Horoscope

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The ancient Egyptian creator god Ptah was regarded as a miracle worker, though sometimes he used unconventional means to accomplish his amazing feats. For example, legend held that he defeated a legion of Assyrian marauders with an army of rats. Waiting till the enemy soldiers were asleep, Ptah sent the rats into their camp to gnaw through their bowstrings and shield handles, rendering them defenseless. Can you imagine a way in which you might draw inspiration from the Egyptian god’s methods, Taurus? How could you win a great victory by summoning the help of an influence you usually regard as a pest?

Stalling

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I have things to do. I want to get out and flyer. I want to pester until he gives me a haircut. I want to fax my resume to the National City HR department, because they lost their copy of my resume. I want to respond to ‘s letter. I want to double-check my balanced checkbook. I want to organize my blank paper and my class notes into recognizable folders (I hate anything spiral binded… hey, I’m left-handed).

The weather is beautiful outside. Overcast and drizzling. Very nice trench coat weather.

And still I find myself stalling.

Getting things done, once again.

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Done yesterday:

  • Deposited check from second GND job.
  • Picked up application for immediate opening for a teller at my bank. Could be interesting.
  • Sent business-card print-out magnet thing back to my mom in the mail.
  • Paid rent.
  • Made and ate lunch.
  • Filled out and turned in application.
  • Went to class.
  • Made and ate dinner
  • Balanced checkbook.

Done today:

  • Ate leftovers from yesterday for lunch.
  • Paid two bills from the huge stack.
  • Laundry. On time even.
  • Marinated hamburger for dinner.
  • Initiated daily checkbook balancing with online banking.

Things to do today:

  • Pick up flyers from .
  • Cook dinner.
  • GND meeting.
  • Homework.

Notes

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and : I agree. I’m back being a student at MSU, and I feel upset and disappointed.

: The coward comment was not pointed at you. Homo.

: Am I being condescending?

: Congrats on your review. Bombastic fits well. :)

: The act of leaving a country because of the oppression seems cowardly to me because you’re leaving the bad situation instead of changing it. It could be my extremely old fashioned upbringing, but I sincerely believe that if you call a place home (which you have said you do not, so this does not apply to you) then you make it your home. You fix things that are broken. You make every effort possible to change your home so that it is, indeed, home to you.

Moving to another country reminds me of running away. It reminds me of urban sprawl. And it’s not like the problems aren’t going to follow those who leave.

I am not calling people cowards. I’m glad that this is pissing you off, because it should. All of this pisses me off.

: Thanks for the schweet icon! :)

: Sleep is good. ;)

Lots.

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So, is it wrong to use a cheese character’s influences? Someone has totally cheesed their way into getting their character maxed out. Ridiculous amounts of influences. Well, this is the opinion of the ST. I haven’t personally verified this. Anyway, this character has offered help in gaining posession of a closed-down club that has special meaning to my character.

Now, the Cam is rife with cheezedom and abuse of the system. I’m torn because if I take advantage of the cheeze to accomplish my character’s goal, I’ll feel like I’m encouraging that kind of behavior. However, me not taking advantage of it isn’t going to stop it. Also, my character sees the other as an elder that recognizes his intelligence.

As such, in his paranoid world, he would take advantage of her offer, and see how much he can get away with.

Thanks to orders form the Prince, the aforementioned Malkavian did not participate in an assault on Sabbat Detroit. Well, due to that and the fact that none of the venue (genre, goddamnit!) crossover approvals went through in time. Not even proxy approvals. That’s what you get for rash planning of events. The next OU game is going to be interesting, for sure. If I can get my arse down there.

Oh well. My mage is way more central to the Fortress plot than my Malkie is to the Cam plot.

Gaming, gaming, blah blah blah.

I’ve just revisited high-school intellectual arrogance. It wasn’t a pretty sight. There’s a good reason I abandoned that attitude. I feel ugly after I get sucked into that sort of thing. I have a hard time admitting that the points I’m arguing aren’t valid or that I was unjustified in making the remarks that I made.

Somehow I can seperate the rudeness from the things I’ve said, which doesn’t make a whole lot of initial sense. Not that it could be my pride in the ideas that I’m trying to convey. Not that it could be my pride in my skils of communicating ideas. Not at all.

I can’t help but think, after reading over and commenting in my last few posts, a few things:

– I’m disappointed in the lack of positive response.
– My gut reaction about those that would flee the country is to call them cowards.
– I am amazed at the importance this has for me.

Fixing the Country

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There are a lot of responses to my previous post. Let me respond to the responders:

: You fucking scare me. Seriously.

: Good responses to the above, but any suggestions?

and : I’m not abandoning my country. Besides, it’s a good bet that Canada and Australia don’t want us.

: Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

“how about we vote the old religious whack-jobs out of office?”

To everyone: Do you think that there’s enough anti-old-religious-whack-job sentiment to vote them out of office? Do you think that those that want them out will splinter to the point that the effort will fail? Do we have someone to rally behind?