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but I might have actually gotten an A in a certain class. I don’t know how though.

Is it just me or does Pat Tillman look a little too much like Jesus in this picture?

And yes, I know he was apparently an atheist.

Is it just me or does the new Iraqi™ flag look like it was designed with the color swatches from a Donald Duck character study?

$&*(&#@^?

I finally got the computers networked together properly. Now Samantha & Endora are speaking again. For some reason they couldn’t see one another. I can’t figure out why they couldn’t, but I’m just gonna go ahead and blame Zone Alarm.

No real reason why I should blame Zone Alarm, I just feel like it.

But now I can listen to my MP3s on both computers.

N’est-il pas plein d’humour que le pr

Well, since so many of you have demanded that I write about the presidential visit, I’ve finally decided to break down and write it.

The day was long. I mean, it seemed to drag on for at least a week. Waiting in line was fun though, because everyone was basically heckling the president.

<Robert>: Doors open at 7:45, arrive by 9… I wonder who the opening act is?
<Brian>: GWAR!
<Robert>: And on the second stage?
<Rachel>: Rage Against the Machine, duh.

We finally get in, but not before I get the wand twice. I think that woman with the wand liked me, because she got awfully fresh with that thing. Of course Rachel had helped me out by loading me down with her cigarette case & lighter in line, so they probably thought I was trying to use second hand smoke to give the President cancer.

Before we even get into his speech, I’ll go ahead and get his mispronounced/misused words out of the way. Some of them may have simply been his accent. And for the record, I pronounce nuclear the exact way he does.

Desirest/Desirist

Could possibly be a person who desires or a phrase used to describe the state of being most desirable. (Actually appears from the transcript to be the words ‘desires’ and ‘to’ drawled together)

gooderer

The state of being even gooder than gooder. see also ‘bestest’ (more than likely was ‘good, er, er’ as he tried to remember his next line)

entourage

different pronunciation, same word. George, it’s not ‘on-tour-ugh’… I can’t help you with this one.

Of course I know that I shouldn’t pick on him about the way he speaks, since I speak quite less than perfectly myself… but it’s so much fun!

I sat in the seventh row, with a direct line of sight with the president. It was kind of amazing to be that close to the man who’s running the country. He had some interesting points, but of course I didn’t agree with most of them. In fact many of the people in the crowd, most of whom were Republician seemed to be heckling Bush before, during, and after his speech. I don’t personally like the man, but I feel sorry for him that he’s become so universally disliked, especially when it’s obvious that he’s little more than the spokesman for a giant political machine.

And he didn’t help himself much at our school when he started calling us by another school’s name. We’re wondering how long it’ll be before Dr. Zeiss changes our name to PCC, after all, we have Presidential backing for the change now.

(And for you web designers out there… Why is the White House website not valid HTML (no doctype or encoding set either) or even Section 508 valid?)

You know that thing that’s happening that isn’t going to happen? Well I swear, it’s not happening. I glad I got advance notice that it’s ha… I mean, not happening. If anything were to happen, which it won’t, the school may be closed Monday.

And we all know that’s not going to happen.

More details on The-thing-that-could-happen-but-obviously-won’t later.

Maybe this is the best way to handle the ‘Gay Marriage’ situation.

I personally feel that if marriage is going to be defined as a religious term, that it has no place within the law. Make everyone have a Civil Union as the actual contract between two persons of any sex and allow those who want a marriage to have it performed in the religious ceremony of their choice or not.

Of course, this won’t please anyone in the religious right who also swear that our Founding Fathers were good Christians. They weren’t in the modern sense, they were deists. And if you’d really like to piss the right off, mention the fact that we’ve more than likely already had one gay president.

But am I really supposed to believe marriage is sacred?

I hate essay questions.

What to you plan to share with your fellow students on you college campus as a result of participating in the SLI?

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I have no idea what I’d share. I just know I’d want to wash it when I got it back.

I’ve been nominated by my school to represent them in the The North Carolina Community College Student Leadership Institute. (Boy is that a mouthful)

I have to submit an application in order to be selected. I’ve included it here, please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

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