You have absolutely no reason to care about what I am about to say
Okay, so my cd player broke over a month ago, but I decided that if i am about to sit through a day long flight, I need some tunes to keep me company, so I made the trek to target (walk to metro, take bus, walk from stop, sounds easy, but mwahaha you are wrong! The Target was in Falls Church, which meant for me it was like going to the moon. You know how it is when you take an unfamiliar bus line, you're always paranoid you'll miss your stop.). So a few gripes I have over the whole process:
Sony is retarded:
-Sony thinks because you have heard of them they get to charge a premium, and honestly, yeah, over some no-name, I would pay a few extra bucks for a sony. But Philips offers a better product, with one of those thingies that you plug into the headphone jack that lets you control the cd player with a handheld thingie while your player is in your bag and 45 seconds of skip protection, for 10 bucks cheaper. Sony's response: Well, if we make our player some flashy color (red!) and give it a catchy name (the Psyc series! Edgy!) and people will buy it, because it's "young" and "hip". Hell, no. I got the Philips.
Music in general:
So I decide, "Wow, I've only paid 40 bucks for a GREAT cd player" I can buy a cd! Plus, gives me something new to listen to. So i know i can't get the cd i really want (The Shins, "Oh Inverted World") because no one outside of indie record stores have heard of them, so i think about what i would also like. I think, "hey, I like a lot of strokes songs, I'll buy the strokes cd. Since its been a hit for a while, i'll bet it's even cheap!" I'm a retard. Of course they wouldn't sell that. That's logical! Instead, they'd rather have 5 copies of this cd by this band called the exies. If you haven't heard of them, that's because they were not good. Their song was in a lot of x games commercials, but that's about it. But Target has 5 copies of their cd! Because I'm sure some buyer told them "oh, this is gonna be huge!" They also had nothing by a few other bands I looked up. Finally, as I'm about to settle on Coldplay, which is a band I generally don't like, but they have a few songs on each cd i like, I see it: Best of Bowie, on sale for 9.99! This cd is usually no less that 17 bucks, so it was a great deal! I likes me some bowie music, especially that early stuff like space oddity and fame. So i was happy in the end, but I just had to find me some old people music.
Other news, found a japanese program in dc. working in dc again. joy of joys. YAY!!! Target was just an important event in my life today, people. To those who live in DC w/o car, they understand.
Having a title just because I feel that makes my blog look better somehow
Honestly, I have nothing to say in this blog. I mean, seriously, this is just me typing words. I avoid work so much it is insane, and yet they still ask me to come back. Are other people so slow and inefficient that I still do as much work as them in half the time, or is my boss just too lazy and nonconfrontational to fire me and go out and find someone else? I swear, I am the worst worker in the world, and yet people seem to value my labor. I don't get it.
Oh, so i need to go out and buy one of my favorite cds that i left behind in stl, because i want to listen to it now. No, its not ace of base, its the pixies, "Dolittle"
Because of the car trip home, I am having an 80s/early 90s dance breakout! Currently am listening to bananarama "Venus" (or, as some will know it "I am your fetus, I am your fire, soul desire" Denise's mom couldn't have said it better) will be relistening to ace of base soon enough
While I enjoy the use of the prefix uber-, I hate it when people use meta-
Anyway, so obviously a lot of this blog is going to be about my weekend. Guess what, my weekend was debate, I'm sorry, but I'll try to be amusing to everyone in the process. First, I'll give a chronological order of rounds:
1. Against Yale soph and novice: Ran Basques, won. Pretty cut and dry. We mentioned we were twins, they believed us.
2. Against Jay and Tim from Yale. Philosophical round, crack was the judge (btw, did anyone else notice that whenever crack said someone's name at the awards ceremony, it sounded like he was making a sleazy pass at that person? Well, he sounded like that, and it was cool), me and Denise did a really good job, judge agreed, but we dropped, crack explained why, I agree with him.
3.)Hit JPo, ran Guinea, lost. Round was muddled.
4.)Hit MIT novices, ran Libya, crushed them. I mocked them in the PMR, discussed GWB and 3-card monte, spit on a chessboard and wiped it off, and got a 26 for my efforts.
5.)Hit W and M Chris and Will, they ran eliminate filibuster, I gave good reasons not too, judge liked everything i had to say, we pick up.
6.) Hit Smith A Kat and Helen. Ran US should allow selling of kidneys. Fine, open case, wish i was MO instead of the Leader of Opp, but hey, thems the brakes. This round would have gone much better if not for Andrew Grossman. Andrew interjects himself as the judge into every round he sees, and while I don't think he's ever dropped me unfairly, my debating, if not that of others, I think is adversely affected by his presence and constant facial contortionism in the round. From how he acts, he basically decides at your tagline whether or not he likes your point, and doesn't seem to listen to the rest. I can't be sure of that, but it makes me less likely to develop and try to explain points I would otherwise maybe develop and cause him to change his position because he reacts so negatively. Points he cringed at by me he loved when denise brought them up. We have absolutely nothing in common, and while I don't like him, I'm not going to proceed to slander him or anything. Let's just say I scratched him for good reason, unfortunately Brandeis ignored this, and my last round ever suffered as a result.
As for Liz, well, she is craziness. The girls refused to ride home with her, and while I felt a little bad leaving her behind, the ride home was much more comfortable in danielle's little car. She apparently ran into Dolan and told him that someone on our team (me) used to do an imitation of him, if someone's first remarks to me were that, it would seem a little odd to me. I could talk about this subject so much more, but it's very taxing and just not worth it to put it down. maybe in the future.
I think there was a lot more to talk about (we have a lot of people confused as to whether me and denise are twins or not) such as that annoying speech from the guy who went to williams (who basically name dropped oxford, implied he was too good for us, yet deigned to bring himself back to debate for one final year). Look, if you are from debate and read this blog, while we may not have hung out a lot, I probably thought you were a pretty nice person at heart and would have liked to have hung out with you outside of the context of debate. On the other hand, for some of you probably the only thing we had in common and will have in common was debate, and I'm glad we were able to get together and hang out. Either way, there was probably more i wanted to say, but i forgot it.
Oh, yeah, Ace of Base rules. All that she wants, is another baby, she's gone tomorrow for one, all that she wants, is another baby, hey-ey-ey...
