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Nester Class 5

rocked out to Nester Class 5. It was pretty fun. There are some crazy freshman this year.

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Ryan Lives Here

My friend Ryan lives in Denver and he shared this video on his blog.

Did they not think this would fly around the internet? This isn’t France. Those people were peaceably assembled. They were invoking their constitutional rights. And they were threatened and bullied and attacked by the people their tax dollars go to pay to protect and serve the public. It’s an atrocity.

Edit
Randall makes a few good points on his blog as well. As soon as the protestors got in the way of traffic or started blocking streets they went past peaceably assembled. But I’m also sure the police could have handled it a bit than enclosing the crowd between buildings on the left and right and two lines of cops in full

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A (dis)United Party

Watching CNN’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention is kind of funny. The major issue of interest at this point is converting the Hillary supporters into Obama supporters and whether or not it’s possible.

It’s funny how quickly the pundits forget the primaries. One of the them was saying that Hillary’s fanclub will easily switch after her speech tonight. That they will all of a sudden realize that Obama will support everything that Hillary supports.

What a load of bull. There were major points of contention between Hillary’s proposed policy and Obama’s. There was extreme concern that Obama is not read (that concern has certianly not gone away). Obama DOES NOT support everything Hillary does. But apparently wishy-washy idealism is contagious.

Dennis Kucinich got up and made an empowering speech saying things like “Up with free trade” and “Up with prosperity”. Obama opposes free trade. The democratic party opposes free trade. And some people think that’s good. They believe that governments playing with and regulating the free market is good. And if they believe that they believe in destroying capitalism. Fair trade doesn’t exist. Fair isn’t real. It’s idealistic. And a farse.

In any case. This is funny.

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I did good.

Well, I did pretty good. Better than last time.

Thank you for the moral support, my digital friends. Next task: Apply to grad school. Task after that: Get the WGRN site live. Task following that one: Getting AgapeFest.com live. Task after all of those: Getting two sites designed for my dad.

Anyway. yay. Hopefully grad school next summer!!!

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This Week’s Tweets (2008-08-24)

• anna’s here!!! #
• getting sleepy, I should think. #
• BED. SLEEP. #
• back in the office. still having issues with my left monitor. Probably should power both down before I leave. #
• Planning meeting. This will take awhile #
• Finally done #
• gonna register for the highedweb conference. the boss missed the earlybird rate. but she probably should’ve been here or told me to book. #
• awesome. going home. #
• i hope i don’t bomb the GRE… the quantitative is kicking my butt. #
• watching Smart People with @waysideviolet #
• time to start getting back into mint.com #
• hmmm. not sure where my ipod went. #
• not feeling it today. Just talked about agape FOREVER. And have to train the new faculty on how to get web updates done. #
• going to teach new faculty how to get their stuffs updated. #
• back from lunch. #
• i really want to get this agapefest site live. #
• i really hope i find my ipod when i get home. #
• back home. still can’t find my ipod touch. bollocks. #
• still can’t find my ipod. and now i’m back to work. #
• think my highedweb conference plans and arrangements are complete. #
• might be seeing ryan adams at the pageant in october. I really hope so. #
• finally cleaned up my “followers”… so much spam. but it’s clean. squeaky even. #
• made chicken salad for lunch with a cucumber fresh from our garden! It was amazing #
• so… avbc’s new website is kinda bad. and I was kind of surprised to see who did it. because he used to be really good. #
• how is it not time to leave yet??? #
• made enchiladas. delicious. watching “Miss Pettigrew…” with the wife. #
• rainy day playlist!!! #
• SongBird’s in Public Beta!!!! http://getsongbird.com #
• Songbird completely integrates with Last.fm now!!!! #
• I made SERIOUS headway on my new blog design last night. Doing some AF forms formatting now. #
• any movie suggestions for a Saturday evening double date with married friends? #
• I found my iPod!!! #
• I’m listening to Fionn Regan - The Underwood Typewriter #
• I’m sorry, you have to ask me to take your photo. Not tell me CCed in an email to the rest of your dept. that I’m going to. #
• Presidential search committee nomination meeting… #
• oh man. God help our faculty/staff. #
• going home. #
• Today: got scrobbling back on my iPod, listened to people complain, now about to take some rez life group shots. #
• Well these folks started late. But I’m going to get some good shots later. At least the lighting will be perfect #
• effing flat tire. #
• awesome. got my new blog design up. It’s in beta. But tell me what you think: http://joel.thegoodmanblog.com #
• I’m going to try and work on my blog design today… maybe. #
• oh people. learn some email edicate okay? #
• i REALLY not into working today. I could use a whole day of sleep. #
• NSO is crazy. it’s like the freshman get younger every year. #
• Got some style stuff out if the way. Relaxing at the movies tonight. Check it: http://joel.thegoodmanblog.com #
• saw Tropic Thunder tonight. It was pretty hilarious. Back home to work on the blog some more. #
• going to bed. got some stuff done on my site though. #
• We slept pretty late today. going to drink my coffee (read: lifeblood). #
• i’m studying for the GRE. #
• anyone know of a cross-browser consistent JS library that will let me do what the cloud on my blog does now? http://joel.thegoodmanblog.com #
• I didn’t realise Jeff Tweedy was from Belleville, IL! #
• Forgot how much I love Christie Front Drive until it came up on my Last.fm recommendations… yay last.fm! #
• Going over to hang out with @andreanjos and liz in a half hour. #
• At @andreanjos and liz’s apartment. Hanging out. #
• Oh I’m tired. #
• making a vector flower for my blog. #
• godaddy. why are you so SLOW??? #
• blah. #
• so. i’m hanging out. about to eat dinner. then go to the Ross’ for COM dept. desserts. #

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Almost Done.

Tomorrow morning is the morning. I actually feel really confident. I went over a few GRE details earlier today and then took (almost) the rest of the day off, just like Kaplan told me to. But I did review a bunch of math stuff and read the notes on how to do the essay section. It shouldn’t be too bad.

So. I feel good.

We went over to V. Ross’s house tonight for dessert with the incoming transfer and freshman Communication majors. It was pretty fun actually. I talked to Cary about the program at Syracuse and he was really excited about it. I think V. is glad I’m applying to the program too. And I get more and more excited about it every day. It will be so awesome.

Anyway. I added something to this blog today. Scroll to the bottom and you’ll see it.

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Last Weekend of Stress

This is my last weekend of being ridiculously stressed out. I am taking the GRE on Monday morning. Early. It’s the second time I’ve taken the test. The first time around I didn’t do so well… maybe okay for the program I’m applying to, but not good enough for myself.

My plans are to study all day today (after studying all week already) and as much of tomorrow as possible. Then Monday I’ll wake up really early, drive to SLU and take the test. I’m actually feeling more confident than I felt at the beginning of the week - which is a good thing.

I will feel an incredible sense of release when it’s over. I won’t have to do study anymore. Next week I’ll finish up my application and get it submitted. Early. I really need to get into this program.

And now that this new design is up, I probably need to finish the Résumé page, fix my letterhead for résumés and cover letters and my CV, and then nip and tuck the rest of the blog template issues.

I’d appreciate any comments (or bug reports) on the new design. Let me know what you think! I’m pretty sure I’ll be submitting it (minus the moving cloud - probably) to themes.wordpress.org in the near future. That, along with the Rock Out Loud (AgapeFest 2009) template - which should be going live on agapefest.com next week (fingers crossed).

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New Design (In Beta)

After a wonderful day of other academic departments assuming I am going to do things for them before they actually talk to me about said things, listening to staff bicker about how they don’t think the school likes them as much the faculty, taking photos after dinner and then promptly having to fix a COMPLETELY flat tire…

I have finally re-templated this site. The design is in beta. There’s a lot to fix. A few things to style. But hopefully you can still enjoy it!

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This Day…

…is going by SO slowly. What is the deal? Maybe it’s because summer is ending and people are showing up on campus. It’s probably more closely related to the fact that I am waiting for people to answer me.

I lost my iPod Touch. I’m not sure how, but I know when. Monday. It has to be in the house someplace. Absolutely has to be. See, I got home. I remember seeing it where I had set it down and grabbing it because it wasn’t supposed to be there. I went upstairs, did some GRE studying, ate dinner, went back upstairs to do some more, came downstairs and Jessica took me to Dairy Queen (drive-thru) to cheer me up.

Got back, watched TV. We haven’t gone anywhere. And I haven’t been able to find it since Tuesday morning. It’s super-annoying. I hope I find it soon.

We got a cucumber today from our garden. And we ate it. Well, half of it. In a chicken salad. It’s really good.

I am really stressed about the GRE. I need to get a better score on it this time so that I can get into the school i want. Hopefully this Kaplan stuff will pay off. But it doesn’t seem to be yet. And I take the test next tuesday.

Please pray for me.

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Photo: Cors

He Always Gives Me This Look

Also, I’m excited that the “Press This!” feature is FINALLY working right.

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