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And so summer begins!
I looked at my schedule for summer, and holy fuck it’s full. I was considering getting a job, but damn! I’m busy!
In eleven days, I’m going to a state camp which is usually pretty fun. I’ll be there for a week. Immediately after that, I will be going to my sister’s house (also for a week.) After that, I will be attending a local 4-H camp (that I absolutely LOVE!!) And the week after that, I will be a counselor at another 4-H camp (for kids aged 8-12.) That is a month that I will be either out of town or unable to communicate with the outside world. A month!! Two days after my last camp ends, band starts and continues for the rest of the summer. My summer ends in eleven days!
Holy shit, I just realized that I have to do my summer reading within eleven days! For summer reading I have to read three books: Their Eyes Were Watching God, the Awakening, and Macbeth. I’m frankly excited to read all three, but a bit too busy right now to enjoy them. Perhaps I’ll just hang myself and everything will be okay.
Summer makes me look back at my year, and I am honestly ashamed of myself. This has been the worst year of my life, and I don’t mean that in a melodramatic manner. It isn’t an overstatement. This year has been hell.
I took on too much this year. Three AP Classes were too much. The ten clubs I’m in were too much. Everyone who had a similar schedule agreed.
I hate that I wish away a year of my life; I feel like I’m not doing it justice. I can’t help it. This year has been awful. I should be enjoying these days of my youth to their fullest; I should be living every moment; I shouldn’t regret an entire YEAR of my life! But I do.
2011, here I come! WOO SENIOR YEAR!
This summer will be fun, but in the meantime I need to read some books and take notes on them and shit!
With love and all that jazz,
Elizabeth <3
P.S. This is my favorite class saying. I find it very fitting:
Peace, pot, tequila shot
Jesus loves us, stoned or not
Sex, drugs, rock and roll
Speed, weed, birth control
Party hardy, drink bacardi
Smoke a bowl, throw a party
Smirnoff’s good, sex is heaven
We’re the class of 2011.
Good news, everyone! You read this in my voice!
So, I have decided to purchase me an Android phone. More specifically, the HTC Legend:
Lovely, isn’t it? Currently, I am using a Nokia N900. The best part about it, is that it has a physical keyboard. It also has an awesome calendar function, a great notepad function and it’s awesome at multitasking. It really is quite an awesome pocket-computer with limited phone capabilities. Limited in the sense that it can not send or recieve MMSes (most noteworthy flaw). It also can’t send stuff over bluetooth, and is a bit wonky when making phonecalls.
I want an Android phone, because I miss being connected to the internet wherever I go. I miss spotify on my phone, and I miss apps. The N900 is a great phone, but it is not a capable smartphone in a market with Android and iPhone. I have ordered my phone, and be patient, await my review of it in part III.
Until then, so long friends
Vegard
Hi.
Allow me to start with what is on everybodys mind. The Freedom flotilla, an international convoy of ships bearing several hundred peace activists, medicine, food, paper, building materials etc. heading towards Gaza, was boarded by Israeli navy elites. At least 9 activists were killed, they claim to have been attacked first. A few things strike me as interesting about this.
First of all, if you are the navy elite forces of one of the worlds largest military forces, you ought to be able to disarm someone with a bat without shooting them. Secondly, if you are at all familiar with war and stuff (even I know this), you don’t drop one lone soldier in the middle of the mob of people. Thats fucking retarded! Also, Israel, if you expect people to believe your side of the story, DROP THE FUCKING MEDIA BLANKET. Only sending out video tapes filmed and edited by you “proving your innocence” only broadens suspicions. But obviously if they allowed everyone to investigate and report freely, the suspicions would be confirmed quite rapidly. Part one of the blog entry is completed by this: Boycott the hell out of Israel. Free Palestine!
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Android I
So i have a Nokia N900 phone. And I love it. It is awesome, and sexy and easy to use, and i really have no complaints about it. It is everything i want in a phone and moar. Unfortunately, I am a phone junkie. The thing I hate the most about phones, is that in order to afford them I have to sign an agreement to pay a smaller sum every month for a year.. 🙁
Currently I am paying for both an iphone and my dearest N900, and still i urge for another phone, more specifically an Android phone. I was supposed to buy an Android phone when i got the N900, but ended up with my N900 due to physical keyboard. Damn.
Suppose I’ll have to wait until the internet perfects an android clone for my phone. And please don’t comment on the lovely irony of most phones having Intel Atom processors. I am aware.
Sincerely,
Vegard
The Starfish Story — original by Loren Eisley
One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.
Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”
The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”
“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make a difference!”
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said… “I made a difference for that one.”
Every single day we have a chance to make a difference, to do something for another person, to bring someone else a smile. Why, if we had that wonderful choice, would we ignore it?
I’m not saying to change the world, I’m not saying to start a revolution that effects every single person in the world. Instead, help one. Maybe tell a stranger you find attractive how pretty or handsome you find that person. Give a lady a flower because she deserves one. Do the dishes when it isn’t your week to do them. Pay a toll for the car behind you.
Random acts of kindness, no matter how small, make a difference. You may not change the world, but as the little boy in the above story so bluntly puts it, if you “[make] a difference for that one,” it is all that matters.
Love you bunches!
Elizabeth <3
Alright.
I just returned from my last exam for the year, and I need to vent.
I just finished my exam in a course called Examen Facultatum, the study of social science and ethics. If you are one of the people who have talked to me about this in the past weeks, I will have complained about how mindnumbingly dull this course is, but that is beside the point.
You see, this course, like all the others, gives 10 study points. One year in Norwegian college = 60 study points. So. I just came from a 4 hour exam, which I finished in 7 minutes. And to top it off, I am afraid that I wrote TOO MUCH! We were given a list of about 80 questions from the curriculum. Some general, like what is an empirical study, and some specific, like what does Thomas Kuhn say about scientific revolutions. These 80 questions our lecturer went through in the final lecture, and he told us that we would get about 8 of these questions as the exam.
So what have I been doing the past few days? Memorizing 80-ish questions. On my exam i got 9 questions. !0 minutes later I was finished. I then spent 20 minutes picking my nose and farting, then left.
What the fuck! Is this shit what passes for academia these days? I am aware of the fact that the college in Bodø is a B-school. One of my lecturers said so himself. But come on, if you keep shit like THIS, you will always stay a shit school.
At college you are supposed to understand your curriculum, and be able to use it. Not just repeat simple answers like a fucking robot!
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