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he posted it on his twitter page and was going on leftist rants about the email

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Which tweets were these? I looked, but this guy tweets like 50 times a day, and I got bored before I could find anything.

When I was 20, I served on a jury for a double homicide. There was a strong self-defense case but the other jurors weren't having it, and he got charged with manslaughter. The other charge was clear manslaughter. The trial was pretty intense - they even showed us pictures of the inside of the dead guy's skull (as if we were looking out through his eyes)

I got summoned again at the beginning of this school year, but I wasn't in my home city so I had an easy excuse.

So yeah, twice before I turned 23.

They still have literary rally for a bunch of different subjects. There's a district competition and then the top scorers qualify for the state rally. I don't think you get scholarships for winning anything at state though. Maybe LSU gives a small state rally scholarship since they host it, but no other schools do.

It was an enjoyable game except for there being a foul called 8 out of every 10 possessions. Silva was a monster at the end of the game when it was close. I'm expecting us to be top 2 or 3 in CUSA, so we should be a decent win for you guys.

I had never heard of Maryland Eastern Shore until I looked at the schedule.

Also, Tech beat LSUS by 30+ last year... I vaguely remember a bunch of tiny white guys running around, but I might be getting them mixed up with Millsaps.

Holder getting all the calls

I saw The Descent in middle school and was absolutely horrified. It's the only movie I've seen to legitimately scare me... I was afraid to look outside the rest of the night

I also think I saw some scenes of Nightmare on Elm Street when I was like 9 and that also scared me a lot

I was recently introduced to the scientific field of "crystal healing." After the shock of discovering such a rare scientific discipline wore off, I began researching, leading to the discovery of this youtube channel that has everything you need to know about crystal healing. LINK

Each video is 3-5 minutes long. You can be well informed on the science of crystals in less than 30 minutes!

Before today, if you asked me how to cleanse a crystal I would have suggested using water, but now I know that you have to think about all the negativity in your life while using the water. Turns out blowing on the crystal is equally effective!


What are your favorite crystals? Personally, I'm eager to acquire a piece of cubic pyrite, which is especially important to the field of "sacred geometry." I can't believe I got an entire mathematics degree without knowing about that area! I haven't watched the video on love crystals, yet, so please let me know how it goes.

I read pretty frequently and focus on classic, canonical works. In the last few weeks I've read

The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) - About a few days in the life of 16 year old Holden Caulfield after he gets kicked out of his 3rd boarding school. He's pretty socially awkward and hates everything mainstream or "cool." He hates athletes, people who do anything to conform to society, etc. It's extremely easy to read, and it's written like a kid talking to you. I know a lot of people love this book, and I can see how a lot of people would like it at a certain age, especially high schoolers. I think I would've liked it more when I was that age, but I ended up thinking Holden was just a whiny loser by the end of the book.


Disgrace (Coetzee - South African) - About a college professor who sleeps with a student and then gets fired and moves out to live with his daughter in the country, where more bad things happen. It's set during apartheid, so it touches on some racial/poverty issues as well. It's written extremely concisely, but not casually, if that makes sense. I loved the writing. Easy to read, but not as if you were having a conversation with the author.

Portnoy's Complain (Roth) - This book is about Portnoy's conversation with his therapist. Only Portnoy speaks in the entire book. It's basically Portnoy ranting to his therapist about his sexual escapades, relationships with girls, relationships with his Jewish parents (Roth is Jewish and most of his books are about the lives of Jews). His Jewish parents are super Jewish and have oppressed him his entire life by being extremely controlling and Jewish and they are the reasons for his failures. It's extremely graphic, tons of explicit sexual acts, etc. Not necessarily a book you just want to be flashing around in public. It wasn't bad, but I think it probably gets some extra hype for how scandalous it is than it's quality as a novel. Did I mention Portnoy's parents are Jewish?

I'm working on As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) right now, since I only read the spark notes in high school. I think I'm going for Alice in Wonderland next week some time.

I should probably read Anne Frank at some point.

West Monroe and Byrd at the top for sure.