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Monday, 09 June 2008

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They said they would delete my account if I didn't post, but I don't want to lose such a great historical relic!

Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Currently Listening
Open Season
By British Sea Power
Victorian Ice
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I'm back

Yeah, I guess facebook bought Xanga, because they look the same now. It fucked up my layout so I made this one, but unlike myspace, which is now better IMO, there's no separate block for the main text. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to upload a different background.

Anyhoo, nothing's really changed except that I'm now an officer in College Democrats, much to everyone's chagrin, I'm sure. As usual, the update comes when I'm putting off a paper that I don't want to do. Of course, I'm also running on almost no sleep, so whatever. I kind of don't care at the moment.

So... this update didn't do much good, but here it is.

Tuesday, 06 March 2007

Group Trip!!

I should be writing a paper right now, but I'm doing this instead. My computer died, so I've been dealing with severe internet withdrawal. I hope I can get it to work again. The hard drive is making a funny noise and it won't boot, so I think the hard drive may be done for. In which case, my enormous collection of cool shit from the past two and a half years is also gone. :(

On the bright side, Spring Break is just around the corner, and I'm coming into Ashland to see all you bitches. My dad, Shauna, and I are all supposed to go to New York, but my dad hasn't talked about it too much, so who knows. All of our trips are always so last minute anyway. But I have something planned for this Spring Break anyhow, something very very special to which all of you are invited....

GROUP TRIP TO SEE 300!

Here's one of the promotional posters. Looks pretty HARDCORE! I think he's supposed to be King Leonidas.

The rest of these pictures are from the comic books. Here's a big ol' Spartan with his big ol' shield. Interesting fact: Spartan women had a saying for their husbands, fathers and sons who went off to war (which was all the damn time): Come back carrying your shield, or on it. The Spartans were pretty badass, especially during the Persian Wars, kind of like the Romans and Franks. I should make a list of badass people(s).

The most badass part, of course, being the battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans, including their king Leonidas, and a few thousand Thebans or Thracians (I can't remember which) held off the hordes of the Persian army and their Greek allies, protecting Athens and the rest of Greek civilization to the south. If it weren't for these Spartans, think about how the entirety of Western culture would have been different. We might all be speaking Persian now!

Here are the Persians, getting their asses kicked. Keep in mind that they controlled the known world and were considered to have by far the more superior army. But they depended on cavalry, which doesn't work too well in Greece (too many mountains and rocks). The Spartans were straight up infantry, and they trained from age 7 'til they died in how to best to kill people. Seriously, they didn't farm or anything, just fought all day.

I feel like such a boy, but I really love movies about war and guts and awesomeness like this.

I know, some of you may think it's a little over the top, or may have seen the "RED SAUCE ON PASTA!!!" ytmnd. If you haven't, here's the link, 'cause it's pretty funny. Thanks to Shauna for showing it to me, btw. It's still gonna be a sweet movie even if it is over the top, and more importantly, I want to see all your asses. So everyone who's coming, post me a comment so we can get this organized.

Back to work, I guess.

Saturday, 03 March 2007

Currently Reading
The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
By John Aberth
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Made a myspace and it's purty. Check it out.

Today I was thinking about how fucked up it is that in probably less than ten years I'll be married and have kids. I don't plan on it until I'm thirty, but that's only 9 years away. I'll have a job, a house, a car, everything. Maybe I'm sort of getting a late start at this, but I wonder what my husband and kids will look like. I wasn't ever like those girls that from age 8 has her wedding day planned down to every detail and has an accurate picture of her perfect mate in their head. I think the coolest thing would actually be if my wedding were spur of the moment, like if I met a guy somewhere and we were married in a week, or if I was on vacation with my boyfriend and we just decided to get married that day and did it. I'll probably get married at a place like this:

Of course, my family would be unutterably pissed if I did such a thing. Except my dad: he would be happy that I saved so much money. You have to do things for your own reasons, though, and when it comes to getting married, I guess my reason is no reason.

I can't fucking wait until I get to watch The Dark Ages special on the History Channel tomorrow. The Dark Ages were like, the most badass period of history ever. Except for maybe the consolidation of the Roman Empire. It was pretty badass then too. Maybe it's not a coincidence that badassness came with the rise and fall of the same civilization? Here's another cool picture for y'all's edification:

That's Clovis, the founder of the Merovingian dynasty in Francia. He would fuck your shit up.

Don't let his kingliness fool you. Warlord, motherfuckers.

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Thursday, 15 February 2007

NO MORE CANCER!?!?!?!

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19325874.700-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html

WTF? Shauna just showed this to me. What would the world be like if not only could we cure cancer, but it's CHEAP? My mind is too boggled to comprehend the implications right now. All I can say is: bad time to be starting your oncology practice.