March 25, 2011

I fell asleep by 11 pm last night, and I awoke a bit after 7. I had tea and an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread for breakfast, and spent the first bit of my morning studying trigonometric derivatives and getting ready for my test. After a shower I headed out the door at 10 am.

I arrived at school shortly thereafter, and went straight to the CSDL, (the main computer lab/out of class testing facility on campus.) The test itself was fairly straightforward, there were a few questions on which I know screwed up, one change of rate problem that asked for an operation, the formula of which I only half remembered as it was the last step on a 5 step problem I did on my homework 4 days prior. All and all I more than passed with a score of 87… a score… only disappointing to me. I ran into two of my classmates interestingly enough, one sat behind me in the testing room… I think she intentionally sat behind me hoping I’d help her or something… as if I would risk my reputation to help some pitiless slacker. The other was a girl who usually sits behind me in the second row, she was on the phone so I waved as I passed. It’s been surprising to me just how often I seem to be taking a test in and around the same period as all my other classmates… as to the significance of that I can’t say. Probably herd instinct or something to do with the nature of the course.  

At any rate, I made my way to the mathlab to do a few homework problems while waiting for the bus, then I went home and had left over’s from last night for lunch. My parents are still sick so I ended up having the same thing for dinner… not that I’m complaining, homemade chicken cacciatore of the quality I get isn’t something to pass up on.

All and all today was fairly productive, I’m going to finish up my homework this weekend and begin contemplating making another run at my license. I feel it would be prudent to review the necessary material prior to spending the 20 dollars.  Oh, and I also debated some feckless Romanian on a forum I frequent, the loon claimed world war two was the only war the US ever won, and I then pointed out all the wars he forgot about… he then tried to argue that they weren’t really wars… because he disagreed with them. I then found myself in the position of having to define the term “wining” as having a meaning other than “you approve.” He copped out with “have a nice weekend” and I told him to fuck off… I mean really, who does he think he’s kidding? Ah I should know better than to argue with trolls but I have two tendencies that always put me in that position. One I like to argue and two I can more or less do it in my sleep, as a result the normal cost benefit analysis that most people have when they pick a fight pretty off tilter with me.  

Oh and we are still at war with Gaddafi, and the president is still claiming it’s not a war. Seemingly contorting himself in every possible way, to disassociate his policy of regime change in a middle eastern country with an eye to removing a known sponsor of international terrorism with alleged wmd’s in the name of democracy… from the same exact policy practiced by the Bush administration. The so called “neocons” that we were constantly told were always in favor of war and did always defend the Bush administration, are for the most part now suddenly anti war and very concerned about constitutional issues and the budget.  Let me just make this clear, I love what the president is doing, I support him all the way, but I am utterly sick of this political pandering. The right can go screw itself, they aren’t a concern to me, their duplicitous whining and opportunistic posturing is to be expected. However Obama isn’t a hack politician anymore, he’s the leader of the free world, and trying to redefine military action to describe something other than war is like Clinton’s attempt to redefine the definition of sex and “is” to a degree so high it requires scientific notation to write. It’s a war, call it what it is, and let us all be very focused on conducting it properly, decisively, in accordance with all standards of national and international precedent. The mission should be obvious, help the rebels overthrow Gaddafi and then help them rebuild Marshal Plan style. I suspect that is what Obama is doing, or rather that is what I hope he is doing, and I would venture to say that, and not continued reliance on drone strikes and tin pot dictators in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Bahrain, is the real answer to terrorism.