yeah
ok
so sue me
i haven’t been blogging as much in the past few days
but it’s not like anyone bothers to read the stuff anyway, now do they?
let’s see, this site was rightly assessed as having no blog content
it does, actually, but barely any
it’s an interesting site, nonetheless, if you bother checking the stuff out on the left
but that can’t keep people entertained for too long, as that’s barely updated, either
(except, perhaps, the list of groups/people whose music i listen to — that grows organically …)

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)
and 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
ironically, i feel very tired and fatigued … all my shots were off at archery (well almost all … i’m not that bad)
you see, monday i was operating on two hours of sleep
and tuesday i was operating on one hour of sleep
so that’s around 3 hrs out of 48 that i was operating on … and that’s why i slept over 10 hours
oddly enough i didn’t feel so tired on those two days (except when i slept in math and society, respectively)
[i did feel tired at the hospital, though]

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)
it was about the origin of the earth’s atmosphere
and i actually laced it with quotations from the Qur’an
both 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
(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)
[both of these being relatively modern facts, nothing one would expect from a book 1400 years old]

also, i worked on a script for a macbeth presentation we had to do (we were presenting the last two scenes)
so we basically monty pythonized it
to make it ginormously hilarious
lemme give y’all a couple of examples
some witches prophesize to macbeth that he will not face his demise unless he is faced by one NOT born of a woman
so 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)
and some of the army breaks in
one of soldiers, young siward, challenges macbeth
and in the fight, he is supposed to die — proving he is, indeed, born of a woman

we made it go something like this:
[macbeth stabs young siward, young siward falls]
macbeth: hah! your death proves that you were, indeed, born of a woman!
young siward: actually, i’m not dead …
macbeth: okay … your mortal wounding proves that you were, indeed, born of a woman!
young siward: actually, i think i can pull through … maybe i should go for a walk
macbeth: oh, for the love of — [stabs and kills young siward]

now that was ripped off monty python, more or less
but 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)

this was our spin:
macbeth: …for only one NOT born of a woman can kill me!
macduff: hah! the joke’s on you macbeth, for i was not born of a woman!
macbeth: what? your mother wasn’t a woman?
macduff: no … she was a cow
macbeth: your mother was a cow?
macduff: well, she looked like one!
macbeth: wait, how many udders did she have?
macduff: twelve…
macbeth: hah! cows don’t have twelve udders!
macduff: well my mother did!

the entire class was laughing, it was a riot
but i don’t think the teacher appreciated it
perhaps it had to do with the fact that before we did the play, i gave a summary of what really happens in the play

and so:
me: … and so the righteous heir of the–
teacher: [interrupts] you mean rightful heir of the throne, righteous carries an entire different meaning
me: –the righteous AND rightful heir of the throne, malcolm, is restored …

apparently, that was “dry” — as most of my classmates thought — and the teacher was a bit peeved at that
and so she didn’t enjoy the rest of the presentation, i guess

at any rate
we had a riot doing it
it was great, it was different from all other plays
and the students all appreciated and loved it
so 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 …)

“dang diggy diggy dang diggy dang dang” (from bring it home by swollen members)
yes, dang diggy diggy you, all of you
yup, this is my largest blog entry in days

harry chapin is amazing

yeah, i gotta go temporarily or i would’ve ranted more…
btw, my new “signature” of departure is:
“take care
peace
salams and chickens”
the phrase “salams and chickens” is copyrighted and trademarked, i’d appreciate it if no one else used it

thank you, biters