3) Drawing this funky monster-like thing, I have no idea where this image came from, I think it's from in my mind though (want to see it?), and 4) Mental stimulation on a Saturday (haha...)

I don't think that question was written very well, too many people won't know what "levee" means (I do!  Thank you, Don McLean...) and will miss that analogy question.  Math questions were fine except for that quasi-math team question that required far too much abstract thinking for a SAT I question... not very good *frowns*

I slept till 1 pm yesterday so I didn't miss sleeping in on a Saturday all.  So, how was your morning?

Best wishes to Sheila whether or not she goes to that TJ tourney today because even if she doesn't read this, Min does.

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I need to refine my thoughts about the college application process (and a few other tangently related things) before I make a post about it.  Regardless, Macalester still gets points for a silly letter with a mock math problem.

The nostalgia still hasn't gone away.

Doesn't it feel great when you say something so incredibly obscure that It's Ac people turn around and give you a funny, mildly impressed look?  Have you ever experienced that?

Assemble all the facts on a problem, and it often solves itself; all generalities are false, including this one; make no mistakes in a hurry, but any decision is better than none; finally, and probably the most important, always take your job seriously, never yourself.

--Eisenhower