It's All About the Benjamins

Jump to Comments I drank no less than three bottles of Gatorade today, perhaps even four or five. Why am I so thirsty? I have no idea. But, you know, Gatorade sure is tasty.

Yeah, so I only had to go to two classes on Tuesday; Cochrane was out doing something someplace. So I hung around with Dan and stuff.

Lance is such a five year old. He’s like always in my hair, man, and it’s so not cool. I want some me time, you know– I mean, yeah, often times Ivan is in my room, but that’s because it’s his room, too, and he’s quieter than I am, if you count the racket my Model M makes as I type something like this.

So, I spent about an hour sitting out on one of the picnic tables in the quad eating a chick-fil-a, listening to Dan talk to his girlfriend on his cell phone, since it’s better than having Lance around. Oh, and I also creatively passed some Lance-free time listening to Brett play guitar a couple times tonight. I mean, I have no idea as far as guitars go, but I’d say he’s pretty dang good, and he’s shwoing me some of the mechanics of how the tsuff works, so, eventhough I’ll probably never actually be able to play one I know a lot more about how they work and stuff, which, honestly, is all I care about when it comes to most things.

Spent some time in Dan’s room in the evening. Lance had Fox News (augh!) showing the Democratic candidate debate (double augh!) on the whole time. You know, both of those suck for the same reason. The both demonstrate how people have permanently mistaken shock value for poignancy and ad-hominem attacks for debating. It’s utterly disgusting, and unfortunately fairly endemic of pop culture. Yeah yeah, I know that sounds whatever, but, you know, this is my space so I can use it how I want, take it or leave it.

I’m not necessarily opposed to the Democrats, see. Mrs. Grabianowski was the biggest Democrat in town back in Zionsville, and she knew what she was talking about, and eventhough some of it might have disagreed with the current party in power, it wasn’t like it was crazy or ad hominem or anything. FDR was the quintessential Democrat, and what did he do a bunch of? My two favorite things the government can do– build public works and BLOW STUFF UP. YES. And man, not only did he build public works and BLOW STUFF UP, he had more public works built and more stuff BLOWN UP than anybody ever, before or since.

However, “wah wah Gore really won the election wah wah Bush sucks this whole Iraq thing is stupid the economy is screwed up and the Congress is spending more than it’s taking in so let’s blame the executive branch! That makes sense!” Seriously.