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That is about how I feel at the moment.
I just finished my 9-10 page philosophy assignment. I don't have a very good feeling about it. Good thing it is only 30% of my grade. <.<
I'm about to go take my English test, and then it's straight to UMTYMP. And then it's straight to soccer. And then it's straight to bed. Haha, exciting life isn't it?
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I believe this is maybe the third time a P-51 mustang has been featured in a POTD. Stylistically this peice is different from the rest. Those wide brush strokes really seem to give a sense of motion.
UMTYMP again today. Didn't get a homework back however. Wasted my time reading Crime and Punishment when I should have been doing my philosophy paper. At least it is a really good book. Now I have two days to finish an 8 page paper. At least utilitarianism isn't a theory that is too lame, other then the fact that it can't be implemented in any way, shape, or form. <_<
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Cool fractal art on the guys shirt.
Went over to Balrog's house for a sleep over last night. We watched Snakes On a Plane (Yeah Samuel L!) and Little Miss Sunshine (Yeah Neitzche! Or however you spell his name.) So it was a pretty good day. Now back to my regular schedule of slaving away at papers.
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This is among the more original concepts I've seen for a fairy.
I've been having some not-so-hot UMTYMP assignments. 22/30, and 24/30. At least this time the graders provided me with comments so I know how to do better in the future. Last time I would get "This problem isn't up to professional problem standards."
I didn't throw up this time at soccer practice, go me. I can honestly say I'm not the worst player on my team at ball handling, finally. This new kid (who I did know earlier from rec league) doesn't seem to know how to trap the ball, which means everytime the ball gets to him BOOOM it's outta there.
And I just took my physics test... fun fun. There were some intresting problems presented actually, but I won't go into the details. And I've got more finals coming up; they will be the death of me.
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For those of you who enjoyed bodyworks. I have to say I admire the amount of work that undoubtedly went into that piece.
Argh, haircut and braces getting tightened. Could any combination of two events be worse?
I finished my ten page history assignment, huzzah! Actually that wasn't huzzah worthy, because I actually had to work my butt of in order to do it. Any sign of effort on my part is de facto not cool.
Some quacky British professor said today (Jan 22) is the most depressing day of the year, for various reasons I didn't care about. However it didn't sound like he was depressed, since he was happily using NPR to market whatever crap he is selling. And you know what? I'm inclined to agree with him. Guess why. It's because math league was today. Man, I had such a good time talking to myself, you know I really hate people. It was great, just me sitting alone, without even a measly book to read. Really, it was awesome, you shouldn't have been there. What the crap, seriously I give up. Next year I'm joining a team. Some team like Wayzata, Edina, or Eden Prairie. Imagine that, I could actually be on a team that held practices, and actually had a competitive shot at doing something. And actually had enthusiasm. And actually tried to improve itself through practice. And actually showed some motivation. Man, that would be the day.
Anyways as a quick wrap up of today's meet:
Event A was easy so I picked up full points
Event C was graded by dumb buttfricking school teachers that don't know algebra, so they didn't know n(n+1) = n^2 + n, so they graded my paper wrong, so they screwed my score, so they screwed my chances of going to state, so they forced me to have to do well on the AMC 12 or I won't qualify for ARML. I can't believe people pay taxes to give such silly people jobs.
I guess I promised a debate post, so here goes:
The journey: Well the ride on the Retard Racer (R) was about as crazy as I thought it would be. Which was very. I divided my team between reading The Silmarillion, creating a debate fight club, and working on various debate related things.
Day 1: The novices weren't actually competing the first day, so I watched a lot of round. One of my teammates did a round in 7 minutes, and won. It was a silly round though, a top ranked debater against some noobsy Nebraska debater that couldn't flow. To quote my teammate "Extend my burden analysis, I meet the burden. You affirm here."
Day 2:
Round 1: I lost off some crappy solvency argue. "He doesn't show that holding corporations to moral standards that respect human beings decreases exploitation." Hmm, that's sort of what my case was doing.
Round 2: This girl sucked. She said "ZOMG CORPORATIONS BREAK LAWS THEIR IMMORAL OH NOES." I said "Law isn't moral, look at the Nazis." Win for me!
Round 3: This round was just mentally retarded. The judge basically constructed new arguments for my opponent, extended his offense, and did all kinds of things to help him out.
Round 4: This was a funny round. My opponent ran a case saying that we should define corporation using the slang definition, which calls it a fat stomach. Unfortunately that played right into my case, which argues that corporations and individuals make decisions in different manners. My entire argument was "Stomachs and People make decisions differently, so you can't hold them to the same moral standard." I loled.
And also I'll do a quick report on music.
Moby: Don't like this guy to much, not great tunes, don't like his vocals much
Stereolab: This band has to be French, because I can never understand a word they are singing, and they have song titles like "Le Demure" and "Cosmic Country Noir." Actually, some of their songs are in English. But whatever, I love them. They have such addicting melodies and stuff, and I don't actually mind the French either.
Daft Punk: These guys are freaking insane, and I like this. Nothing like weird synthesizer voices saying "I am the brainwasher."
The Gorillaz: Andy doesn't like them, but I don't think they are too bad. You really have to watch their music videos to appreciate them.
Hybrid: I like them. Except for when the guy sings, the vocals are annoying.
And I found a book worse than Eldest! Dragons: Lexicon Triumvate. The author likes to go around on forums trying to promote his book by saying "If you love Harry Potter you'll love..." on Mugglenet, and then saying "If you hate Harry Potter you'll love" on some anti-potter site. So anyways he stumbled onto Anti-Shurtugal and wrote "If you hate Eragon you'll love...", after going on Shurtugal.net and writing "If you love Eragon you'll love..." Funny things is the ASers pretty much took his entire terrible book apart. (It's about cyber-dragons fighting in a medieval setting. Yeah.) And then they proceeded to tear him apart. It turns out he is a sexist, and a racist against all that are not Asian.
And I also went to Alanaxh's house this weekend for supper. The food was excellent. However it would seem that I'm unable to make conversation, because there was _waay_ too much awkward silence. And we also watched a Marx Brothers film, which was funny as too be expected. And I did some trading of Magic cards; couldn't get Ben to give up his Umezawa's Jitte, unfortunately. And that will conclude our much too long post.
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Well, so I don't actually have a picture, since the CGsociety is down again. Yes I know, a stunninig show of my resourcefulness.
Anyhow it seems like I've survived the initial flurry of homework assignments, even if it meant doing my UMTYMP in the car. Oh well.
And I did something wrong, or I caught the stomach flu, because I ended up throwing up at my soccer practice. Yes I know, tmi. But whatever.
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Cool piece, there are a number of little things I don't like, but it's well done. The hair I like especially.
Hmm... so there are a number of things going on.
I'll have to do my long debate post later, because it will be really long. But just quickly, we had seven people go into octo-finals. I was .500 myself, but I place the blame later. :P
I've got a 5 page, and a 10 page paper due tomorrow. So today is my big cruddy day!
And I got a lot of new CD's by: Daft Punk, Moby, Gorillaz, Hybrid, and a bunch of other stuff. I haven't listened to them yet, so not sure how they are. Daft Punk however, I like already.
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Malcolm X, nice hair and glasses. I don't like the fabric that much though.
Just got back from my soccer practice. I'm getting winded really quickly which is annoying, since I haven't been working out very hard. But I also feel that I'm faster, thanks to some extra height. Muhahaha, after some more training I'm going to trip people so hard their legs break.
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Would have been cool except for the gothic/emo fairy wtf.
Hurm, back from another Lonely Math Meet ®. It looks like I'm up in the running for highest scorer on the team, again. What a prestigious award considering the many layers of tough competition I had to go through in order to win that. >.< *asplodes* The Canterbury division sucks so bad! As an individual I'm only tied for last place. If I had two clones of myself our team would be in first place, *TWO*!
I've also got a debate tournament in Omaha next week, which I'm excited for, because long trips with a debate team have a tendency to get INTENSE. But is also means I have much case writing to do.
Cool details on this. Interesting concept for a dragon also.
Went to two parties last night, sweet. The debate party was mostly us sitting around and talking about anything other than debate, since no one wanted to be reminded that school was starting again. And we watched a movie made by my teammate's euro class called FranceFranceRevolution. ^^ The math party was us talking about football (appearantly all this time math geeks have been ravid football fans I jus haven't known), watching the Cowboys vs. Seahawks game, and playing a large assortment of card games where everyone would be trying to calculate the probability of winning next turn. ^^ Math nerds are funny. And now I have to reenter the real world, where I have to write an article for my student newspaper. :(
And just a reminder, Mathcounts is coming up soon, and we still need a single (1) team member. Remember all you are giving up is about two (2) hours of your life on a Saturday mourning if you decide to participate. Think about, not that much of a commitment, and you'll see friends there. And if you decide you want to practice for it, then I can get you materials, and other stuff so that you an get ready, you just have to show an interest. If you spend maybe fifteen (15) minutes a day doing Mathcounts preparation instead of picking your nose (or whatever else you do to waste time :P) then you'll be super when it's time to compete.
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Intresting brush work on this. I really like the feel of the mountains up at the top. And the brush strokes really give a sense of frost on the buildings.
Woot, time for another sob-feast, courtesy of me! Ah, in this fine month of January I have:
1. One 10-11 page "short essay" courtesy of my APUSH teacher
2. One 5-6 page paper courtesy of my philosophy teacher
3. One 9-10 page paper courtesy of my philosophy teacher
And my usual loads of other homework. On another note I had my first soccer practice yesterday, it feels good to be moving again. Of course I also realize now that I'm out of shape again, pfft. So my new year's resolution is to survive the month of January without serious bodily or pyschological harm. And, no this message has not been spell checked.
