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I used to have this weird little routine when I was stuck in DeBartolo or South Quad on one of those many cold, brutal freezing days. Since I was never fond of wearing the big winter coats, I’d just use a regular jacket (with the customary ND letterhead somewhere, of course), some mittens, and maybe a scarf and the hood if the wind chill was in the single digits. Armed with these slim items I’d rush in my baby blue scooter all the way to the library and take my sweet time going through the hall way. It was just enough time to warm up the nearly frostbitten fingers, toes, ears, and lips, and it was half the distance to my dorm room. It was also my favorite stop right after a game.
See, on game day, everyone comes to the library to oogle at the mural we call Touchdown Jesus. We can see it from the stadium, and well from the pedistrian viewpoint, we get to see all the people standing and cheering before and during the game. When the game was almost over, my friends and I would leave and take shelter in the library. We’d smile at the cheering because it was still almost just as loud, and breathe a sigh of relief because this time we weren’t going to get trampled by the rest of the students as they raided the field. Oh, and have I mentioned it was warm?
I miss game day. I missed today thanks to a migraine. It wasn’t a home game, but Notre Dame proved once again that no matter what the odds, they can still beat a ranked team, and that to me is better than nothing at all. I think people keep expecting Ty to be just as good if not the next Lou Holtz. Hell, I was there his last year, and he was like a god, except Ron Powlus was the QB, and that sort of ruined it a bit.
The point is, Ty is better than Davie, and these boys are slowly but surely picking up the pieces. They win some, they lose some. Don’t underestimate them. I think it’s about time USC started sweating a little.
Here come the Irish.

We truely do live in a new world where discrimination runs rampant and religion governs rather than common sense. Publishers in Texas changed the wording in health textbooks to reflect marriage as that between a man and a woman.

The decision could affect dozens of states because books sold in Texas, the nation�s second-largest textbook buyer, often are marketed elsewhere…
�I want the reader, the child to know that marriage is between a man and a woman,� Leo said in a written statement released during a board meeting Thursday.
Berlanga noted that one textbook showed a picture of a mother and a father and a young girl and her brother. �We cannot start censoring books because we do not like the terminology,� Berlanga said. �I don�t see two males or two females holding hands.�

What about all the children of same-sex couples? "Oh gee, sorry! Your Daddies are sinners. They’re so going to hell." It says that right underneath the section on sexual dysfunction, unless that’s been excised too in favor of abstinance because god forbid our children hear anything that might pervert their poor depraved minds!

The teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith has premiered online. Drool my pretties, drool. This is probably as good as it will get.
::shivers as the last notes of the "Death March" play::

I wonder if it’s easier to become a lawyer in Canada…

Boing Boing is reporting that the RIAA’s cousin, the MPAA, plans to file a ridiculous amount of lawsuits against filesharers.
I guess the whole, "You’re stealing from the carpenters," campaign didn’t work out. Can you blame us? I have it timed to get to the theater exactly after all the ads have ended and the previews have begun. If I wanted to see an advertisement on Coke Carb, I’d turn on my tv. That is if my roommate was up to torturing me for failing to tape Gilmore Girls.

Have you voted yet? If your answer is in the negative, my question to you is "What the HELL are you waiting for!!!"
Go vote!

I’m ashamed to admit that I’m excited about tomorrow. I don’t know exactly why it’s shameful just yet, other than the fact that my roommate grimaced, and I’m still watching Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars. It’s all about the numbers I guess. It’s like watching a football or soccer (real football) game. If my favorite team is playing, I turn into a screaming wild thing that accidently alienates everyone around me. I can’t help it, and it’s quite fun.
I’m hopeing for quite a winning score.
The only disappointing thing about this whole election is the atmosphere. I’m starting to think that whomever does get elected President won’t change much. Too many people are playing the blame game, and it’s so easy to say that all Republicans are evil, and that Democrats deserve to be shot. Will a new President, or an old one close the gap and try to make things better?
I hate reading blogs that talk about incidents of such unexplainable aggression when I know the same exists on the other side. Enough with the blame game.
I hate watching on the news that people are being threatened at poll sites. They’re being told who they should vote for. Is this democracy, people? We will get nowhere if we start intimidating and fighting each other just to cast a vote. I really don’t think the founding fathers had that in mind when they fought and won the war for our independance. Or are we so ignorant that we forget such an insignificant detail as that? After all, if the Pledge can be challenged, and more than half the nation doesn’t know the words to the "Stars Bangled Banner" what else can we expect about our nation and its knowledge of its own history.
Stop the lying, stop with the threats, get the facts out, and tomorrow when the polls open make a choice and vote.
Oh, and this blog officially endorses me.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I did it. I signed up. We can call me masochistic now.

I just failed at adding the Typekey authorization code to the comments section. All because I was too lazy to modify a tag here and there probably, but never fear, there’s still tomorrow (if I’m not too hungover)!
The upgrade to version 3.121 did go ok. Apparently I still know how to do that! Then again, they way my server was hiccuping maybe it had one too many? The ‘new entry’ screen is kinda nifty. What I really want to do is implement subcategories and finish off the css tags and other templates that have been untouched since I first installed MT almost two years ago.
Hmm, we shall see. I have a bundle of nerves to kill these next few days, assuming that is, I don’t kill myself. Here’s to being productive.
Oh yeah, and somebody slap me! I’m five minutes away from signing up for NANOWRIMO.