I head home a week from Thursday, so I'm using this journal to keep track of my major projects - maybe you guys will enjoy it too. :) Oddly enough... I feel like this amount of work is very achievable... All illustrations are due at the review

-Art History paper
-Insert Rider Illustration
-Physics Lab Final - Thursday (12/10)
-Alex Katz Illustration - Short
-"Say Yes" Illustration
-Swine Flu Illustration - final drawing mostly done
-16 sketches of computer mouse 4/16 done
-Population Biology Final - Monday
-Asian Art History Test - Monday
-Illustration Review - Tuesday
-Painting Review - Tuesday
-Physics Final - Thursday

Also
-Performance Review at Work
-Meet with Honors about capstone $
-Contact Michael Spooner
-Get Flu Shot

Current Mood: optimistic

Blagojevich, this is special, even for you.

As resident Chicagoan for most of you, I feel like I must comment on the Blagojevich thing. Everyone knew he was corrupt, and I believe at the Rezko trial, he was "Public Official A" which cannot be a good designation. Basically he was the one getting the illegal campaign contributions.

Well, as most of you know, he's currently being charged for looking for the best bribe for Obama's old senate seat. Well, they've been tapping his phone for a month so they got some other dirt on him too.

1 He was trying to get the best bid for the senate seat or threatening to take it himself.

2 He offered to help sell Wrigley field (home of the Cubs) if the Chicago Tribune (the company that owns it) would fire two members of their staff who were particularly harsh towards him in the paper.

3 He donated 8 million dollars to the Children's Memorial Hospital but was expecting a 50K campaign contribution back. When he didn't get it, he was asking his staff to see if there was a way to take back the donation.

4 He had a contract for 1 billion dollars or so with a construction company in exchange for a multi-million campaign contribution, and said that there were more contracts he could authorize.

Yeah... there you have it? There are other things I can mention, if anyone else is interested. Just yeah, no one in Illinois is surprised that he was corrupt; what interesting now is that he could still technically appoint someone to that senate seat. That's part of the reason he was arrested at 6 in the morning, instead of turning himself in - they were afraid if he knew he'd be arrested that he would hurry up and appoint someone to it. He still could!

Just as a head's up, I cleaned up my friendslist. If I removed you when you still read this journal, just reply and let me know, but for the most part I think it's old accounts/people who never update. Thanks!

If you can see my other entry today, you have not been removed.

Comic being used in a very liberal sense here, we all know my wit is not something to write home about.

I am convinced that my essence has nerd glasses.

Somewhere between writing jokes in java syntax, realizing I use "!=" more often than "not equal", whining about characters living/getting a happy ending, half the shows I watch are animated, and being at a loss to name pectoralis major in simple English, I have realized that I am, in every sense, a nerd. For those of you asking, yes all the things I mentioned really did happen.

I've also come to realize that my biggest 'turn-ons' are people with half of their faces disfigured and wisdom streaks (or whatever they're called - those two streaks of grey hair from the around the temples) with certain bouts of insanity as a close follow up. I'm going to place these as Reason #512 on the list of "Why it's better for the human population if I don't reproduce." (Reason #511 has something about what happened to Dr. Moreau when he was trying to make people; you know the other 510 reasons by now.)

I've also come to the rather disturbing conclusion that eating is not high on my list of priorities... It and other life-sustaining activities are definitely falling short of reading, stories, drawings, and such. Darwin has been using his god-like powers to try to smite me for my apparent lack of desire for self-preservation and continuation of the species, but he hasn't got me yet! I do find it odd that I accept that most human actions are to eliminate the drives for survival that Darwin mentioned, but at the same time very little I do reflects that.

Are these posts enough to make you smile a little?

If not there's a joke I found that amuses me:
A professor told his class "In English a double negative creates a positive, so saying 'he doesn't have no apples' means he has some apples. In other languages, like Russian, a double negative might still remain a negative. In no language does a double positive create a negative."

"Yeah right," muttered a student in the front row.

Current Mood: apathetic

I learned something new today:
Calculus can refer to a bladder stone.


No wonder it was so hard to pass!

Current Mood: amused

Cel is dead.

After a harsh battering from various homework assignments and physics labs she sought to hide in art, however, due to a lack of inspiration she was unable to see where she was going, tripped, and was knocked unconscious. Some social life tried to revive after finding her body among scavenging SAT practice packets. Social life, when trying to rescue Cel, moved her to a crew session even though she had a neck injury from a parasite known as a backpack. It is likely that social life caused some slight forms of insanity such as paranoia, OCD, and claustrophobia. While social life was calling for rehearsals and concerts (band and rock) a DBQ (Document Based Question) finished her off.

The wake will be held tomorrow in SAT class and the funeral will follow the next day instead of the scheduled crew session.


(Made public for Joe's sake)

Current Mood: amused