School!

[Maxine MagicFox]

bleh! no thank you. If someone is whispering in my ear, it better be a sentence that I can understand!

[noodles]

"penis penis penis"

[Twat]

Mission Hill was an amazing show.

Japanese is actually a good language. It's such a shame English had to become the default language because not only is it horribly indecisive but sentence structure is backwards from almost every other language in the world. English is one of the hardest languages to learn. :[

[Seniwac]

[noodles]

[Twat]

Then I guess I don't know every junior high kid ever. :[

[noodles]

junior high kid 1: PENIS

junior high kid 2: URHURHURHURHUR

[Maxine MagicFox]

I can SO fucking vouch for that. My name is Penna. What do you think they called me?

...The ironic part of it all was I was actually immature as them enough to get pissed off and depressed about it.

[noodles]

"Penna?" Never heard of that one...do people call you Penny?

[Maxine MagicFox]

^_^; yeah, they do that A LOT. -_-;

One person, though, at my job actually asked if my name was really Pennsylvania. o_O; (which makes sense if you remember that's the state I'm in).

My year book has me listed as Denna in the Latin club group.

I hated my name up until I got into my Latin class in 10th grade, when the teacher smiled and said I would probably fit right into this class having a Latin name. I was like "pardon?" And she said, "Don't you know? Your name is Latin for "Quill pen"." <3

Don't you think that just SO FUCKING FITS ME! XD

((On a side note, at least you weren't one of the people who are usually like "whaaat? your name isn't Maxine?!" No, it's not. My full name is Penna Marie Fischer))

[noodles]

would you mind if I called you Penna

I mean, I'll probably end up just calling you Maxine, but I'm curious

[Maxine MagicFox]

Actually, not at all. ^_^ Please, go ahead.

You can even call me Marie and I'd probably respond to it. My mother's name is also Penna so I've grown up being called Marie.

Which is kinda how devastating things were when I was called Penna. I started middle school thinking "new year! new life! I will call myself Penna from now on!!" -_-; So, when the kids started calling me penis, it really bit a little deep. Bah!

^_^; It gets extremely confusing when I have friends or co-workers over.

[Hanyou]

Not sure if this is on the current topic of the thread but... I have five classes, and I like a couple of them and am not so fond of a couple others. For the most part, I'm satisfied with my classes. I list them from least favorite to favorite.

Early Christianity
This is basically a class that looks at historical analyses of Jesus. It should be interesting, but I'm tempted to fall asleep in every single class. Perhaps it's because I'm not used to raw history absent of theory. While the history is mostly speculative, it is not theoretical. There is no defined window through which to view it. The class lacks direction, and I will say so on my assessment; but it is not the fault of the professor.

Beginner's Poetry Workshop
It's a poetry workshop class, and I suck at poetry. In spite of having an awesome professor, this class causes me an undue amount of stress.

Comparative Foreign Policy
My third foreign policy class. Once again, we study the dynamics of the cold war through the window of realist and liberal theory primarily; but soon we will also be moving into Iraq, evaluating the decisions and how they relate to past foreign policy decisions. It's interesting, but it's hardly uncharted water for me.

Policy Making Institutions
A neat class in which we study the interactions and individual decisions of congress, the executive branch, and the federal judiciary. Thus far, we've based most of our analyses around two types of methods for graphing the decision-making of legislative members--the cartel theory and the pivot theory. We're moving on from that now. Given my interest in government, it's my second-favorite class. Lots of fun.

Medical Ethics
Of all my classes, I consider this one the "red meat"--the real, down-and-dirty look at how one can apply popular philosophy to issues with which people are faced every day. We cover everything; paternity testing, abortion, universal health care, euthanasia, physician-assisted death penalty, patient-doctor confidentiality...everything. We focus on the ethical issues, but we also look at Supreme Court decisions and ask constitutional questions. The professor balances lecture with discussion, and for that, he should be commended. The class is fun, oftentimes funny, but it's dead serious at the same time.

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Hanyou]