Halloween Bullets
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October 31, 2007, 1:56 am
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- If you’re from San Diego, or if you have a conscience, you ought to check out Norman’s amazing Witch Creek story. As my house was on the edge of the fire evacuation zone, with my parents in China at the time, the only thing that affected us ended up being the massive amounts of ash that got into our house. The smell of smoke will persist, and if it ever rains, it will be disgusting.
- For the few sports fans who read this, check out this feature on the namesake of my blog and my favorite professional athlete, Gilbert Arenas. Hard life, admirable commitment to excellence.
- I will never understand humor like “2 Girls, 1 Cup.” I won’t even link to it, because it’s disgusting. Although the reaction videos ARE funny.
- January 23rd, 2008 is my new favorite day of the first month of the new year. Even above my “birthday.” I am conflicted, because on the one hand I’m incredibly excited and on the other hand I’m really scared that I’m going to be very, very disappointing.
- I prefer borderline-crazy-bitch to dull, sheltered, and racist any day of the week. At least I wouldn’t hate myself for it. Sometimes you have to take a chance.
- I tend not to be argumentative about politics or my beliefs, but this weekend probably gave me enough reason to start. Somehow, excessive talk of the virtues of religious state, homophobia, racism, and having other people being dismissive of all opinions and interests outside of their own can do that to you. In case you’re wondering, I support Dr. Ron Paul (R) and Mike Gravel (D), but I will be perfectly content when Hillary Clinton wins the election. On a side note, Dr. Paul received his M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine. I still tell people I am Libertarian.
- Dr. Mario was one of the hardest games I thought I had ever played, but after getting used to it the difficulty dies down. Still, seems a little bit cruel to kids to make them play this game. Wonder if it helps brain training.
- I’m really scared that I’m not going to get out of the housing lottery and I will have to live in some piece of crap apartment on Central Campus.
- Is it hypocritical to have beliefs and values that you don’t follow? I don’t even want to go into how this would be perfectly okay if I was Christian, but for some reason people say it’s hypocritical for me to be against certain things such as animal cruelty and still eat meat, or sweatshops and still buy cheap clothing, or believe in equality but still make the occasional racial or homophobic remark. Is this just extremely hypocritical or does it prove that I’m weak and selfish? I’m not really sure. But it sure as hell doesn’t mean I don’t believe and that I don’t have any values.
- I don’t think I miss the people at school as much as I should at this point of my college life. I realize I wasted my freshman year and there aren’t people that I lived with that I even want to keep in touch with when I’m on the same campus as them. I know I do a poor job of keeping in touch in general, even with something like Facebook, but there is little motivation to contact some people.
- I am not going to get a good internship. I should come to grips with it now. It’s depressing. Life is hard.
- One of my friends was a big health advocate and lived substance free with me freshman year, but after a year and a summer of excessive drinking and a ridiculous tolerance, he was diagnosed with liver trouble. He noticed it first when it hurt to breathe. Scary thoughts.
- As of this moment, I am not planning to blue tent. To those who don’t know what that means, I am not going to sleep outside for roughly five nights a week in order to watch a game that we have never won during my years at Duke. But I might still white tent.
- I have four flights in the next two weeks: London to Barcelona, Barcelona to Casablanca, Casablanca to Madrid, and Madrid to London. The dollar is at an all time low to the Euro, but luckily they don’t use those in Morocco. My hair is getting long and I will be getting a haircut there, ideas?
- Because flickr only allows you to display 200 photos at a time (those cunts), I deleted a couple and changed some things on my blog. There are some differences in the photos from previous posts, if you’re interested in checking out. I can’t believe how much time I wasted because I was conscious of this sort of thing.
- The library here has a decent foreign films collection, but I find it difficult to make the commitment to watch a movie, so I have just been ripping them and returning them the next day. Like father, like son.
- I’ve been running every other day or so during the weekdays to improve my stamina. I haven’t been able to go to the gym here because I need a bank account, so my endurance is better and my backhand is much improved (frisbee).
- Every song used in an iPod commercial.
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Gilbert Arenas is the man. I scoped him out in college as a future star in the NBA. He plays hard on both ends of the floor and seems to be a good dude. I knew his offense would catch up and he’d eventually be an All-Star.
I’m curious, how can you support Paul and Gravel yet say you’ll be content with a Hillary win? Paul and Hillary are polar opposites in their view of what role government should have in our lives. I’m not condemning you for it, just curious as to your rationale behind that statement.
Comment by Curtis October 31, 2007 @ 2:17 amThe issues that I have with Clinton are primarily related to a health care system that doesn’t seem feasible and her weak troop withdrawal plan. I also realize that might be the majority of her platform. Hah. However, I feel that this will be an issue with both the Democrat and Republican candidates and that Clinton provides a better alternative as I agree with the other issues.
And although ideologically I agree most with someone like Paul, I do feel like many of the things he suggests are too drastic for the country and I really just appreciate the awareness of the issues that he is bringing up. Paul’s personal views are a little strong for me (i.e. his stance on abortion), or seem too drastic (ex. IRS), and as a California resident I feel with state control under Paul my life would be similar to what would occur if Clinton were to become president anyway. Although the federal government would be out of my life, some form of government never will be.
The reason I would vote for Paul over Clinton stem from selfish reasons where I feel the country ought to be shaken up and principles ought to exist, but in terms of what would be a rational solution, I’m not so sure.
That being said, I definitely do not claim to be knowledgeable about the candidates to a serious extent, especially compared to someone who blogs about Paul.
Comment by baishi October 31, 2007 @ 2:48 ami’m excited about your birthday.
among other things.
i hope you know you’re incredible.
Comment by joyding November 2, 2007 @ 3:03 amvelma would think so!