The snow was wet, and sticky like glue as I started my daily run around the house for a good half hour. I could see how easily it clumped together, and stopped my exercise to mold this cold magma to my own desires. Soon I had a large mound for the base, hard packed with the imprint of my hand upon it. It had been quite a few years since I had taken up an endeavor like this. Last year I attempted to build an igloo, using snow mixed with water in a plastic container to mold it into blocks. A sn...
I am required to turn in my Senior High School quote this friday, and would really enjoy any reactions or ideas from the JU community. Here is my number one choice, followed by honorable mentions. If you know of a quote that you think I might enjoy, either just by reading it or possibly for my Senior quote, or If you would like to post your senior quote, feel free. In my experience, many quotes have been repetitive, not very interesting, not applicable to the person, or just plain dumb. As...
OK, so my Calc teacher gives the class this math problem, and I cannot figure it out. I have tried and tried, but each idea that I get can be reasoned away to nothing. Post your hints, ideas, or solutions(I'd rather you not, but feel free, I wont delete your post.) Two towns, A and B, are located along the Appalachian Trail. At sunrise, Pat begins walking south from A to B along the trail, while simultaneously Dana begins walking north from B to A. Each person walks at a constant speed, an...
"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on one fine morning… So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." – Fitzgerald I sit here, pondering existence and purpose. The computer clock reads 12:44 A.M., and I am very tired. Tired not from lack of sleep, nor from pain, sickness, suffering, but from confusion. I am told that I have my life ahead of me, endless opportunity. Which is mostly true. I am 18, no major ailments, excellent phy...
I love strategy games, like all the warcrafts and starcrafts, Age of Empires, Civs, etc etc. I had learned the basics of chess long before, and enjoyed the game very casually. I then learned the basics of Go, the ancient Chinese game that is said to have won Vietnam for the communists, and was inspired to get into chess again. I learned some of the opening moves, but after the opener, I cannot visualize where I am going with the game. I live a move by move existence, without any organization....
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of lead singer Kurt Kobaine's death from the band Nirvana. He committed suicide with a shotgun to the head, taking the fans down with him. It just shows how heroine slowly kills you off until you just kill yourself, which is a very tragic end for anyone, but for someone like Kurt, a marvelous waste of skill and ideas. When rock needed a revolution, Kobaine was there with all the counter culture he could muster. I ask everyone to learn from his mistakes, list...
I feel the familiar symtpoms overwhelm me again, and one by one the great values and ideals that I had so worked out fall apart. Sometimes things just click for me, everything fits into place and I have never been happier. Such times I have expressed in "Stars" and "A Christian Nirvana?". I can feel it like a hand guiding me, out of my body my fears, hates, annoyances disappear like a fine mist. I touch something, and I am extremely good at it. Doesn't really matter what it is, whether a spor...
How can I describe one of the most glorious of God's creation to you? That of course, is my own opinion. However, I feel that most can empathize with me pondering the stars. I may sound like a cheesy person that is only trying to sound intelligent by saying that the stars make me wonder, but they truly do. If you believe it is just a shallow wondering that I experience, it may be true and you are within righits to say that. But I cannot help feel the way I do. Looking up at stars, on a cold Mi...
I am one of the geekiest people in my school. I am 16, 130 pounds, and can barely benchpress 70+ pounds. I read classic literature, enjoy debate, run Cross Country, and I am on the bowling team. I play a lot of computer games, have only had 1 girlfriend in my H.S. school career, which was a total waste of my time because she wanted to go out with me a lot, then she dumped me 3 weeks later for not having enough in common. I taped a ethernet card to the inside of the locker, have a picture of C...
Everyone has their peeves. A lot of people severely dislike mascots or representitives on commercials, (see the Quiznos threads) and i think we should explore our deepest desires to throw thsose things into a burning vat of oil. Or you could simply say you dislike them. IMHO, the Dell guy/interns and Geicko Lizard are the worst, not really because they are unbearable(they are close though), but because they are so INSISTENT. Every time a channel is changed, it seems like they are on. What do ...
I mean no harm to Sir Maxwell or whatever, and I think this whole debate thing is very interesting, but I think the Englishmen is a fake. But before that, I have to tell you that I think he is a few fries short of a happy meal. Firstoff, I am somewhat surprised on the subject that he had chosen to debate upon, and that he is being quite immature on the subject. I think he is a phony because of his writing. Now, understand I may be wrong, and that I am no were near a literary expert, but lo...
Makeup is not a bad thing, I don't think. It can be very attractive at times, and for some people make up makes them look better, but as for others, it makes them look fake. Some women put so much of it on they look like a porcelain-china doll, and others put a lot of wierd colors. I have to agree, on some people exotic colors look very good, but on others it just scares me. My female cousin once said, "Too much makeup and women look like prostitutes." That is an exaggeration, but whenever I ...
I stood up to speak, dry washing my hands and trying to put moisture back into my mouth. I have my papers in one hand, a pen in the other. I walk over to the podium and speak for about 5 minutes on how ocean dumping is not nearly a big of a problem as acid rain, and how processes to rid ballast tanks of "invasive species" kills marine resources, which is what the other team is trying to do. I then talk about what a boat is, and how a rowboat is a boat, which does not use ballast water, and a t...
Most of my insanity comes at night. My earliest crazy period that I have had was thinking I left my flashlight and pants up in a tree at my house at 3 a.m. during the summer. I woke up, and absolutely convinced myself that I had done that. Even odder, I remember being totally conscious the whole time, including stubbing my toe on a dresser looking for a flashlight to go outside to find my pants and flashlight. Another crazy thing that happened just this morning is waking up and thinking that i...
Newest Environmental Campaign to gain Publicity: Save the Rocks. ALERT! ALERT! We are running out of rocks. By cutting into rock you are killing it, and its living like you and me. I want to be a rock hugger. POST IF YOU WILL JOIN ME. LOL, just thought that was kind of funny.