So today, I had to install a garage door opener in the duplex that we rent out. It initially took three hours which is a pretty standard amount of time to figure out everything and such. BUT, then to some ridiculously small assembly nuance that was not clarified in the manual, I had to take it all apart and put it back together. THEN, it STILL wouldn’t work and so I spent an hour troubleshooting before I figured out what the problem and of course, it was some nuance not mentioned in the manual. So I had to take the whole thing apart and put it back together again. All in all, it took six and a half hours to install and much frustration. The feeling when it finally moved up and down correctly was just marvelous though. German engineering is amazing, but their manuals suck.
So today, as I was eating at Panera Bread for the first time with Tina, Shannon, Teja, and Soumya, I discovered that not only is Avatar, the Last Airbender over, but it’s been over for three years. The world came crashing down around me.
I’m mostly reblogging this because as I was writing Josh Dong’s supervisor review, I couldn’t help but notice that he put my blog as one of his reflections. Poor choice Josh, poor choice.
1. I hate making numbered posts stating facts and such about my life.
2. Numbered posts are quite handy dandy
3. Ahhhhh the satisfaction of being able to delete the “stat formulas” word doc that I made
4. Why is my dancing never good enough? I’m always so inadequate, second rate, so-so. But it’s okay. Because someday I’ll be the best. Someday, my style and technique are going to blow everyone away. But most importantly, someday, I’m going to love every aspect of my dance.
5. It’s weird arguing with my dad. In some way, its like arguing with a religious fundamentalist. Except he’s not a religious fundamentalist. I guess he’s just a traditional backwardsist with a strong appreciation of faith. He believes that faith belongs in morality but I’ll have no part of that. Faith and religion stronger influence morality, even mine, but I choose to base mine as much as possible off of logic and decency. Because after all, if I needed a book to tell me that killing is bad then what kind of person am I? I don’t hate people who follow their religions, but I only grudgingly respect them (their beliefs, not them as a person). Every single person I know recognizes if only in the most inner crevasses of their souls that their religion is outdated and that there are aspects in their holy books which they choose not to adhere to (such as women not being allowed to teach men as stated in the bible). It shows that they hold the logic to break away from their religion which tells them to follow all that is demanded in their holy books. What I don’t understand is why they can’t take it one step further and apply it to issues such as gay rights and abortion. My dad believes you should follow society. But society itself changes and modernizes in its beliefs over time. I intend to be a modernizer. I intend to listen to logic and common sense to create my morals, not religion, faith, nor tradition. Also, I really do love all of you guys that are religious, even if it doesn’t fully seem like it in this post.
6. I’m so unbelievably screwed for my Bio HL test.
