| Aaaaaaah, I love my mom. I was wondering: if they made a movie about Roger Ebert, (and not Roeper, that fat cow!) would he give it two thumbs way, way up? Apparently, sometime around 11 PM last night, some stranger got ahold of the passwords to my xanga, facebook, and e-mail and posted something along the lines of "I AM GAY" on this site. He (or she) then proceeded to reveal this information to my good friend Tony Jiang, who promptly changed all my passwords to ensure my personal security. In the end, no harm's been done, I'm very grateful to Tony Jiang for acting so quickly upon this, and I have to admire this person (who goes by the screen name of greenaltoidtin: does anybody know him/her?) for getting past my elaborate maximum security password protecting schematics and booby traps. So hold your horses, National Enquirer! Stop right there, Star! I, much to the dismay of millions of male fans, am not gay. An update on this summer: Sicily was pretty flippin' fantastic, and Florence was like an Acadec dream come true what with all the amazing art to be found within its lofty (yet extremely compact in that everything amazing could be found within a 3-block radius) churches and museums. At the risk of sounding like a cultural bore, I'd have to say that Donatello's sculpture of Mary Magdalene in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo was probably the most striking and resonant image that I've brought back with me. So yeah, it was one of the best trips I've taken. Also, obligatory schedule post! Here you go, you ravenous schedule whores! 2nd: AP Physics BC (Gallo)
3rd: H Law (Smith)
4th: AP Lit (Brusek)
5th: Adv. Orchestra (Mascari)
6th: AP US (Dziedzic)
7th: Lunch
8th: H Printmaking (McCannon)
9th: Acadec So basically, I couldn't be happier with the way my schedule turned out. No two APs in a row, a reasonable lunch period, I've got no complaints! I'll try to update more often, but the fact of the matter is that I just don't have that many interesting things to say. Sam: I'm kind of hungry Me: Do you know what it feels like to really be hungry? To stuff flies and cockroaches into your mouth like candy? To look at your hands and feet and wonder, with all seriousness, how they'd taste with a little bit of bleu cheese dressing? Do you know how that FEELS?!!! Sam: No, I'm just feeling peckish. Do we have any cookies? Me: In the cupboard EDIT: Oh my goodness. Crocodile Hunter is dead. I don't even know what to think. I feel like I've been punk'd. Who the hell dies by stingray anyways? And it's like every obituary about him seems to have been written with a sense of humor. Take this bit from TIME magazine: "Steve Irwin's all pretty interesting on the telly or in the movie and that, but by crikey, it's great when he gets bitten," he once told Australia's ABC television. "Now and again I do get bitten. But I haven't been killed. And it's that, you know, that sense of morbidity that people do have. There's no use sticking your head in the sand and going, 'Oh, no, they're only here because, you know, I talk well.' Nah, man, they wanna see me come unglued." This morning, at 11am Australian time, things finally came unglued for the 44-year-old as he was shooting a documentary segment on stingrays. Snorkeling on Batt Reef , a stretch of the Great Barrier Reef about 15km from Port Douglas in North Queensland, Irwin happened to swim over a large ray which, startled, whipped its barbed tail upwards into his chest. He died instantly. Things finally came unglued????!!!! It's strange beyond belief. And they're printing comments from esteemed wildlife pros that range from the COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE ("He died doing what he loves best, and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, Crocs rule." ) to the I-told-you-so jealous crones ("He had a long history of doing this kind of thing with dangerous animals; some people do these things and get away with it, and other times your number comes up," says Professor Grahame Webb, a crocodile expert who operates a crocodile park in Darwin. "He had huge experience with crocodiles and snakes and reptiles, but stingrays are quite different.") It's like Bizarro-world and this is all one big joke. |
