Awkward late at night post time: Musing on absences.

I’ve missed school at least 6 days in the last 2 weeks: A combination of AP testing, badly timed illness, and a wedding 250 miles away. Public school is weird about that. A teacher who won’t blink if you don’t turn in an assignment will hunt you down like an animal if you miss a day of school. And then they won’t let you turn in the work. Absolutely trivial. Public school is petty like that. They think you’re skipping, but they also want to give you the benefit of the doubt. Teachers in public school are conflicted.

I’ve also noticed school (whether attended or not) has the ability to complete trivialize one’s life. I’m ready to leave the place and become a productive human being. School doesn’t let anyone do that. I have to go to the motions, making me feel powerless. That makes me unhappy and destroys creative urge. This entire site is one of my creative urges. meh.

In running Franklin Pierce versus Windfield Scott, the Democratic party used the best campagin slogan of all time:

We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852!”

Just logged in here to see 34 comments in the moderation queue. I know I’m not that popular. Yup. All poker related spam, just like the last 4 times I’ve been hit. I’ve set up to automatically moderate anything with the word “poker” in it, so don’t leave any comments with that word. They’ll be automatically deleted.

With that in mind, I’ve turned off comment moderation so you don’t have to wait 8 thousand billion years to see you comment appear. Hopefully things will get more active around here.

School has been stressing me out. I’ve realized I’ve come extremly close to failing english every year, consistantly, for the last 5 years: Oi. This year is no exception.

On the positive end of school. I’m gonna totally rock the APs. Took two practice AP Art History exam and got roughly borderline between a 4 and a 5. I’m gonna hit the book this coming weekend, to guarantee success. It really comes down to the topics on each of the 9 essays.

AP US History I’m a bit more unsure about. I need to rush up on Pre-Civil war stuff and some of the more forgetable United States Presidents.

This makes me happy: I am a citizen of The United Cities of America.

I’ve been playing American McGee’s Alice: