Wednesday, December 11th, 2002

Time	Event
12:21a	Forgot to mention earlier today... My SWIFOPDI came in the mail today! (SWIFOPDI: Sketchbook Which Is For Other People to Draw In) I left it with the_gneech to draw in, and he mailed it back, and it arrived today! Hah, funny drawing! Thanks, Gneech! (Sometime soon I'm gonna put up a webpage of the drawings from these conbooks.) Current Mood: happy Current Music: The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (say some stuff wydoncha)
12:23a	On a not-so-happy note... This week's gonna be yet another KT-puts-off-his-projects-some-more kinda week, because I'm gonna be busy dealing with a speeding ticket I got back in May. I opted to take a defensive driving course to get out of paying the fine... but then somehow I put off taking the course until today. I rented a home traffic course from Blockbuster Video yesterday, started taking the test today, and will finish it tomorrow. The deadline for all this is Dec. 18. Fortunately I was given the option of overnight or two-day delivery (for a fee) for the test results once I complete the course, so I should have the results before the deadline. The problem is... I also need to have a copy of my driving record... which I need to get from the Dept. of Public Safety in Austin... and the sheet I got from the court says it takes three or four weeks to get it. Aargh. I wonder if the DPS has a similar fast-service-for-a-fee sort of thing. That'd be nice. I need to call them tomorrow... Current Mood: worried Current Music: John Medeski & DJ Logic - Swamp Road (say some stuff wydoncha)
8:08p	Today's "Mallard Fillmore" strip quotes a survey showing that "while only 13% of Americans age 18 to 24 know where Iraq is, 34% know where the islands are where the first 'Survivor' show was filmed." Mallard then goes on to comment, "Know what's even scarier? 100% are eligible to vote." I've always been bothered by statements like these. Another recent one stated that young people can name more members of the band U2 than Supreme Court justices. Well, duh! U2's a rock band! They make albums and do concerts and get articles written about them, of course people can name the band members! What difference does it make how many people can name U2 or know where the Survivor islands are? What I wanna know is, would Mallard Fillmore consider it a step in the right direction if people started forgetting where the Survivor islands are? Or, if everybody could locate both Iraq and the Survivor islands, would he consider that not good enough? I've never liked statements of the form "it's a shame that people don't know this important newsworthy thing but they do know this pop culture thing" as if knowing the pop culture thing were bad. Damn U2, damn them! Those awful rock stars, how dare they take citizens' valuable brain space away from the Supreme Court justices! Bah! We need to bomb the Survivor islands off the map so Iraq will fit in people's minds! Blarg! Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: The Simpsons - Flaming Moe's (13 persons said stuff | say some stuff wydoncha)

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