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| Okay, so... Definitely time for an update. Let's see... Last semester I was living in Elizabethton with some of the coolest guys ever, was taking fourteen credit hours, working sixty hours a week and got sick. I missed three weeks of almost everything, lost my job in the tutoring lab, barely held onto my job at Wal-Mart, and failed all of my classes. I moved into a different place in E-town with some girl I had just met. We got really close and ended up getting a bigger apartment in downtown Johnson City. I got another car (94 grand prix [laugh all you want, I love that car]), got arrested for driving 88 in a 55 on a suspended license, killed the engine in my car, replaced the engine in my car. I've spent the semester working eighty hours a week at Wal-Mart and ACT trying to straighten things out so that I can go back to school next semester. I just lost my job at Wal-Mart (fell asleep on my lunch break at the drive-thru line at Taco Bell, eighty hours will take a lot out of you), lost the third roommate that Andrea and I had picked up to help with the outrageous rent on the awesome apartment. That's pretty much the brief refresher. If anyone still reads this, I hope you enjoyed it. | | |
| I wrecked the car again. I'll have to get a new one this time. On a side note, apparently running with an open registration is a class E felony in the state of TN and will get you a mandatory three years in jail and a five thousand dollar fine. | | |
| Quick update: Went back to school (14 hours), got my license, got a job (40 hours), got a car, wrecked the car, got my old job back (6 hours, and counting) in addition to the other one. So now I'm taking Calculus 2, Public Speaking, U.S. History 1, and Calculus-Based Physics. I have my license and a car, but I spun the car into a ditch along which I slid on my side and while it runs, the brakes don't work, it's leaking anti-freeze, plus it's missing its back window (barbed-wire fence), front bumper, and front turn signals. I'm working 40 hours a week at Wal-Mart as an unloader, which is physically demanding as hell, but seems as though it will keep me in shape. I'm also tutoring, already with assignments in Calculus, Business Calculus, and Probs & Stats. All this has happened rather quickly and I really don't have time to breathe, but I thought I'd update anyway.
Peace, yo. | | |
| I've heard it argued a few times that there can never really be a true seperation of church and state. Laws are made by men (I'd be "politically correct" and say that they're made by people, but bullshit [that's a rant for a different day]) and as such are based on personal morals. As most of America is Christian (especially our elected officials), most of the laws being made are based on the morals of Christians, and are therefor religiously based. I have no problem accepting this. I would be perfectly happy accepting this if the same people who explain this to me don't turn around and (in the same conversation, none the less!) also explain to me how our presence in Iraq is necessary. Explain to me that we're liberating those poor people. They are opressed by the rule of a religiously based government! How horrible! We need to give them freedom... I am sick and tired of hearing about how horrible it is that in some places in the middle-east women have to cover their heads when the same people who are horrified by this want to ban gay marriage. I am pissed off every time I hear someone say how wonderful it is that we are over there liberating the poor Iraqis from their opressive government, when in the state of California you can be sent to prison for the rest of your life for smoking pot. Y'know what? Holland needs to gather an army (scratch that, a multi-lateral peace-keeping force), invade America, and spread freedom. And if (when?) they do, I had better not hear anyone who ever supported the war in Iraq bitch about it. | | |
| If I ever had that many, I'm not sure I have more than two or three readers left. I'm hoping I do though, because I'm suddenly curious and would really like more than three answers to the following question: What and why is your position on abortion? | | |
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