Thursday, September 16, 2004

Customer service is a void from which no mortal soul can escape.
Just checked my email for the first time in a couple weeks, and I got a message from Karmi.


PS: Tell everyone at OB I said hi and that I miss them lots and lots. I'll be back soon, I promise. :)

So be sure to say "hi" in the comment box so she can separate the true friends from the fakers. *PEER PRESSURE*

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Comment Commentary

Godel- Aw, too bad. Despite my constant complaining, I really enjoy working on yearbooks and newsletters and the like, even when the end result could be overthrown by a monkey doodling on used toilet paper.

Shin- In retrospect, it was a foolish decision, and I shall now hang myself in the town square and hope that God forgives me.

StarBound- Does she do the high-pitched annoying voice when she does the quotes? Because I hate it when people do that. Rikki Simmons is the only true GIR, dammit.

Solo- I like Volume 2 a lot more than Volume 1. The episodes are cooler, though I haven't gotten around to the commentary, and the DVD-insert and disc art is cool as well. There's also a Roman Dirge reference on the back which is incredibly cool, too.

Aleia- Damn those stairs. They are too clever sometimes..

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We went up to the computer lab to determine our Accelerated Reader levels today. I hadn't been in the computer lab yet this year, and I did not know that they brought in all-new computers. They are, predictably, Dells, but they're sexy Dells, with flat-screened CRT monitors and cool (but not as cool as my Nyko Airflo) optical mouses. It looks like the school really put out for computer stuff this year.

The test was pretty run-of-the-mill. They give you sentences with blanks in them, and you're supposed to choose the right word. The difficulty of the questions fluctuates with your responses, and mine got pretty difficult. They gave me a ton of long, confusing paragraphs and a ton of words that you won't even find in some dictionaries. I got worried when the responses went from "trinitrotoluene" to "climate." If I got a lower reading level, that means I will be able to read easier books. Yay for me.

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I would consider today the first "real" day of Phys Ed. In the middle of the day, with blistering temperatures of 94 degrees fahrenheit, we had to run a lap and do two heats of sprinting. I don't mean to brag, but I've always been a little proud of my running. It's not like I'm the fastest runner, but I normally get third place in the fifty-yard dash and I'm proud of that (I've also run the mile in 7:49, but that was in the cool, brisk morning, not in 100-degree weather). We then went into the gym and did some pushups. Personally, I find it strange how so many people have such a hard time with simple pushups. I rarely do anything exercise-ey with my arms and I never have a problem with getting fifty out.

..I apologize for sounding braggy.

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After PE, I got into a conversation with a kid in journalism about computers as we were defragging the computer's floppy drive and reinstalling Word 97. He's pretty knowledgeable with computers, and I even learned a few things (No thanks to you, Azure >:|). It took forever to get the computer to properly transfer the files, and by the time it was all in there it was already time to go. I suppose I'll be blowing a lot of time until it's time to actually start designing the newspaper. The teacher may have me edit some things, but I'm not comfortable critiquing people I don't know.

Oh, and a cool little factoid: We actually got the local newspaper to professionally print our stuff. The minimum number of prints they can do is one thousand, and God knows 95% of our student population won't be picking these up other than to ogle the cheerleaders or use it as wrapper for their chewed-up gum. It's all for the common good (excluding the janitors), I guess.

Teh SillyCircus Day 32- Come on, man, hook me up with some Fable.

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Hm, 80% compatability with Ken. Interesting.
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