todays my moms bday. happy bday yesterday to lea.
we were going to surprise her with my sister who currently for some reason decided to up and live in boston.
so i'll be picking her up and withouta doubt still surprising her, but not quite in the way anyone had planned.

last night i made my way over to megs at about 1030ish. the tv was on one of the 5 channels that it gets (WB).
and some crap ass sunday night show comes on. the people start talking and they speak of meeting up with a dude named
Travis Bledsoe.
that shit was weird. (megs last name w/ mine.)

well. this weekend i realized that i have entirely nothing to do and its getting to me.
what a boring weekend. at least tomorrow wont be that bad.
and after the new year, i'll have jobs to hunt for... for real.

ok. so people are probably going to think that i'm weird, but on xmas eve, my parents went to bed kinda early. and me having nothing to do anymore, i wasnt about to, or going to be able to go to sleep then. so i went to whatever remains in my old room at their place and checked out my little cubby bookshelf thing. the thing that stuck out was the old bible that i was forced to buy for my new testament class back at westmont (because it contains the new testament apocrypha). anyway. i had intent on reading that, but instead i started at the begginning. yes, when god created the heavens and the earth.a couple things stuck out here. the first: god created day vs night after he separated the water from sky, ok, fine. but the man makes plants before he makes the sun! sure there is separation between day and night at this point, but no sun. this is a little akward anyway, cuz what the fuck made the day before the sun was there?

anyway. thats just being picky. the other thing was reading chapter to chapter.
what it seems happened (imho) is that whoever wrote the bible did so, but then probably priests that wanted to see additional material added to the story, something pertenant to
their day, instead of changing the text, they would just add another chapter to kinda recap and add whatever they wanted.

the retarded shit about this is that it sometimes contradicts each other. in the story of noah, the first telling says how the earth is inheritantly good, whereas the second part says how the world is evil and full of violence, with god being displeased. this one later goes on to tell the dimensions of the ark, where the other one doesn't.

so i can see why people wouldn't want to change the "sacred writings from the hand of god" and opt to add their own stuff, but apparently back in the day they didnt believe much in editors and to this day people blindly believe the discrepancies... probably since no one but priests and the like read the bible anymore. everyone who is a "believer" simply learns various bible verses that teach them a lesson, or learn past bible stories from those who have heard it before and has transformed from written form to oral form.

...the oral tradition is held... weird.

ya know. if it werent for really old fucks and small kids, retarded traditions such as these might dissappear.
people just go through the motions to make someone else happy. then it sticks for generations.

great.

watched both the matrix and minority report tonight.
kinda weird the similarities. they both try to diefy someone, calling them "the one" or having other people blurt out "mother mary of joseph" or whatever shit that was. they both have an oracle...some chic that sees the future.
both use some form of the trinity. in matrix, the chic... its her name. in minority report, they have 3 pre-cogs and their sign is this stubbed, blunted triangle.
both also use some sort of program to simulate life for people. the difference is that one is to harvest energy from people, a kooky twist on the human domestication of plants, where virtually the whole human race and A.I. are interdependent among each other where people are the ones being "domesticated" and "harvested" with exception of the few "wild" ones. this compared to a holding cell in minority report for wouldbe killers.
both have the idea of stacks upon stacks of people in a storage-like situation. at least in the matrix its for some purpose.

is there a point to this? i dunno. i dont think ive reached one myself. i just thought the ideas themselves were interesting, and then to be represented in two different movies was kind of intriguing.
meh. i couldnt go more in depth into it anyway. my words and thoughts are getting all twisted up as it is.

damn my parents computer is slow.

last night i couldnt sleep and felt like i should blog. but i was too lazy to get up. it was like 4 am or some crazy shit anyway.
i looked at my grades. i guess theyre not permanent, but i thought i did well enough for my stats teacher to over look that one assed grade.
he sed he would, but didnt. i had most all scores around the 80s mark, but this one shat test that brought me down like 5 or more percent.
i was going to email him last night, but then i realized it was eve. i wouldnt care, but he might, so i'll hold off.
ya gotta be nice to the people who're doing favors for you. (if he is, the bastard).

anyway. i got my old shit back from po. he said that i was all righteous about it, but i thought it was more of a relief. old music, old school shit, all of my major important crap.
and i was also just trying to let him know that we weren't fucking with his shit. cuz he saw that we were downloading something and was kinda pissed about it. but we were actually uploading, so no worries.

fuck it. i have to go to my parents today. i said between noon and 2. hopefully traffic aint so much ass.
in the words of somebody:
merry fuck.

kinda looking for jobs,
but everywhere i go, they keep saying the same thing:
come back after the new year.
bitches.

so i gots nothing to do til then since schools out and all.
almost done with xmas shopping.
what a waste of money when i gots no job.
i'd say give me no presents and we're even.

bp is drunk. and i heard shit break (glass).
it has come full circle.
goodnight everyone.

last day of the quarter for me tomorrow.
linguistics, then im done til the new year.

i picked up megs prescription today.
had time to kill so i checked my bloodpressure on the free machine.... 8 times.
my average came out to be 123/80 with a 60 pulse.
pretty damn normal.
the range being from 113/75 with a pulse of 54
to 131/86 with a pulse of 65.

ok, so shoot me, i just came out of a stats final.
at least i didnt bust out the retarded standard deviation shit.

random:
who in the hell came up with nuts in your soup... bloop.
cuz theres an ICP song out there that has that.
is that where it came from?

only two finals left to go!
todays went alright.

so i guess the ave re-opened yesterday sometime between 8am and 8pm.
meg sez that theyre going to close down that 45th and ave intersection soon for about 6 weeks.
that'll fuck things up good.
at least a few weeks of those will be during xmas break (if they hurry).

i got downloaded music again.
now once i get a job, things will be back to normal.

right around it. not too shabby.

well. today was the last day of walking from midcampus to BF(isheries)E and back.
glad that shits over.
next quarter will be so accomodating to my lazy lifestyle! =)

my head's healed up nicely, but it still hurts if i lay down on a hard surface. bummer.
thats probably going to stick around for a while.

well. the job hunt is going. but im not that motivated.
i think i focus on one, and when that dies, i head to another.
thats not quite the best way to do it. put all your eggs in one basket sorta thing.

i guess this website is down for a bit.
no bother.
i havent posted in a while anyway.
i did all these teacher evaluations today.
in stats i didnt know the profs name, so i put dave.
his names actually charlie something.
and i didnt know the date either, so i think i ended up putting the 10 once and the 12th twice.
i guess i'll see in a second how far off i actually was.

today i was the victim of age/class discrimination. i applied for a job on campus.
they were looking for somebody who could be a more long-term asset.
being a junior didnt allow for enough time, i guess =P

in linguistics today, we watched a movie about black english.
i think it was shot in the late 70's - early 80's.
anyway, it showed how it kinda has some african characteristics to it.
but the funny shit was that they were showing some black men from NY talking amongst each other,
and they were subtitling at the bottom what they meant in "standard english".
it was shit like "stepping up" and "my crib" that they had to translate.
it was easier to listen to them and more akward to read the subtitled explanation.

the fun and exciting way to learn the stories of the old testament.

finally got around to cleaning my fish tank/bowl/cube (whatever the hell you want to call it).
usually i do it monthly. i think its been at least 2 if not 3.
but anyway. usually the little buggers try to jump out of their temporary bowl whilst i clean their real container.
but this time around they were docile and lifeless.
those dudes are getting old, i guess. 2 years, 4 mos.
2 of the 4 did already die though. but that was under the care of my parents while i was away.
for some reason all my pets like to die after i leave. i dont know if thats good or not.

oh. and just a reminder for you people out there.
dont forceably invite yourself over when i got shit to do and then require my assistance when you need to go.
thats not how you get on my good side