i think that i crave empathy, yet it's hard for me to be empathetic to others.
so those of you who are feeling down lately (there are several of you), i hope better times find you soon. the thing about having gone through depressive and breakdown spells myself is that i know that they're always temporary. i know they may not seem fleeting at all (and in fact they may seem like a permanent cloud), but they won't last forever. and that keeps me going. and it hope it keeps you going, too.
and to those of you who are going to leave the area soon (there are several of you), i'm going to miss you! sigh. but i suppose you gotta do what you gotta do, and things like a new job or business school are things that fall in that category. let's hang out soon before you leave!
dude. i just logged on friendster for the first time in months. what happened to it? how come my gallery (which used to be 2000+ people) is now 96? *RAAR* AND it's buggy still!
hrmph. anyways, basketball was good today, even though my team only had 4 people (vs 5 on the other). i made some long jumpers, some floaters, a fast break cherry-picking layup, etc. it's good when i'm actually productive in scoring points.
is this weekend daylight savings? spring forward, you know? i'm not looking forward to losing an hour of my sleep!
so i was talking to a friend recently who was complaining about birth control pills fucking her up. she was like, "birth control pills are mainly for the guy." so what does that mean? do women actually not mind condoms? in my experience, sex has been better without one, because condoms tend to dry up and chafe the girl. what do you think?
it's been a while since i've popped a boner just thinking about things.
my boss sent out this emergency e-mail today. it showed a new specification that we forgot to implement. whoops. APRIL FOOL'S! ha! apparently, i was the only one who was duped. *embarrassed*
anybody else got some good april fool's pranks?
so farewell to pink-haired girl (amy adams)! she was one of my early favorites on the _american idol_ auditions, but i guess she just didn't pull in enough of the 20 million votes cast for tuesday night's show. i was surprised that latoya was one of the bottom three, though. but whatever. the show is kind of getting tedious, and they should just give the title away to john stevens already. ha!
so can high-quality athletics and high-quality academics co-exist? i think stanford is a good example, being a good educational institution and consistently winning the sears cup year in and year out.
but does it hold true for all sports?
the reason why i'm asking is because of this statement made about notre dame football by some dude. basically, he said something like, "to be good at football again, notre dame needs to lower its academic requirements to lure 'the black athlete.'"
wow! controversy!
i mean, basically, he's saying that black athletes are the best, but they're dumb, so the university needs to relax its academic standards. hm. i dunno. the guy is getting a lot of shit for his statements, and rightfully so.
but i sort of see his point. not on the race issue, though, but on the fact that maybe most of the best football players (black or white or samoan or whatever) don't put much emphasis on education because they think they'll go to the nfl or something. so how do you recruit these players if you require them to have a modicum of academic prowess?
*shrug*
which brings me back to the question... can high quality academics and athletics coexist?