I had this metaphor freshman year. I thought of it again last night, and I'm not entirely sure I like it, but then I'm also not entirely sure I still like Marx, and it is about Marx. So the idea is, you have these people. And they think, cake would be nice. It would certainly be nicer than what we have. But they don't really know how to make a cake. In fact, they only have a vague idea that it takes an oven and flour and eggs and sugar and chocolate and vanilla extract and whatnot. And an oven, which they figure should be on. So they turn their oven on, and they turn it all the way up, cause, hey why not, and then they take all the stuff they figure is supposed to go in the cake and just throw it in the oven. So then you have these people who can't figure out why their cake is a mess of eggshells and baked bits of egg and burnt sugar and the flour probably caught the oven on the fire, especially with the alcohal in the vanilla mixed in. So they've got this mess, that they still vaguely think might be a cake, and no one can figure out why they wanted it in the first place. And their across the street neighbours, meanwhile, have successfully made a very nice...pie, maybe, or bread, I'm not sure. And so everyone, particularly the across the street neighbours, and their "friends" (who are most people, cause the across the steet neighbours are big and scary and tough, so they have a lot of "friends") look at these people who made "cake", and see how it failed, and so they mock the people who made the "cake" and deride "cake," always pointing to these poor fools who just sort of threw everything in an oven. And then they decide that all those people who wrote recipes for cake are evil and foolish and so on.
So, is it a good metaphor for communism?
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07:11:17 PM,Tuesday 8 October 2002
I am getting tired of the girls in my core group. One of them is quiet, but she is also supposed to be my friend, but she's been acting like she's a stupid 14 year old, so she's generally annoying me. The other girl talks a lot, and she thinks she's totally brilliant and has like deep thoughts about the stuff, but really she's not, and says stupid stuff, and bogs down the class so that I spend both of my afternoon classes contemplating how nice darts would be...And she has issues with personal space. In that she doesn't seem to be able to tell that most people have nice little bubbles, and leans way in on everyone and it drives me nuts, and my bubble's not that big.
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12:30:52 AM,Tuesday 8 October 2002
Can anyone out there use St. John's new email thing?
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04:26:11 PM,Monday 7 October 2002
While no one has told us they want to play Assassins yet, or even asked us for more info, and despite the fact that I spent the afternoon wanting hurl sharp objects at a certain member of my core group, I am now all excited and happy. I heard from Elizabeth, and she didn't say anything like, oh, yeah, there is no A Coalition of Lions coming out anytime soon, but that in fact it will be coming out in the Spring, along with a repritn of The Winter Prince. Yay!
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04:14:31 PM,Monday 7 October 2002
Brianne and I find it amusing and vexing that we couldn't be assassins_guild@yahoo.com or even assassins_r_us@yahoo.com and had to go with assassins_guild_sjc@yahoo.com.
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11:45:55 AM,Monday 7 October 2002
Ah, yes, JohnnyChatters, it's not that I don't love you, but that my computer doesn't seem to like Chat.
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12:11:16 AM,Monday 7 October 2002
Brianne and I are organizing an Assassins' game.
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09:08:30 PM,Sunday 6 October 2002
Christina seemed to spend most of the waltz party wandering around saying "I hate waltzes. Why are they playing waltzes? I hate waltzes." At the response that there were a lot of old alumni still there, she was all bitter. It didn't seem approrpiate to point out that the champagne she was drinking was free because of the alumni, or that it only happens once a year.
Besides, I like waltzing.
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05:02:57 PM,Sunday 6 October 2002
Roy and Aidan and I read books to alumni's children this afternoon. It was lots of fun. They were all good kids. The parents all stayed, and they seemed to enjoy the experience as well.
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04:46:03 PM,Saturday 5 October 2002
So I wrote to Elizabeth, hopefully her email address is the same, cause I'm excited about her book. Now I'm more impatiant for it to come out than the next Harry Potter, cause I've been waiting for it longer.
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04:42:47 PM,Saturday 5 October 2002
I knocked on Katherine and Tracy's door this morning to make sure Katherine was awake for pottery, which she wasn't, but I managed not to wake her up, but to wake Tracy up. I felt very bad.
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04:12:46 PM,Saturday 5 October 2002
This is me, slowly getting disappointed that I had to find out about Elizabeth's new book from Amazon, and that the last time I heard from her was the day Floyd hit.
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04:45:46 PM,Friday 4 October 2002
Have you ever run a search for an author on Amazon, not actually expecting to see anything new, but hoping you would anyway, and wow, all of the sudden, there is a book coming out in April?
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04:22:40 PM,Friday 4 October 2002
All right. So, in the saga of Tori's computer...I decided this afternoon, that since I was trying random things to try to make my computer start working again, to try to make it talk to the DHCP server. It decided, this time, that talking to the DHCP server was a fine and dandy thing to do, and AIM started working. IE decided that it only wants to go to this "polity.net" place that sells DVDs, as far as I can tell. So I reinstalled Netscape, and lo and behold, here I am, blogging from my own computer again. And all my Netscape bookmarks are still here.
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07:45:10 PM,Thursday 3 October 2002
So weirdness of Tori's computer update...My computer thinks its online. Computer services pinged my IP address, and got a response, scanned it, and figure it's mine, cause it says it's an apple. The Apple System Profiler says my ethernet connection is up. It just won't go anywhere. (This is Brianne's computer.)
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09:36:10 PM,Wednesday 2 October 2002
I gave blood today. It made me feel all weird and nauseus, so I skipped language and slept through it.
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08:42:30 PM,Tuesday 1 October 2002
My computer went off line yesterday afternoon. I thought it was one of those network things, where it goes down for a while, but no one else has been having these problems. But no one else has lost their connection. Computer services said they have no idea. Someone would come up and check out my computer. No one did. Oddly, the Apple System Profiler still says I'm online, or at least that the Ethernet link is up.
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08:34:32 PM,Tuesday 1 October 2002
I realize that all jousts at Ren Faires are staged. They're just staged much better, bloodier, with more people falling off horses, at home than they are here.
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05:33:18 PM,Saturday 28 September 2002
Quote of the day: (while we were electrons, and how they don't go crashing into the nucleus of the atom as their charge runs out) "The answer, does it lie somewhere in the word 'quantum?'" (Big grin from Mr. Maistrellis.) "Oh, no." And then, from Mr. Maistrellis, "We are heading into science where you can't claim to not understand cause you're not good at math, cause it's really basic algebra. You're just not that good at thinking."
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01:04:56 AM,Saturday 28 September 2002
The cutest bit in the letter they gave us this afternoon about commencement: "Mortarboards should be worn paralle to the ground, after the fashion of Euclid."
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12:36:43 AM,Friday 27 September 2002