oldzork

happy happy happy birthday! so many good people in my life have birthdays in january. what a special month! ...and it's funny, you share the day with bush's inauguration (sharing special days is so tiresome...!) have you any intriguing plans for today?

hrmm, the problem i have with investing so much more in schooling is that i am not 100% sure this is really what i want. it's more like a 70/30 split.

maybe we should be given a unique alphanumeric name at birth, something like 2g5h3rt. by doing this we will all remain special at least by one different digit or letter. with this system, names wouldnt have any meaning as you mentioned but name redundancy will be eliminated!

[Edited on Jan 20, 2005 11:19AM]

if social secuirty numbers were actually handed out at birth, then they might actually be useful. but you have to "apply" for one. i know of a lot of people who didn't even bother getting their SS numbers until the end of highschool (and they only did because they needed it for college apps).

thanks, i really enjoy working with the kids. it's only 22 hours a week (2 to 6pm on mon tues thurs and fri and 12 to 6 on wed). yesterday was fun reuniting with all of them again plus some new kids. the problem with a month off is losing routine so i let the kids get away with more than usual. as for me, i am going back to school next week (i'm not sure yet) it depends on whether i pay for the fees by the deadline (end of this week, i think). i dont want to use a credit card to pay for it though but no other choice. after making all the calls for me to actually get back into school and convince them i am a "serious student" (after a year long hiatus), it seems like a waste not too just because of money. i quit the second job i had (the night one mentioned in one of my older entries) and if i hadnt i wouldnt have been able to get away on the minitrip that i just took, so i am again looking for a second job - supplementary income. however, i cannot have a second job if i am going back to school - i dont want to foreclose the possibility of a "good education." i'd like to amend the "school is for suckers" statement above to add that we are only suckers if we think that higher education makes us instantly better off. if only we were all independently wealthy, we could stay in school forever and not even care about the practically of it.

i havent left you a monkey in a while so

God damn it... you're right.

*induces rage*

HULK SMASH!!!!

I just copied the pic from some funny image website....

but that title does make it even funnier

it is a blue alien

ok i will wait.

If they had made a film of The Hobbit, we would have seen more fireballs. Gandalf set a bunch of pine cones on fire of all different colors and killed some, what were they, Orcs I think.

But still.... pine cones? Surely the Grey Pilgrim can do better than that, eh?

I still don't think he's a lame-ass. He just doesn't like to show off.

I would have spelt "victoyy" as " viktry", byt you kick ass. Perfect answer...!!!!!

shouldn't there be summer solstice in the southern hemisphere during the northern hemisphere's winter solstice or some equivalent of it? this stuff was covered only nominally in middle school, and i forgot it all.

Bush isnt so bad. The apathy monster has taken up residence with me, and now I just don't really care about any of the fools with authority. They're all the same, they even wear identical ties.

Ha ha, you said "favourite". Silly Canadian.

Too bad the tunnel was only a few metres long. It could have been fun. I like exploring dark places... spelunking is the best.

I haven't been camping and hiking for so long! I miss it. Maybe you can be my camping tour guide or campfire leader sometime.

Zorke, how goes the photoshoot?

great, bad, depressing, full of life, a rollercoaster of moods and thoughts, all working to acheive a greater understanding of life at it's fullest. If your new pics are anything like your previous ones, Im sure I'm in for a great viewing, thxs Zorke!Wish you great photo taking and unlimited exhiliration!