The Journal of CSI_Sanders1129

Originally posted by neo_prodigy at Spirit Day

BWAHAHA YES IT IS NOW OCTOBER. One of my two favorite months out of the year. :D Made even more awesome by starting it with the PRS Open House thing this weekend. Awesome!

Really have no purpose in posting other than breaking out one of my awesome pumpkin icons.

1. Phantom Stallion: Untamed
Phantom Stallion: Rain Dance

2. Woo! Getting new glasses soon! Finally! Awesomely hilarious new eye doctor, since I hated the last guy. God, my vision fails. Have to wait like 2 weeks til they get the glasses in, though. The joy of having seriously extreme prescriptions.

CSI: Dark Sundays = Done.

And - Adam Lambert Concert tonight! Woo! (aside from the 95 degrees out thing. That's a bit excessive.)

So. Spent most of today in Frostburg. Signed up for classes, got my ID and got some questions answered and whatnot. I've also learned not to share hotel rooms with my parents because the both snore like bears. We got home around 5. At 5:30 a huge ass storm hit and killed our power - which is still out. It sucks. I have a bunch of stuff to do before graduation tomorrow. Gag.

Oh.

Phantom Stallion: The Wild One = Done.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz = Done.

1. Spent ALL DAY yesterday taking down the pool which was exhausting and not fun at all. I miss the pool already.

2. Well, I know I have an A in my Western Civ I class:



:D

1. Done with school now. Only thing I have to go back for now is Graduation on the 5th. Grades - sometime next week *bites nails*

2. The Losers (Book 1) = Done.

3. WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH TEXAS AND THIS ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY INSANE TEXTBOOK THING? As a history major, this terrifies me. Seriously. History is deluded and biased enough before you start editing stuff out. Half the stuff they teach kids these days is already very very wrong with regard to history, but picking and choosing who they should paint in positive lights is... ridiculous. McCarthy is supposed to be painted as a decent guy, said one article, not as the communists-are-everywhere witch-hunter that most decent historians would classify him as. And then! And, then, I read in another article: ""I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses," she said."

What? Okay, first of all broad-brushes in history? They do not work. To have such a level of douche-baggery annoys me. I believe in God. I do. But, I don't believe that religion should be the center-point of anything. And to say that a book that wasn't put together until 1700 years ago has almighty control over everything... No. Just no.

What the hell are kids going to be like in 10 years if they actually do this? America hasn't always (read: usually isn't) the good guy in much of anything. For example... How many of you know anything at all about the Philippine-American War? Not many, I am willing to bet. That's because WE LOST. Not only did we lose and practically erase it from our history books, but if it was ever referred to, it was dubbed the Philippine Insurrection. Like we just showed up to help them out and they got all uppity and started fighting. Noooo. We went in thinking that 'Oh, they'll totally want our help, cause everybody wants to be like us, right?' It was the prequel to Vietnam. We did not understand jackshit about their culture and we went barging in without trying to. (Wow, I'm getting off topic). If textbooks start editing even more unsavory details out to make America seem more Patriotic and otherwise awesome, what are we gonna have left?

Most of American History is totally ridiculous. I know Maryland was bad enough, schizophrenic as it was with all sorts of issues (religion, whether or not it wanted independence, South/North stuff in Civil War, and on up into the 20th century). America as a whole is even worse. Declaration of Independence and all that went with it? Treason. Boston Tea Party? A bunch of rich guys who couldn't make money (the Tea Tax actually made British tea cheaper for the people to buy, as opposed to smuggled in tea that the rich were pedaling) riling up the regular folk until they'd incited a mob. War of 1812? Was not the British trying to reclaim America for the Monarchy.

Another article had this gem: "They also required students to evaluate efforts by global organizations such as the United Nations to undermine U.S. sovereignty." WHAT THE FUCK? You wanna know who came up with the original idea that preceded the UN? Yeah, that would be our guy. Woodrow Wilson. As part of his 14 Point Plan following the end of WW1 (which, he predicted, if it weren't followed we'd have another war within a generation - this was 1919. He wasn't right, was he? Generation = 20 years, yeah. And what happened in 1939? Hm, start of WW2). His last point? The League of Nations. Oi.

I... I need to stop typing this. I'm giving myself a headache.

On a final note, I'm just gonna end with what some of the geniuses protesting this nonsense are saying.

Just educate.

Phew. Almost done with finals. I have one more paper to write (which I'll do tomorrow) and then I have 2 no-need-to-study-for tests on Wednesday and then I am D-O-N-E! It's kind of sad, really. I've been at this school for what seems like forever (read: 2006). And now it'll be over. This hit especially hard today cause I had to go fetch my Graduation regalia stuff from the bookstore. It'll be weird not being there anymore.

After class on Wednesday, I'll be back to working on fic :3

Also, here. Have an adorable kitteh:

I am so ridiculously productive today.

In all fairness, it didn't get off to a great start. First, my alarm failed to go off on time (because I am an idiot and left it on vibrate, which should have woken me up anyway but didn't) but got out of the house on time even still. Then, a school bus ran us off the road (was over waaaaay too far) and into a ditch and by the time we got to the end of the road, we realized the tire was decidedly fucked up. We made it back to the end of the driveway before it was totally flat and then I ran down to fetch the truck (thank God Dad was off today or we would have been thorough screwed) and we made it to class just in time (just as the Professor (who does not allow for lateness) was about to shut the door). So, yeah. Eventful morning.

Since we got home I have done two things:
-Read Merlin fanfiction, which I am terrifyingly obsessed with
-Watched Scooby Doo flicks (Boo Brothers, Zombie Island, and Witch's Ghost(loltimcurry))

Oh, and...

( here is a meme )

YESSS, got the Droid!!

Also, may have gotten food poisoning, but that is not relevant.

Also, Plato & A Platypus Walk Into A Bar... - Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes = Done.