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Who should you vote for?

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Barack Obama	-21		Â	Â

You expected: John McCain
Your recommendation: John McCain

Party: Republican
Born: 1936, Coco Solo Air Base, Panama Canal Zone
Family: Married twice with seven children (two adopted)
Career: US Navy, Captain; Vice President of Public Relations, Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship.
Political career: US House of Representatives from Arizona’s 1st congressional district, 1983-7; Incumbent Senior United States Senator from Arizona since 1987; former Chairman of the Senate Committee of Commerce and Senate Committee on Indian Affairs; Incumbent Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services
Hot topic: Iraq War
Did you know? Was a lightweight boxer in his youth
Supported by: Curt Schilling

Well, I got my information on my student loan from the Government today. Bad news, I owe about $15k so far. Good news? The interest rate for this next year is dropping 3 percent. Yay! Of course, since I’m still attending, it’s only about 3 percent, but that’s much better than this past year’s 6 percent.

Only a couple of weeks until school starts back up. I bought my priority parking pass today. $72, but I think it’s worth it. I feel safer, and end the semester with far fewer dents on my car. Which is a definite positive, any way that you look at it.

Well, I am at last done with that dreaded Calculus. I passed, although not admirably, with a C. I could have done better, if not for the way the final was done. Eeek.

And Harry Reid is an idiot.

Well, I’m trying to take Calculus again. I had to drop it this past spring because it was just to hectic. So here I am during the summer…finding vertical and horizontal asymptotes…Fun.

My mother broke her ankle on June 5th, so I’ve been filling in at the office until she’s well enough to come back. It keeps my gas tank filled, and I can do my homework. Plus, I do like being able to help out my family.

I am still whole-heartedly a math atheist.

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Not a lot going on here. Only thing that’s new is my parents new car, which is the same kind as my little Ford Focus (which I have fallen in love with, despite it not having all the features of my little silver civic), and the fact that I will be going to Seattle in August for a wedding. And I have about 3 weddings total to attend this summer. Should be interesting. I’ve got some cute dresses to wear, so it will be fun, as long as I don’t get sunburned like I did at Kyle’s wedding. We’ll probably just be flying up for the weekend, but I am looking forward to it, all the same. I’m hoping we have a layover in Chicago. I’ve been craving Chicago style pizza for the longest time!

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

-Lin Yutang

Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

-William Shakespeare, Sonnets

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

-Washington Irving

And here’s my favorite:

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)