Dear Diary,
Today, tina physically abused me again...i was drinking my Snapple Pink Lemonade (which tastes too artificial...no good)...when she smacked the bottle causing it to hit my mouth and cause bleeding...i am a living testimonial of her violent ways...
In other news...i am eating my dinner right now...yea...at midnight...it consists of two peices of toast and five baby pickles...hmm...sounds like five loaves and two fish...interesting...
Dear Diary,
Today I was physically assaulted in a dark room...
by Tina...
it wasn't pretty...those nails went away with peices of my skin...
I saw my chiropractor today...she diagnosed me as chronically fatigued...then she gave me a bedtime of 10 PM...hahahahahaha...itz like elementary school again...or was it also junior high...i forget...at least elementary tho...
Do you know that whoosh feeling in ur chest when someone unexpectandly walks into the room?...i do...makes u lose focus on ur task for a few moments...
Today I saw squirrels climbing trees...and i got inspired...so 10 minutes later...i climbed the tree outside of Birge Hall...i was gonna lie down on the branch...but i seem to have a fear of heights when there's no safety support...so i didn't...i even felt precarious sitting down...so i stood up instead to let my sneakers provide traction to the branch...it was funny...when Cando and Tina came out of their legal studies class...they saw and me and freaked...and were like..."omg Jon...we sooo do not know u"...and i laughed...hahaha...
I haven't been able to watch any of the debates live...but i did view all three of them, plus the vp debate, afterwards on MSN...Kerry is a good debater...and i was disappointed that Bush didn't quite seem to measure up in debatidy (i jus' made up that word to express a person's finesse at debates)...however...as much as I was impressed with Kerry...im still gonna vote Republican...now if this was the Republican primaries and Kerry was running on the Republican ticket, i'd vote for him over Bush...but he's not...so im voting Bush...now at this point, many readers might express intense dissatisfaction at my choice or dismiss me as ignorant or even perhaps suggest that I may be a stupid loser...which is all fine...that's their opinion of me...
So why Bush?...im worried how he hasn't been very fiscally conservative...but he's Republican...and thatz a brand that influences a lot of his decisions...such as tax cuts...i dun agree with a rollback of tax cuts...according to economic theory...people have a propensity to smooth consumption...look at the two period consumption model...C1+C2/(1+r)=Y1+Y2/(1+r)...a reduction in tax cuts increases Y1 today...however...if consumers do not believe Y2 tomorrow will also increase...then they will save more of the tax cut to smooth out the bonus consumption between today and tomorrow...so the impact of the tax cut on consumption today is less...but if they believe that the tax cut is permanent...then they will consume more of the extra disposable income...because they know tomorrow they can also consume at the same level...
What about social issues such as abortion...now this is a hotly contested topic...well...i agree on choice...but i also agree on life...i don't think either extremes work...though i don't know how much to compromise...it depends on at what stage of pregnancy does one determine the fetus to be a living human being...at one extreme, perhaps a fertilized embryo in the early stages is merely a fertilized embryo...i believe it should be one's choice at that point whether to have an abortion...on the other extreme, there is a fully developed baby...i think at that point, the baby should have the right to life in normal conditions...abortion at that time seems to be to be equivalent to taking the life of a week old baby...of course...there are always exceptional cases where the baby's life or the mother's life is in jeapordy during the pregnancy due to some thing or other...those also need to be taken into consideration...so my position on this issue is a compromise...at the moment...i don't know wat degree of compromise though...
I dunnos...there's so much more i can talk about...but i feel i've rambled enough at this time...i guess if u wanna discuss with me about my views...i will...but yea...after watching the debates...i've considered voting for Kerry...he seems quite moderate...however...i dun trust his record...and he's a Democrat...yeah...i kno...thatz jus' a label...but labels actually do mean something...being a Democrat stands for sumtin'...or else he wouldn't have chosen to be in the Democratic party...so final word...im voting Republican...cuz at the moment...thatz where my ideological beliefs align...
Today i had free Fenton's...thatz an ice cream place...that's wat i love about being in Berkeley...im part of a large target market known as college students...so i get a lotta free stuff when company's ateempt to advertise themselves to us...hahaha...i love free riding on these promotions...
Argh...Cal was sooo close to an upset...they were in the red zone...they had 4 downs to pull it off...they only needed one touchdown...4 blown opportunities...dagnabbit...wat a heartbreak...Rodgers was throwing around 26/27 till those last four...so sad...so sad...
This afternoon, a part of lower Sproul was cordoned off by the police...because there was a suspicious briefcase left on a bench...there were like 10 police in the area...and like one of them was lock-picking the briefcase...the possibility of a real bomb was cool...it'd be so like a movie scene...and i could like answer a news report question..."Yeah...the explosion was enormous...the thing just went KABOOM!...I saw the shrapnel flying too...good thing i was far away enough to be able to hide behind a newspaper box...poor cop...he just didn't cut the right wire..."