Sunday, September 23, 2001 8:03 PM

I’m listening to this song I have to memorize for German. It’s about a page and a fourth long, but I think I’ve got it. I’ve been listening to it on repeat for about an hour now. I actually memorized it last Thursday night because I thought I’d have to go Friday, but we ran out of time. So here I am.

Last Friday night I went to Will’s house. We played this new game he downloaded the demo of, Max Payne. Wow, it’s a GOOD game. I was really, really impressed with it. It’s like an fps, except it’s got a really great plot, too. I’m considering buying it, but I don’t think my computer is good enough to run it. The graphics are beautiful.

I haven’t been getting my weekly Starcraft fix, mostly because of too much homework. Ugh. I’m going through withdrawal. I played two 1v1’s today. I won one, but it wasn’t a very fulfilling victory because my opponent was really bad and it took me too long to kill him. The other one I lost, because my opponent was actually pretty good. I need to practice more I guess.

Well I’m off to do bigger and better things, like sleep.

Monday, September 24, 2001 3:35 PM

A bunch of stuff happened today. But I don’t remember much of it. I’m just obligated to write three times a week, so I’ll do my best. Uhh… okay, so last night I was accidentally on the phone until 1. I seriously didn’t even notice. I was just talking to Amanda and suddenly she was like “It’s 1,” and I was like “asdf.” Or something like that happened; I don’t even know. Bye.

Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:03 PM

I’ve been making t-shirts since last Thursday or so. I decided that store bought stuff is kind of boring and fake. So I’m making my own stuff. It’s pretty good so far. I’ve made about 15 shirt designs, only 5 or 6 of which I’m actually going to use. I’ve got a friend, Matt, making shirts too. We’re going to order together so we get better prices. At one shirt, the price is $20.00, which is crazy, but when you order 8 shirts, its about $12.00 a piece, which is much better. I really like what I’ve made, and I feel it expresses me a lot better than anything I could buy.

I’ve never understood people that say they express themselves through their clothes and wear brand name stuff. Seems kind of silly.

I really don’t like clothes, myself. I don’t like how if you wear a shirt, people will judge you so harshly by what’s on it before they actually talk to you. What you wear shouldn’t matter nearly as much as it does. Why is society so uptight and conformist? Blah, I won’t even get started.

I do have a problem with the indecent exposure law. It’s really a dumb idea, when I think about it. Is it so wrong to show skin? Who does it hurt? What harm could being naked possibly cause? I could understand how some people wouldn’t want to go naked, because they may want to conceal imperfect bodies or actually use their clothes as a means of self-expression, but to me it’s ludicrous to make a LAW against showing your body in public. It seems like a natural right, sort of. What if someone is so poor he or she can’t afford clothes? Ok, I guess that’s not really likely, because low-quality clothes aren’t really hard to come by, but how about a person that just doesn’t want to spend time or money deciding what to wear? Does it really matter anyway?

Who makes these laws? I envision a group of extremely closed-minded fundamentalist Christian mothers who believe sex is wrong sitting around a table and frequently using phrases such as “Well when I was a kid…” and “It just doesn’t seem proper to me” as they decide what every single citizen of their state regardless of belief can and cannot do.

I’ve had some discussions with my dad about stuff like this, and he classifies me as libertarian. I’m not really into politics, so I don’t know if that’s good or bad.

I believe in the ideal society, there would be the maximum amount of personal freedom possible, which of course brings the maximum amount of responsibility with it. People that aren’t responsible enough to use their freedom shouldn’t. But everyone should have the option of doing so.

Or something. Night.