Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Today, I was the 1,054,002^nd most popular blog on the Internet! Impressed?

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OMFG! You’re kidding me, right? I know it’s their show and all, but I just want it on my TiVo until I get to it! I’m busy! I don’t always have the time to watch it, and sometimes it IS a few weeks before I get to it.

I’m so sick of this crap. Someone invents something cool. Someone else decides that they have a right to get in on your cool thing and make some money off of it. Then, to keep your cool thing, you end up having to buy extra adaptors or services or whatever to make the cool thing work. I pay $13 a month so that I can fast forward through commercials. I hate them. I think $13 is worth it. So ad agencies get mad and find ways I have to be “advertized at,” and another person invents a way to get around that, and I have to pay for that new thing. Does it ever stop? Makes me wanna go live in the woods and eat berries, although it’s probably unsafe, and I’d probably have to hire a bodyguard or something.

I go to great lengths to avoid advertizing. When I get a new magazine, I rip out all the perfume ads and inserts so I can flip the pages easily. I like a life without ads. Ads make you want stuff, and I don’t have money to buy stuff, but now, I have to pay to keep my life free of ads. Maybe I should just watch the ads and buy the crap they’re hawking. Seriously. I’m about to just surrender. It’s too hard not to.

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What a great idea. I wish more schools were doing this. East is a lovely building but really needs some basic upgrades:

The group has already installed computers and made plans to outfit the auditorium with audio-visual equipment. One of its most intriguing ideas is to pay students in the top 20 percent of their class to tutor the bottom 20 percent. Prominent alumni of Memphis’s East High School are putting their money where their sentiments lie, by raising $3 million for some worthwhile upgrades of the school.

Commodities trader and East High alumnus Charles D. McVean organized the Greater East High Foundation last month with the hope of persuading about 150 individuals and local businesses to contribute.

It seems like a good way to make academic achievement cool. You wouldn’t want to encourage campus brains to write papers for bullies. But if they might inspire fellow students to perform better, the effort would be worth pursuing.

East has a proud tradition in Memphis, but it has slipped considerably in terms of academic achievement. A concerned and involved alumni may be the key to restoring the school to the prominent position it once held in Memphis and inspire graduates of other Memphis schools to follow suit. How about it, Manassas? Booker T.

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Three cheers for Aaron for working with me to make the new blog template of my dreams:

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Um… I think I’ve had plenty of this, thank you very much!

December 10, 2004

Memphis – The sound of an ambulance and the sight of a school are a combination that make a parent worry. Anita Smith is a concerned parent who says, “I immediately started running trying to find my child because they said it was a girl and they didn’t say who.”

A girl who had been stabbed in the head by another Whitehaven student as school was letting out. Student, Danielle Echols, says “When I was over there coming out of the school, everybody ran up in the building saying a girl got stabbed in the head with some scissors.”

Sgt Vince Higgins with the Memphis Police Department says, “One of the individuals was getting involved in the fight and decided to pull some scissors. She then stabbed one victim. One of the other girls got the scissors off the floor and stabbed another victim.”

Police say the violence was an isolated incident… not gang related. The girl stabbed in the head was taken to the Med in non-critical condition. Another student was treated at the school for minor cuts to her hand.

One of the students is charged with aggravated assault. MPD is still investigating the incident.

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