Late posts=short posts

It's 11 PM, and I want to post something, but I am le tired. Sort of...I had tea and chocolate not too long ago, so I'm kind of in this delerium.

Good notes/Bad notes/notes:

I decided to actually vote on US House and Senate. I went American Constitution. How will the major parties not realize that people like me are sick of them if I don't cast my votes for third party candidates? I'll talk more about this on my other blog when I also preview this Saturday's big matches in football. I also did decide to abstain on Amendment 48 because there is no "sort of" vote.

I got a 94% on that bugger of a history test. I dunno how I am supposed to feel about it. μεν I probably got the highest score in the class, and it is an A, δε I still think that for all the work I did and for how little time she gave us to do it, I should have gotten higher. The really disturbing thing in that class is how content people are with their grades. From my basic surveys, I'm the closest person to an A (I'm sitting at high A- [like a 92 I think]) right now. The vast majority of people are ok with getting C's and B's. I dunno. When was it ok for us to go and say that C is good enough? I mean, people in other countries commit suicide over C's. (I almost did over a B+ on a quarter grade--long story). In the US, a C gets Joe Six Pack (well, in college it's more like 12, isn't it?) the EXACT SAME DEGREE that I get, after having worked all of these years to get nothing but the best.

All of this is why Greek is so comforting to me right now. It's like this safe haven where the pressure's off of me to perform, because langauges are natural to me.

I'll tell you, it's not possible, I think to do 4 jobs and 16 credit hours. I'm more stressed this semester than I have been any other semester of my life. I wish I would have taken Ottoman Empire or something like that....

I've come to the decision that I hate religion. All of them, perhaps because of my incredible skepticism of any kind of authority figure, as well as the constant pressure to have financial contributions to things you frankly don't care about, and the insistence that someone else knows what is better for a soul that quite frankly probably doesn't exist than you, the supposed proprietor of said soul, do. And by the way, I don't believe in all of that 'spirituality' and 'mysticism' stuff. As my Greek friends would say: "Ειναι εστι πoνειν".

I hate politics for said reasons. I find myself increasingly frustrated with one-issue voters, because everything ties back to this one thing that hinges on the fate of America or whatever. If the only reason to vote is to 1) put an African-American/woman in office, 2) to stop the war in Iraq, 3) to stop homosexual marriages/abortions/whatever social issue, 4) to get some financial benefit, then it's a wasted vote. Vote on the goddamn amendments that apply to your issue and don't vote for the rest.

Ok, my rant against college students is over.