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Up to my ears in rokis!
Posted Mar 26, 2004
...whatever those are. I signed up for NationStates, just out of curiosity, to see what would happen if Corrupt ran a country. Here's a sample:
"The Rogue Nation of Melodan is a small, devout nation, remarkable for its burgeoning roki population. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 14 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up."
Um... can 'devout' and 'cynical' be used that closely together? 
Actually, this is kinda fun... 
http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=melodan
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Latest reply: Mar 26, 2004
A great way to vent...
Posted May 21, 2003
Here in this lovely town I live in, the school district rather likes subjecting its students to mental and physical harm by requiring them to take tests each semester, and (usually) requiring the teachers to count them. However, my English teacher decided not to count them for her seniors...
...and no one ever said we had to take the test SERIOUSLY...
Me and my friends (or is that "my friends and I"?) decided to give the district what they asked for; essays written in a combination of sixth-grade writing (simply out of spite) and AP-level analysis (out of sheer habit). Mine was one solid paragraph. That's it; that's all the prompt justified writing, and if I'd written any more I'd have started to repeat myself. It was also written in hot purple, mind you, and the prompt itself had rather lengthy rants written all over it as well. One friend wrote "So there." as the closing sentence. (That one was in green pen.) We had a mind to finally tell someone, at least this poor sheet of paper, how we felt about these terribly written essay prompts.
What do you expect when you ask an AP class to write in CP style for long enough, though?
To quote what all three of us wrote on the prompt:
"Blessed be the Union! Tis our last subjection to the horror and peril known forever as 'District Test writing prompts'!"
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Latest reply: May 21, 2003
Some good news for once...!
Posted May 2, 2003
I'm so HAPPY! I get to go to UCR! YAY! Of course, I'll have to live at home, and get a job to pay for my books, and all that carp, but...
I'm incredibly happy! Looks like my luck has taken a twist... for the better, at last!
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Latest reply: May 2, 2003
Who'd've thunk it?
Posted Apr 10, 2003
It is becoming incredibly hard to convince my parents to let me take out student loans. Even harder than that is convincing them that I should get out of the house and live on campus.
It's downright impossible to keep the house from blowing up under the stress. 
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Latest reply: Apr 10, 2003
So why not tell the whole world?
Posted Mar 7, 2003
Today was another wonderfully great day in my life... until I was confronted by two former English teachers of mine, one of which happens to be the department head and has followed my so-called academic career quite closely. Both teachers were rather well-informed as to the nature of my grade thus far, as well as the fact that I had neglected to turn in the first essay of this quarter. Which has resulted in only one possible outcome.
Classmate: "What are you DOING?"
Me: "Failing, what's it look like?!?"
Classmate: "WHY?"
So what if I'm failing? I can fix it.
Of course, I'm sure progress reports are coming in soon. I'm sure that there will be two rather nasty reports, in fact, one from English and one from Astronomy (and the latter, it's sheer boredom; I wish I'd never enrolled in that class, and I could care less). It always seems like every frakking adult I've ever encountered has to get on me about my grades. "Please not my parents," I mentally plead to no one in particular, "if the parents get involved I will surely crash and burn."
So as long as my counselor is kept uninformed, life should be easy enough. Oh, and if I can intercept that progress report, too.
Otherwise...
Well, that'll be for later. I must get back to class now--a class that I have an A+ in, strangely enough... Economics.
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Latest reply: Mar 7, 2003
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