Lenticular_J

Amen, go cougs. Lent, UW is a good school, but you'd have to be a [bleep] huskey. :notalk: I know how people feel when we talk about A&M now.

My birthday is always a few days before school starts. Suck.

He's our governor, riku. I got informed by my district's representative at UT about that. Real buzz kill. But with top 10%, SAT/ACT won't be bad - you'd still get into A&M. Man, that sucks Gin. But, hey, that's really good that you got in there.

Oh boy. I'm actually interested in a few schools, and I know a few that would be great "safety" schools. I'm really interested in communications, which would mean Radio-Televison-Film, or just a plain film program - which isn't offered at many regular colleges or universities, so I'd probably have to go to a dedicated film school and major in something else, like Journalism. 1. University of Texas - Austin. I'm a Texas boy, but Austin is known as the least Texan city in the state. It will be a good transition for me, I think. A fairly large city (metro population is 1.1 million I think), Live Music Capital of the world, and a school with more than 50,000 students. On top of that, one of the best communications departments in the nation, particularly Journalism and Radio-Television-Film. 2. University of Washington - Seattle. I loved Seattle. Spent more than a week there, but I could barely dig the surface. A huge metro area connects Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver and Victoria. I come from a place where there's about 17 inches of rain a year, all of that in thunderstorms and blizzards, so the weather would in fact be a blessing for me. No film or journalism program, but I'm still interested, as the Seattle Film School is right there. Plus, due to tuition issues, I'd get to live a year in Seattle to become a resident. How cool is that? 3. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I think I would like North Carolina. Still got some southern flavor, but plenty of modern ideas. I don't know a ton about this school, but tuition would cost the same as a non-resident as at UT. If I became a resident, tuition could be payed by a part-time job! Their communications program is also very respected ranking near or even above the University of Texas. 4. New York University. A very impressive film program lies within the Tisch School of the Arts. I still have to research this school more, but it's in NEW YORK [bleep]ING CITY. How cool is that? 5. San Francisco State University - I love San Francisco as well. The fog might get annoying. But the city is vibrant and alive. The University has a great film program. 6. University of California, San Diego - Man, San Diego is great. Beautiful weather, beautiful people, and a beautiful city. Film school built-in. I'm only a sophomore in high school, but this is generally my list. I didn't feel like posting any safety schools because I'd get depressed :/ HAHA NOPE. Rick Perry gave us a great big middle finger on that one! Starting in (I believe) 2011, Texas schools get to say [bleep] 10% HAHAHAHAHAHA. [bleep]ing Perry. Although to be honest, if you're in the top 10% you have a high chance of getting in anyways :P Corpus Christi will be a good place to go. And I somewhat forgive you for wanting any branch of A&M.

You guys are a bunch of cynical mother [bleep]ers. You could be unique if you put your mind to it.

I look a lot older than I am, which makes me happy. I watched Moulin Rouge and smoked hookah yesterday. Good movie. Hookah didn't impress me. In fact, it made me mad, because I can't blow smoke rings. And I've decided to wean myself off of sleep. It's a lazy habit. I've gotten about 7 hours of sleep since Monday. I don't feel too bad to be honest, but I'll probably sleep fifteen hours tomorrow.

Pretty tall, 6"1 at 14 years old. About 80% of my friends have already graduated high school, while I'm a sophomore. I play my harmonica pretty good, and I've found someone to teach me the ukulele. I have seven speaker systems in my room, although only four are hooked up. My TV/Xbox, my CD/Radio stereo, my record player, and my computer. I have two refrigerators in here, neither plugged in. I read death+taxes, mental_floss, Maxim and Time frequently. I really just like the cartoons in Time. I read the rest for the articles. Please take this the way I intend. But you sound very, very white.

You've been dating for about a month ... She's cheated on you ... Your conversation made you both look fairly ridiculous ... Oh, you must be in love. After all you're thirteen! What would anyone else know? You've been dating a whole month or two, and you even leave each other myspace comments! Let me seriously ask you something. How many dates have you been on with her? Do you know, say, anything she might be afraid of? Do you trust her? I know kids like you. And it's really, really ridiculous. I'm not trying to be an [wagon] here, I'm trying to make you look at it and realize that you're [bleep]ing up your early teenage years beyond recognition. You know what happened to the kids that started out like that? Some killed themselves. Some found weed, and became such potheads that they can't do a single thing besides sit in their house, smoke, and write crappy music. And some realized, wow, this sucks. This girl in particular is looking like one of those people. You, I'm not totally sure about. You're trying to act way more mature than you are. You're saying you love her, and would never lie to her, and all that crap in your AIM conversation, but you don't even stand up for yourself when she sits there and makes you look like an [wagon]? From what you've supplied, I wouldn't even call her my friend. I know I'm being harsh, but you're seriously dragging yourself down. You can be like those kids, and drag yourself into a cave of pity, depression, and all sorts of ridiculousness, or you can realize, "Hey, I'm thirteen! I pretty much hit puberty very recently! I am pretty dang healthy! I should go enjoy this!" That's about the most mature thing you can do. That's all everyone should do. Act your age. Not how people your age are acting. You know those kids that pretty much just laugh, happily and heartily? Most of the time, those are the ones that get it. Just enjoy yourself. Sitting crying and cutting yourself over someone you think you love (yet have known for a few weeks or a month or two), that's not enjoyment. Getting wasted and knocking up some girl at a party (the other extreme on our list) isn't quite so fun either (well, the during is probably more fun than cutting yourself ...). Try and find a place where you're just happy. Laugh a lot, at ridiculous stuff. Who gives a [cabbage] if some other thirteen year old thinks crying in your room all day is mature? Be a kid again. This is advice I gave three days ago to a guy I know and used to be friends with who, while he isn't one of those dark and gloomy types, is starting to get really into pot and whom I haven't seen all summer because that's really about all her likes doing anymore. You're getting advice for people that are really not much more mature than you, but at our age that can make a big difference. I'd say sorry if I stepped on any toes, but I don't care a whole lot. People who get offended by this should realize that's exactly my point.

Cool music, but the genres sound ridiculous to me. And it really just sounds a lot like techno to me. I don't like it when people have to make a genre for just about every song/band. All the same, pretty interesting.

I buy my Levi's from eBay. You can get 501's on there for about £15. Yeah, they're twenty dollars on Amazon. I just don't trust buying jeans online, because I don't know a tailor that could fix them should they be wrongly sized. Maybe If I had a pair of Levi's to base off of, but whatever.

Cool clothes and junk. Man, I wish I could buy more than just shirts on the internet. I want Levi's jeans so bad, because there isn't a single store in town that doesn't sell skinny or thin-legged jeans any more. Plus Levi's are cheaper than most of these. What's up with that, you know?

Man, my [bleep]ing dad got wasted today and now he's eating all my food for the week. Him and my mom are both on diets, so there's absolutely no food in the house, so I generally live off of Spaghetti-O's and various meals that take 90 seconds to 10 minutes to cook. And so far I still have enough food for Tuesday. [bleep]ing [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]. Best part about it is, he's had five beers. FIVE. And he's falling over. I have no idea how my dad gets wasted so easily. Oh, and I need to stop being so interested in college. I'm up to ten schools that I'm prepared to apply to. That's too many. That's about 500 bucks in applications fees. What's up with that much money?

Washed my truck, aired up the tires best that I could, took some pictures to sell it. It needs new tires badly, but we're gonna try and sell it really fast. I'm really ready for school to start. My summer's pretty boring. Hanging out with friends is cool and all, but I'm ready to meet some new people. I've hung out with the same 2 people most of the summer, usually meeting two or three of the rest of our friends with us.

Okay. Let's play this realistically, though. News alert! Argentina just experienced a massive earthquake! For some reason, the entire nation fell into the ocean! And yet nobody was killed except for the president how wierd is that.

Should I just go unactive and let Argentina fall into the Atlantic, then?

If Venezuela could help us with our own hydroelectricity projects, Greater Argentina would be very grateful. We have one major river that many others flow into (the Parana, I really need to equip my keyboard with Spanish accents...), but we are not tapping into its power. Greater Argentina may be ruled by someone else soon. I don't have time to run it. It's exhausting. Give me a tiny island, a lot of beer, and some pretty women ... So, Argentina is now completely up for grabs. It's certainly quite a bit improved from 2009, and one of the world's top 20 economic forces. Whoever can post a plan with good ideas, I will choose. But I must demand that Argentina will not become part of an empire - it shall remain an autonomous state under protection of the DEATH RAAAAYS and its own power. Any takers?

It definitely varies. Although the only one I've ever thought of using was first date. But I'd only wait for a good period of time, I'm talking six months or something, so I've never had to "celebrate" an anniversary.

With Uruguay and the portion of Paraguay we control, Greater Argentina produces around 850,000 barrels of oil a day. Heey, I just realized - that just about covers how much we use! I guess we don't need any oil, Venezuela. You can take the seeds as a notion of goodwill. That meeting will be occurring in approximately two weeks, my fellows. (I figured out that every hour in a real day would be about half a month in our little game, since a day is a year.) Research is going into making verde soylante taste less almost exactly unlike moldy celery. The group in the lead has found an easy method to grind the plant into a mealy substance, which can be baked into wafers that taste a bit like a Ritz cracked with a water chestnut on top. Delicious? Not quite. Also, Carnaval celebrations are spilling into Buenos Aires! Hurray! Hedgehog, we can send you seeds. In Finland it will be more difficult to grow verde soylante without a greenhouse, but it is a very hardy plant. A simple greenhouse kept at 80 degrees year-round with daily watering is about all you need. A single plant, at maturity, could make several hundred wafers.

Jesus, about time someone got the reference. I really just wanted to make the joke. Verde Soylante actually is a plant mutated from a hybrid lentil-soybean. Not exactly delicious, but easy to grow in urban skygardens like the ones we're requiring citizens to have in Buenos Aires. Most smaller apartment buildings in Buenos Aires produce 80% of their own food and about 60% of their own electricity, thanks to solar panels. We would like to increase that, so we will send seeds to Japan in exchange for this new solar panel technology. Finland, I will not offer an alliance, merely support in case of attack. I reckon Brazil would follow me as well.

Okay, Venezuela will be the first. We're actually in the process of removing our companies on foreign ground, but the tariffs will be a good deal. Although to be honest, if we could just get a trade of food for oil, we'd be happy. We're still trying to find ways to efficiently power ships and military vehicles without oil. It's hard. Finland, should the EC promote such aggressive imperialism, Greater Argentina will be the first to send our aid.

Sorry, but Greater Argentina has decided to adopt a policy of isolationism. We will still trade with you, but the only alliances we are keeping are defensive pacts with the rest of the former SAR.

Holy crap, could someone round up what's happened since we decided to break up the SAR? I think someone should take the initiative to round everything up every so often. Is the SAR officially broken up yet? If so, then Greater Argentina's experiments with agriculture have finally paid off! We've mutated a new crop, with extreme health benefits - hell, you could live off of this and a few glasses of water! We can distribute it to anyone who pays. It's extremely convenient, as it will literally grow anywhere people live to tend it. We're naming it ... Verde Soylante ...

Yeah, I'm up for breaking up the SAR. Although I was wondering if Nick would be willing to take the central portion. I have some different ideas about where I'm taking Argentina. I'm up for defensive pacts and trade agreements, but currently a lot of Argentine cash is being taken outside of the actual nation. I'm going to stop my arms buildup, and cut my standing personnel to no more than 200,000 men and women. The defense budget will be mainly promoting the Navy, especially developing our merchant ships. There is much fishery potential left untapped off of Tierra del Fuego, as well as water. Anyways, to continue with Nick, I'll entice you by offering you Chile, as well as total use of all highways and rails connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic. Now, Argentina will be selling special fancy leather coats for the new meeting in New York. It's gonna be cold as a mother up there.

Well, current strength now ... [hide=]PERSONNEL Total Population: 40,482,000 [2008] Population Available: 19,918,490 [2008] Fit for Military Service: 16,718,928 [2008] Reaching Military Age Annually: 681,254 [2008] Active Military Personnel: 71,000 [2008] Active Military Reserve: 0 [2008] Active Paramilitary Units: 47,240 [2008] ARMY NAVY Total Navy Ships: 39 Merchant Marine Strength: 46 [2008] Major Ports and Harbors: 7 Aircraft Carriers: 0 [2008] Destroyers: 1 [2008] Submarines: 3 [2008] Frigates: 10 [2008] Patrol & Coastal Craft: 9 [2008] Mine Warfare Craft: 2 [2008] Amphibious Craft: 0 [2008] AIR FORCE Total Aircraft: 632 [2003] Helicopters: 156 [2003] Serviceable Airports: 1,272 [2007] FINANCES (USD) Defense Budget: $3,000,000,000 [2009] Foreign Exch. & Gold: $46,120,000,000 [2007] Purchasing Power: $526,400,000,000 [2007] OIL Oil Production: 730,000 bbl/day [2007] Oil Consumption: 480,000 bbl/day [2005] Proven Oil Reserves: 2,086,000,000 bbl [2007] LOGISTICAL Labor Force: 16,030,000 [2007] Roadways: 231,374 km Railways: 31,902 km GEOGRAPHIC Waterways: 11,000 km Coastline: 4,989 km Square Land Area: 2,766,890 km[/hide] But we've been [bleep]ing going crazy about military. So you can expect a good deal more. We're attempting to triple our Navy, double the Air Force, and reach 400,000 active servicemen/women. Anyways, I'm off. Don't go too crazy.

Okay, I wasn't sure if it was still the same situation. Works for me. Man, I'm probably gonna stay up all night watching this, because I know that if I don't, it'll be up to 30 pages in the morning. And I have stuff to do, at least on Tuesday.