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December 31, 2004
christmas at the beach
i also put up my christmas pictures. not only are there way too many of them (gene, seriously, i apologize and can move them somewhere else if you want me to), but also you don't know most of the people and won't care to look at all of them. therefore i am providing links to my favorites here so you can just look at those.
my cousin by marriage, katherine, and my aunt mary/her mother-in-law
my mom and my aunt mary
katherine taking a picture of me from behind a rock. this is after she tickle ambushed me for taking pictures of her, the wench.
mary and beautiful ocean
mom and beautiful ocean
lacey, waiting for christmas to start
my aunt mary and uncle dick...festive, in a way.
aunt mary and john
me flying a kite
my uncle peter flying a kite
my cousin kevin
my youngest cousin, vadin
my aunt nancy and mom
mom at devil's churn
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Posted by michele at 12:05 AM | Comments (2)
December 05, 2004
jihad is the new espionage
recently i developed the idea that it might be cool to apply for some college scholarships. self, i said, maybe you should stop mooching off your mom and write an essay or something.
so one day while at work, presumably working, i searched around on the internet for scholarships which would be applicable to me. and what i found was the FBI Common Knowledge Quiz. the fbi will give me money?, i said to my self, awesome! the quiz consists of four rounds of questions in which you answer what i thought would be trivia questions and you get a certain amount of points depending on whether you get it right and how long it takes you to submit the answer.
on saturday i took the first round. it turned out not to be universal trivia so much as trivia about the fbi. which, fine, stands to reason, they're probably going to try to recruit you if you win their little scholarship. either that or put you in jail. so there's questions like "what is the highest education you have to attain to join the secret forces?" with answers such as, "GED", "BA", "worked at wendy's for a couple days before getting fired". alright maybe not that last one, but it was something comparably absurd.
my favorite question by far, however, was "what is the term for the actions that fbi secret agents perform?" with answers ranging from "espionage", to "terrorism" and "jihad". i am totally not kidding. hello, creepy. shall i take the next round? shall i never go to their webpage again? i did get 20 out of 22 questions right so my chances right this second of being thrown in the slammer under the patriot act are good so far. but do i want to risk that a future question might be, "suicide bombing makes you think of..." with fill-in he blank answers including, "immoral" or "god"?
Posted by michele at 06:53 PM | Comments (2)