Why don't you just cancel it right now?

OK, I didn't mean that, but football is part of the reason why my life stinks. You know, maybe they should cancel it, and let NBC pick it up.

Other reasons my life stinks:

• You call this a high-speed modem?
• The Senior Project is killing me
• I have to take Algebra II to go to the college my parents want me to go to
• Politics are affecting my day-to-day life
• I can't think of a way to express my true feelings without breaking something
• At least 5 people at school have nothing better to do than to ruin my life
• I've had an incurable sore throat for 9 days now

Listen, you should just ignore the ranting of an emotionally unstable 17-year-old. There's so much better stuff to do.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving

I'm sure you knew that already, I'm just saying. Why I'm bringing up Thanksgiving is because I will mention that I can only remember our family gathering together thrice in my lifetime: in 1992 at Dad's parents' house in Fayetteville, in 1995, as we showed off our new dining room in our new (at the time) house, and in 2003, visting Gatlinburg, TN. Our family is really spread apart:

Granddad: Fayetteville, NC
Grandmom: Erwin, NC (She has Alzheimer's and doesn't recognize any of us anymore. It's really depressing.)
David and Martha: Brussels, Belgium
Garry, Joan, and Laura: Half-time Raleigh, Other half Atlanta, GA (Uncle Garry was unable to find a job in Raleigh, Greensboro, or even Charlotte,[THANKS A LOT, NAFTA!] so he commutes on the weekends.)
Us: Clayton, NC
Tim and Tara: Prattsville, AL
Greg, Vanessa, and Alex: Fayetteville, NC
Patrick: Lillington, NC
Lesley, Luke, Sarah, Rachel , Hannah, and Julia: Cleveland Community, NC (Near Clayton)
And this is just my Dad's side.

Well, Happy Thanksgiving, and good luck with your shopping.

I don't know the title of tonight's episode

Pretty good episode tonight, about time they satirized the whole "Gray Davis affair". As is getting to be a usual thing nowadays, the sub-plot was not resolved (in this case, Bart stealing the street sign), and this time, Maggie was not even seen at all. According to TV Guide, next week's episode will be a "Thelma & Louise" parody, featuring Lily Tomlin (probably not as herself). That would be really impressive, except that was already covered 12 seasons ago in 1F03 (production codes again), "Marge On The Lam." Whatever it turns out to be, I will review it here.

Good Night, and Good Luck

I just saw that movie, and I think it will win this year's Best Picture Oscar. I mean, I liked it. Also, I was at North Hills in Raleigh, which is a mall, but not an average mall, as it resembles a downtown that was spared by Wal-Mart. Anyway, I ask you: how dumb would you have to be to leave the top down on a Beamer/Bimmer/Beemer (which one means BMW?) convertible on an overcast November day? Apparently, someone there was.

VERY important information going unnoticed

If you comment on a TypePad Blog, such as This Is Broken, and you check "remember information," it doesn't remember anything. When commenting on This Is Broken, which is an excellent site, I've had to open a separate window, and cut and paste this blog's URL to put in the slot where it asks for one, because the URL for this is hard to memorize. It used to work, and no one has noticed that it doesn't anymore.

Anyway, today I visited St. Andrews and I've decided that I will go there, unless I hear from Louisburg or Barton, which I think I should have by now. One thing that is important to me when looking at colleges is the student-to-bathroom ratio:
Louisburg: 4:1
Chowan: about 36:1
St. Andrews: 12:1
Barton: I think it varies.

Enough said, at least for tonight.

Accepted at St Andrews, no scholarship

That's the latest news for my life, but there's some other things I'll mention here:

Inspired by Jeff Foxworthy's redneck jokes, these are my Johnston County Native jokes:

*If the only hot dogs you've ever eaten are red...
(Carolina Packers red frankfurters are locally [in]famous)

*If you know where Raleigh Road is, but you don't know where Raleigh is...
(Raleigh Rd. is an average country road, that leads not to the state capital, but to West Johnston High School.)

*If you're wearing the clothes your mamma used to make -- at the Champion plant...
(Up until 1997, Champion clothes were made at a factory in Clayton)

*If you why Deacon Jones has his name on every car dealership in the county...
(Except Classic Ford, that is)

*If you didn't notice when Knightdale got their bypass...
(US 64 has a bypass around nearby Knightdale, which is in Wake County, but US 70 does not yet have one around Clayton, and desperately needs it)

*If you always thought the Shoney's in Selma had good service...
(It didn't, trust me.)

...You might be a Johnston County Native.

I'm not trying to offend anyone, but who's to say rednecks don't have a sense of when to laugh at themselves? On the other hand, I was actually born in Wake County, because I lived there at the time. I've been here since 7/31/1995.

Yeah, it's me again

This weekend I visited Chowan College, and got interested in the place. I don't mean to brag, but I've already been accepted there, with a $5000 scholarship, and I'm gonna (OK, going to) see what Louisburg, St. Andrews, Barton, and Lenoir-Rhyne offer before making any decisions. I think I should also find out what those places are like.

I compliment Fox's timing, getting the game and all the post-game babbling done on time, so on to tonight's review: Despite having the worst... couch gag... ever, The episode itself was pretty good.

Anyways, on to something that means a lot to me.

I am going to tell what kinds of people I hate the most, worse than Nazis, Communists, and Terrorists: prejudiced people. I am caucasian, christian (not a churchgoer, but I celebrate Christmas) and heterosexual (Yes, "prejudiced" does include "intolerant"), but I am trying to be a decent human who has understood that everyone is equal, no matter what's up with them. How they "are" means nothing, but what they do is how they should be (for lack of a better word) "judged." My problem: I am surrounded by people who either were raised to scoff at everyone different from them, or just don't know any better. It's so annoying, but I do what I can to live with it.

First us, then Spain, then the UK, now Jordan.

I don't have much to say, except this is vaguely familiar:

Al-Qaeda = Death Eaters (Intent on destroying every decent civilization in the world, until only they remain)
Osama = Voldemort (Their fearsome leader)
President Bush = Cornelius Fudge (They're both going about fighting them the wrong way)
Michael Chertoff = Dolores Umbridge (Too busy brown-nosing their boss to know what's really going on)
Me = Not Harry Potter, probably more like Ernie MacMillan

Whoever the equivalent of J.K. Rowling is, let us win.

Treehouse of Horror XVI

Last night's episode was good, better than last year's. I liked the bit at the beginning about baseball making Halloween a week long, and about time they did that, too. And, if you remember me criticizing Cameron last May, the voice "Terror MacNihil" (I always love those halloween names, too) used for David was one of the "more convincing" voices I mentioned.

I saw something on Countdown last thursday that is even more disgusting than the one I don't want to talk about (see 10/27). The Iranian government made a cartoon that is trying to convince young Muslims to kill themselves to serve Allah. A boy's father is killed by Israelis, and he avenges him by strapping grenades to himself and diving onto a convoy. The animation was terrible: It made South Park look like Norman Rockwell, and they didn't seem to mention that the Palestnians started this whole holy war thing anyway!!

OK, that's all I'm saying for now, except "United we stand and divided we fall, so try to land on your butt."