Just got back from Oklahoma last night at 1am. I have much much to do, a lot of calling my friends, but right now I need to help my parents put stuff in boxes and move furniture so we can clean the carpets on Monday. They're really helping me out this year, so I need to do what I can for them ( Read more... )

In statistics today, I was studiously taking notes and doing my homework at the same time, and the girl next to me was highlighting her calendar. Not just yellow for important dates, but pink for the calendar's outline, green for the days of the week, and so on. Periodically she hears the professor say something important and frantically writes ( Read more... )

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"The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than tripled last year, according to U.S. government figures, a sharp upswing in deadly attacks that the State Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on terrorism due to Congress this week." - The Washington Post, April 2005 ( Read more... )

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"WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses - even against their will - for private economic development."So, the land that you own... isn't really owned by you... it's just temporarily possessed by you... until someone else wants it ( Read more... )

I was thinking. My favorite Fresh Prince of Belair episodes were the ones where Will learned a lesson, i.e. when Will Smith cried. Like the episode where he accidentally gives Carlton speed instead of vitamin E (Carlton had an unsightly pimple) and Carlton has to go the hospital. Uncle Phil is raging in the mansion about where Carlton could have ( Read more... )

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I was reading about chemical castration as a punishment for sexual crimes. I was so surprised when I read "criminals are required by law to take the drug"... and I thought, "drug?" I don't know why, but I seriously thought that chemical castration meant like... using an acid bath or something. Thinking of it now, I realize that would be really ( Read more... )