Feature Article: Eventual Entropy or How to Really Fuck Up Your Schedule
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     The long absence between updates are were not unexpected, but
saddening, not only to the audience ( I would assume ), but to your
humble author as well. Thousands of things have conspired against me and
sucked away all my time. First are the college paps. Yeah, I'm still
working on them. During the summer, those three weeks between Harvard &
school, I figured I would get the most out of the rest of my summer, so I
didn't do them. To paraphrase the great Dan Ackroyd ( or however the hell
you spell it ) "Lukas, you ignorant Slut . . ."
     School itself is also adding it's share of work. AP Physics has
turned out to be more troublesome than I thought it would be, and the
homework is no longer one-night kiddie fare. Spanish is also worrying me.
I've realized that over three years of Spanish I've memorized nearly all
the verb forms. Pretty good, you might say, except I STILL HAVE NO
SPANISH VOCABULARY!!! AAUUGGHH!! Human Behavior is okay, but I've had to
organize my schedule to accommodate my experiment. It involves sitting
right next to complete strangers, even when there are plenty of free
seats around. AP Statistics also gave me a little trouble, but I fed the
Stat Beast some homework, and it's quieted down. And English? Oedipus Rex
is a cakewalk.
    Now normally, I could handle it. Even with the Writing SAT this
Friday, I would still be able to slam & cram my way through. but all at
once, a wild card was thrown into my life. The object that is the bane of
my existence and the thief of my free will, Final Fantasy VIII. Oh,
misery! Oh, why has the lord introduced such a destructive yet seductive
object into my life?!?!?! I haven't been sacrificing any homework time,
you'll be happy to know, but my SLEEP TIME has been reduced
significantly. I now go to bed a midnight but sleep at three or four in
the morning, waking up for school at six. But it so good . . .

In a related note, the trip to "Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash" has
been pushed back to November for several reasons. Firstly, that is the
time for NJEA, resulting in four day weekends, and no excuse for the
Jersey Brothers to not be able to get together! Also, by that time, I'll
be done with Early Applications. This also gives EVERYBODY TIME TO GET
THEIR ORDERS IN TO ME! As I've said before, I'm willing to take requests
for items to be purchased. But since nobody's been saying anything, I
guess you've just not been reading them. Rrrrr . . . urge to kill, rising
. . .

I got an army jacket at the local thrift store, it's pretty cool,
and for ironic effect, I wear the Superman shirt underneath. The big
joke, obviously, being that I'll never get into the army . . . Like I
said before, Writing SAT is this Sat, and I've no time to prepare! Lord,
please stick me in a group with stupid people . . . I did my little bit
to lampoon the Tri-state flood. I drew a banner for the Opinions section
of the school newspaper, featuring our school being taken by a tidal wave
. . . HSPT schedule this week, so for Tuesday through Thursday (Oct
5-7), school starts at 11:20 and gets out at 2:51! That's less than four
hours of school! . . . Got both "Clerks" and "Mallrats" soundtracks.
There is nothing but good songs on those things. Surprise to me was a
redone version of Buttercup by some rock band. Ain't bad, actually.
Woulda gotten "Chasing Amy," but that's not possible. It's a complicated
story . . . "Dogma" trailer is out, playing at least before "American
Beauty," as for other movies it's in front of, I haven't many movies
these days to be able to say. . .

Not much time for me to write a review, since Mom's breathing down
my neck to get off the computer. It's a story about some psychiatrist,
and he solves everybody's problems in town. Any more and I give away
plot, even bits that the trailer gives away. But go see this movie. And
there this guy in it that looks vaguely familiar, but I can't remember
from where. . . ( I obviously know, but I'm trying to get you guys to go
see it! )
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