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HEY GUYS!

GUESS WHAT?!

It's just like in the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! My computer Buffy has been resurrected!!! Totally fixed. Oh my gosh, guys. It's a miracle.

Life is so good. :o)

jsyk

Got my wisdom teeth taken out today. Not doing too well. At my aunt's house right now. She's taking care of me. Aw.

My grandpa was diagnosed with cancer yesterday.

Kind of weird how life can be so unbelievably awesome, and yet kind of sucky at the same time, LOL.

Still, no complaints. There's too much good to be too upset about anything.

on evolution

So, I'm in this biodiversity class, right? Anyway, we were discussing the differences between science and religion, truth and dogma. And he mentioned how hypotheses have to be falsifiable. A good theory is a useful model of a problem, which is only valid until it is falsified.

So I raised my hand and asked the question: Must every theory be falsifiable?

Yes, he said.

Then, I asked, how does one falsify the theory of evolution?

Whispers suddenly erupted across the classroom. I think I asked a question I'm not supposed to ask.
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I believe in evolution. I do. It would be ridiculous not to. But you know what really is ridiculous? To take the obvious truth of evolution, and twist it into evolution of the species. There is no evidence at all for evolution of the species. Birds with different beak shapes? Yes. Birds that turn into muskrats? Not so much.

I mean, look at it. Look at the timeline. You have the Hadean era--4.6 billion years ago to 3.8 billion years ago--during which there was no life. From there we move to the Archaen era, where we see fossilized cyanobacteria. Guys, that's like algae. Proterozoic era, we get the first eukaryotes, worm burrows, early arthropods, and like shell things.

And then you have the Cambrian Explosion. In an amazingly short amount of time compared to the other eras, every phyla we now enjoy and even some others now extinct appeared. Every one. What's up with that? One moment, there's just a couple of single-celled organisms and worms, and then the next day, there's an Earthful of every type of being imaginable except for people. What's even up?

The only answer Darwinians have to offer is that between the Proterozoic era and the Cambrian Explosion, all animal life must have been strictly soft-tissue (soft tissues rarely fossilize). Yes, yes, that makes a whole lot of sense. One day, all the trilobytes' DNA realized that they were no longer very viable, so they became soft-shelled for a million years, and then BAZAM BAZAM! They unleashed their power and grew legs and shells again and bones and all sorts of fantastic jazz that made them so much more viable in this new Cambrian era!

Um... does anyone else here see a problem with this science?

The Theory of Evolution is amazingly unfalsifiable. Darwin created it that way. In political science, when you propose your theory, you must also enumerate what would have to happen to prove it wrong. There is nothing that can prove evolution wrong. Because (like global warming) every time the evidence stacks up against it, the dogmatic scientists cry out: the model isn't flawed! We just haven't completed the fossil record! And then they make up obviously retarded and complicated "facts" (like the soft-tissue thing) that "prove" the point.

And because no one actually ponders any of this, they never realize how thick the wool is over their eyes.

Anyway. How about Occam's Razor? The idea that science always takes the least complicated theory? Gr, I have class. Laterz, yo.

My colleagues always bug me because I'm a skeptic when it comes to evolution. Look,

random

Hey kids. So since I never talk to anyone anymore, and since I haven't already done this, and since I'm also bored, here is an account of my new life in my new place.

I love it. I don't think I've mentioned that. I really do love it. Yesterday I spent like 4 hours talking with my one roommate that I wasn't really friends with, and it was really cool. I feel like I'm finally friends with everyone in the apartment.

I love it because they're all kind of more my age. Uh, figuratively. Mother Superior is the youngest at 23, and they're all either graduating or graduated or whatever. I don't have to take charge all the time; everyone's pretty good about keeping things clean and in order. I dunno, last night I was talking with the girls about CRs, and MS was all like, "Allie likes being in charge," and it was just kind of funny to me. No, I'm used to being in charge, and I'm good at being in charge. It's different. I do it because I have to.

But now I don't have to, so hooray! Hooray!

And I love it because I seriously think these are the only people I could possibly be normal with. I know that probably sounds weird. But, like, they all care about politics, so it's okay to watch FOX and CNN for 6 hours in a row like I did yesterday (LOL), because they all care too. I mean, we were doing other stuff, but it was on in the background. Anyway. There's a fantastic balance there of politics and normalcy. We can watch CNN and then go out to visit people in the ward for the evening.

It's so funny because for the first time in a year and a half, I'm finally starting to be my usual self again. As in, the self that used to be everywhere, all the time. Like, at my Belmont ward before I started dating K, I used to be at a different apartment every evening, practically. I had my "shrine" in 25 (where they let me keep all my stuff because I basically lived there), and then all of that other jazz. It's nice to finally get back to being social like that.

Oh, speaking of being social. My home teachers. I have always loved my home teachers, no matter who they are. I always just kind of assume that as soon as they're called to be mine, they have to be my best friends, and it's always cool. WELL. My home teachers in this new ward are SO CREEPY. :^/ LoL. I don't have VTs yet, or a calling. After being Activities chair and RSP for 2 years, I'm excited to hopefully get something like Ward Hymnbook Passer Outer or whatever.

Well anyway, that's my life at the new place. Oh yeah, I have a reputation for cooking again, because now that there's no dinner group and I actually have spare time, I cook every night. It's kind of nice but kind of lame cooking for one (so I usually share with MS).

Ok, the end.

:^(

So guys, I need to make this snappy, but, long story short: my computer is dead. Buffy the Homework Slayer has been slain. Potentially forever. I can't get a new one until I have the money to pay for it myself.

SO therefore you will probably not see me around on chat very much, and I'm sorry--but without chat, I shall be more open to phone calls, so call me. Yo.

ankle update for the heck of it

Took off the bandage this morning. Turns out it wasn't really skinned, but kind of more sliced. I have a purple-black bruise the size of approximately New Hampshire all around it, and then the actual cut is actually kind of pretty, just this long red line. I don't know if I should put another bandage on it or if I should wrap it again... meh. I guess I'll go make decisions now

to do

schedule room (445?)
be allowed to schedule the room
buy food (cookies milk pizza?)


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schedule room (???)
order food (???)
make T-shirts

MAKE FLYERS
POST FLYERS ALL OVER PROVO



If you were having a Global Warming party, where would you have it? Besides outside? On BYU campus? And besides hot chocolate, what would you eat there?

Incidentally, my ankle is feeling mostly better (I can walk on it!), except I'm a little too grossed out to change the bandage as of yet. With any luck it will be magically healed in the morning and I won't have to deal with it.

gute nacht

OW

This morning was so good, I was ultra-convinced everything was going to go right today. Woke up early, went to the temple with my roommates.

And then as I was walking in the house, I tripped, and twisted and skinned my ankle.

AND all my pain medication is still at the Sherwood, and it's my driving foot.

So I might not be doing anything tonight after all. :^( The end.

ok, update

Okay, so last night was strange and intense, so I thought I'd update quick.

At first I was really weirded out and slightly upset at my new CR position, but now I feel pretty good about it. I think I was just mad that Tim beat me to resignation, and it felt weird because suddenly I understood what Tim must have been feeling this whole time. I can see how it would be crippling if you weren't up to fighting it. It's just this feeling of, "everyone's looking at you. If you don't excel, they'll judge you. If you make a mistake, you could be expelled."

But, I'm not going to make a mistake, and I won't be expelled, and I will excel, so whatever. I spent the evening writing up my new plans, sending out emails, creating new posters, and brainstorming events for the semester. Lookie:

-State of the Union party
-Celebrate Global Warming barbecue (because it's COLD here!)
-Laser Tag in the name of the 2nd amendment
-closing social

And I think that five or six meetings will be sufficient. Oh yeah, the Annihilation Cup will be good. Of course, we will crush the opposition. I'm partially excited. Last year we made Mother Superior's archnemesis cry.

Anyway. I'm restructuring everything, and I think it'll be good. Not too stressful, just a pleasant conservative party, and what could be better than that?

O.O

Guys, the CR Chair just stepped down. I am now in charge.

Somehow this is what I always wanted--up until like a few weeks ago, when I got sick of it all and decided to be a political novelist. Funny how life throws 'em to ya. Funny how I was planning to resign up until Tim did. Seriously, I was going to resign tonight.

Dang it.

And now I need to be basically like the most effective CR Chair in the whole freaking universe just to prove myself.

...

This is all slightly unexpected and almost overwhelming. At least last time I had a heads up.

But, it's okay. I think it'll be good. All I have to do is keep it all going until the elections...

uh oh

Oh man, guys. I have a feeling that I may slip back into the unholy depths of obsessive blogging this semester. My schedule is slightly bizarre, and because I live so far from campus now, I have to be on campus all hours. Therefore, I actually did homework today for the first time in... mmmh, like a really long time, and now I am bored.

However, I did get a locker in the HFAC, so tomorrow I'll probably just bring a ton of music books to school to stash in there, and then I can go practice any time I want to. I think that would be pleasant.

Well. As a New Year Resolution I decided that this year I was going to read 52 books. Now comes the hard part of deciding which 52 to commit my time to. Here is my list so far. Please add your suggestions.

1. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2-6. The Anne of Green Gables series (except not the ones with Rilla of Ingleside. Those are lame)
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray. I tried to read that one when I was like 10, and I got pretty far except towards the end it got so scary I couldn't handle it. Perhaps I can deal with it now. :^P
8. The Fall of the House of Usher
9. Narrative of the Life of an American Slave
10. The Divine Comedy
11. The Brothers Karamazov
12. Crime and Punishment
13. maybe Immortality by Milan Kundera
14. For Whom the Bell Tolls
15. Don Quixote
16. Journey to the End of the Night
17. Great Expectations
18. The Age of Innocence
19. Absalom, Absalom!
20. The Old Man and the Sea
21. The Man Without Qualities
22. Ramayana
23. The Complete Works of T.S. Eliot (PS, he was a conservative!!)
24. Catch 22
25. The Sun Also Rises
26. The Golden Notebook
27. Witness (never finished it)
28. 1984 (ditto)
29. The Fountainhead
30. The Catcher in the Rye (this is for you, Harry!!)
31. The Jungle
32. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
33. Slaughterhouse 5
34. Up From Slavery
35. The Lives of a Cell (never finished)
36. Out of Africa
37. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
38. The End of Racism (D'Souza is my hero)
39. Right From the Beginning
40. Radical Son (Horowitz is also kind of my hero)
41. Why Government Doesn't Work
42. Parliament of Whores (P.J. O'ROURKE!!
43. Think and Grow Rich
44. The Road to Serfdom



Okay, guys. I'd love your suggestions.

And quickly, I would just like to point out that Wikipedia is way biased to the Left. The page on conservatism is absolutely retarded. Hello, I'm sure Buchanan can provide an adequate definition of conservatism, thanks. There is actually an agreed-upon definition. And amazingly, it's basically identical to classical liberalism! Weird day! X.x;; Also, Wikipedia does not even have pages for Parliament of Whores, Why Government Doesn't Work, or a bunch of other conservative lit. Lame.

whoops, guys

Almost forgot the most important part. For 2008 I have given up all junk food. Yes, it's basically Lent all over again except slightly longer than 40 days (by about 325). Here is what constitutes as junk food:

-fast food
-candy
-chocolate
-pie, cookies, cake, and so on
-ice cream

Exceptions:
-Subway
-Pita Pit
-Pizza
-salads from fast food places


[EDIT: also, otter pops, hot chocolate, and Slurpees are exceptions, on account of that they're basically flavored water]

Amen. Junk food, I will see you this time next year. Adios.