My birthday is June 6...

No to be a copy cat... ok so I was bored at work this afternoon.

I scored 56¼% on the classic 400 Point Purity Test!

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I think I'm going to stop reading the Gauntlet. Facing severe separation anxiety from my safe little Calgary life, I regularly turn to the little links that allow me to feel some sort of comfort, the student newspaper being one of them. Excuse me, previously being one of them. As long as the office of Editor in Chief houses children and opinions editors make lists instead of critiques, this publication will be off my list. Ok, so maybe I'm a little bitter about my recent dishonourable mention , but this publication isn't at the same level it used to be. I remember defending it's very existence 3 years ago, calling it the U of C's journalism program, arguing to maintain it's exclusivity in the student centre. Since then I've watched it sag under the weight of unresearched, baseless, commentary that passes for the truth in the campus community. Why isn't Dr. Henderson's contract being renewed? Maybe because enough of the students she belittled and picked on to keep her classes entertained got together and were heard by Admin, but nobody talked to the students who transfered out of her classes because they couldn't take the harrassment anymore. Perhaps someone should have picked up on the lack of official comment by Dean Randall that there was probably more at play than a few thousand dollars a year. Such stellar research... such informed protests... Natalie Sit I'll give you spring semester to turn this rag around.

I turned into a West Wing junkie a little bit late in life. It was only the beginning of this season that I began to watch the weekly trials of the more articulate U.S. President, and it was basically the first new weekly must-see event that I added since the rabbitt episode of Sex and the City. Shortly after succumbing to this new addiction, however, I decided to flee my safe little life for a place where there is decidedly less English crap on television. Oh, there's still crap in Korea, I just can't understand most of it because my Korean is, well, terrible. There is this one program that always seems to be on advertising some sort of bowel-blowing weight loss system that I get the gist of, but it hasn't exactly filled the intelligent policy discussion void that opened in my life sometime last spring. Good news came via the Armed Forces Network last night though. Starting on Monday at 8:00 p.m. the West Wing is coming to AFN! It'll feature the episodes that began in September, but it's still the West Wing, and that's what matters. Unless of course this is going to turn into the cruel trick that sometimes occurs when advertisements are followed by the dreaded little words of "Instead of 24, viewers in Korea will see Dark Angel." I had better double check.

I am a drunk. A surly drunk.

Have you ever wondered why certain people have no compassion? People who generally represent themselves as kind, intelligent, altruistic, caring people? Then you look at a single website, mostly out of curiousity, and find things that make you realize that what you know of that person is all a sham. Disappointing, but I guess it was expected. Another sign to always trust that first instinct about people.

And answer me this: how can one oppose the war in Iraq AND support the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta?