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while at the bellarmine tournament, i read a printed e-mail that described some sort of "philosophy" inspired by charles schultz, maker of Peanuts (with charlie brown and them). below is all i can remember of it.

take this quiz, try your best

1. Name the 5 wealthiest people in the world
2. Name the last 5 Heisman trophy winners
3. Name the last 5 winners of the Miss Universe beauty pageant
4. Name at least 10 people who have won the Nobel Prize
5. Name the last 5 winners of Best Actor in the Academy Awards

if you got every question correct on this quiz, you're on your way to failing life.

don't bother telling me what your score was, cuz there is absolutely no way you could have gotten all five correct without cheating.

the point of that quiz was pretty obvious, right?

try this one:

1. List 5 teachers that have helped your journey through school
2. Name 5 friends who've helped you through a hard time
3. Name just a few people that have made you feel appreciated
4. Name 5 people who've taught you something you consider meaningful
5. Name 10 people you enjoy spending time with
6. Name 5 people, fictional or not, who've inspired you in some way

if you missed even one question of that quiz, you're on your way to failing life.

i think the point of this quiz is pretty obvious too.

on another note...

i read this website about what people would wish for if they had 3 wishes. before reading this website, i was sure at least 20% of all people had IQs over 100, but i guess i'm going to have to decrease that to 2%. here's some of the popular wishes:

1. food
2. love
3. friends
4. money (lots of it)
5. a home
6. infinite wisdom
7. a happy, simple life
8. popularity

my immediate responses

1. why the hell would anyone spend one of their wishes on food? you could just go out and buy it yourself at anytime. even if you wish for an amount of food you cant currently afford, it'll either all spoil before you finish it or you'll be sad after it's gone. also, wishing for an infinite amount of food for the rest of your life would make you the ultimate dumbass: where the fuck would you put it all?
2. no sane person would undermine the value of true love by wishing for it
3. assuming that this wish is even remotely possible, what good would you get from it, really? besides, you'd never be happy with people that were forced to become your friends
4. money? sounds alright but i'd rather EARN IT.
5. you already have one
6. i dont get why anyone would take on such an impossible burden. if this was your first wish, you'd wish it away instantly
7. i'd rather compete with hard times and strife, they tend to give meaning to life.
8. whats the point?

another person responded to the love wish by saying this:

"Love is a party and parties aren't meant to last"

if you werent such a dumbass i woudnt respond. but since you are, i guess i have to: parties aren't meant to last because then they wouldn't be parties, retard.

bellarmine speech thing

hmm, did someone say DISORGANIZED? by the way, what exactly is this "time management" you speak of?

yeah bellarmine speech tournament was alright, except for the fact that everything was pushed back like 2 hours.

i got there at like 7:45 like a good little speechie and then i went to the saint francis table, got my code, and then heard that my speech starts at 9:45. so i basically did absolutely nothing for two whole hours except walk around trashing the campus. since dan fitz didnt come today i had to take his spot to vandalize the campus. i kicked a few lockers in, tried to break the locks off by kicking them, found a semi-open locker with shoes and some books in it and stuffed in a half eaten pizza. then i kicked around a giant pile of trash into the middle of the 200 wing. i also spit on as many plaques as possible.

dont get the idea that i'm some crazy ass kid, though. other than that i "behaved" just as mr garcia would want me to. besides, how could a saint francis student NOT trash the bellarmine campus, our rival for like 100 years.

i heard a bunch of our freshmans broke to semifinals (impromptu). when i heard i only had to do two impromptus i instantly decided to kill myself in my first round to insure that i wouldnt have to stay for semis.

my topic for the first speech was "consequences." the moment i pulled that paper out of the envelope 20 things shot into my mind, so i figured i would pick that one. i forgot what one of the other things was, but the third one was autumn. now that i think about it, i wish i picked autumn (signifies change and renewal), but consequences worked alright. i think i spoke for 4 minutes

the second round i got musician, letters, and something else. i picked letters and completely rocked that round. i spoke all 5 minutes on this one.

bellarmine has such a shitty campus it's hard to believe that i made it shittier. all the lockers are jacked up and kicked in, and the locks use KEYS instead of combinations. theres weeds all over the place (assuming the weed wasn't the druggie kind) and the football field is SLANTED and also under a FREEWAY OVERPASS. yeah nice spot to put a football field, guys. by the way, their track is BLUE. its such a concentrated crazy ass blue that if you started running on it you'd probably get vertigo and fall and die horribly.

on a lighter note, i met amanda (aff lab) and a bunch of saratogans. i heard some pretty weird stuff at your table, amanda. for one, your speech coach amputed a kid's leg because the kid didnt have a medical leave and couldnt get proper treatment. then i started playing texas hold 'em with about 5 totally random saratoga guys. i probably would have tried a little harder if the "currency" was cards. yep, everyone got 13 cards to start with and used that to ante and bet, without any prize for the winner. the incentive was huge.

i wasted quite a bit of time at bellarmine. my 10 or so walks around the campus doing absolutely nothing but talking with rahul, nick, joe bussing, neekan, tim, and some freshman wasted almost 2 combined hours. my waiting outside the room for the freakin speech round to start took a combined 2 hours of waiting also. my pointless yet slightly interesting conversations with amanda and her team took maybe an hour or so at most. my time for actually "competing" was 10 minutes total. yep.

lots of fun random stuff happened recently.
o right and i finally figured out how to do single spacing on this stupid xanga crap! thanks to amy (who learned it from tracy).

now i'm bored.

my new favorite word is "useless."

EVERYONE JOIN THE NEW BLOGRING: PEOPLE WHO OWN RAHUL!!! YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO KNOW WHO RAHUL IS, JUST KNOW THAT THIS GUY IS A RETARDED NOOB (AT EVERYTHING), SO THEREFORE YOU MUST BE BETTER THAN HIM (AT EVERYTHING). SILENCE IS CONSENT SO IF YOU DONT JOIN THIS BLOGRING, YOU ARE ADMITTING THAT YOU ARE STUPID. CAPSLOCK ARE FUN!!!