With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2002-09-13 - 11:01 a.m.
I’ve done some of the research for the entry I was going to write the other day but it still isn’t ready. Am I the only one stupid enough to do research projects for Diaryland entries?
Happy Birthday My Favourite. As usual I am sending my card out late. I’m sorry.
My brain was not working yesterday. It started as soon as I got online. The winning number on 9/11 was 911 and someone asked, "What is the odds of that?" I said 1 in 365.25; the .25 was because of leap years. Of course that’s idiotic. It is 1 in 1000; there are 1000 possible numbers. It is actually much lower than that. That is the odds of it happening in any one state. Lots of states have lotteries and it would have been commented on if it had happened in any of them.
I then kept on getting things wrong and making typos all day. Carey said that I should just go back to bed. I wish I could have. I wish I could have today. I never get enough sleep.
Class went pretty well though. We are doing review material now and it’s tough. One student asks me to go over every homework problem. She’s totally lost. Another keeps asking me to go faster. I have to reach some sort of a compromise. I thought I did a good job in teaching though. All my problems actually worked out. I made only one stupid mistake. I wrote a y where I should have written a z. That confused the hell out of them.
I discovered that the bookstore sold some of the students the unrevised edition of the textbook. That is criminal. It is filled with errors. I told them to go back and exchange them. In one answer it used > whenever it meant to write /. I’m starting to not like even the revised edition. In the answer key it gives some answers in ridiculous forms that no one would use. I told the students that the people who wrote the book were on drugs. Then I started going into detail on which drugs they were taking for each problem. When they make careless errors it’s pot. When they do total insanity like the mistake with greater than symbols for the slashes it’s acid. When they are insane and sadistic it’s a cocktail of coke, speed, and mescaline.
When I really want students to remember an identity I tell them that I’ll creep into their rooms in the middle of the night and whisper one side of the identity and expect them to say the other side without waking up. I said that was good practice for my winter vacation job as Santa Claus. The woman who wants me to go faster said it was also good practice for being a stalker. After class I told her that Carey and I stalk DVN. Carey seemed to think that’s unusual behavior for a teacher? Didn’t your teachers do things like that?
I found out that Deirdre and Eric are doing a show together. How cool is that? Maybe they’ll do a song together about Lesbian boobs.
I’m going contra dancing with Lisa Saturday night. I have never gone out dancing before. I’m excited. I feel like such a grown up. When I was young my parents used to go out dancing quite often. Now people go to clubs. I guess it’s the same thing but it doesn’t sound as sophisticated. Of course contra dancing is not exactly ballroom. It’s more like square dancing on acid.
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