"The two-time Academy Award nominee, who was convicted last month of felony grand theft and vandalism for the theft a year ago at the Beverly Hills store."

This sentence could be easily corrected by simply removing ", who." It makes me very sad when grammatical errors like this creep into "professional" writing. The world needs more people who aren't ignorant (or at the very least, people who are willing to proofread their work instead of simply using spell-check).

This quote was taken from an article about Winona Ryder's sentencing.

I may be going to jail soon. Because I may have to kill someone. I can't say who. All I can say is this: "High-pitched laugh."

So my M&P professor says to us: "No, no! Don't put your names on them! They're supposed to be unanimous!"
Then, while explaining the zone system using roman numerals, he used "VIIII." His reasoning was that it would be easier for us to understand VIIII minus II than IX minus II.
I could have sworn the sign out front said "RIT" and not "BOCES."
It's going to be a long quarter.

Wendy is the playful pinup!
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Geologists find world's oldest rocks... Interesting, but it's probably old news to my friends Kevin and Randy, who are geology buffs.

"Take an E-20 and call me in the morning." - Professor Diehl
There's some good digital photo humour for you. Don't laugh too hard.

This gal refers to herself as Jett Superior and she keeps a pretty darn good blog. I read it all the time but I still have not made a solid guess at her age. Anywhoo, today she's talking about The Smashing Pumpkins and that is super-duper fine with me. I miss the Pumpkins. I hope Zwan does big things.

After reading this article, I am having second thoughts about donating my unused coupons to RIT's Feminist Action group.

You know, it's really sad that as I'm going through college, the only time I really feel like I'm succeeding is when I do something that makes me feel like I'm "beating the system." I'm not really sure how to explain that, but it just seems like if I jump through enough hoops and do enough paperwork and find the loopholes, I can get out of here. I can't help thinking that if I had gone to Fredonia like my parents wanted me to, I would be graduating in 3 weeks. But I probably would have been miserable the entire time I was there and hated myself for not trying to go somewhere "better." Now that I have chosen to come to (and stay at) RIT I have to deal with the fact that even if I do get some lucky appointments, jump through a couple more hoops, fill out 3 more papers, and push a peanut down the hall with my nose, I might get a few more transfer credits filled in as electives but it will just lighten my course load a teensy bit, and won't let me graduate any sooner, at least not if I stay in the program I'm taking now. If I don't get a well-deserved break with any more transfer credit, I have to take at least 17 or 18 credits every quarter for the next 5 quarters (including this present quarter) AND take the 10 credit summer ad-core "XL" class during summer '04 to graduate. Damn the man, I say. I am working very hard, but have not yet found a loophole to get around this encumbrance. And don't you dare tell me I complain too much. I don't think I'm being a whiny baby when my program requires 188 credits to graduate, I have already completed 161, and they say, "Well that's super, but we're just going to require that you take these 94 other credits too before we'll give you a degree." Bus, lightning, bus. It's my new mantra.

honestly, you can try to wipe the memories aside
but it's you that you erase

My new favourite song for the evening... "Honestly" - the official new single from Zwan (a.k.a. the new band fronted by the guy who's going to sing at my wedding)

Only good thing I imagine will happen today... I re-took M&P and went from a D to a B. I submitted the grade change form yesterday and today I checked to see if it went through and indeed, it bumped up my entire cumulative GPA to a 3.024. YAHOO!
Hence...
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Homer: Animotion.
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-- "HOMR" (S12E09)

What an ashwhole of a teacher I have. Around 9:30 last night I wrote him this email:

"I have never done on-camera flash before. I got a flash unit and a light meter, BUT I do not have a sync cord. I am not on or near campus... and unfortunately I am in a town with no camera store. I doubt walmart sells such things, but I can't check until the store opens in the morning. What can I do?"

He claims to be online "all the time" and "constantly" checking his email. I waited until 3pm today to receive this exact reply, not a single other jot or tittle in the email:

"at this point nothing... you should have dealt with this before today"

Thanks for your help, Mr. Professional Teacher man. I don't know what idiot in my class apparently wrote in his/her evaluation: "I would recommend that freshmen take Howard's class." Damn my stupid self for getting there late that day and missing the opportunity to write a... what's the opposite of glowing?... evaluation. I personally would recommend that he shove his head a little farther up his pompous ass. And then get hit by a bus. And then lightning, and then another bus. Yes, I think that would just about do the trick.

According to that whore of a BMI calculator, I need to lose THIRTY pounds to fall within my ideal "healthy" weight range. I agree that I am overweight, but I think that's a little nutsy. To add insult to injury, I figured out that I could lose SEVENTY POUNDS (i.e. MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF MY BODY WEIGHT) and still fall within my "ideal healthy weight range." If I lost that much weight, I would be wasting away and all crazy looking. I hate these things. Should I lose weight? Yes. Should I become anorexic? No.

I have my reasons for choosing not to display the "AOL Today" screen at AIM sign on. However, I decided to look at it today. So I clicked the icon and when it loaded, I saw a picture of a naked woman from the waist up with her arm pensively across her breast and the headline next to it said "Find out now... if you're way too fat." Of course I clicked on it, entered my information, and found out that I am indeed way too fat.

Yeah, that was exactly the coolest thing for me to see tonight. Thank you AOL... my hate for you daily increases.

My grades last quarter:

Applied Photo II: B
Digital Book: B
History & Aesthetics: B
Materials & Processes: B
Career Seminar: A

Clap for me. I am one step closer to retaining that coveted 3.0 GPA that I so foolishly lost sight of last year. In one quarter, I went from a 3.5 to a 2.75. Damn. I'll climb back up there. Guarantee.

Christmas list!!!

My schedule this quarter