Today day is a wonderful day! The temps are nice in the 70's, the humidity is just right, and my window is open to the breeze. Apparently, this is the time for midterms, but all my tests are spread out over the next 3 weeks with the exception of the two I just had this week (which went alright). I'll post all the results when I get all of them back. As far as the classes themselves are going, not bad. I love Old Testament, Accounting is nice, Business Law is better than what I thought it would be, Information systems is pretty cool, and Microeconomics... Meh. It's at 8AM, and while the teacher himself is a decent guy, I would prefer to have someone else teaching. His style just doesn't click with me. I'm still working at the class though, no need for you to worry, Mom. I also found this wonderful site you may have seen me put up on Facebook called OCRemix.org, full name is Over Clocked Remix. It's a site where people submit their fan remixes of their favorite video game tunes, and I've been busy looking through a lot of the submissions that were OKed. In order to have your music placed on the site, you need to have it pass the judges. This insures that mostly good music is all that makes it onto the site. They also have a wide range of genres from Jazz to orachestral, to metal, to techno. A very awesome site. If you like video games, go there now and see what remixes are available for your favorite games.
That's about it, now to take a look back in history to when they were developing the A-Bomb at Los Alamos.
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Ahh, nothing like an extended weekend to recharge the batteries. 'Twas fall break from Thursday and through today, and it was a much needed break. What I mostly did was stay in the the room, relax, and play video games. Don't worry mom, I did get some homework done. Not much to say on that topic. Now for the reason for the slight depression.
Yesterday, me, my roommate, and his gf went to Panera bread. I wanted to go mostly because I wanted to have an internet connection that was compatible with my Nintendo DS so I could download a pokemon for my game. Did not work out, but that's not the reason for the topic. We stopped off in Yellow Springs to check out a game shop, and on my way to close the car door as we were getting ready to leave for campus my coat got caught in the door. Specifically at the pocket area containing my DS. Even more specifically the door hit the DS right in the middle. The DS is fine, but the game inside, while it seems physically intact, is a complete loss. It won't start up at all. This is the Pokemon game I was talking about earlier. It had all but 4 of the 498 pokemon on it. Now, I have to start all over again. I can still do it, when I get a new game anyways. It's just that it's going to take a longer time to do it now. Hence, only slightly depressed. I'll get over it eventually, what little there is to get over at least. I will catch them all, but today is not that day. Tomorrow isn't looking that good either for that fact.
Time for an old spice remix
Alright, the next three weeks have another batch of tests so please pray for me as I study and do homework at the same time.
EDIT: Business law test grade is in. added link to article that I ranted about. I am currently clear of my first batch of tests and have received my grades for all but one.
Here are the results;
Microeconomics: C
Old Testament: A
Information Systems for Business: B
Principals of Accounting I: A (a perfect 100 that won a bet with a classmate which got me a snickers bar)
Business Law: A
The jury for Business Law is still out at the moment. I should find out by Monday what I got. When that happens, I'll update this post with the score.
In other news, our school news paper published a rather poorly constructed article about U2. And when I say that, I mean the guy who wrote the article committed an Argument FAIL. Now, I get where the writer is coming from, but his argument is rather convoluted and the main point is rather obscure.
He starts off with his background in relation to music, preferring the hymns but still liking rock bands. Then he explains his initial reactions to the band U2. At this point I'm unsure what his main idea is. Next he comments that he is unsure about what he thinks about U2 songs being played in SGA Chapel; again, not sure where he's going. He then goes into some history of U2, explaining various aspects of songs and such. And we've just completed 2/3 of the article.
Finally it looks like he's going somewhere by dropping Bono's humanitarian acts in a brief paragraph. He mentions that one pastor wishes the church had a million Bonos. At that point I'm thinking, "Hmm, more Christians giving to those in need? Hell yes! We barely tithe!" But wait, the writer says that's the problem? What? The writer was referring to looking cool and acting intelligent? Did I miss something?
According to him, being rich and having possession is a bad thing if it is more than the amount you give. He also quotes Kevin DeYoung; "Until we are content with being one of the nameless, faceless church members and not the next globe-trotting rock star, we aren't ready to be part of the church". I think this quote might've been taken out of context. The writer seems to use it to support the idea that being rich and famous is bad (which it is if you give God the backseat because of it, but otherwise it isn't). however, I think the original quote was supposed to mean that unless we are content with the fact we may never get fame and fortune and are willing to rely on God, we are like the rich man in the Bible that asked how to get eternal life. But that's my guess.
Then he goes on to say it might not be a good idea to play secular music before a time of worship. My thoughts are, "even if that secular music was written to glorify God?". In conclusion he says: "something is wrong if we'll be disappointed on the earth because Jesus isn't really like Bono at all". Where did that come from from?
Overall, I don't understand what he was trying to get at. Also, his arguments tend to not hold weight in they way they are presented. I'll post a link to the article once it's posted online so that everyone can make their own judgments.
Also, Friday was my first night managing the Savage Worlds game. The other guy succumbed to laziness and didn't prepare anything to help me along. But for entirely off the cuff, I think I did pretty well. Let me know if you would like to hear how the actually story of the game progresses.
This is the start of the first full week of October, and I've wasted yet another month of my life trying to prepare to be a productive member of society.
This was home coming week, so things were a bit packed thanks to all the returning alumni. Thankfully most people seemed to decide to eat out yesterday, which made my managing shift in the cafeteria a whole lot easier. We had a few awesome speakers and stuff. Yeah, stuff. And stuff and stuff and stuff'n'stuff and even more filler. Not much this week I'm afraid.
I have a test tomorrow, so please pray for me.
and now, a video I linked on facebook for those of you who don't have facebook
