what an ordeal….the fact that i’m on blood thinners allows a bacteria to take advantage of a nice little habitat that is the back of my throat, and swells it so large that eating is out of the question, talking hurts, and drinking water can only be achieved through chugging. it wasn’t fun to say the least, along with being feverish. the worst part was not being able to swallow my own spit. so i got this quart sized bottle of snapple, filled almost to the top with my various spittle, mucus, and bacteria, festering right now. i put alot of work into filling that thing (one and a half times over 3 days) so i’m wondering what i should do with it. i’m thinking of pouring some milk into it and placing it somewhere warm for a couple days and then finding some large airduct to toss it into.

its funny though, despite the fact that i couldn’t eat, drink, or talk for 4 days, i spent them in the lap of luxury. i spent all those days playing video games, watching family guy, or watching TV. if i hadn’t been so sick, it would have been a near-perfect weekend. its pretty much over now, and i had to take some test pretty well out of it, but i’d rather just do them, then try and reschedule. i find myself not really trying to hard in classes anymore.

so its beautiful around campus, all the birds are out, and loads of people. i think lots of people come to school on wednesday because most classes are MWF, and alot of people skip monday and friday, since they know they can get away going to soc 111 once a week. it also brought out good ol’ bible jim to preach to the students of red square the qualities of jesus, and the scumminess of everyone else.

normally i love this stuff, but this year it isn’t the same. the bible jim i’ve been seeing the past couple of years isn’t here this year, and has been replaced by people that aren’t that smart. the old bible jim would spout of wholly speculative arguments for repenting now, but he would have all sorts of back up and was intelligent enough to cut down naive zealot students that want to attack him because they think he’s the emobdiment of what makes religion wrong, and its cool to be agnostic. now those same naive students own these new guys who have no retorts, just cookie cutter responses of “you’re a sinner, you will not understand”

i mean, when i hear students go “i never asked you to preach to me!” it makes me smile. why then, are you standing there listening to him preach? it’s just as much your right to walk away as it is for him stand there. and yet you stand, listen, and give him an oppertunity to say something you’re probably not listening to so you can yell some more after he stops talking. way to go, you’ve really proved a point now. what are you trying to do, point out how rediculous his claims are? do you think he’s going to listen to you? he’s as interested in your ideas as you are in his. its his right to believe anything he wants as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, and these guys are harmless. modern day puritans that are all talk. personally, i think it’d be much more effective to just ignore them than to try and confront them, i’d wager they get off on that stuff.

anyways, it mgiht just be because i’m old and bitter that this stuff is funny to me, and that i like to play secret superiority games in my own head, where i’m #1.

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