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The pot calling the kettle

I've never understood that phrase, "the pot calling the kettle black". But somehow I've figured out that the pot is black? So it's like a stupid person calling someone stupid, right? Isn't that a bit of irony, too? But thinking about irony and what is and isn't irony makes my head hurt, so I'll just forget about that.

Anyway, today in summer school, I came in after second break to hear some people discussing religion. I know this because one guy brought up the "Flying Spaghetti Monster", which was met with blank stares and giggles by everyone except me. Well, scratch that, I laughed (inwardly) at the mention. He threw around some words, Pastafarians, and so on. One girl said frustratedly that whenever she gets in a religious debate with one of her friends, he always bring that up. "Like, what are you smoking?" she asked. I laughed (inwardly) again. The pot calling the kettle. There you have it, folks.

Another language issue came up today in math. We were doing logarithmic functions and the Richter scale and this one guy was like "is 'intenser' a word?", and the conclusion was no, he had to use "more intense" in his therefore statement.

But really, what is a word?

a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning
Dictionary.com

Well, we can say "intenser". It's physically possible. And it has meaning. Tell me it doesn't have meaning. Tell me "funner" doesn't have meaning. Go ahead. You're wrong.

That's one grammar rule I don't care for. Why should I say "more fun" when I mean "funner"? You know what I mean. It means exactly the same thing, just as pop and soda do. I just choose to say "pop". You know what I mean (unless you're from New York, in which case, I have to say you guys are wrong about that, but otherwise you're pretty cool).

I listen into people's conversations in math a lot, don't I? Huh. Oh well. Makes for interesting… umm, listening to.

Then this one girl was talking about Miley Cyrus and how she doesn't like the way she talks because she sounds like her mouth is too small for all the words to fit into. Another girl goes "that's not what *I* heard!".

…

*crickets*

Me: *GUFFAW*! (inwardly).

How is it that *I* get dirty jokes and no one else around me does?

Anyway, I really should be studying for the trig test, but I just don't feeeeel like it tonight! Why do I have to do damn right-angle trigonometry when I've been doing it since I was like in diapers! It's so easy!

And you know what else is easy? IDENTITIES! I remember reading about them, they were supposed to be really hard, but I find them soooo easy! And fun! Not long division fun, but like, fun. It actually sounds funner than it is, which to people who don't like math, well, they wouldn't really get. But I mean, proving two statements are equal sounds like fun to me, but I didn't actually like it as much as I thought I would. I guess maybe once we get into harder ones.

Also, at Brock, they have a sonar fence. I will be posting pictures of it once I go there in September. And my summer school has a broken clock that always said 10:13. ("Young girls are coming to the canyon…") But this clock is notable because the number are on little black squares with white writing. It freaked me out when I first saw it. And my bus driver today (who was ten minutes late! What is up with my bus lately?) was Keamy.

And what is up with Big Brother being on tonight? Thursdays are elimination nights. This is bullshit. Hoping Brian is/was able to get enough votes, because he seems like a pretty good player. He just needs to be a little more quiet about it. I thought I was going to like Renny because she's strange, but I respect Brian's playing more.

Anyway. Trig it is. And who knew "trigonometry" had anything to do with triangles? I certainly never did.