Edwin MacPhisto

I think they exchanged some manly vibes when simultaneously shooting those baddies with their silenced pistols. At that moment, they synced up, and Jack sort of winked, "I'm sorry about choking you," and Curtis was like, "it's okay broseph, look at what we can do with our guns--TOGETHER." Actually, I've thought this season has been pretty good about sticking to its guns. Bierko and Henderson have really been the only ones (it never really seemed like Nathanson or Walt Cummings were the top dogs, so I don't count) in that position, and I think it's been arranged nicely, as they've really been working on parallel but non-intersecting paths. I have a feeling that we'll find out what Wayne knows in the next episode or two, and that what Henderson's really doing will come to light as well.

Thinking about it, there might have been another way around taking physics, but I think that was only if you took, say, Anatomy & Physiology along with AP Bio. You could sort of generate your own track, if the administrators thought it was worthwhile enough. You could really hop into Physics any time you wanted, but 11th grade was standard. Lot of people doubled it up with Chem in 10th grade, then did AP Chem and AP Physics after that. And throughout all this? Bagged lunch. How I got where I am today. Are there any sort of variants on the reduced lunch program that allow for students to bring their own lunch? A sort of district-distributed food stamp, maybe, instead of the lunch voucher? I'm guessing no, since that would probably cost a lot more, and be difficult to regulate.

I agree with Popick so tremendously much. The American populace is evolving to a point where high school education is practically required, college is expected, and graduate/professional program enrollment is increasing as well. The entire bar is shifting upward (which is great, in my opinion--increasing our standards for education makes us a more capable country on both micro and macro levels) and illegals are a big part of why that's allowed to happen. If they could all be legal, great. But our government won't allow that, and low-wage immigrants are crucial. Take what we can get. Security, I feel, is almost an entirely different issue, perhaps wrongly conflated with the economic considerations of the whole thing.

Maybe I'm just justifying my years of out-of-state tuition, but that's not even close to true. FSU's a fine public school, but UVA is tiers above in almost every program, in terms of faculty, etc. I don't think FSU cracks the top-100 on the US News rankings, while UVA floats around 22-23 depending on how Michigan and Berkeley are faring that year. Even UF is, department for department, significantly higher-caliber than FSU. FSU has absolutely top-notch programs in Drama and Film. You're right, however, in that either big Florida school is a great deal for the price, and that FSU still has good programs overall. When I was scouting it out I was a bit disappointed in the amount of significant classes they had being taught by TAs, but I hear that's improved. Elitism? Maybe. I just love this fucking school. That's true. But, again, that's only if you want to go to graduate school. Tough call to make at 17. Additionally, I'll confirm FSU is definitely bursting at the seams with hot girls. UGA, I think, is still the east-coast standard-bearer in that department.

I don't think I've listened to that in 5 years. I remember some electronic parts, snarling, and not much else. Memories...

She looks so trailer trash there. I love it.

Nice pair of jeans, well-fitting dress shirt, and a tolerance for even basic beer like Miller or Bud Light. Insanely easy to meet people. Helps if you have a friend or two to go along, but you can manage otherwise.

Yeah, I didn't think he was dead. Just kinda half-blowed up. Aaron's secret service skillz are unstoppable.

Magnet/gifted school, maybe? Those were mandatory for me junior year. Lot of people took them in 10th grade, too.

Really looking forward to this one. Utterly ridiculous, and chock full of awesomely cheesy character actors (Michael Rooker! Yes!). I'm there.

Wayne with crazy sniper rifle = cool Aaron with crazy sniper rifle = cooler I dug both the gas plant plan and the plan to blow it up. But goddamn, once I just want CTU to absolutely fail and for hundreds of thousands of people to die. I thought it was going to happen tonight, so obviously they're doing something right.

Worst I can do in my local pool is a tie for 1st. If UCLA gets to the championship game, I win outright. Otherwise, I split it with one other guy, in a pool of 18.

http://myspacidetrain.ytmnd.com/ This was uncanny.

I was always grateful that I could just bag a lunch and bring it to school. No way was I eating that crap. Give the reduced lunch kids a freaking sandwich/sub bar and you'll be doing everyone a world of good. I get french fries from Five Guys, and that's about it. Watching them actually level and slice the potatoes in front of you is infinitely satisfying. They're woefully unhealthy, sure, but at least you know it's potato and grease.

You know what I really want from this show? A nice big meeting of all the crash survivors, where they talk about all the ridiculous shit they've discovered. "I've been seeing weird visions of Walt in the jungle!" "We found another bunker where the Others used to be, with a bunch of theatrical make-up!" "Eko and I ran into the monster in the jungle, and it's definitely a weird smoky thing!" I know they're all trying to survive, blah blah blah, but at this point the characters seem so tremendously uninterested in figuring out what's going on that I'm having a hard time buying everything. If the writing was doing a better job of illustrating that complacency, I'd be fine with it, but it's not. There are just open spaces where there should be...anything. The more I reflect on this season so far, the more I think the creative team has done a pretty poor job of stringing everything together. We've got broken arcs, characters that don't get nearly the attention they did the first season, and this super-small timeline. I'm really hoping this next episode keeps the momentum from the Gale storyline going and gets us headed somewhere.

I love the second side. Won't find any complaints from me. Those top three albums are more or less interchangeable as far as greatness is concerned.

Ziggy Hunky Dory Low Heroes Aladdin Sane I haven't heard Lodger either. But speaking of the Eno albums, I was listening to Here Come The Warm Jets while driving around today, feeling like the glammiest little nerd I could be. As for Bowie movies: I was very disappointed with his brief role in The Hunger, as a dying vampire. Dude is only in it for about 30, 35 minutes, and the rest of the movie is Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve getting into some really weird lesbo business. Which is perfectly fine, but a little disappointing when you're promised Bowie.

I was Echols, and like I think I've told you in the past, it's a gift and a half. Priority registration, no area requirements. Take whatever you want whenever you want. Had no clue undergrad tuition was up to $32k now, though. I hope that includes your room and meal plan too. You can probably be very frank with the coach in trying to find out what sort of aid you might be able to get. I could have done the same thing with Florida Bright Futures, but opted to go to the school I really wanted to go to. I was fortunate enough to have a small scholarship and the means to not have significant debt afterwards. UF and FSU are certainly not bad schools at all, especially for free. Is Bright Futures down to only three years of support by now, or do they still give you four? It depends. Here's my perspective, as someone who finished at UVA less than a year ago. If you're doing the humanities, you won't get a particularly high-paying job right out of the gate, even with any school's pedigree. The way that happens is if you know somebody in a high place, plain and simple. I mean, if you're an electrical engineer or go to the Commerce School here, then yeah, you stand a good chance of making over $50k when you get out. I have several friends who did the "go to to UF/FSU for free, then do loans for grad school" thing, but they all knew explicitly that they wanted to go to med school, law school, get a Ph.D. in chemistry, etc. I ultimately felt that, at age 17, I had no idea if I actually wanted to go to graduate school or not, having never even taken a single college class. If you're dead-set on being a lawyer or a research scientist, maybe that's your path. Bright Futures is pretty much the best college aid program around, and if you have pre-paid as well, you're in great position to take advantage of it. The shocking truth is that there's no easy answer. When you go to Days on the Lawn, meet people, sit in on classes, and walk around grounds, you'll probably have a gut feeling by the end of the day if you really want to go here. Trust your gut about Bucknell too, because it's another good school. You may also want to think hard about size. FSU is 30,000 undergrads, UVA 12,000, and Bucknell was about 3400 last time I checked. Very different types of worlds. The good thing here is that pretty much all your options are good ones.

Listening to it now. Just like Musicology, it's hugely derivative of his 80s work. Ballads are utterly generic and not worth another listen, but I do enjoy the songs that have already been mentioned here.

Oh, UConn won, no question about that. I don't begrudge them that. Bored's right, though; when 5 guys on one team foul out, you really need to look at how everything's getting called. Or, if you're Washington, seal up your goddamn inside defense and figure out how to not smack guys. Ultimately, Washington had plenty of opportunities to win and couldn't capitalize on any of them. They stopped playing tight defense in the last 2 minutes of regulation, and gave up one of the best steals of the tournament in the OT. But, Josh Boone is the ugliest dude this side of Gonzaga and UConn is a bunch of laptop-stealing retards, so I'll be rooting for Mason all the way.

That whole goddamn arena is going to be insane for Mason on Sunday. I'm in a pool with 17 of my friends, and I'm the only person who still has the possibility of a perfect Final Four. I'm so willing to sacrifice it if GMU beats UConn, though.

UConn got to take forty-seven free throws tonight. That shit is nuts.

GOOD GOD WHY NOT GO TO THE RIM GONZAGA'D

With every close call in this last 2 minutes or so going UConn's way and the amount of boos coming down from the D.C. crowd, this UConn/George Mason game Sunday is going to be nuts. UConn/GMU in D.C., for the Final Four. CBS should be eating this up, because it's about as perfect a Cinderella setup as you can get.

Bad miss on the goaltending. I am unimpressed.