YOWCH!

That's a hot cuppa! HOT cuppa!

*we interrupt this blog to point and laugh as Rio winces and rubs her sore lip that is now turning red from being burnt by a very hot cup of tea*

Okay, but anyway... You've all (read: Besl'a) have been around for all my ramblings on my various English papers, yeah? I complain about writing them, it takes me four hours to write a paragraph, yet somehow I always scrape by and have it done by the time I have to go to class?

Well, this week's topic (actually, next week's topic, since this week is Thanksgiving. The Vegan's favorite holiday... pass me a slice of the tofu loaf?) is an argumentative paper. If have to argue some controversial topic. I couldn't think of anything worthwhile until I got to history class. We were talking about Truman and the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So I figured, hey, why not? I'll write about that. However, as I try writing about it, I realise that it's not nearly as much fun when there's not the Knights of the Square Table to argue with.

Interruption: My history class is actually a leadership class. There are eight of us, plus two professors in the class. It is mostly discussion. They ask us what we would do, say, in Truman's position. Do we drop the bomb, or don't we? Since it is discussion (read: lots of liberals and conservatives yelling at each other), we don't have the room set up like a normal classroom. We arrange the tables in a square and all sit around it, a la King Arthur, only with a few more corners (since we are lacking a proper Round Table). Therefore: Our unofficial name is the Knights of the Square Table.

So, Hiroshima. Not as much fun to write about without anyone to yell at. One thing I would like to write about, though, is wolves. You know, shatter the stereotype of "The Big Bad Wolf" and such. 'cause hunters totally kill more deer than wolves. But I've already turned in the outline of my Hiroshima paper. So, is it too late to switch topics now?

So I decided to e-mail the professor to ask if it would be alright for me to switch. Oh look! There's already an e-mail from her!

She wants to know if I can e-mail her a few copies of my papers so she can submit them to a committee who will review the papers and decide which ones to offer an award to. She'll be putting together a folder of work from several students in her ENG101 classes, students who have shown "consistently high quality".

.... the hell?

New phone!

I just got a new cell phone! WOO HOO! It's the Palm Treo... which is frigging awesome. Look it up.

Downside is that I've got an older model. It's my bosses old phone that I bought from him. But hey, it's new to me! Full keyboard, touch screen, all sorts of fun features...

Know what my favorite thing is? Something my old phone didn't have? Ringtones. Yeah. Ringtones. See, the only way to download ringtones for my old phone was to get on the internet, and that costs an arm and a leg, 'cause it wasn't part of my phone plan. But this new one can play MP3s as ringtones! YAY!

So, at the moment, I've got the choice of Online (Brad Paisley), Meet in the Middle (Diamond Rio), Unbelievable (Diamond Rio), The Mean Kitty Song (Corey Williams), Rage of the Shadow Warriors (Jesse Harlin), Vode An (Jesse Harlin), The Imperial March (John Williams), or Talk Like a Pirate Day (Tom Smith). My phone is weird XD

Oh, and in case you're wondering... my lovely new device's name is Hal Skirata (a combination between Kal Skirata and HAL from 2001. Isn't THAT a scary combination?)

Aw.

Shit.

Motivation... no.

Three hours.

Really, I've had this page open for three hours. Ten thirty I opened it up. It is now one thirty. You want to know what I've written in that amount of time?

"McLean"

Aay'han

Raise a glass for Captain Ray Hill, and the 4188 men and women who did not return.

Shoes, Aliens.... meh.

They're like shoes, I tell you. When you don't have any money for them, you find fifty cute pairs, on sale, in your size. But when you desperately need a new pair of shoes for work... the entire city area is sold out of ALL shoes in and around your size.

Well, aliens are like that as well. Yes, once again it's time for another episode of Rio's English Paper. This time, we have to find two articles on ANY subject and compare them. So, it can be two articles on why Obama is the anti-christ, and the similarities between the two articles, or it can be one article about why Obama is the anti-christ, and one about why McCain is the anti-christ, and compare the differences between those. I figured it would be fun to write about Roswell. Just because. So, I wanted to get an article about why it was a cover up, and one about why it wasn't. So, I keep looking for articles from the two extremes. One from the Air Force and one from a conspiracy theory website would rock, I think.

At this point, though, I'd take any article I could find. Seriously, when I'm just innocently browsing around the internet, I find all sorts of stuff about Roswell! I can tell you about the whole incident, and yet I've never actually purposefully searched for anything about it! But now when I'm looking for stuff about it? Nope, can't find it! Sorry.

I've found a few articles, but nothing goes together well. Like, the Air Force article talks about the "alien bodies" being crash test dummies. The conspiracy article I found talks about air force presence at the crash site. So there's really no parallells I can write about. I really really need one article written... and then another written in response to the first. That way they at least cover the same material.

Oh, and the other problem I came across? The Air Force article I found? Yeah, it's not an article. It's the 1000 page Roswell Report. Not like I can summarize that in two sentences...

Anyway. I'm gonna finish up this blog and keep looking. I've got too many windows open as is. You are the winker shnink! Goobye!

AGH!

Get me out of here!