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[07 May 2009|01:47pm] |
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One of my professors is in the beginning stages of accusing me of plagiarism on my research paper. She left me a voicemail stating that the quality of my research paper that i turned in 2 weeks ago far supercedes my classroom participation and homework. My homework (carrying a B/C average) and my attendance and participation (3 absences all semester) were "average" and my paper was of "very high quality."
First of all, I've never stolen anything in my entire life. Secondly, wouldn't I have to be fucking dumb to plagiarize on the last paper of my college career? Thirdly, this paper was 10 pages long. I have 15 sources listed, all cited properly both in-text and at the end in my works cited page. I called her back and explained that I work well under pressure and have the ability to whip up a 10 page paper in a day or two (which I've done in two other instances this semester, which I've gotten an A and a B on, respectively). I'm emailing them to her right now, as well as an invitation to sit down face to face and work this out.
Fuck me for writing an A paper.
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[02 Mar 2009|02:43pm] |
Monday:
-Spanish Quiz
-25-source bibliography due for research paper
Tuesday:
-Video Production midterm
Wednesday:
-Personality Video due for Video Production Class (status:not even half done)
-Film Criticism midterm
Here's the kicker - IM SICK!
We all reach the point where personal wellness takes a backseat to school. Never before has it been this intense. I went from feeling fine to a having a severe cold within a matter of hours. Being sick puts me in a bad mood. Having a lot of work piling up inside of a week puts me in a bad mood. Add the two together. If I can get through the week without murdering somebody or myself, it will be nothing short of a fucking miracle.
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[06 Nov 2008|12:20am] |
God Bless credit card balance transfers.
I just discovered them a few months ago. So now, I have no more monthly minimum payments on that bastard of a credit card charging me 15% interest. I had the balance transferred to another card that I have 0% interest on until October of next year.
Know what this means?
Hello new bass :)
I will accept nothing less than an American Fender.
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[22 Aug 2008|02:33pm] |
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bass = stolen
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[15 Jul 2008|01:01am] |
Some things in my life are fucking perfect right now.
And others are just fucked.
Colorado in 3 1/2 weeks, away from anything resembling civilization. Just me, my backpack and the Rocky Mountains. Maybe it will clear my head of all the bullshit. I hope so. To say that I'm pumped is an extreme understatement.
I've been balancing and suspending pianos, and trying to appear composed.
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[19 May 2008|02:43am] |
Summer. I thought it would never come. This semester was fucking brutal. The classes weren't hard, it just felt like my mind and my body was reacting to the idea that it was one more day into the semester instead of one day closer to the end. I can't wait to see my grades so I can breathe easier.
Speaking of breathing, I started smoking again. I was doing good for a while, but all it takes is one shitty week. My dad's been out of work for almost a month now, and he doesn't seem to worried about it. I know he is on the inside, but he's never been one for showing his true emotion (hence --->republican). I didn't get promoted at work, again. That's twice now. One more time and I'm fucking out of there. I have two rents to pay this month and the next, so once again, it's impossible for me to save money.
Pat graduated from Columbia yesterday. I couldn't be happier for him. The ceremony was cool as fuck, Dan Rather spoke and the school's musical groups rocked the place. I called my brother an adult and he almost punched me. I still think he's kind of dumb for staying in Chicago when his job is back home.
Breaking up is hard to do, but I think it was for the best. I was able to salvage something from it, I don't know if she did, but I hope she did. She'll always have a place in my heart regardless of what happened. I'm definately thinking a lot clearer these days though.
I've been fishing 3 times in the past 3 days, and its awesome. Fishing by yourself is good reflecting time, and if you're in the right place, its very peaceful. I get to teach someone how to fish soon, and I can't wait to share the experience with her.
I leave for Mexico in less than a week, and I can't fucking wait. I've always been afraid of swimming at a beach so I can't wait to see the ocean from another point of view. I'm thinking of chumming the water before we dive in as to increase the chances of seeing a shark.
It's 3am and I am still wide awake. I haven't posted in a while so that should just about cover everything that's been brewing up in the old skull for some time.
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[22 Apr 2008|01:18am] |
Note to self:
Don't piss off a dude who comes in to pick up a shotgun from you.
Cus you're gonna spend the rest of the night wondering if he's gonna come back and pay you a visit with his new merchandise.
Seriously...dude was shady as hell.
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| Another bullet point in the ever-growing list of things that piss me off... |
[24 Jan 2008|03:29pm] |
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, notably because most people in this age group don't vote Republican (not around here anyways.) But seeing as how the only person in the entire presidential race that I agree with is a Republican, I feel I should share with you why he is at a disadvantage.
You could say there is a pretty significant difference in the platforms of Ron Paul versus those of the other Republican candidates.
When asked at one of the Republican debates over the summer whether or not he could go back to 2003 and decide to invade Iraq or not, he was the only one who wouldn't have.
His plans for Foreign Policy differ greatly as well. John McCain wants to stay in Iraq "for another 100 years" (I'm actually aloud to use quotations, look it up, he actually fucking said it.) Ron Paul wants troops out of Iraq, and every other country on Earth that we have troops. He says we need to stop nation-building and being the global watchdog.
Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and John McCain want to keep spending money on Iraq, which has been calculated to be costing somewhere around $20 billion a day. And these fucks have the audacity to say they care about the economy? Get fucked.
It takes someone with real fuckin cojones to say they want to get rid of the one central bank of the United States (the Federal Reserve) which was unconstitutionally created by Congress at the beginning of this country's history. Eliminating a central monetary system from our government will not only eliminate inflation which is breaking our country even further due to constant minting and printing of money, but it will eliminate our citizens' dependence on government to control our economy. It will encourage people to invest in the stock market so that the value of the dollar doesn't vanish into oblivion.
Don't want to pay income taxes for the rest of your life? Ron Paul doesn't want you to either. Simple as that. He considers them unconstitutional and unnecessary.
Between pulling our troops out of and closing bases in countries all over the world and eliminating the Federal Reserve, there's more than enough room to cut out federal income taxes.
Anyway, let me get to the point of why I got pissed off enough to write this thing, i didn't mean for it to turn into a Ron Paul dick sucking session.
If you ever watch a news program, doesn't matter which channel, they never ever do stories about him. Like ever. You'd think to give all the candidates an equal chance they'd do a little bit on each candidate. And now that the Democrats and the Republicans each have 3 candidates that are up in the polls, those are the only people they're concentrating on, as if they've already given up on the underdogs. It doesn't give people a chance to be informed of anyone else except the top contenders (which coincidentally are those that raise the most money, go figure. But I won't get into that, I'll be here all night.)
Another thing that I noticed was something that caught my eye on CNN's website. I was looking at some of the numbers and primary results, and I came across part of a page that gave viewers a chance to click on the name and picture of all the candidates and it would obviously take you to a page to learn more about that individual.
Check this out:
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
Rudy Giuliani
Ron Paul
Go back up and look again, carefully....
...see it?
Smiling happy faces on everyone except Ron Paul. Kinda has a sad, puppy dog look going on. What kind of a message is that sending to the public? Could they seriously not find one picture of Ron Paul smiling? Is he such a constitutionalist fed up with big government that he can't force a smile in this day and age?
It totally figures. The best presidential hopeful to come around in a long time, and the media won't give him a fucking chance. I give up.
P.S.
I swear to God, if the people of this country can't pick someone with a decent head on his or her(God I hope not) shoulders, I'm moving to Canada. Mark my words. As soon as I'm done with college, I'm packing my bags, and I'm gonna go up to Ontario and become a guide - drive a fishing boat all day, drinking coffee out of a thermos, growing my beard down to my dick, all the while searching for the elusive Musky. I'll shoot my dinner, build a house with my bare hands, and never have to worry about some half-assed politician deciding which fucking other country my money is going to on any given day.
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[03 Dec 2007|06:12pm] |
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I fucking hate these 6 guys in my international relations class.
We were having a discussion on Nuclear Proliferation and Iran today. My professor asked anyone to raise their hands if they feel that Iran should be able to have nuclear weapons. About 6 people raised their hands, myself included. My professor asked me to explain why. Keep in mind this will have been the first time all semester that I raised my hand to talk about anything. I had numerous reasons in my head for my argument, and I could have talked for a good 3 minutes about it. I was a bit flustered, having been surprised that I had been called on for the first time in about 3 months. So I started out by saying, "I mean why not?" Before I could get another breath in, these 6 fuckers, who range in age from 25-40 and always sit in the very front row, lost it! Within a matter of about 5 seconds, they were screaming, "WHAT!?!" and started laughing and yelling at each other about how ridiculous what I said was. My professor couldn't hear me trying to get the remaining 98% of what I had to say out, on account of the fucking hyenas cackling over any other sound happening in the room, and immediately went to someone else to make a point.
Oh, you're back here at NIU for a second degree? Fuck you, that doesn't make your voice more important than mine. You were in the military so you just started college at 26? Fuck you, i couldn't give two shits about your military career, and just because you were "protecting my right to speak" doesn't mean you can fucking interrupt me when I'm trying to make a point.
These are the same group of assholes that will crack a joke that only they get, so they belt out these really overly elaborate laughs to try and make people notice their collective intellectual cumshot.
Fuck you.
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[17 Sep 2007|01:07am] |
I saw Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween the other last night.
I'm pretty sure I'm still undecided about it.
It was cool in that it did something new by showing how Michael Myers became the terrifying figure that gave anyone who saw the 1976 original nightmares. But I guess back then, audiences didn't seem to care how movie killers get started. In any case, the showcasing of the beginning of Michael Myers' life was where Rob Zombie's originality peaked.
It was kinda shitty because to make it scary, Zombie did what any horror director does these days; adds more violence. Also, instead of creating the kind of psychological fear we've all experienced where you don't want to even move, Michael just pops out of nowhere with lots of loud noise to make people jump out of their seats. It completely takes away from everything that's ever scared me about Michael Myers from the first two original Halloween movies.
In any case, I think it was pretty good for a remake. But seriously, you can't fuck with something that's been perfected by John Carpenter.
And while we're on the subject....
Michael Myers is the only horror movie that ever scared me as a kid. I mean...look at him
I've had the most realistic nightmares where he kills me. There's something about him that still terrifies me. I seriously have goosebumps right now.
I really want a Michael Myers mask. But not the ones you find for $5 at the costume stores. I want the same kind they used in the original movies in the '70s, which were actually just Star Trek Captain Kirk masks just spray-painted white. There's a few on Ebay but they're around $300. I obviously can't afford it, but I want one really bad.
Halloween's coming...which means my Michael Myers nightmares are soon to return.
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[07 Sep 2007|02:05am] |
HOLY SHIT!
I can't sleep....
...not when there's a girl getting her brains fucked out in the bedroom below me. She's screaming her lungs out, and its been going on for about a half hour.
I'm tired, and I want some sleep. But hearing that shit, I can't even close my eyes.
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[27 Aug 2007|02:00am] |
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I'm gonna start reading my bible again tomorrow
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[12 Jun 2007|12:58am] |
***this entry is written whilst under the influence of alcohol, therefore more true than if written in a stationary state of mind***
Despite the fact of getting up early to work, today was without a doubt one of the funnest i've had in a long time. i hung out with Chris, Kevin, and Logan, three of my best friends throughout high school who I haven't seen in a while. Chris, bless his heart, was kind enough to offer me the last of his four tickets to the Cubs game tonight. We all took the train in, drinking heavily to ready ourselves from the cold wind coming off the lake blowing into the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. I caught up with three of the coolest guys I know and had some of the most meaningful and hilarious conversations I've had in while. On the train ride home, Kevin and I discussed our past and current situations of romantic involvement, and we both understood each other whole-heartedly.
Speaking of which, I couldn't be happier with the current state of Lauren and I. There's no words to describe having her back in my life. We're not officially back together, but the fact that she's still around puts wind in my sails.
Things are looking up for my summer thus far. I love life.
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[16 May 2007|01:34pm] |
I just got my grades....
I got my C in Math 110, so not only do i not have to take that class for a third time, but I am done with math classes completely for the rest of my life.
The summmer is starting to look nowhere but up.
Break open the champagne....again.
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[09 May 2007|01:31pm] |
College = 50% complete.
Celebrating with Champagne in Chicago on Saturday night.
The rest of this week should be fucking sweet.
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[29 Apr 2007|11:19pm] |
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Spoiled sick like milk you let sit too long
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[17 Apr 2007|12:54pm] |
You want to know whats really sad?
I just noticed this.
This was probably the first day in a really fucking long time, for as long as I can remember,
where I didn't hear one piece of news about Iraq today. That actually sounds kind of good right? Now the fucked up thing about that is the fact that a news piece on Iraq was shadowed by an even more depressing story today.
Read my latest Blog about the Virginia Tech Massacre here
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[29 Mar 2007|05:37am] |
I think i just rocked a math exam.
This is the first time in at least a year that i've been able to say that.
feelin' pretty good about it.
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[23 Mar 2007|07:40pm] |
Who's the newest member of Houses?
This guy.
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