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Spent the entirety of Sunday Night throwing up... started at work so everyone else at the airport could hear me retching. Then spent the entire night trying to sleep but I had to throw up every hour to pray to the holiest of all gods "HWARUUGH" at his porcelain throne. Then slept all of monday after a friend got me saltines and gingerale. Now I'm fine, my throat still hurts as it's healing from the acids, I've got Oranges from my parents, and I'm trying to find a Job.

Eagles are gonna be worse because they're so small and they wipe out so much of your health. Right now I'm playing WoW, Battlefield, and Dying Light

... The way that you posted this makes me have a vision of a homeless girl stripping for cash on the overpass...

Start by taking her out to dinner. Then see where it goes. We went to Kingsmen and had fun Probably won't be able to hang out for a while because she's going to New Mexico this week.

The r-word ... so heavy, I prefer the f-word ... make a new friend first, have fun, get to know someone, let it turn into a relationship on its own, or not. Friends are hard to come by. We've been friendly aquaintences for a while. we're taking it slow (my pace not hers) because ultimately, this is the first relationship I've had with a member of the opposite sex, that includes a romantic component, ever. Also, we went on a kinda date where we watched Kingsman.

It's a her, and I'm thinking I'm going to try out this whole relationship schtick.

Well... I got a text from a co-worker who apparently has been nursing a crush on me for quite a while now. Not sure how to pursue this.

They didn't exactly ban it. Yet. While some will cry foul that some crazy politicians are attempting to dumb the kids down, this is a much more complex of an issue than that. As the article states, the potential banning of state funds for AP classes is tied to the state's backlash against Common Core. What the article doesn't state, and that most people who are on the front lines of the common core fight know, is that the College Board (the private company that is behind the AP exams) now has as it's President a certain David Coleman, who is often considered the chief architect of Common Core. He has stated his intention of overhauling the AP curriculum to coincide with the common core. In fact, some of that curriculum has been overhauled already (including AP U.S. History). There are a great many out there who have serious issues with the overhauls to the AP curriculum, which many are characterizing as revisionist history (in the case of US AP History) and dumbing down the curriculum (in all AP cases (and this dumbing down is also central to much of the outrage directed at common core)). Note that if a school elects to not teach an AP class (due to lack of state funding for it or any other reason) as outlined by the College Board, in no way does that necessarily mean that kids aren't going to be able to learn advanced courses. There are other alternatives to the AP curriculum and it's exams, and unless they changed the rules since I took mine (which is possible) one can take an AP exam even if one hasn't taken an AP course. As I said though, this is a complex issue. There's much more to it even than what I've already written. It's more the fact that they're openly politicizing the teaching of history to those who are ostensibly supposed to then go out and try to make the world a better place. The rhertoric displayed in the article isn't that they're doing this "for the children's own benefit" but rather they're doing it because what is being taught within those classes doesn't conform to what the politicians think should be taught within a class. AP is about getting a college level course done at high school, and part of college curriculum is learning the stuff that isn't politically correct. You don't learn, during US history, that prior to a gay communist talking to him, Martin Luther King Jr. had a literal armory in his house. Instead what these members of the committee are aiming for is a reduction in what's taught so that only their political ideology seems proper because of the omissions of information by the teachers due to the curriculum enforced. And even if they can't do that with standard history, if they continue down this path with the AP history courses, they're going to find themselves in serious trouble because their students will fail exams at the collegiate level on stuff they ostensibly "know".

... Oklahoma just banned AP History from High School For being unpatriotic http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/government/oklahoma-legislative-committee-questions-legality-of-advanced-placement-courses-in/article_2b257556-b62c-5a92-862e-8e9821a29bbc.html

I feel it should be pointed out that we live in a News environment that's more about making headlines and catching viewers than about the truth. CNN decided to change how they do news because they saw that when they had (false) lines on the Boston Bombers and who the FBI were looking for (which were incorrect) all of a sudden their viewership shot up meaning more ad revenue for the company. I think Stewart himself brought this up in one of his many many many MANY diatribes about how bad the news situation in America has gotten. The reason that the Cable media has really latched onto this is because the NBC nightly news generally is more watched than either of it's competitors (according to the Q4 ratings I found) and represents probably the biggest ongoing threat to the 24 hour networks continued relevance as people realize just how much inane babble those channels actually produce.

Still waiting on the VP of transportation for a local company to call me about this job running Avis (grumble grumble)

I'm sitting around and watching competative league of legends.

Assassins Creed Rogue, Unity, WoW, and the Battlefield Hardline Beta.

Sent out two resumes... one to a railroad transportation company, and the other to the local avis franchise. Hoping the Avis one goes through (they just fired their local manager and hadn't posted the job yet, learned of it through their counter crew) because the side swag is really nice (free car, phone and gas while I work there). I'd be managing either of these puppies :D

Wheeeee.... 48 hour work week last week... 84 clocked over two weeks.. Man I'm tired, thank god I'm visiting home on thursday.

Kinda been slumming it since I grduated. Sleeping from 4 am to noon >.> Also workin while figuring out how to visit family during the year. Anyone know of a job they want me to fill?

Played and beat Far Cry 4. Not as good as 3 in my opinion.

yeah, I wore jeans to graduate, WHAT OF IT!

Holy balls I walk/graduate today!

And 20 pages of senior thesis is DONE! Hallelujah! That much closer to Graduation.

Fending off stress this week because I have to do another 9 pages on this thesis THING by the end of the week... And then I graduate on Saturday. ... Yes... I'm finally finishing college at 28 on this saturday, and I have no idea where to go for a job afterwords.

Did some digging and it turns out that Alistair is in the game more... but only if he wasn't made King and remained with the Grey Wardens. The slot he fills can also be filled by Loghain, or if neither of them is alive/grey Warden it's filled by Stroud.

Beat my first run at about 40 hours. Killed 1 dragon in the western approach, never got a prestige class because I totally skipped the content in the Exalted Plains (heading straight to the Western Approach). I was a 2h warrior who romanced Josaphine. And I'm thinking that the next round I'm going to do is going to be a Mage run with a dalish given a few things that pop up near the end. Overall I feel like they needed to do SOMETHING more with the War Table. I can understand the idea behind it but it's implementation just feels like it's something that you could do at the requisition table rather than needing a political war council to pull it off. Overall the highlight of the game, for me, was the judgment you passed on those who'd done stuff wrong. It was used by the writers as a way to lighten the mood a bit (The flying goat gif that I posted is from one of those judgements), but it also made you feel like a leader rather than just a powerful apparatus. But it's not used that much (just once per zone I think). Now to go back to the Keep and reset a few things in "previous saves" to figure out how they change the world. I do wish Alister was more than a 30 second cameo early in the game.

So... I'm in the last stretch of the games main plot and HOLY HELL a lot of stuff just turned into a gambit pileup

It should be pointed out that that's the most... non-sequiter of the romances. The one I've got with Josephine is fairly well done. Meanwhile: