Thought/schedule dump:
Finish my essay
Begin ND essay
Print out LOR forms
Fee waivers
None of these should take too long individually.
I took a mad hard LSAT today. I was convinced I could not have gotten higher then a 150 -- lower than when I took my first LSAT ever, cold. I was incredibly surprised by how high I scored. Was a good surprise but ugh, still such a pain to take.
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The casual sex promoted in advertising and entertainment often leads, in the real world of fragile hearts and STDs, to emotional and physical wreckage. But it doesn't seem realistic to expect most men and women to delay sex until marriage at 26 or 28. Such virtue is both admirable and possible -- but it can hardly be a general social expectation. So religious institutions, for example, often avoid this thorny topic, content to live with silence, hypocrisy and active singles groups. If singles groups' Spring Break orgies and serial cohabitation are the norm for twenty-somethings, I would like to file a bug report. Apparently 23 is the best age to get married. Ask me how happy I think I'd be if I was married this time next month. My guess is "not very." Gerson's just jealous because his generation had to tie the knot so early and I get to play kickball tomorrow night, nyah.
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Whenever I see a guy on Facebook with "women" as one of his hobbies, it's like a giant red flag. First they have "Interested in: women" (normal and acceptable) and then "Hobbies include women, working out, watching movies, women, hanging out, women, listening to music, being really straight oh, and of course, women."
I'll take "so far in the closet he can see Narnia" for 1,000, Alex. And if he's not gay, he's most certainly compensating for something else. My guess is his interest is inversely proportional to his success.
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Yeah, so I was watching a video where a college student questioned Michael Moore on the title of his latest film ("Capitalism: A Love Story.") The problem being that the issue at hand is Corporatism, not Capitalism, and despite acknowledging this, Moore proceeds to justify his title on the basis that the free market is undemocratic because politicians aren't doing what they're told. That is, politicians are acting against the will of their constituents and generally fucking things up, and this is because of the free market (somehow - it couldn't possibly be a consequence of relevant state institutions or anything), so we should let politicians meddle in the economy because that will correct everything. I'm not sure what his logic is. That's kind of like arguing that you should hire an arsonist to investigate a strange string of consecutive house fires in your neighborhood and then blaming everything on like, water or something.
That probably makes sense to him in the same way that those Irish Car Bombs seemed like a good idea at the time to me, but I assure, they were not. They definitely were not. Then he complains about credit card companies being on campus trying to give students credit cards, as if students and their parents lack the ability to say "no," and proceeds to victimize students everywhere by coloring them as this conglomerate of jobless yahoos. I must be a weird person. I totally had a job in college to help pay for school. I'm not saying I was rolling in the dough or that school loans aren't kinda annoying, but I suppose it never occurred to anyone that doling out massive subsidies for higher education is one of the biggest reasons why the price for these institutions continues to rise (when the price of good tends to fall over time.) Word on the grapevine is that consistently stimulating demand for such a thing could contribute to that, but I'm no expert..... Now, if you want to know if I am pissed off at prior generations, that would be an emphatic FUCK YES. But it's not because they have "deregulated" things to such an extent that I am now forced to use my earnings as I please (stop oppressing me!!!!!!); rather, it's because they continue to expand government into the most absurd territories - places it has absolutely no reason to be meddling in. I could not possibly care less about people smoking/selling pot and would gladly be compensated for the retarded amount of money we have spent on enforcing stupid drug laws. Same with nonsense like prostitution. I am a-okay with proper national security measures but at this point I think we already have a respectable amount of phallic looking jets. I do not want to bail out car companies because they apparently hold some sort of sacred place in American culture that must be preserved, nor am I concerned about buying cars from foreign car makers. If folks are better at making cars in Japan and Germany than we are in the US that's fine by me, especially because fuckloads of these producers have bases here in the United States that pay American taxes and employ American workers and probably compensate better than the vast majority of these glorious, red-soaked American car companies. I also do not want x amount of my paycheck taken out for shit like social security, yet another 'benefit' I contribute to and will receive a pittance in comparison (if anything!) In fact, nothing galls me more than the idea that I have a portion of my paycheck going toward programs that I will likely never utilize and then Uncle Sam turning around and offering to help get banks to loan me money to go to school. This just me, but were I in charge of every single dollar I make per hour, I would totally take that money and just pay for school directly! I would also buy sweet ass television with bombin' surround sound.
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Fuck me, I love The Pogues.
Also, this month (so far) has been "Find guys I do not normally find attractive to be attractive" month. Weird!
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I'm trying to think of where abroad I might like to live. This is a hypothetical (for now.)
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When did the Bush administration become the epicenter of political ethics? In just about every discussion where I have been critical of certain behavior of the Obama administration, the very first (and often repeated) retort is "Bush did it too!" As if, in criticizing Barack Obama, I am de facto in support of Bush or other Republicans who commit themselves to his doctrine. No, thanks, and I really don't want that incredibly low bar to be the standard we expect elected officials to live up to!
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I have a mosquito bite right above my ankle and it itches perpetually. I looked kind of silly scratching it, seeing how my dog was sitting right next to me, also scratching.
Summer is coming to a halt. I start my internship at the District Attorney's next week, and will similarly begin my LSAT prep again. I definitely put that one off this summer, and it was glorious. Back to the grind, I suppose, although it will be infinitely better than it was when I was prepping while in school and working.
I also need to find a second job. The DA's pays me in experience (joy.) Law school requires many clams. I've been lazy about this too, mostly because I have saved up fuckloads of money, but I'd better get to it before I lose my surplus.
If I ever do something famous enough to warrant memoirs, I think I will say "fuck it" and just post livejournal entries starting from here. Naturally I will edit out anything that makes me look bad. I think this is something that all really important people do, like fib and have extramarital affairs. I am drawing the line at having gay escapades in the airport, though.
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If Twitter actually plays a role in finding my missing/stolen (who knows) iPod, I will get down on my knees and convert to Twitterism.
Then I will call Apple and request that they no longer flag my serial number. Part of me hopes someone plugs it in just so I can find it and save myself the money. And see what happens. On the flip side, I'd feel like a huge nerd calling up the police all "YEAH, so Apple FLAGGED my serial number and now we found those assholes' IP. LET'S ROLL, BOYS!"
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I can't stand retarded right wingers as much as the next person, even if they happen to overlap with me when it comes to disliking Obama's proposed healthcare reform. But the thing that truly annoys me the most is seeing the left have a near identical reaction to super scary protesters as the right did when the War in Iraq was unpopular. Oh, no, organized dissent! Get the president in a bunker, quickly!
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I forgot to mention in here I got that internship at the DA's. I need to grab another job, though, so I'm thinkin' the YMCA, because I'm there for such a long time that I might as well get paid. And I have "street cred" there.
I think I will put that beer that's been lying around to good use tomorrow. It has been too long.
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The real problem with "the neg" is not that it might potentially hurt someone's feelings or that it revolves around insulting someone.* The REAL problem is signaling. As if communicating with the other half of the human race wasn't difficult enough in this context, now we've got people making money teaching people how to send artificial signals in order to get a quick fuck. This is almost as bad as Banana Republic clothes no longer automatically signaling that a guy is gay.
Now, I've got nothing wrong (in the abstract sense) with quick fucks. What's problematic with the democratization of charm is that it has, I think, a net detrimental effect. Granted, I'm not the target audience; I'm not looking for a one night stand nor do I have any strong feelings about leaving the bar with someone for anything else. That said, I can say that after becoming familiar with this sort of gameplay,** I find myself suspicious of virtually all approaches. That is, even gentlemen who are genuinely courteous and polite are treated with more skepticism than they otherwise would be. Hey, I'm 22 and odds are the people trying to "alpha up" are the guys approaching me; better safe than sorry. Even if you're doing it right, signaling has become that much more muddled between the sexes that you might be fucked in "the bad way."
Of course, my point could be moot if the majority of women are not "better safe than sorry"; or, alternatively, if I just suck at interpreting signals (very possible!) A larger pool for mate selection also seems like a valid argument but at the same time I think that one only works if there is a decent chance of accidentally developing long-term feelings for someone after said fuck, otherwise a pick-up line is designed for one thing and results in one thing.
Am I seriously talking about signaling and net effects as applied to dating and pick-ups? I need to stop reading.
Why am I even sober on a weekend? I've been so well-behaved lately. Also, I like how my entries strongly mirror my friend's list. You can tell we're all reading the same blogs.
* Allegedly, anyway. I've heard various interpretations ranging from "Women respond positively to being treated poorly!" to "All 'the neg' means it to tease" so take this for what it's worth. It's probably only truly douchey to engage in that behavior if you do interpret it as being downright nasty, because you're essentially saying "Fuck this person so they'll fuck me," but that's about it.
**Dear beta male population: I am reading your pick-up books. TACTICAL ESPIONAGE ACTION! Love your pastel colored shirt, by the way. Peacock, you say?
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Link.
(504): loyola was giving a tour this morning and they all saw me in a half ripped off toga throwing up over the side of the dorm stairs
(314): you don't even go to loyola anymore
I think I know this person.
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Median vote theory dictates that politicians will be lying douchebags ie. they will adopt a platform that will appeal to the broadest swath of people to get elected and then defect from and dilute it at the most opportunistic times while in office. Wash, rinse, repeat. Everybody knows this, even if they are not familiar with the formalities behind the actual theory. And yet everybody, myself included, suffers from disappointment when our elected officials engage in this behavior.
What makes more sense? Abstaining altogether or attempting to skew the "median" voter through persuasion and your own vote?
I'm playing basketball tomorrow. Psyched!
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I think someone who is pretty much a douche is really attractive. I know I tolerate him more because of this.
So basically the first step toward achieving world peace is to get rid of The Ugly. /Nobel Peace Prize
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Saw a dude with the username IiIIiIIIiIIiII or some variation thereof get the grandmaster achievement and, on a leap of faith, whispered "Congrats, Barcode!" hoping it would be an old friend.
Alas, it was not. :(
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Call me a giant bulldyke lesbian (or whatever other possible stereotypes are associated with what I'm about to say) but the invitation to "train" with an MMA group reminded me how I always wanted to try out rugby or Gaelic football. Alas, the women's rugby team in Rochester seems comprised of people who've actually played before, and I need a team that is willing to tolerate my noobness and nurture me into full-blown rugby-skillness. And there is but one Gaelic football team in Rochester; however, it is for dudes. The thing that really galls me about this is that their bar is so close to me!
Sigh. SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH. Yes, I am typing out my SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHS.
All-in-all, while the conditioning interests me, I do not see myself doing anything with MMA. I think the guys on TV are super hot, but it's just one of those things that's honestly never appealed to me in terms of participating the more I think about it.
Also, it's almost the fourth, that bittersweet day where we celebrate independence but lament the passing of President Thomas Jefferson. =(
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Part of me wants to do this more....
They do have a Dual Degree Program with the University of Maryland School of Law!
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