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Who loves you, vavy? To reciprocate the postage by Dusty over on his site's journal (which you should read; the pictures are alone are very quality-- of South Korea, at least), I'm transcribing some new John Mayer quotes just for the Dustmeister Here goes: I'd like to give a special shout out to the gentleman who brought his, uh, laser pointer from 1996 this evening, apparently time-warping. Very nice, sir. Security, look for the man wearing the "No Fear" shirt, thanks a lot.and Nice to be back home, and thank you for all coming out and wanting to check it out tonight. Where's Groton in the house tonight? Westport? South Wesport-- I'm just going to go through every city. East Windsor? Yeah. Farfield? Where's Fairfield? All right. New London! I know, uh -- this is the worst concert experience you've ever had, just me going around. It's like reading school cancellations. "Ansonia. You will be rocked for 95 minutes. Bethel, public and parochial, you will be rocked for 95 minutes; no morning Head Start." I know that stuff! Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 23:56 0408.28 SCHEDULIZER Yeah, so, this eeevening, I started going over some of these supplimental instruction surveys I collected. Wait, I haven't explained this SI stuff on the site, have I? Basically, I'm the Supplemental Instruction group leader for Mrs. Fortner's HIST 110 classes (Western Civ <1500). Supplemental Instruction is a program that was set up by the University of Missouri some years ago and is used at more than 600 colleges and universities in the US and abroad as a way to provide all students with study sesions based on the Socratic Method for classes with a historically high D/F/Withdrawl rate. (Wow, that was a long sentence.) I've taken fairly hefty amounts of training for this (6-10 last night, 9-4 today WAUGH), so I think I'll be pretty effective in said facilitation. Okay, so, anyhow, I'm sitting here tonight with these SI surveys I passed out to her 0945 section (I ran out so I dcouldn't give any to her 1045 or 1400 classes), and I have nine surveys alone where the student marked their intrested level as 'very interested (5)'. The method we learned for this stuff works under the assumption that at a normal session there will be fewer than 20 people or so! I decided to process just these 5ers, and ignore the bulk of the surveys. I figure I'll probably get another twenty interest-level-five surveys on monday, so working with these people's schedules alone will be difficult enough. I took a blank survey sheet and made tallies on the time chart for every hour block each respondent said would be unattendable. Then I went over in blue highlighter the blocks when I have classes and meetings and can't hold a session anyhow. Here's how it looks:  Yeah, so, as you can see, no matter what time they're gonna happen, there's gonna be a conflict. Though, what I'm thinking right now is one on Guy Montag at 4 or 5, one on Tuestag at 5 or 6, and one on Thorstag at 5 or 6. I don't know how the dynamic of the Montag/Tuestag sessions would work, as the class is an MWF and stuff, but we're supposed to meet three times a week. However, Freitagnachmittag and the weekends are right out (for obvious reasons), and not only does my schedule run through most of the afternoon Mittwoch, but there's a unspoken no-no of doing school-related stuff on those evenings as there's usually religious fellowship action going on then. Anyhow, I just wanted to offer up something today that would be more worthwhile than the previous aborted politcal diatribe. Individual Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Vote National Progressive Conservative Peoples' Traditionalist Populist Workers' Party Yes, folks, this is the start of a new day, and of a new party platform to lead this wonderful country in the right direction. Enough of the Republicans and Democrats and Libertarians and Greens and Right-wing nutjobs and Left-wing pinko commies. The time of the National Progressive Conservative Peoples' Traditionalist Populist Workers' Party (NPCPTPWP, or nip-kip-tip-wip) is at hand. You might be asking, "Why do we need another party?" "What's with that name?" Well, I just filled out a FAFSA today and thought that the amound of information they wanted to be outlandish and absurd. Also, we all know how I hate such thing as traffic signs in illegible, nonstandard fonts and other bumbling acts of stupidity regularly perpetrated by the government these days. That's why I'm forming this new party. The name is absurd because I think this other stuff is absurd. Okay, so this has kind of lost the humor that it had when I initially thought of it a few hours ago. Sorry for not doing it justice. Individual Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) 23:30 0408.27 Your tired words are all the same Yeah, anyway. Massive classloadage is actually kind of fun I was actually going to write a big blogpost and stuff, but it's suddenly 1 AM and I don't care anymore. Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 23:30 0408.26 Ooops So my alarm clock didn't go off this morning. Woke up at 0945, looked at the clock, and said aloud, "Uh, don't I have a 9:45 class or something?". Oh well, I was only a few minutes late. It won't happen again. I hope. Classes were good. There's still no mustard packetage in the Stupid Center. What's a chick-fil-a sandwich without mustard? Between 10 and 15 percent less awesome, that's what. Didn't do much the rest of the day besides doing homework, watching the Conan 10th Anneversary Special DVD (tentative rating: LRMS +6), wallmarting (MMM FRUITCUPS TASTY), and sitting on my bed half-asleep while UPN 38 was showing 'black' sitcoms. XD Oh, Elrod sent us this email; I thought it was funny: SUBJ: SocS 301 Paper Topics BODY: These are topics that have been selected so far... War of Italian Independence (1859-60) Franco-Mexican War (1862-67) Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) Boer War (1899-1902) First Arab-Israeli War (1948-49) Six-Day War (1967) Soccer War (1969) Yom Kippur War (1973) Turko-Cypriot War (1974) East Timor (1975-1999) Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) Falklands War (1982) Bosnian Civil War (1992-95) This is a good selection; none of you should have any problem finding material for a good research paper. I wrote a paper on one of them in grad school, but I'm not going to tell you which one it was until after I have read them all. That should keep you on your toes. Mark Elrod [email address removed] Associate Professor of Political Science Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas Oh, and I ordered my first 11:00 PM pizza pro of the year. Sigh. I had sworn off anything but real pizza (and at reasonable times) this year. Oh well, I'm still going to stick with only eating healty food and drinking milk at dinner. That's about it. Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 23:21 0408.25 I think I've been up for 16 hours today And I'm not feeling tired at all. Sleepy, yes, but not tired. See, I woke up at 7:;30 this morning to buy some stuff at walmart -- answering machine and related paraphenalia, which ended up being: GE Digital Answering Machine GE 110 VAC non-grounded outlet multiplexer (brown) Southwestern Bell modular jack splitter (2-way, ivory) SB coiled-cord anti-twist device for my existing handset (clear) Late Night with Conan O' Brien 10th Anniversary Special DVD bottle of coke-brand water (Dasani? whatever)Then I went to wash the bug splatter off my passat before it melted on, and snagged some breakfast at the Burger King. And all of that was before 9 AM. In chapel, Burksey did the cameraderie and Holy Kiss /Italian Greeting schtick (to which the guy in front of me proclaimed was the first step in the Harding conspiracy to "Engage Hearts and Minds", as the slogan goes) again like last year. Whatever. Excanged Theology Class books at the 9:45 slot, since I didn't have the SI junk fixed yet. I found the reciept for my orignal purchase so I didn't have any problems. 10:45 was French, which will be good. Unfortunately Andre Glace-Foid Troi-mille and Beth are in the other section, but I've still got Mattieu, who was actually wide awake and speaking in French fairly easily. I think the 9:45 class period last year was just too early for the dude. Everybody else is frosh with HS experience. On my lunchbreak I got some Chick-fil-a and mainly cleared up the SI stuff. Yeah. 1300 Found me upstairs in the So after Klein I went downstairs to the Ganus Fishbowl for Latin American Civ. Knowing that it's a Conley Spanish class, I start trying to crank the Spanish gears so I'm already going before she can walk in, say Entonces and then a paragraph-block of information in Spanish in about 5 seconds. The aforementioned Beth is also in this class, so as soon as Mrs. Conley starts up the Spanish Avalanche, Beth teurns to me and says "Okay, Ben, you're my translator. Go!" I had a hard time stiffling the laughter, but I managed to succeed. The rest of class was pretty quality. My Theology class had a few people I know in it, including the Unstoppable David Ashley. It looks like it may be pretty boring, judging from the way the teacher handled it the first day. But I'm gonna make the most of it, yeah. After that, I went to czech my mail (nothing), finalized the SI stuff, and went to my room for a few minutes. Deciding against taking a nap or something stupid like that, I hit up the Shanerage and we got some grub. He left before I did, so I sat with Ivan and Lancey for the rest of the time, and they invited me to the Spanish-speaking group's Wednesday night singing thing, to which I ascended, but not before I saw Molly Morris in the Caf, but only for like a minute and a half. Where the heck has she been, anyhow? Went to the aformentioned Spanish thing, and then back to my room. I was, like, totally bored and stuff, and called up the Megs in a manner that I quickly realized was just me saying "I am bored. Entertain me." which is stupid, but she wanted to go to that coffee house up the street and we haven't hung out in a while anyway so I guess it wasn't that big a deal. Drank, talked, went back to campus. I regressed to my room and took care of some low-level stuff (shower, etc), czeched the Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 21:51 0408.24 I buy fountain pens / but I still don't write letters I said the above in conversation the other day, and Dusty seemed to think it sounded like a song lyrics. So, I threw is a slash. So, I'm down here at Harding. I got in late Sunday night, and spent most of Monday and today getting classes rescheduled, books I no longer need, and moved into a room I probably won't be staying in. I'm not getting a parking permit for the Passat until my license plate comes. Harding Security can ticket the heck out of my dealer new plate-- losers. So my schedule tentatively looks like this 0945 M W F Western Civ / Fortner [as a paid study group leader] 1045 M W F Honors French II / McCready 1300 M W F Amer. Hist <1877 / Klein 1400 M W F Lat. Amer. Civiliz. / Conley 1500 M W F Acts of the Apostles / somebody 0945 T R Human Situation II / Gardner 1110 T R Sit in Ganus Lounge, discuss essays on global conflict, write a term paper / ElrodNo Christian Home, thank goodness. Dude, I got the texts for that-- Getting Marriage Right, Creating a Sucessful Christian Marriage, and The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families and definately wanted out as soon as freaking possible. OH MY SOMETHINGOROTHER. Also the fact that the Student Led Tutoring Session office called and asked me to do one of Fortner's Western Civ classes for money gave me an even better excuse to drop it, since WC meets at 0945, 1045, and 1300, and there's no way I was dropping french or history. I have to take a Theology class, though, so I found that Acts class, which is in the same degree-requirement bracket as Christian home, so hahaha, I get to do textual study. I gotta get the text for Acts tomorrow from the bookstore, although I don't think I'll be able to return the XHome stuff-- I can't seem to find the reciept. Oh well, I can sell it for some money on Elrod has two new entires in my quotebook, and I've only seen the guy for like 20 minutes. Oh my goodness. Also, Hopper proved once again at the Convocation today that Rutgers University has, by far, the best looking doctoral robes on the North American continent. So far I've run into Shaner, Timmy, the Megs, her roommate Cara, Dusty (who's going to his semester in Australia tomorrow), Brett Keller, the Incredible Shawn Frazier, I would also like to give a shout out to all my Zionsville crew, because I be kickin' it endosty-leee and mad representin' the 8-7-3 all over this piece. Czech it. Individual Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) 02:41 0408.21 Freitagabend Finale Well, said goodbye to everyone today, basically. The Maximum in Doggitude, Popeshirt, and myself met up with Colin ORR! at Blockbuster to engage in some funitude. I got Colin to print out the name "Benny" on the official blockbuster nametag sticker machine, and now the transformation of the old "Jenny" blockbuster nametag to "Benny" is complete. Also, Benny was signed into the managerial handbook at register 5 (there's four registers) with a sales target of 0 and shift hours 13-37. (It's 34 o'clock! I'm taking my lunchbreak! I've been working for twelve hours straight!) Yeah. So, anyway, the four of us head over to Chick-fil-a, which was totally and completely packed. It was nuts! But, whatever. We had a good time, and I rubbed it in their faces that Hardizzle has a Chick-fil-a on campus and Purduesky and Miami and IUPUI don't. Hahaha, losers. Oh, and I also told them the wonders of the Chicken Biscuit. Oh Chicken Biscuit, if it weren't 3 AM I'd write something about you in mock poetic form. Earlier that day, though, I stopped in Zionsville Kommunitie Hochschule, and talked with Carrie the lunch-cashier-turned-office-secretary, Dr. Hauptmann, Mrs. Dean, the Rodge, Kartholl, Nolan, MSG, and of course, everybody's favorite P. Schmiddy. It was fun. Mrs Grab knew the number for the office in Lebanon that handles absentee balloting, and called it up for me, so I get to cast my vote in Boone County, thank goodness. YEAH I didn't get to see Mrs. Delp or Sra Selby or Frau, though. Or Mrs. Berger, either. She lives across the street from me, though, so I don't really think that's a big deal. Oh wells. Also, I czeched my AOL email today, a fairly rare occurance. After I deleted all the spam, something funny and also serendipitous occured. See below:  (Here's a link to the image for you IE lusers since it isn't cooperating) There's two 'messages' from Michael Dell there, right next to each other. While the latter one is just one of those little bits of form propaganda sent out to everybody that's on Dell's website/catalog mailinglist (it's something about Dell's computer security initiative), the former one is a forward from my dad of corrsipondence between him and Michael. I thought it was kinda funny. That's about it, folks. Off to Harding on Sontag; back to regular hours Guy Montag. Yee-haw. Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 21:34 0408.19 I wanna go to school, dangit. As bizzare as it may sound, I'm really looking forward to going back to school on Sunday in a 9:30-PM-December-24th manner. It's crazy. I don't normally achieve this sort of anticipation level for anything that doesn't take place in December. Hurry up and be August 22nd already! To all my Zionsville and Surrounding Areas people: It's been great hanging out with everybody this summer. I wish we could have done more stuff, like have a party at my house or something. But, oh well. There's always next summer, eh? I can't think of anything else to write here. So, whatever! Individual Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) 23:43 0408.14 Collect so much grass po-po thinkin' we mow lawns I changed the hashing on the blue and wine blog templates in hopes of making them more legible to those of you with crappy monitors. Feedback is appreciated. Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 00:48 0408.10 Another (Probably) Commentless Entry Well, I guess I'm ready to go back to college. Not that I'm somehow looking forward to another several months away from my native habitat (or my house, for that matter), but because I'm so undescribeably bored. So bored, I'm czeching my email every five minutes eventhough I know no-one ever writes me email. Ever. I've even hit a wall in what looked like an endless source of diversion: Mayer-related downloading. There's just nothing left to download. I've got a haircut appointment tomorrow at 3:30, I'm tutoring an artist down in Broad Ripple on digital cameras/photoshopLE on Wednesday at 2:00, Church that evening and hopefully the traditional Starbucksing to follow. On Saturday it looks like the fam and I will be kicking it up to Northern Indiana for a while. I'll probably have another tutoring session next week sometime, and Frau told my parents that she wanted me to visit her at school sometime when it starts again, so I'll have to do that and see all my favorite teachers, and et MSG to tell me how to sign up for absentee voting, since I'm sure she knows how. After that, it's back to Harding on the twenty-twoond. Here's my tentative class schedule (all times Central): 0945 M W F BYFE 234 MCIN 233 IRELAND 0945 T R HNRS 204 REYN C219 GARNER 1045 M W F FR-H 201 GANB 111 MCCREADY 1110 T R SOCS 301 GANB 125 ELROD 1300 M W F HIST 102 GANB 201 KLEIN 1400 M W F SPAN 315 GANB 112 CONLEYMy Tuesday/Thursday classes are long-session ones, which kind of balances out the load, though I still get the afternoons off, as Global Issues / Elrod's Witty Banter gets out at 12:25. Everything's three credit hours except BYFE 234, the only lower-level theology course that I could fit in my schedule, so that's like 17 hours, per usual. In case you're wondering what the heck BYFE 234 is, I've forgotten what the course title is, and don't have access at that information right now. Though, judging by the acronym, it's probably not a textual study class, so, gag. Oh wells. Also, a whopping four of my six classes are in the Individual Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) 20:32 0408.8 Still Poppin' Cristal Yo ho ho, it still be off the chizzain up hurr in Club 6827 wit DJ HREF, where da dress code be street clothes, because we all street, all da time. But e'r'body in da club gon be gettin' tispy on August 10, when dat John Mayer drops a new fly live album. Rock your khakis with a cuff and a crease because you know all the Mad Scientists gon' be kickin it ENDOSTYLE to represent dat tape-si-ide! Aw yeah! Czech that. Oh, and if you didn't understand that, it appears from the official John Mayer Website that there's a new live album coming out August 10th. You know I'm all over that. Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 01:52 0408.7 mini-update I'm making this update as succicnt as possible. I've turned comment moderation off again, so comment away. I'll deal with the spammer folk on an as-needed basis. Finally, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Oh my goodness. This movie merits the rank: CINEMATIC EXPLOSION (+7)On the Lamb Movie Rating Scale (LMRS).Individual Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) 13:21 0408.6 This post brought to you by Pants So, remember when I used to write vaguely interesting stuff here? Because I'm having a hard time at it. So, the blog's going to be two years old here in October. That's pretty crazy. I'd do something cool, but I probably will forget about the event until it's too late, like I did with the 100th blog post. Oh, so I was in the Starbuck on 131st (I think, maybe it's 126th) and US 31 yesterday for whatever reason, and there was this order ahead of me that was for like 30 or 40 different drinks on a list. It wasn't like a bunch of lattes or whatever the heck coffee people drink, either-- 1 mochachino with four shots of this and another of that, etc. The list looked as if it was off of a fax or a photocopier, so I can only assume that it was some coroporate order gumming up the works. I mean, seriously. What the heck? With the amount of (company) money spent on that kind of order on a regular basis, the office could probably operate its own Starbucks and stop making the live customers at a restaraunt wait forever for some overpriced vanilla milkshake. Should have gone to Shake and Steak. Individual Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) 02:41 0408.3 Spammed I just deleted upwards of 200 spam comments. Unfortuantely, I accidentally got one of Matt's more recent ones, too. Sorry about that. I'm considering forcing comment registration, but I'm going to wait for MT3.1 first-- it's going to have some advanced blacklisting features that may make registration unnecessary. Individual Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) 01:42 0408.2 YEAH Almasy Marquis (12:36:53 AM): http://zanyvgquotes.com/ - it's BACK Individual Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) |