The election results came in, and sure enough, I lost the election! Curses!
Therefore, I’ve learned two things about SGA campaigning:
- Girls always win
- Amount of campaigning has little to no effect on votes
Next time, I must win!
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
Recently, I decided, rather abruptly, to run for the Student Government Association’s “Senator of Science” position. Needless to say, I was hoping that this position would be like so many others I’ve observed, and have no one (or only one person) running for it. As you, the nonexistent reader, may have guessed from the title, things haven’t quite worked out that way.
At a recent meeting where we learned about all the ways we’re not allowed to campaign. (This would be much easier if we were allowed to knock on people’s doors.) There, I also met my competition: all five of them. A couple freshman guys, two girls, and the incumbent candidate, an exceptionally irritating junior, such as myself. (Not overtly irritating, mind you, just that kind that really grates on your nerves after a while, but is impressive in small doses. Basically, he’s your typical politician.)
I also stumbled across another disturbing piece of information: the voter turnout last year was over 1,000 students. With that kind of turnout, I’ll need to campaign harder than I thought. Time to start killin’ trees.
Time for the first of what I hope will be many pretentious posts!
I just finished my latest masterpiece: another essay for the Bible as Literature! This particular one deals with a particular set of recurring narratives present in the Bible. Recurring narratives are fairly commonplace throughout the Bible, it seems. (Just look at Genesis for quite a few; if you read the story of Noah’s ark, you might notice that every event is mentioned twice for some reason, and it has a tendency to contradict itself.) At any rate, this particular assignment dealt with comparing the duplicate plotlines of Exodus 16 and Numbers 11.
Both stories have the same basic premise: Israelites complain about a lack of food, and things happen. In the first, they have no food, and end up with “manna” and quails to eat. (As an interesting sidenote, the description of manna in the Bible is mysteriously similar to the carbohydrate-rich excretion of a couple insects that live in that area.) In the second one, God just gets pissed off and kills anyone that bothers him by putting a plague on the meat just as they eat it.
Suckers.
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Imagine all the pretentious things I could be posting!