I am an ovary-bearing crackah

[trenchkamen]

Well, it's already Science Olympiad time again. We won't be doing anything until a month before the competition, I'm sure, but we had our first meeting today. All the old blood is back. Maybe this year we'll make it to nationals. Maybe this year the robot team won't make some damned foolish mistake like miscounting batteries and cost themselves the competition when they had gold secured, goddamnit. If a couple of mishaps had not occurred last year, we would have won first at state. Also, since I lack testicles I'm eligible to win scholarship moneys for competing in engineering events while lacking said testicles. I did too many chemistry events and only one engineering event last year to get said moneys, because chemistry just isn't dominated enough by the patriarchy to merit such affirmative action.

Speaking of which, if I can prove that I am at least 1/16th Native American (some Comanche 'snuck' into Dad's side of the family when they were living in Nowhere Bumfuck County, Oklahoma, back in the day, but nobody will admit to it), I am completely set for life. Basically, I'll have sums of money thrown at me to go to college. But since I'm crackah and I can't prove anything, no federal moneys for me. Yeah the American government isn't racist at all.

Motorcycle Drive By is out of my current league of guitar skillage, but I did figure out the James Bond theme today. I looked at a chart of every single guitar chord in existence and wow that's a lot of chords. The learning curve for learning marginal-to-mediocre guitar is low, but to go beyond that, it's quite steep.

I swore to myself I'd get all of my week's homework done this evening. It ain't happening. I can't work when I'm not under pressure.

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[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

I did too many chemistry events and only one engineering event last year to get said moneys, because chemistry just isn't dominated enough by the patriarchy to merit such affirmative action.

The chemistry department at my school has more female students enrolled than male o_o. Biochem is 50/50.

Engineering's still 20/80 and compsci is 30/70, though.

But hey - women's studies is 90\10, so who's to complain? ;P

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Women's studies is that low? Impressive!

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

It used to be closer to 99/1, but the men have finally figured out that some of the courses are on par with Listening to Music and Golf Appreciation in difficulty, and take them as bird courses to boost their GPAs.

Which is what the women had figured out all along.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Ah! That's the answer to success in college!

[zychi.livejournal.com]

This year's robot will rock I tell you. I'll be back with a vengeance. the robot WILL turn left. I'm gonna start working at least TWO whole weeks before the competition this year. Yeah, don't be surprised if I show up with a frickin 9 volt gundam.
Yeah there's pretty much infiniti chords but unless you're in jazz you'll only end up using two (major and minor) and moving them around. once you realize that open C D and G are all actually the same chord pattern it gets even easier to find the different chords. But the world wouldn't be as fun as it is if it didn't have half diminished and 9 chords. Every other song I write has E7, for some reason.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, Gold Team had the Zoolander robot. This year we're going to have the chip that plays the Gundam theme.

[eagle8635.livejournal.com]

E7 chords are good shit.

Come to think of it dominant chords just rock!

This subject always angries me up!

[ryutsuki.livejournal.com]

...I was actually born and raised in Oklahoma. My father is full-blooded Chippewa, born on a reservation in North Dakota and immediately adopted by a nice Irish family. My mother is actually 1/8 Cherokee. So that makes me a little over half Native American, all added up, doesn't it?

Yet I still can't take advantage of the government's benefits. Neither can my father (who is full Chippewa) nor I nor any of my half siblings fathered by him who desperately need the aid can file for the program. They can't release the records of his mother or anything, although she's been long dead, because of adoption laws. And we can't get it without it.

JSDFSJDIOFNOSDFNPSDJFPSD

Re: This subject always angries me up!

[akuma-no-mi.livejournal.com]

D:

My grandmother was born on a reservation in Oklahoma, but the office containing her records was completely destroyed. We don't even know when her birthday is. And since no one else in my family was born on a reservation, we're not considered part of the tribe.

Man, fuck the police.

Re: This subject always angries me up!

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Is there some correlation between anime fans and Oklahoma on my weblog?

[puppe.livejournal.com]

Haha, you have Oklahoma people on your weblog? Had I gone with my grandmother's wishes and gone to a university in Oklahoma, I would have gone to the same one that my childhood friends currently attend, as well as bomsok :3

Re: This subject always angries me up!

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Oh, where in Oklahoma? My parents were raised there. I spent eight years living in the Texas Panhandle, which is basically the same idea.

Honestly, I disagree with affermative action...

[puppe.livejournal.com]

Central Oklahoma, in Mustang, which is just outside of OKC.

Me, too. But, you know, if it's there and I can take advantage of it, then I'm going to want to do it, whether or not I agree with it notwithstanding. Besides, if I could get it for me, then my father's children now could get it as well, and they really need it (they live in California now - there's always a California/Oklahoma link!).

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, best of luck with that, then.