At work

I’m writing this blog update at work because right now I’m waiting on multiple people to finish whatever they’re doing and either a) give me instructions or b) give me data that I don’t have access to. So, what’s going on in my life? Working 9 to 5 gives me surprisingly little free time. This is what I did yesterday:

7:30-8:15: Woke up, showered, ate breakfast
8:15-9:00: Commuted to work
9:00-1:00: Work
1:00-2:00: Lunch
2:00-5:00 Work
5:00-5:45: Commuted home
5:45-6:30: Various errands
6:30-8:00: Went to the gym
8:00-9:15: Dinner
9:15-12:00: Played poker, chatted with people, watched some Scrubs

All in all, I basically have 3 hours of free time a day, which passes by pretty fast. Going to the gym every weekday does take up a lot of time but it makes me feel great (and healthy). Also, I might be running a 5k race in a week or two – that would be really exciting. Right now, I can run it in 30 minutes – hopefully I’ll be able to get that down to 27 within the next week.

Tucker Carlson is a fucking moron

My roommate for the summer is Korean, and it's his first time in America. Since he doesn't speak English very well, he watches a lot of TV to increase his listening comprehension. And since our kitchen table is completely covered with stuff, we eat dinner in the living room and watch TV while doing so.

So, when I came in today to eat dinner, who else was he watching but Tucker Carlson. Now, I have never heard Tucker speak before, but I could only listen through his first segment before I was forced to change the channel, since I had no other means of shutting him up. The story that he was covering was about an attractive white girl in Nevada, her class' valedictorian, who was cut off during her graduation speech when she started talking about God. Now, let's look at the material that Tucker is covering. Is this person white? Check. Are they female? Check. Are they attractive? Check. Gosh, I guess we have all the makings of a great news story here.

But why, you might ask, would Tucker be outraged at the school cutting the girl off? Proselytizing, or converting people to your religion, is illegal. Moreover, since the event was school sanctioned, the establishment clause of the First Amendment (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion) prohibits her behavior (as opposed to claims about her right of free speech). So, at this point, I have to admit the legal counsel for the school, Tucker’s guest, was making a convincing case. Because a school is a governmental entity and because the girl was being sanctioned by the school, the school had the right to cut her off for the violation of the establishment clause.

But that just wasn't enough for Tucker Carlson. After all, claimed Tucker, if we say that a girl isn't allowed to talk about God, couldn't we argue the same for religious beliefs such as vegetarianism or wanting to pull out of Iraq? The legal counsel of the school correctly stated that such things weren't promoting religion, but apparently Tucker didn't hear him. Promoting vegetarianism or pulling out of Iraq is promoted by religions, but I wouldn't group them in the same category as promoting Jesus. Moreover, the school actually told the girl that they would cut her off if she started talking about God, and she did. What the fuck?

Of course, Tucker had to have the last word. After "listening" to the legal counsel’s response to his idiotic claims about vegetarianism and pulling out of Iraq, Tucker responded with something along the lines of, "Well, we'll just have to disagree, because your interpretation of the establishment clause is far too broad." What a moron.

As requested

Our living room. Those aren't our bottles... they're the previous tenants. We hope to make a row that's even more impressive.

My emotions range from mildly bemused to mildly confused

I spent all of yesterday packing, loading the van in the pouring rain, and unloading the van in the pouring rain. Fortunately, I am almost completely moved out – just a few more odds and ends to bring over to my apartment. However, since I did spend all of yesterday packing, I wasn’t able to finish my paper, so I stayed up all night working on it. Just a few pages left...

My schedule for the next few days

Monday

1-8 am: Study for developmental psychology final

8:-10 am: Developmental psychology final

10-5 pm: Write ten page sosc paper

5-10 pm: Do reading for psychology and biography

Tuesday

10-10 am: Sleep (tentative)

10-6:30 pm: Study for statistics final

6:30-8:30 pm: Statistics final

Wednesday-Friday

8:30-whenever I’m finished (Friday?): Do reading for psychology and biography, write 15 page paper for psychology and biography

And next week I start working 9 to 5. Pretty intense.