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2004 22 December :: 8.36pm
:: Music: There is No There by The Books
So I was playing Fable and listening to my Indie music and I noticed the lyrics of this song. It's actually a sound clip of Einstein commenting on Ghandi.
"I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."
This is all there is...
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2004 22 December :: 11.52am
I gave my Woohu invite code to someone I don't know.
She e-mailed me asking if I still had mine and if she could have it. So I gave her mine.
She's 17, lives in New York, capitalizes, drinks and smokes! I've got my own little delinquent!
She said she wanted the code because Woohu is the only journal site her school doesn't block.
And I felt like being nice.
Plus she's still in school and Christmas Eve is in two days.
Don't be mean to her. I bring you, Kimberly!
This makes me giggle. I didn't write it, so don't kill me.
"Time's Person of the Year [is] not an award given to the most loved person. It's given to the person who had the most influence over the year.
In 1938, Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year. It's not a popularity contest - it's about newsmakers. That simple.
Please - let's keep this in mind.
(and, on that note, I fucking hate Bush, think he's a shitbag and am rooting for the pretzels)."
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2004 22 December :: 10.59am
Aw. I just finished watching the Year of the Rat music video. That is the cutest thing on the face of the earth. I love it. Thanks, Tracey. It makes me want to give everyone hugs.
I love you all.
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2004 20 December :: 10.14am
So the TSO concert last night rocked, as always.
My only complainant was that I was uncomfortable and I like to keep my retinas for later use.
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2004 19 December :: 11.34am
I'm not even going to try to talk today. I'll just whisper.
Yesterday, my mom wanted to go look at Christmas trees "for the ambiance" and because she's such a Christmas nut. She just wanted a wreath but us chitlins saw this cute, forsaken Charlie Brown tree for only four dollars so we ended up getting that too.
My voice sort of came back during that time. It was back to that squeaky breaking thing that it was on Friday.
I haven't talked yet today. I don't want to. I'm tired of not being able to talk and just getting teased or not being heard or being called annoying.
I'll drink lots of water.
Dude! My mom just said my name and, by reflex, I answered her. I can almost talk normally again. It just sounds a little weird.
I'm hungry, I'm hot, I'm stinky, and I'm going to go.
I think everyone needs to/should go see Nick at least once during break. Even if you're just going to give him a hug and then you're going to leave again.
I love you all.
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2004 18 December :: 10.40pm
:: Mood: sad
I'm in a horrible mood and I apologize in advance to anyone I might snap at.
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2004 18 December :: 10.44am
:: Mood: awake
Don't take advantage of your ability to talk!
For the first time in my life, I have laryngitis.
I cannot speak above a whisper. My whisper is a whisper. My normal voice is a whisper.
It's exhausting. It doesn't hurt or anything but the effort it takes to talk just wears me out.
(What am I doing up so early? I fell asleep early last night so I guess that's it.)
My parents are taking us all shopping later today (hopefully) so I'll get you all your presents and get them to you soon. Somehow.
I can't wait until I can drive.
I love you all.
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2004 17 December :: 9.35pm
I'm no super genius. Or are I?
Voice update, I suppose.
I'm fluctuating between having to whisper and just having my voice sound really deep.
This happened after I stopped talking for a while but at least I could sort of talk.
I watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and I haven't talked for an hour.
So I'm just going to not talk for the rest of the night and maybe tomorrow.
Which, I'm sure, comes as a great pleasure to many people.
My parents went shopping and eating, my brother's at a party and my sister is upstairs writing her award-winning novel. So it's pretty easy to not talk. I'm sitting here, bored, listening to music on the random music stations on the stupid TV.
Wow. This break sure looks promising. Sarcasm, sarcasm.
Every time I cough, I can't help but think of that orphan girl on the one episode of The Simpsons. "But who will cure my whooping cough?" That was the most hilarious random ten-second thing ever. That was on the pie man episode. I have to find that now.
I love you all.
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2004 17 December :: 2.51pm
Okay.
So if you talked to me at all today, you saw heard my progression from me to a pre-teen boy whose voice is changing.
For some reason, my voice totally crapped out on me today. In was fine yesterday but during first hour, it started to crack and after our presentation in second hour, it crapped out on me.
It was the funniest if you saw me progress through the day. It's still funny enough that Katie almost choked on her food at lunch, Ben would not stop making fun of me and Nick thought it was so hilarious that he passed the phone to his mom so she could hear me.
It's cool, really. This kid in my Japanese class had to look away while I was talking to him so he didn't laugh in my face.
My throat doesn't hurt. In fact, it only hurts when I force my voice to sound like it normally does.
I think I'm going to grab my dry-erase board and wander around with that for the rest of the day.
I'll probably be on the messenger a lot tonight.
I better be able to talk tomorrow or I'm going to be upset.
I can't even laugh right.
How do I make it go back to normal?
I love you all.
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2004 17 December :: 6.17am
Nick's home.
Ben and I went over to Nick's and hung out with him, Jackie and eventually Pam.
We watched Collateral and the rest of I, Robot. I missed half of I, Robot before because I had fallen asleep. I missed some of Collateral because I fell asleep again.
Nick's doing alright. He's still in a lot of pain, which makes me sad, but all pain stops eventually.
If you can, you should go see him and give him a hug or something.
My cold has progressed into a cough that came out of nowhere.
I'm making up an AP Lit quiz before school on a poem that I haven't read and don't know the name of.
I studied for my French quiz in my sleep which weirds me out a lot.
I didn't do any homework last night but I don't care.
It's the last day before break.
Nick's home.
Life is good.
I love you all.
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2004 15 December :: 6.25pm
Nick's mommy just called.
He's been in the recovery room since 4 and is in a lot of pain but he's on drugs and doing fine.
Everything went cool. He had some bone growth they weren't expecting and didn't think they could get through but it went smoothly.
He'll be in a room as soon as they get one cleaned so he's in recovery until then.
Mrs. Hazen was going to call around to people, I think, so we'll see what happens.
She said she'll call when he's in a room.
I love you all. Thanks for the prayers and all that jazz.
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2004 15 December :: 4.47pm
I didn't know
Xmas has been used for hundreds of years in religious writing, where the X represents a Greek chi, the first letter of, "Christ." In this use it is parallel to other forms like Xtian, "Christian." But people unaware of the Greek origin of this X often mistakenly interpret Xmas as an informal shortening pronounced (ecks mas). Many therefore frown upon the term Xmas because it seems to them a commercial convenience that omits Christ from Christmas.
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2004 15 December :: 1.01pm
Penny Arcade on Spike TV's Video Game Awards and gamers:
I think that the process started by Sony's Playstation is now one hundred percent complete. I think that what has happened is that we [the gamers] are no longer relevant. Gaming culture has been seized, reconfigured, and commodified and programs like this are just the taut skin over a pulsing boil.
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2004 15 December :: 12.34pm
Nick called about an hour ago.
He's doing alright. He was just waiting around.
His surgery is scheduled for 1.
He's hungry, hates hospital gowns and blankets, bored and anxious.
He said the surgery will take 4 hours and he'll be in recovery for an hour or so.
He hopes to be coherent by 7 tonight and thinks he will be.
Mrs. Hazen is going to call everyone once he is coherent but doesn't think he'll be tonight.
He'll be in the hospital for maybe four days then stuck at home for ten days.
So by the time you all get home, he'll still be in surgery.
Wish him well.
I love you all. Thanks bunches.
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2004 14 December :: 10.50pm
Staying home tomorrow to get better.
Sent Wessely-sensei an email telling her to put Jerry Lacey in charge of anime club but if someone could please inform her (either that I sent her an email or that I'm putting Fire Sandwich in charge), I'd love you even more.
Sorry that Nick didn't come see you Katie. I feel really bad but he was being a guy and they got a new computer...
Tomorrow Nick has his surgery. Wish him well.
I love you all.
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