Day 72- New Ways to Not Write a Paper

My final essays are due next Tuesday. I am stuck on one of them, so common sense would suggest that I simply begin the other. But that would involve being productive. So I'm gonna sit, watch the rain fall and the wind blow and listen to John Mayer.

Found out yesterday that I overdrew on my bank account THREE TIMES, and so I owe the bank $32 for EACH one. It sucks that my four dollar Oregon burrito cost me $36. In addition, my truck has to take an emissions test this year before I can get it licensed. OK. My truck is not environmentally friendly. I know this. It's a 1984 carbureted 2.8 v6 Chevy S-10, with 125,000 miles on the second engine. I just dumped $1700 into it so that it would run like a champ again. Here's the thing. This car was not meant to run like a champ AND pass emissions simultaneously. Which means that I have to take it in to get it not polluting, and then take it back once it passes to make it run well. I just don't have the money for this right now. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to pay my room-and-board next quarter.

I was also thinking: Why do I have to have my truck licensed? What difference does it make? I don't think most people know. I have been reading the book 1984 (OK. I just realized that the book title matches the year of my truck...) and there's a big emphasis on surveillance via telescreen. I cannot help but feel that in registering my truck, I am being tracked. With every swipe of a debit card, credit card, Western Card, with every phone call I make, every song I download, every Facebook comment I leave, The Man is tracking me. And it's freaking true. Right now, someone could go "Huh, I wonder what Brandon's doing...Oh. He's on Blogger in his dorm at 921 Ridgeway-Gamma writing about how I'm watching him." I post my address because they know it already. We're freaking being tracked, folks. In the name of freaking patriotism, we're being tracked. Thank goodness I have nothing to hide.

I have realized recently that I don't trust our government. Anything that comes out of the White House, I just turn it off because it's a bunch of crap. After years of saying "Sanction Iran, they're making nukes" and threatening them with World War Freaking-III, it's "Um. They haven't actually been making them since 2003. But it's good that we're keeping an eye on them." SO what's the truth? All the evidence you've given us... where'd you freaking get it? Oh. You made it up? No way. Where have I heard this before...thank goodness we aren't at war with the accused country when you told us.

Ok. I think I've vented enough. qrjmnha[n jgaq