Cheating

Last week, I spent the entirety of a badminton game in gym class arguing about cheating. My doubles partner and I are both reasonably intellegent people, if I do say so myself, and our opponents were, shall we say, not. They were attempting to convince us that we were really mean because we wouldn't give them answers on tests. The girl we were facing kept on tossing around the phrase "share the wealth!"

What?

Roleplay

I miss roleplaying. I miss having time for it, and I definitely miss Corruption. That, I think, was the worst casualty of the original Unbinded dying. Of course Corruption was already pretty much comatose by the time Ogu shut down the forums. But still. I've got the file on my (broken) computer, so if I recover the files I'll have it. Hopefully Ogu still has the Unbinded files and can send them to me again.

Another new EverQuestII expansion comes out today, and I'm still not back on the servers. I sort of want to re-up my account, but I don't have the time, the money, or the working computer to run it properly. Well, I have the money, but I owe my mom too much, and I need to save for a computer. So it's a bit circular.

I miss the guild, and I definitely miss roleplaying. I'm going to fall even further behind, since they're bumping the level cap up to 80 with this expansion, and I'm still at 50-something, maybe even just 50. I've got the cash to buy proper armor and weapons, which will be nice, considering the fact that I just moved up a tier and most of my stuff is quite a bit behind.

My mount makes me want to shoot myself some times, though, since it's only a 10% run speed, and as a human paladin I'm not all that quick to begin with. All of my groupmates always have much faster mounts and other speed increases. I'm onto my carpet quest, though, and Muqali's home so he'll probably help me out, since he's really nice. I need to be powerleveled, really, but I'd settle for being dragged through the carpet quest.

Back to roleplay. I'm trying to get into Laik's new roleplay on the new Unbinded, Staring at the Sun, but I'm confused. And I'd be happy to get into Frecyo's Shattered Sea thing, but that's even more confusing.

And on top of all that, I've still got work to do.

Dammit.

Rabbits

Fluffy, adorable animals, right? Everybody loves them, and only a few people love them for their nutritional assets.

But oh my god, those that do eat them: Gross. Really, really gross. And mean. Really, really mean.

We were just watching Michael Moore's first documentary, Roger and Me, in economics, and there's this woman in it who sells rabbits for food and pets to try to make ends meet. And you know me, I'm all for people having enough money to feed their families, but I shudder at bashing a bunny's head in, tying it to a tree, and skinning it, all in front of a camera. Way to make me nauseated.

On a national level

Today is Veterans Day.

I was debating whether or not I was going to acknowledge it, but I've decided that I should.

I am, though I was not always, a patriotic American.

My patriotism might not lead me to agree with the present administration, or with a lot of what some prominent individuals say, but I do love my country and what it was founded on.

I respect the sacrifice of every veteran and every soldier, even if I don't necessarily agree with the war they fought in. They fought, they died or they survived, all for their country.

My salutes to you, members of the armed forces.

Clark

Well, I had fun.

I also had no time to work on my Hebrew, but whatever. Could've gone to a Hebrew class, but then I probably wouldn't have gotten home until about now.

Clark's very nice, although the city of Worcester, which it's very firmly embedded in, is not so nice. The Provost isn't a very good speaker, but what he had to say was interesting. The astronomy class that I sat in on was a bit of a joke, as I knew everything they had to say about quasars, dark matter, and dark energy. Either that or Mr. A, Brett, and I all have very in-depth discussion.

But speaking of the astronomy class! There are four people from camp that attend Clark, and one friend from NFTY (North American Federation of Temple Youth). Of course, I was avidly trying to reach Jeremy, the NFTY-ite, the entire time, but he never picked up his phone.

In the astronomy class, I spent the whole time staring at the back of the head of this one guy who looked so familiar. After the class ended, he stood up, stretched, and turned around, and I immediately went "Aaron!" He looked up, and we went, "Woah, small world. Hi." He showed me to the building I was meeting my dad in and offered to answer any questions, as he's a tour guide.

Then I spoke to the Hillel director, and while talking to him, he pointed out the window and said, "Oh, there's Dan." Dan and I worked together on the Bonim (entering fourth and fifth grade) show, Peter Pan, this summer. I face-palmed a little, on the inside, and continued the conversation, as I couldn't just walk out. When I looked up again to go find him, he disappeared, and I was very sad. But then he was ten inches away, giving me a hug. Fantastic.

The Hillel director couldn't remember the name of the last Eisner-ite, though he thought she was Israeli. I, for the life of me, could not recall a single Israeli at Eisner who attends American Uni, so I was a little confused, but that's okay.

Later in the conversation, I saw someone very, very familiar walk by. Someone Eisner-y, and...Israeli. Only not. I thought she was Israeli at camp, and I was embarrassed by my assumptions there, so I blocked it. I called to her retreating back, "Yael!" She turned around slowly, and we both went, "Well. I'm confused. Hi. Random."

Good times.

Of course, Clark has more positive attributes than merely the presence of three Eisner-ites that I ran into, another Eisner-ite and a NFTY-ite. But I don't particularly feel like detailing them now, since I've already run longer than most of my other posts.