just real quick.

this whole AIG mess is outrageous. congress pretty much allowed for this to happen and what's worse is that congress has now set a precedent by retroactively taxing the bonuses. so now, say you make a good bit of money one year, they can say hey, lets tax that after you had made it. Pretty much the whole non representation thing.

and, why is there all of a sudden so much outrage over these bonuses. it's less than 10% of what the gov't gave them to begin with... which they probably shouldnt have done to begin with, and it's less, much less than the deficit that will be racked up by the new budget this year. they tout fiscal responsibility, but they demonstrate it. if there should be outrage, it shouldnt be directed toward AIG, but directed toward the people that gave them that money in the first place, congress and ourselves.

ok, time to go play golf with my dad. it's spring break, so i'm trying to mix school work with play time. i wrote a paper and have done some other homework, but not enough. i'll try and stay up late tonight and get some work done.

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p.s. it's pretty much official that i'm going to samford next year for law school. i wasnt too dissapointed that i did not get into UT, i think moving will be a good thing.

I haven't written on here in a while. i've been pretty busy. but after next week, we have spring break. and then after that week i have a test and a paper due, that i'll work on, hopefully, over spring break. but then! i am relatively free until finals. and when i say finals, i mean, when i graudate! i didnt sleep much last night, and i've been eating and drinking a lot of coffee. i've had many tests lately and hits hard to study ahead of time when you need to study for that immeadiate test. the test today was art history. exciting. it really was actually. because it is so new to me i didn't know what to expect. but i think i did pretty well. i hope.

so right now i'm vegging on the couch before i need to study for my finance test that i have tommorow. for the last test i studied for like two or three days and didnt do so hot, and i haven't studied at all for this one. but i have done all the homework and have a better understanding of hwat is going on this time. so i hope.

but i'm watching this cooking show. it's Lidia. she's itallian. or more like her grandmother is itallian. but i like her. she's cool. i feel like she is my aunt. haha. i'm going to try and make some dessert that i saw her make yesterday.

and what is up with soap operas. why do people watch those. i think i could act better than all of those actors.

we only get like 6 tv channels because comcast doesnt service our neighborhood. which is fine with me because that is one less bill i have to pay and less tv that i am tempted to watch. so there are a lot of cooking shows on public television and soap operas on the main channels all day. barney is on as well.

the weather is finally starting to get warm. i'm glad. i got accepted to valparaiso university which is near chicago. they got like three feet of snow a few weeks ago. i'm not cool with that. but i may go visit them over spring break. i havent heard back from UT yet, i'm still hopeful. and prayerful about them. i'm going to try and visit Samford next friday.

but back to the weather. i'm ready to start riding my bike to school again. and being able to run outside.

i need to figure out what i'm going to do this summer. but that has to do a lot with what i'm going to be doing next year. because if i'm staying in knoxville next year i'll just live up here over the summer and try to work. but if i'm moving somewhere else i'll probably head home over the summer. graduation is in about 9 weeks. probably more like 8. i never thought i would make it.

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