yeah
\nok
\nso sue me
\ni haven’t been blogging as much in the past few days
\nbut it’s not like anyone bothers to read the stuff anyway, now do they?
\nlet’s see, this site was rightly assessed as having no blog content
\nit does, actually, but barely any
\nit’s an interesting site, nonetheless, if you bother checking the stuff out on the left
\nbut that can’t keep people entertained for too long, as that’s barely updated, either
\n(except, perhaps, the list of groups\/people whose music i listen to — that grows organically …)<\/p>\n
well last night, i got home at 7:30 pm from the hospital (where i volunteer — i’m not on a dialysis machine or something)
\nand immediately slept — i wasted no time — i woke up briefly at 12:30 am but then i went back to sleep, and finally awakened this morning at 5:40 am
\nironically, i feel very tired and fatigued … all my shots were off at archery (well almost all … i’m not that bad)
\nyou see, monday i was operating on two hours of sleep
\nand tuesday i was operating on one hour of sleep
\nso that’s around 3 hrs out of 48 that i was operating on … and that’s why i slept over 10 hours
\noddly enough i didn’t feel so tired on those two days (except when i slept in math and society, respectively)
\n[i did feel tired at the hospital, though]<\/p>\n
i was working on a chemistry presentation, which i think went fairly well — i made it in flash, and i would put it up on the web, but it’s 1.1 mb and has no explanatory notes (as my partner, the guy who created turban man, and i simply gave the data right off the top of our heads, it was a pure improv presentation as far as words were concerned)
\nit was about the origin of the earth’s atmosphere
\nand i actually laced it with quotations from the Qur’an
\nboth from verse 30 in surah (chapter) 21, to the effect of how the heavens and the earth were of one unit, then God separated them, and that God created all living things from water
\n(which corresponds effectively with the big bang theory, 15-20 billion years ago, and the fact that cyanobacteria appeared in the earth’s oceans around 3.5 billion years ago and was the first form of life — according to science, anyway)
\n[both of these being relatively modern facts, nothing one would expect from a book 1400 years old]<\/p>\n
also, i worked on a script for a macbeth presentation we had to do (we were presenting the last two scenes)
\nso we basically monty pythonized it
\nto make it ginormously hilarious
\nlemme give y’all a couple of examples
\nsome witches prophesize to macbeth that he will not face his demise unless he is faced by one NOT born of a woman
\nso there’s a siege against macbeth’s castle (macbeth is an evil and tyrannous king who usurped the throne unrightfully by murdering the ex-king — so the rightful heir to the throne is coming back with help from the english army to get it back)
\nand some of the army breaks in
\none of soldiers, young siward, challenges macbeth
\nand in the fight, he is supposed to die — proving he is, indeed, born of a woman<\/p>\n
we made it go something like this:
\n[macbeth stabs young siward, young siward falls]
\nmacbeth:<\/b> hah! your death proves that you were, indeed, born of a woman!
\nyoung siward:<\/b> actually, i’m not dead …
\nmacbeth:<\/b> okay … your <\/i>mortal wounding proves that you were, indeed, born of a woman!
\nyoung siward:<\/b> actually, i think i can pull through … maybe i should go for a walk
\nmacbeth:<\/b> oh, for the love of — [stabs and kills young siward]<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
now that was ripped off monty python, more or less
\nbut this was an original, between the hero of the play, macduff, who is actually not born of a woman (in the play he was born prematurely, perhaps born through a caesarian section)<\/p>\n
this was our spin:
\nmacbeth:<\/b> …for only one NOT born of a woman can kill me!
\nmacduff:<\/b> hah! the joke’s on you macbeth, for i was not born of a woman!
\nmacbeth:<\/b> what? your mother wasn’t a woman?
\nmacduff:<\/b> no … she was a cow
\nmacbeth:<\/b> your mother was a cow?
\nmacduff:<\/b> well, she looked like one!
\nmacbeth:<\/b> wait, how many udders did she have?
\nmacduff:<\/b> twelve…
\nmacbeth:<\/b> hah! cows don’t have twelve udders!
\nmacduff:<\/b> well my mother did!<\/i><\/p>\n
the entire class was laughing, it was a riot
\nbut i don’t think the teacher appreciated it
\nperhaps it had to do with the fact that before we did the play, i gave a summary of what really happens in the play<\/p>\n
and so:
\nme:<\/b> … and so the righteous heir of the–
\nteacher: <\/b>[interrupts] you mean rightful heir of the throne, righteous carries an entire different meaning
\nme:<\/b> –the righteous AND rightful heir of the throne, malcolm, is restored …<\/i><\/p>\n
apparently, that was “dry” — as most of my classmates thought — and the teacher was a bit peeved at that
\nand so she didn’t enjoy the rest of the presentation, i guess<\/p>\n
at any rate
\nwe had a riot doing it
\nit was great, it was different from all other plays
\nand the students all appreciated and loved it
\nso if our marks are martyred for this cause of non-conformity, then so be it! (to a certain extent, of course, too many marks and it’s back to being like everyone else …)<\/p>\n
“dang diggy diggy dang diggy dang dang”<\/i> (from bring it home<\/i> by swollen members<\/b>)
\nyes, dang diggy diggy you, all of you
\nyup, this is my largest blog entry in days<\/p>\n
harry chapin is amazing<\/p>\n
yeah, i gotta go temporarily or i would’ve ranted more…
\nbtw, my new “signature” of departure is:
\n“take care
\npeace
\nsalams and chickens”
\nthe phrase “salams and chickens” is copyrighted and trademarked, i’d appreciate it if no one else used it<\/p>\n
thank you, biters<\/p>\n
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