I’m feeling like the trip we’re planning for tomorrow will either not happen or suck. I’m in a very pessimistic mood. I feel like this is going to be a Sammie and Steve date and I will just be tagging along akwardly. But I guess I don’t really mind too much. I think that the drive will be uber-fun and once we get to Eureka we’ll all split up and go do our own thing so there really won’t be much room for social weirdness. I’m just very wary about groups of three, I have had VERY bad experiences with social groups that were trios. I’m just in a shitty mood. Tomorrow will brighten my day, I get paid and I’m supposed to get my stuff. So no matter what happens I won’t have a shitty day. I doubt that everybody’s checks will come all on the same day. I should stop ranting, I’m just bitter that I couldn’t find two stories to compare for my comparison/contrast essay. I read about four of them, which took me a freaking long time and I still couldn’t find any ones with some sort of link. I hate writing essays on a time frame. It should just be “Do it by whatever date” not “You have to write a plan, then a rough draft, then a final draft”…enough with the pansy bullshit. It takes me a while to think about what I’m going to write on. This whole assignment is just pissing me off because I’ll be too busy this weekend to write it. I guess in my heart of hearts I’m hoping that the checks don’t come so I can write my rough draft on my cool new keyboard (or via voice recognition) and get my cool video card. I’m really tired. I need to go to sleep.
Oh, the weirdest thing happened but I’ll wait to blog about it until I can post the pics. Oh, Sammie and Steve and I went down to Pebble Beach and totally climbed up on that rock thing, it was really fun. We ended up spending like two hours down there. It was really fun, I took pics. Then I bought a Papa Murphy’s take and bake vegitarian and we went to my house and ate it. I was still hungry. It infuriates me when I buy pizza and am still hungry after it’s gone. I think I had like toast and some peanuts and some orange juice and stuff. We all had orange juice. I wish my dad was gone so I wouldn’t have to put up with him. I really dislike him. Well, I guess that’s a little freakin’ obvious. We played the Star Trek board game (circa 1993) that was in my closet and we began to play monopoly but Samantha always wins and Steve will do this stupid thing where he’ll pretend to buy properties and then be like “suck my cock.” I mean, it’s amusing…the first two or three times he does it. Then it’s just incredibly annoying. But Samantha always wins anyway so it was pointless. It was like an Ashley phone call. I hate getting into pointless situations, especially when I’m the one who did it, like when I call someone and then after three sentences realize “Oh god I’m going to have to talk to this person for the next thirty minutes.” Depressing. I’m not going to have my plan tomorrow. I’m chronically late. I hate my life. I hate Crescent City. But I’ll be loving life tomorrow when I’m rollin’ in the CASH!!!! MOUHAHAHAHAHA. CASH. MOUHAHAHAHAHA. CASH CASH CASH CASH GLORIOUS CASH *rolls around in my cash* Mouhahahahahaha. *rolls around in my hypothetical cash some more* mouha…..okay I’m done. I’m going to sleep. Ah, Taggart’s on. Let’s see if he’ll serve as a walking, talking definition of the words vacuous and libertine. Nope. I guess he’s off duty today. I’m going to sleep.
Me and Sammie and Steve were looking at the moon last night and wondering why it looked–well–weird. I’m doing archving and it turns out it was a total lunar eclipse. So that’s kinda cool. I got gas this morning, so we’re all set. Now all we need is our checks.
I was kind of not sure about getting this video card, but after reading this review, it’s totally worth the $230. Whoa, I Froogled it and found it for $199.99. Sweet.
OVERWHELMING gaming performance
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SICK Visual Effects
Processing more than 11.4 BILLION anti-aliased samples per second, the 9600 XT provides head-splitting performance up to 16 trilinear filtered texture samples per pixel. SMOOTHVISION 2.1 serves up awesome full scene anti-aliasing. Lighting and Texture effects, enabled by ATI’S programmable SMARTSHADER 2.0, make head-wounds and ripped flesh look real.
Ever have TWO MONITORS at one time?
ATI’s HYDRAVISION supports CRT monitors, digital flat panels and TVs while VIDEOSHADER enables integration of unbelievable digital video stuff, including advanced adaptive de-interlacing for awesome video quality. You just connect to a digital flat panel and dig clearer, crisper images.
As much as I disapprove of Mr. Letko’s teaching “style,” the one good thing that he did was to introduce me to this magazine called Mother Jones. I thought that it was really insightful and I always wanted to subscribe to it. It just dawned on me today that I had money and that I should do it. So I just did. I’ll start getting them in six months and I’ll be very happy with myself that I did it. My dad will be leaving tomorrow (or Friday) on his trip to Sacramento, which means one thing: party at my house! I’m not quite sure what kind of party that would be, but I’m sure it would be fun because we could be as loud as we wanted and play music and watch Adult Swim and it would be really cool. On Thursday we should have some kind of a pre-trip rendezvous and determine all the important things (where we’ll stay, what we’re going to do, etc.) I don’t want like an EXACT set in stone plan, but a general guideline is best. The most important thing is who’s going to bring what. I think that we should bring Sammie and Steve’s tent and some sleeping bags for if we run out of money. I’m not one of those people who freak out if we deviate from whatever plan we set up, though. I love spur of the moment things, I love having fun. I hope you guys feel the same. I’m thinking we should hit Arcata as soon as we get there and then move on to the mall later in the day because it will close later than the little shops in Arcata.
Nobody is here, I wonder where they all are. I lost my take home quiz for drama (sad, I know) so that’s not going to be fun. I’m hungry and kind of in a crappy mood. I’m in a good mood if I were to be hanging out with my friends all of the rest of today, but I’m in a crappy mood for sitting in a classroom and pretending to care about theatre when all I really want to do is eat a yummy sandwich. I have cash, I should get a soda or something. That’s what I’ll do. The caffiene will curb my hunger.
What an idiot. Every day after English 1B I go into the lounge and Patricia says someting stupid. It’s like clockwork. Last time she was all “I love your outfits, every day I wait to see what you’ll be wearing. I just want you to know that I approve, it has my seal of approval.” She was trying to be funny, I suppose, but it didn’t work. But anyway, today was the greatest one yet. Someone was going to throw out some of those six-pack can holder things and she had them give them to her so she could cut them up so birds wouldn’t get caught in them. Then she started to rant about how so many birds die from them and all this crap. “All the animals are going to die anyway,” I said. And then she said the stupid thing. I would imagine that stupid people must think for hours to come up with things this dumb.
Imbecile: “Yeah, the polar ice caps are melting. That’s why it’s been getting colder here.”
Me: “Um, global warming is what’s melting them so if anything it’s getting warmer.”
Imbecile: “No, it’s the other way around!”
Yeah, honey. That’s right. There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam was responsible for 9/11. Saudi Arabia does not fund terrorism. And global warming is making the globe cooler. Either she’s really dumb or really high. Either way, people that dumb shouldn’t be allowed to leave their houses.
