Most seniors I know are anxiously chomping at the bit to be rid of this place, free to move on to their new and (presumably) more interesting lives. While I will not make the fallacy of saying that I could live at college forever, I will say that I am at least less anxious than most people I know. Part of this has to do with the amazing people I've meet here during my 4 years. I can truthfully say that I may never meet so concentrated a group of successful, bright, and interesting people as I've meet here.
That being said, it's time for me to go. My biggest wish is that life after college in some ways resembles college itself; being able to hang out with friends, living close to those you care about; essentially this whole commune atmosphere that saturates college life. Yet if only, if only...
I have been privileged enough to get a sweet new email address from Google (awesome company).
Email me here anytime.
I love it when big wigs look like assholes.
Wakebrd007:
There once was a dude: Lisy, Robert Paul
Who was rumored to be hung rather small
Till one day he dropped trow
And every girl took a vow
To always be at his beck-and-call
And:
There was a senior, Ol' Dirty was his name
He was a swimmer, but DDR was his game
His whistle blows hard
For all the girls in the yard
He can put all Japanese dancers to shame
Thank you David Vaala, though I will say, rumors of my penis have been prevelant as of late.
I think that the sad thing about our
modern conception of beauty is that it's so formulaic. I'm not that much of a sculptor, but I bet that if you gave me any 5' 10" blonde chick and a plastic surgeon I could make you a supermodel. Why can't beauty instead be something that one is born with, and not earned through plastic surgery and retarded clothing?
MTV makes me sick.
Hey all,
I've had the fortunate opportunity to have a little counter on my site for a while now. One of the benefits to this little counter is that it also gives me the hostname and IP address of those who visit my site. Some of my results are expected (for example, vaalad1.shaw.denison.edu: 140.141.27.108 is Dave Vaala) while some are totally out of the blue (desktop5.kyocera-wireless.com: 12.34.93.5).
Who is that? I mean, the person probably works for
Kyocera Wireless, but I have no clue who I know from there.
All of this begs a polite request from me: if I have no clue who you are, please
email me with a short bit about yourself, or just how you found my site.
If this starts to be a trend, I think I may just follow a few simple rules:
Proverbs for Paranoids:
1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
2. The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
4.
You hide, they seek.
5. Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
- Thomas Pynchon,
Gravity's Rainbow
Sometimes I totally doubt the need for feminism, considering that it's mostly just half-assed humanism. Then I read
articles like this one and it hits me: some people are just assholes. Seriously, there is no connection between housework and reduced cancer risks. There is a well established benefit to exercise in general, but why this article chooses to emphasize housework as the only means for a woman to exercise is beyond me.
In other news, Mary Daley is coming to our campus. I really don't like her much, and I think that there are
major holes in her philosophy. For example, she shallowly thinks that one has to be a gender to experience anything in common with that gender. Yet this makes her come off as a simple-minded revolutionary bent only on destruction of the patriarchy, with no real alternative to set up in it's place. According to Mary Daley, the world is flawed because it has been defined by men, so the solution is to destroy this world and create a feminine one.
Poor logic if you ask me. How about, instead of advocating destruction, she advocate humanistic reform? Somehow I think that, just like her opposition, Mary Daley sees "through a glass darkly" to quote a phrase.
I love women, especially Jes. A (distant) second would have to be the Delta Gammas at Denison. Amazing women.
Hey all,
I love it when people start off their sites appologizing for the lack of updates. Somehow it seems so trite.
In my first display of guitar prowness in a while, I have indeed learned to play "A Thing Called Love" by the Darkness. They are sweet. However, this does point out something about myself that I've been reluctant to admit: I've basically stopped playing guitar. I used to really enjoy it, and to an extent I still do.
Japanese people are really funny.
