into the strenuous briefness / Life: / handorgans and April / darkness, friends / i charge laughing.
- E.E. Cummings
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Mega-leap year
Secondly, it's really important, Pete, that people not think government is a loving entity. Government is law and justice. Love comes from the hearts of people that are able to impart love. And therefore, what Craig is doing is -- he doesn't realize it -- he's a social entrepreneur. He is inspiring others to continue to reach out to say to somebody who is lonely, I love you. And I'm afraid this requires a higher power than the federal government to cause somebody to love somebody.
-- GWB, Oct. 10, 2006
This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates, these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th.
Man, that first quote is depressing. Who is left to turn to for love if not the federal government?
And dub, after nimei told me to "zazz" (my word, but she was thinking it) up my essay (it features you!), I've decided to leave the well-trodden path of "actual events" and blaze a trail into the exciting region of total fabrication.
Suffice to say you will be a waaay bigger badass in this new version.
Revision: Great burbling stew line removed. Essay moving back into area of "reality." Rest assured, however, that someone will be described as a "great burbling stew of a man" at some point in the near future.
you mean you didn't get pwned on your first essay?
i can't how i did, but I do know that I wrote remarkably better as the year progressed. I even got student of the semester and won a writing contest, although it was a school creative writing contest, and rather than whatever came with the District awrad, I won a sweatshirt - which, come to think about it, I still haven't receieved.
again, a thousand thanks and more, Mr. W., for teaching me how to write.
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2006: double leap year.
Man, that first quote is depressing. Who is left to turn to for love if not the federal government?
And dub, after nimei told me to "zazz" (my word, but she was thinking it) up my essay (it features you!), I've decided to leave the well-trodden path of "actual events" and blaze a trail into the exciting region of total fabrication.
Suffice to say you will be a waaay bigger badass in this new version.
niemi*
I just wrote the line "He was a great burbling stew of a man".
Awwww yeeeaaahhh.
I could change the name if you really want.
Revision:
Great burbling stew line removed. Essay moving back into area of "reality." Rest assured, however, that someone will be described as a "great burbling stew of a man" at some point in the near future.
8 o'clock and all is well.
But that's not fabrication. I am rather burbly.
Will I get to read it, by the way?
New plan:
Real person, made up event.
Okay okay, I'll post it (and brace for a flaying) when I'm finished.
wait, isn't "real person, made up event" the old plan?
Well the person in this essay is much closer to the dub we all know and love, but the event never really happened.
you mean you didn't get pwned on your first essay?
i can't how i did, but I do know that I wrote remarkably better as the year progressed. I even got student of the semester and won a writing contest, although it was a school creative writing contest, and rather than whatever came with the District awrad, I won a sweatshirt - which, come to think about it, I still haven't receieved.
again, a thousand thanks and more, Mr. W., for teaching me how to write.
You're welcome, Jason. Though your praise losing some meaning when you have phrases like "i can't how i did."
But thanks!
Kidding of course. I really do appreciate it.
i forgot the word "remember." how ironic. and embarrassing.
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