so i wrote this uber long post last night and it got erased. i was pissed to the extreme. To recuperate, I watched Psycho Beach Party on Showtime. I love that movie; it was campy and amusing and a whole lotta other stuff. Anyway, it got me hooked on surf music right now, so I am listening to Man...or Astroman?, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, and the Tornadoes.
off to see Little Shop. I hope they do the play ending, and not the shitty movie ending.
so i should be going to bed, which i will do soon.
i am about to freak out, cause i have a paper due for my senior seminar next week, and I have no idea what i am supposed to write about. AAAGGHHHH!
You know, Blur really is an amazing band. Its too bad that they never really made it in America, except for Song 2. I just bought their greatest hits DVD, and it is wonderful. the videos are great, especially for Popscene, Parklife, and Coffee and TV. Also, I recommend the White Stripes' video for Fell in Love with a Girl. I don't want to give it away, but i have one word to give it away : Lego.
Sorry if i am severely mispelling things, but I can't scroll down, and so have to guess at the efficiency of my typing..
Finally, I want to make fun of stupid people in my Geography of Latin America class. People, the reason he took the slide off the projector was cause, AS HE SAID, it wasn't important, and wouldn't be on the exam. jeez. lemmings, you are all lemmings. this is why i can't stand GW. all ambition, all drive, no brains. they were 2/3rds of the way in getting into an Ivy, but no intelligence. Unfortunately, us smart ones don't have much drive, so it kinda evens out.
well, liss was indisposed, but me and erin and carissa made it with dani, crackers, and carissa's friend to raku. I think that counts as a eboard meeting. btw, for all those interested, WE ARE KEEPING OUR WEEKEND! Step off, beeyatch! anyway, i should get my W-2s tomorrow, as that whole tax thing is coming up. I just realized I don't have IL tax forms, and I made quite a bit of mney there last year, so i am a bit worried. I don't know how i am going to take care of that. btw, still haven't figured out what to do for my globalization class!
so apparently I am going to dinner tonight at raku with erin, carissa, and random girl. Hopefully we can add a liss and get the eboard meeting out of the way at the same time. yay.
I need to return library books, and decide what to write about for my seminar paper due next week. It has to be on a non-economic aspect of globalization. any ideas? feel free to write to schroede@gwu.edu.
other random things: If you have a car, and are going to either the Montgomery, Tysons Corner, or Franconia Springfield Mall, and have a car, let me know. I want to buy a pair of Reef sandals, and you can't find them anywhere! Stupid non-beach people!
In non-debate stuff, if anyone wants to see the following movies with me sometime, let me know.
Scotland, PA
Panic Room
oh, also, it was nice to see Mr. Agozzino this weekend. Canadians are a lot like midwesterners, except for their penchant for After Eight chocolates, apparently.
Georgetown amuses me. So I used to do trivia freshman year, and some of sophomore year, and the Georgetown team consisted of one person, Emmet Tuohy, who also does (did?) debate. So he's gone, making the GTown trivia team pretty much nonexistent. The GTown debate team also imploded. If GW stands for Georgetown Waitlist, then I don't get how apparently no one on the GTown campus is interested in "intellectual sports", as UMBC would say. Maybe GTown is just a finishing school for WASPy elitists, and its reputation rests more on John Thompson than its intellectual character. Maybe I'm baiting non existent GTown readers.
so I don't update frequently, and apparently the layout of my site blows. ok, the first comment is right. seriously, though, I just don't see stuff going on in my life that is interesting to other people. Maybe if I was famous like Ozzy Osborne, I could get my own TV show where people are going to want to hear about me taking out the trash and I would feel I am not boring them, but I just don't see that happening anytime soon. I should post more often tho, commenting about neat stuff I see or think. oh well.
as for the layout thing, I can't help that. I know absolutely zilch about html coding, or flash, or even how to use frontpage, for that matter. sorry. honestly, if anyone can, in an email, tell me how to do something that will greatly empower my ability to create a unique page, please tell me! I am honestly interested, and I am a quick learner.
Anyway, ever since I woke up this morning I have been asking myself why the hell I debate again. Yes, this is the biggest frickin' cliche ever. I don't like writing cases, and now that I know I have the potential to do as well as I have in the past, I'm just not happy with knowing I'm not going to hit that point over a weekend. For me, debate is a lot more about competing against myself than anyone else; if I felt I could have done more and didn't leave it all out there, I feel I have failed somehow (that's such a harsh word, especially in this context). The best rounds are the ones where you walk away without any doubts about what you did, and if there was anything you forgot. Definite zen feeling.
At Princeton this weekend, I didn't get that feeling. Maybe it was the tight link cases (I have to defend a year of Presidency in a recession against 8 years of economic expansion? I also pity anyone who had to argue for Israeli land for peace), maybe it was getting off on the wrong foot, whatever it was, it was kind of disconcerting. All the tournaments I have enjoyed immensely (American, UPenn, GTown) had a lot to do with not regretting anything in rounds. All good rounds, all happy rounds. At the other tournaments, the problem wasn't the partner (never the partner) or the people running the tournament, but this feeling that there was another, better way to go about most of the rounds, whether we won or not.
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