To stop being an NPC

I'm in a good mood. This is largely because I'm going back to school (sort of), with an actual plan and goal in mind. Dropping out of college is one of the things I most regret, for a number of reasons. The academics being one of the least, but a big part of it. Sure, I'm just going for the associate's degree at the local community college, but that'll let me transfer and do real stuff when I get done. And I'm probably more than half done, since I somehow suspect I can test out of basic brain-dead English and Math courses. And required computer basics course. But one of the things I'm gonna have to take is a foriegn language, so I have to figure out which one. I had 3 years of Spanish in HS, but it sucked and I barely passed (bad teachers and a teacher I hated). I don't remember anything from half a year of Russian before. So, I gotta decide, Spanish, or Arabic, or German, or French. Since those are the only ones offered at the one. I wonder why I suck at foriegn languages.

Also, I'm starting to think that part of the reason I did badly the first time at college was I didn't care. I can think of a few reasons, but none that seem to quite explain why I wouldn't, but that's a post for another time.

Why is it the only journalists telling the truth are the fake ones?

Bush Vows to Eliminate US Dependence on Oil by 4920 (from The Onion)

"The president's science advisor, John Marburger, provided more details of the energy plan in a press release issued late Monday.

"It is the president's hope that hydrogen fuel cells, nanotechnology, or the recycling of human beings into fuel will hold the key," Marburger wrote. "Whatever the people of the 50th century feel is appropriate.""

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In Which I Prove I am Easily Amused

So, via the Girl Genius mailing list, I found out about this flash thing, set to This song, called "Move Your Dead Bones", which was apparently on the Beyond Reanimator DVD. It's a nifty, catchy, goofy song, and going in my Mad Science playlist.

However, comparing the "real" video on that page to the flash movie, (3.7mb, sorry dialup. I know how it is). I have to say the flash movie's funnier. It's got a whole bunch of dead characters dancing in fanfics. Which I find more amusing than zombies. And it's pretty well animated.

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THIS is what the Internet does to my brain - A Drabble

It was a mistake to have the Necromancers' Convention and the Mad Scientist's Conventions in the same hotel. Two groups of brilliant, erratic, and insane people in the same hotel? Why not just invite the Bloods and the Crips to a barbecue? Things were tense at first, and just got worse all weekend. There was a lot of name-calling, hastily-published hatchet articles, but nothing major. Turns out they were both marshaling their forces for something big. I'd never have bet on a gigantic dance-off with zombies, skeletons, robots, monsters, though. It was a hell of a show.

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