New Peace

So this was one of my first facebook notes (my functional predecessor to blog spot), and it is one of my favorites and one of the few posts I can look at after an extended period of time (nearly two years) and say that my opinion has changed very little. Let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoy!

New Peace. That would be sweet. A new Peace movement. In which not only do we stand firm against wars and violence. In which we look at why people say there are wars, and we completely extirpate any possible root causes. So we strive to partner for economic development, and we talk and listen and debate and come to respect and understanding of a Western-Islamic ideological difference that in no way needs to be a source of contention. In which we do everything everyone says is simply idealistic, in which we live it, just to give peace a chance. Giving peace a chance. Because we've written peace off for so long, giving it a chance would be so refreshing. So new peace everyone. New peace.

College

It's official. I'm going to Cal-Tech To play Baseball.

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Jk. I'm going to (drum roll...)

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Yale. 

(I had to do something to make this post dramatic), 

Simplicity

I'm on a quest for simplicity. Some of the simple conclusions that took me far too long to realize.

1) Sometimes when you hang out with your friends (loosely defined as pretty much anyone), it's good just to try to have fun.

2) Both arrogance and diffidence are antitheses of confidence (in a Kartik-esque visual representation, confidence would be in the middle, with arrogance and diffidence suffocating confidence on both sides).

3) It's time to stop creating artificial qualifications to hide the fact: I. Am. A. Morning. Person. (that doesn't mean I'm going to wake up at 7:00 on a Saturday. I'm just very happy when I wake up, say at 9:00, on Saturday or 6:30 on a weekday).

4) Laptop screens burn. You think FML is painful, try TML. Too Much Laptop. Ironic writing that out on my laptop...

5) I've never faced any serious problems. A lot of International Issues work does not count as a serious problem.

Declaration of Independence From Bad Social Habits

A Series of Personal, Social Resolutions

Article 1: The too oft-repeated, cuz I'm bad of thinking of things to say category.
1. No more complaining about being tired.
2. No more complaining about work.
3. (perhaps most important) No more yawning when I have nothing to say, to cover up the fact that I have nothing to say (I am sad to say that I really do do this).

Article 2: Attitude (even though I ain't got no attitude) Category
1. Less sarcasm and personal deprecation (explanation: just cuz.)
2. No more constantly estimating what the other person thinks about me or thinks about what I just said about, during the middle of a conversation (explanation: ummm, try it out, it's bad).

To be Continued...(Declarations of Independence take a little while...)

I Have Competition

For my 'Blog' post about funny sounding words.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/100_funniest_words.html

This guy is no lexicon-ical n00b.