6:15 Awoke to Jethro Tull for the third time this week. Don't these DJs have more than 3 cds? Managed to get upstairs and take a shower. Ate some Coco Roos and read the latest issue of the Economist. Off to school.
7:30 Just arrived for Academic Decathlon practice. Study on, man. The eighties. 20th century music. Jane Eyre. Globalization. Cool.
8:00 Time for some diversification. Religions of the World. You know, we in the "West" are proud that we led the industrial revolution, but maybe this is because those in the "East" had better things to think about. Life. Death. Human nature.
9:00 English. Just read Steinbeck's "Flight". Pepe did everything he thought he needed to become a man. He got his father's stuff. He killed a guy. He ran away from the "dark watchers". He was still just a boy. Am I really a man yet?
9:50 Critical Thinking. I love my brain. It's so cool. I love these theories on how it works. I love mnemonics too. One time I memorized half the periodic table in a half hour. I was bored.
10:30 No hablo ingles en este clase. Sorry. Spanish grows on you. The language isn't that much fun, but applying it is. Went to Costa Rica last year. Helped out at an orphanage for 2 weeks. Big culture shock. Loved the soccer, hated the beans. I could see moving there.
11:15 Ate my lunch in 5 minutes. Went to hang out with my friends. Quite an eclectic group. One socialist-hippy type. One hunter-killer type. Two girls attached at the hip. A loud actor with crazy hair and his equally psycho brother. A big hairy guy who likes sheep. A girl who got a whip for her birthday. Two runners\pathological liars. They all love each other.
11:45 American government. Learn how nine men in black robes have manipulated the course of American history. See why cops aren't Democrats. Maybe lawyers aren't so bad after all. Try to figure out why people need lengthy documents to justify the use of their own common sense. Law is nothing. The people write it, follow it, and enforce it. It simply makes their opinions seem more moral.
12:30 Programming. All by myself on this one. This class should be called "logic." People who program well think well. Figure out what the problem is. Break it up. Solve the smaller parts. Lots tougher than it sounds.
1:15 Physics. This class answers the ever present question "why?" You don't really understand anything if you can't express it in mathematical terms.
2:00 Calculus. The study of infinity. Get a mathematical grasp on something beyond the power of imagination.
2:45 School's done. Start running. Running is life. It's like moving meditation. The body and the mind are one. Lose yourself in the focus.
5:30 Go push in carts at MegaFoods. It's not a bad job. I've seen lots of stuff. Forty below winters. Drunken beggars. Violent cocaine addicts. Rabid dogs. Poetry. Injured geese. Cars colliding with people. People of every economic and ethnic group. Working helps broaden one's horizons
10:00 Go home and write an article for the paper. Tells people to get up and do something. Popped in some Pink Floyd. Read Michael Moorcock's Von Bek. Weird stuff. Of course, religion always is. Why does it exist? Why do we fight about it? Or do we fight about religion at all? Floyd reaches my ears. "With. Without. And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about."
11:00 Time for bed. Tomorrow is an unimaginable day. Everything is possible.