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Stay far away from Dell screens. I mean FAR away. Dunno how their others are, but the quality of my laptop screen is so terrible I keep getting closer and closer to wanting to kick myself in the face for buying a Dell laptop to begin with. It's not that the *quality* is bad, it's actually very decent. Bad part? They flex, bigtime. This is the second time I'm going to have to have it replaced, and I'm glad it's under warranty or I'd be giving them hell over the phone every second of every day. Basically, Dell laptops have terrible LCD's, so I'm assuming that the quality of their monitors will be just the same. I'm almost starting to think maybe Macs ARE better than PC's... cept they're the DEVIL! MUAH HA HA!

Wow, so many happy people... weirdos.

I LOVE block scheduling! It's so wonderful! There's so much more time for GOOD teachers to teach. Then, we have this standardized testing nonsense that interferes with it. AP classes are mostly a joke, anyway. Hardly any high school teachers are actually qualified to teach on a collegiate level.

~shrugs~ I can deal with an absentminded teacher, even though I firmly believe that a teacher should have an iron grip on their subject, know it backwards and forwards, and be practically all-knowing therein... but w/e. Some people are just scatterbrained, like me. At least he admits his mistakes and takes the time to explain and rectify. Some teachers are just... wow.

Yeah, um, all of that was over my head. The one job I've ever had... I didn't have taxes taken out, got paid cash, lol. I guess that's illegal or something... I just don't understand the entire process and I figure I just don't have to quite yet.

Sharon, Graeme, Kevvers, I admire you all for your outlook. Unfortunately, I'm a confirmed pessimist. If something happens and I can't change it, I get frustrated to the point that I go temporarily crazy from not being able to right the obvious wrong. I don't deal well with life's little down points, at all. One person suggested that it was because I'm a cancer, and all of that empathy crap and whatnot. My explanation is that I just kinda care too much about the people I love to accept anything bad happening to them. I don't like things that "just aren't fair".

That is just absolutely adorable! And if I were you... I'd grab emo boy and threaten his genitalia if he hurt my little girl. Which is why I couldn't be a parent; I'd KILL any person who made my kid sad, lol. It'd be all like RAWR, STRANGLING YOU WITH YOUR INTESTINES! It's quite cute, though. Little girls are weird critters indeed.

Haha, an essay... wow. Am I freaky if that actually sounds fun and interesting to me? I'm beginning to blame student apathy and complacency just as much as teacher stupidity... my English teacher cracks me up. He'll give incorrect examples on purpose to see if anyone catches them, and hardly anyone ever does. Shows how much attention he gets in class. A GA Tutoring program would be wonderful. I'm sure that a few people would be incredibly useful to have around for random questions (like dear Michael, who very quickly and efficiently cleared the air around my misunderstanding). Interesting tidbit... Today a classmate heard me explaining the correct answer to a person who had actually asked me to explain it. She butted into my conversation and said to drop it, that it was yesterday, blahblahblah. (Basically she's a bitch and no one likes her, but I held my tongue on that one). So, I told her to hush up and mind her own conversation. Then I thought for a moment... THIS GIRL IS TRYING TO BECOME AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST. Do I REALLY want someone that complacent and accepting of falsehoods to have my life in their hands? How has our standard drooped so low that we just accept things like this that are really important to our success? Another little example is today a band student was complaining about the way the band teacher's been doing chairs (seating based on rank in the section you belong to). She's been wanting to strangle this woman over it for about four days now. Her mother even called the school. The band teacher pissed someone off, and even though she's not a terrible teacher like the economics teacher, people are more incited about being placed in the wrong chair than getting a shitty education. How sad is that? When other people's perception of you becomes TRULY more important to you than what is actually there... I just can't believe that people could have that mindset.

I FINALLY UNDERSTAND! So the idiot actually was correct, but he was correct because he had the teacher's edition with the answer... but couldn't explain how he arrived at that answer. THANKS MICHAEL! Can't believe they let someone like that teach... it's pitiful...

THE SETTING: Economics, third block. THE SETUP: A problem dealing with marginal cost. Marginal cost is the cost of producing a good or service. It is a summation of the equipment, labor, time, and other valued things used to produce a product. THE TABLE: Marginal Cost of Producing a Dozen Tortillas at the Amazing Tortilla Company Dozens per day / Marginal Cost Up to 500 / .50 501 to 1000 / .50 1,001 to 1,500 / .75 1,501 to 2,000 / .75 2,001 to 2,500 / 1.00 2,501 to 3,000 / 1.00 PROBLEM 1: Supposing the business could charge no more than .60 per dozen. HOw many would they want to produce each day at that price? Why? ANSWER: 1,000, because the marginal cost is still low enough, and price high enough, to make the greatest possible profit. THIS IS WHERE THINGS GOT UGLY! PROBLEM 2: If the price increased from .60 to .80 per dozen, would the business want to sell more tortillas each day? Why? MY ANSWER, AND THE SMART KIDS' ANSWER: No. They would want to sell the same amount, because at that same amount they would make a greater profit. Producing more would create an inferior profit for the company. TEACHER'S ANSWER: Yeah, they're expanding. (with nothing to explain or back his answer...) SO, I argued him down about it. I tried over and over to explain my logic and math, and let him know that he was indeed incorrect. No one else spoke up. They were perfectly content to sit there and let the teacher tell them the wrong answer, knowing he was wrong, and just accept it. The reason America is falling behind other countries is not because we don't go to school long enough, or anything like that. It's our teachers who can't teach, and our students who won't stand up for their rights. I hope the day comes soon when they're both ashamed of their actions. A second example... I was teaching my little sister math. The teacher had given them a series of figures, and told them that base multiplied by height will give the area of the figure every time. I was confused; the area of a triangle is NOT found that way. You must half your answer, because of the concept behind it. You add in a triangle of the same size to make it a quadrilateral so that the formula basexheight= area will work, and then you half your answer because the triangle is only half the quadrilateral. The worksheet was one of those that the answer corresponds to a letter and spells out something... Instead of teaching the concept behind this, she lied to her students. She halved the measure of each base on each triangle so that it would correspond to the letter it needed to. She was quite content to let them continue thinking this, even though it is incorrect. What kind of teachers do we have today? How is this going on without the parents getting involved? How can people even call themselves parents if they don't pay enough attention to their child's education to notice something this seriously, horribly wrong? Is it the complacency and faith we place in our education system? WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, AND HOW DO WE FIX IT?

So are any of you guys well versed in medicine, anatomy and physiology, that sorta thing? If so, I'd REALLY GREATLY INFINITELY HUGELY GIGANTICLY AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER ADVERBSLY appreciate your help. If you're a doctor, or ever done a lot of work in a field like that, the please PM me at some point! I'm trying to do some research, and I really just have no clue where to start, so I could use an expert in doctory type things. Thanks in advance!

Hello Kevvers! So you have criteria too, huh? Me too, don't it suck that not everybody's at your standards? I think it's great that you're out and about dating. I also like that you felt like cluing us all in, because I'm such a whore for hearing about other people's lives. Gotta say though, be careful with the creepy ones and don't let being nice get in the way of your well-being. Tell freaky face I've got some redneck cousins that'll take care of him... Just don't let nothing bad happen to yas, k? Ooo, Phil? You must update and let us know what happens, for I have become curious! Good luck with it, I'm wishing you the best and rooting for you all the way. ~hugs you till your eyes pop out~ Be nice to us ugly people, though, we can't help it.

Hello Kevvers! So you have criteria too, huh? Me too, don't it suck that not everybody's at your standards? I think it's great that you're out and about dating. I also like that you felt like cluing us all in, because I'm such a whore for hearing about other people's lives. Gotta say though, be careful with the creepy ones and don't let being nice get in the way of your well-being. Tell freaky face I've got some redneck cousins that'll take care of him... Just don't let nothing bad happen to yas, k? Ooo, Phil? You must update and let us know what happens, for I have become curious! Good luck with it, I'm wishing you the best and rooting for you all the way. ~hugs you till your eyes pop out~ Be nice to us ugly people, though, we can't help it.

Wow, that was just wonderful.

I've been told by a friend who knows a lot about theater that it's a pretty rough play... I don't know anything about it. I reserve judgement until I actually see it sometime. Naked Daniel Radcliffe! WOOHOOO! I thought he was adorable even back when he was thirteen, but now he's getting all hot-ified... ~shrugs~ It's nice that he's trying to get all buff and everything, but his skinny little outcast look had a certain appeal to it. I've heard a lot of crazy stuff about his appearance in this play, too, lol. Mommys getting pissed off that their son's role model is gonna be nekkid onstage, for one. THAT cracked me up. Sorry, but if I was Daniel Radcliffe and I received a letter saying "As mothers, we don't believe that your choice to appear in this play is setting a good example for our children, and we will avoid any of your future movies." or whatever it was, I'd just be like... "Okay.... don't care, cause I'm hot AND rich!"

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That ALMOST makes me wanna be a daddy! Cuteness! I like kids... I just don't think I'm responsible enough to raise one the way they deserve... and I'd never be able to get over messing up a kid's life. And what if I did something terrible and my kid hated me? Because I REALLY hate my dad... so, I dunno, it just seems impossibly difficult. Hat's off to all you parent people out there.

HELLO KEVVERS! How goes it and whatnot?! I've never met a real live lesbian face to face and known it... ain't that freaky? Hm, oh well. Come to think of it... I think I only know like... maybe two right now... ~shrugs~ You are always SO HAPPY! How do you do it?!?! I want some of what you have! Nah, I can kinda understand, it's all about outlook and whatnot. I used to be all "Omg, look at me, I'm emo and I wanna dieeeeeeexxxxxxxxxx!", but now I try to be a bit more bright and shiny since nobody likes a downer. Plus, you being happy makes you you, and I'd rather have a happy Kevvers than a sad Kevvers. I don't flirt with straight guys... ever. None have ever been quite cool enough for that, they always think I'm hitting on them for real. Plus... sometimes I really WOULD like to hit on them for real. Like one of my good friends, she's got what I'd consider the perfect BF. He's absolutely great, sweet, treats her right, and I WANT ONE! Girls I only flirt with if they know and REALLY KNOW that I'm absolutely gay, 100%, never gonna ever gonna want girls, QUEER. I make it a point to clear the air about that with my friends very quickly to avoid drama... Yeah, I've made out with a girl before. There's a really long, sad story about that... I don't think I've ever told anyone... wow. Point is, it was all a huge misunderstanding, a mix-up to the fullest, and something that never should've happened and it hurt both of us in the long run, maybe even ruined our friendship beyond repair, and damaged her poor psyche. So I try and stay away. Well, I'm ranting, so take care of yourself, and keep having fun, you experience whore you.

JAMESSAVIK, YOU ARE SO WRONG FOR THAT!!!! ~falls off bed laughing~ Don't you know she could have a hit put out on you or something?! You don't make fun of OPRAH! That's like making fun of the godfather, or a gang lord! But yeah, that's cute. Kids are cool and whatnot, but I don't want 'em anywhere near me unless someone else is takin' 'em home with 'em. I dunno if I'll ever want kids. Too much trouble and responsibility, and I can barely take care of myself.

This girl stood up at the talent show and started singing My Heart Will Go On... Can you imagine how difficult it was not to burst into giggles (after the stunned "omfg, is she serious...?" silence)? Bad thing was she was even worse than Celine.

Wow... all the frenchiness... I took 3 years of it, learned so much, and now it's all gone cuz I never use it. I should get a penpal who'll actually correct my idiotness in French and tell me why it's wrong, lol. Makes me sad that I got so close to being able to speak another language decently and then messed it all up by moving to a place that doesn't offer classes. Crazy weather IS Mississippi. It drops down to the 20s and 30s, then heats back up to the high 70s and low 80s... we live in a thermodynamic yo-yo here.

I do not want the nitty gritty of straight sex. I do not enjoy it, it is not my thing, and for the most part I ignore its existence and choose to get along with its... ermm... practitioners, shall we say. However, straight eroticism and the presence of straight relationships in a story don't bother me a bit. It's what's typical and prevalent in today's society, so it is to be expected that some characters will be straight and will have significant others. I worry much more about the presentation of the characters, who they are, and if I can relate to them. If a character and I have nothing in common, it doesn't matter if they're gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or even omnisexual (definition...?), I just won't like them. Then again, when I'm READING I don't really want the nitty gritty of gay sex, either, so yeah.

I woke up last night shivering. That day it was cool, not quite "cold". And I don't mean a little shiver. No, your entire body convulsing uncontrollably so bad you are unable to talk kind of shiver. A shiver that HURTS! That was the first time shivers ever hurt me! Someone had turned the heater off, and my room is the furthest out.... I think I had hypothermia or something. I could've DIED! Thank goodness Hell's frozen over. According to the laws of thermodynamics, all that displaced heat's gotta go somewhere. Btw... since hell has frozen over... does this mean I'm rich, have a boyfriend, and my metabolism has decided to renew its residence?

I absolutely love cooking. It's fun, entertaining, and it's FOOD! Gimme a stove and some pans and I'll do magic for ya. However... I am not, by any stretch of imagination, a baker. Maybe I just haven't had enough practice, but everything I do in an oven tends to come out just a little (or way more than a little) off... Example: I spent like four hours making this cake that was supposed to be absolutely delicious. I put a LOT of work and time and effort into that cake! It disappeared the night before thanksgiving, and I'd made it that day. Evidently it really sucked because my mom hid it and forgot about it... we found it in the covered cake pan we rarely ever used when we started to move........... So my cake sucked bigtime, lol.

It's never truly cold in Mississippi. Today we had the windows and doors open because it was getting warm and we didn't want to turn the AC on in January... If it actually snowed here, people would freak out. There'd be mass chaos... martial law would be declared... car crashes everywhere... it just doesn't get cold here, lol. 'Course the last few years I've noticed have been MUCH warmer than I remember when I was younger.

I'm going with Dio on this one, too. I've read many a story where some illustration absolutely ruined my fascination with a character, dashing my poor little mental picture of them all to bits. So, if the perfect picture comes along and blahblah, go for it. But don't overdo it. I think that's something you should be really careful with. Everybody has their own imagined descriptions for the little blanks that are left by the author, and for you to suddenly have yours replaced by something as solid as a picture is a bit annoying.