Day 285: Just Another Wednesday.

 

October 12th, 2011Today was just another day of school, work, and meetings. After going to EHS in the morning only to find out the projects my boss had attained for me to complete were not yet ready, I proceeded to meet Bee-John at the food Co-Op where he anxiously waited for Indian food. After that failure, we went to the WTCC meeting with Gavin, Matt, Elviana, Sammy, & Nick, as we discussed the upcoming events. Scream Zone YEEE. I went to my office hours immediately afterwards where I presented several topic proposals to my COGN150 professor. She rebuked me quite a bit actually but geared me towards the right direction, reminding me that this was a class primarily about narratives, and not effects. I met up with Geetha afterwards as we headed to my POLI113A class together. With those things done, I proceeded to Tapioca Express to get some delicious fiery lunch before heading to Geisel. Geetha met up with me later as we studied together – me primarily focusing on perfecting my script (camera angles and all), and garnering actors for the main event. Bee-John bugged us for a bit.

I went to Tapioca Express with Geetha afterwards as she got dinner, I tried to consume some frozen Yogurt to calm my raging stomach, and then I walked her to NSB afterwards. I then spent roughly half an hour outside the building above (AP&M) literally laying down awaiting my next mission of the day. I moved on up to the sixth floor of HSS as I consumed some free pizza at Phi Alpha Theta (AKA History Honors society). It wasn’t that great cause my stomach still was in chaos, but I got to talk to a few really nice people. I went on over to the Young Americans for Liberty meetings afterwards, where we got into an interesting conversation about the assassination of Al-Awlaki, which is and remains a dangerous precedent. I went home afterwards to both shower and do some serious homework.

After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked as a seaman and then a maritime entrepreneur. He became obsessed with the possibility of pioneering a western sea route to Cathay (China), India, and the gold and spice islands of Asia. At the time, Europeans knew no direct sea route to southern Asia, and the route via Egypt and the Red Sea was closed to Europeans by the Ottoman Empire, as were many land routes. Contrary to popular legend, educated Europeans of Columbus’ day did believe that the world was round, as argued by St. Isidore in the seventh century. However, Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world’s size, calculating that East Asia must lie approximately where North America sits on the globe (they did not yet know that the Pacific Ocean existed). TOO BAD HE WAS A RAPIST.

A top Republican strategist says Texas Congressman Ron Paul could win the Republican presidential primary because his message of more freedom and less government is the most consistent and resonates with the base of the Party. Ron Paul “ties together a package of things that very much appeal to social conservatives,” consultant Jack Burkman on FOX News’ Judge Napolitano Show. That packages includes a strong pro-life stance, preserving family values by ending US wars abroad, and restoring the value of the dollar. SO TRUE.

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