They could cut through glass

Wait. Isn’t New Mexico supposed to be warm?

What is it with this weather?? Gosh.

Temperature tonight: Shiver with a 50% chance of brr.

(5 to 15 C and 41 to 60 F, by the way. Well, it’s colder than Sydney’s summer, that’s for sure)

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The 2005 Eli Awards

Best Overall Post

(I Give Up)^3

Funniest Post

Let’s make a dead philosopher cry

Oddest Post

Whoo! Whoo!! Whoo!!!

Most Insightful Post

Accepting Vagueness

Most Memorable Post

I, Kid

Most Original Post

P42

Worst Overall Post

Urrghh…

Best Meme

Goodie Grab Bags

Best Post Title

Her smile was a million roses, her laugh the heavens themselves, but her tears, they… tore me a new one

Worst Post Title

You Pee En Dee Queue? Oh, Ess!

Best Overall Comment

We Need To Talk
‘Hmmm…
Sometimes it is necessary to talk, though… and sometimes it is hard to bring up a topic in the normal flow of a conversation. For instance:
Him: So I was waiting at a red light the other day and some idiot almost backed into me.
Her: Ah… moron… speaking of morons, I slept with your best friend last night.
Do you see how a simple “We need to talk” could have assisted in preparing the other for the impending conversation? Since it’s been programmed into us that “WNTT” is a prelude to a more serious subject matter, at times, it’s merciful to insert the phrase.
I think any real relationship will “need to talk” every now and then. Hopefully not very often, but enough. Personally, I’ve never been in such a relationship, so I don’t fully understand the gravity of the phrase.’

Worst Overall Comment

Polluted Airwaves
‘OMG.. wow. you’re so dumb.’
’shall i even begin explaining the reason why your ideas are lame?’
‘*reasons’

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The Redisplaced New Mexican

Okay. This internet connection officially sucks. As does this computer. I miss my lappy.

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One of the worst things in the world is pulling out your little, black, Tom Riddle-type moleskin book to get the e-mail addresses of all the people you want to keep in contact with and realising that you cannot read some of their handwriting.

Steve: there’s a character that looks like an odd ‘d’ or a deformed ‘t.’ What is that? And what is with your o/a/e’s?

Lucien: What is it with your m/h’s or your q/r’s?

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear some people were trying to give me the runaround…

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Why is it that people always comment on how I’ve lost weight? You’d think I was a giant marshmallow when I left the way everyone notices.

It was once this way with my hair too. Before I decided to let it grow crazy-style. Now that I shaved it, people started saying it again.

The hair people might have a point: I looked like a walking cowlick when I had long hair.

The weight people definitely have a point: I’ve lost fifteen pounds (about 6.5 kilos) since I left.

Wow.

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Convinced my mate(s) here to move out of New Mexico with me in a few years. Wow. That was easier than I thought.

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An idea for a new game came to me while posing an obscenely hurtful thought experiment to my mate over the question of trust. The game is thus:

“Random Hurtful Hypotheticals”

2: Suppose you came home one night and found your girlfriend in your bed with four hated members of the football team, a camera crew composed of your family, and your favourite stuffed animal being used as a fluffer: how would you feel?
1: Pretty damn terrible. Why do you ask?
2: No reason, I just thought I’d ask.
1: Oh.

Try it some time. The winner is the person that poses the worst, original hypothetical.

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Shouldn’t I be less busy now? I’ve been done with Finals for the past three weeks and don’t have classes for four more, but now I find myself in the thick of things yet again. To wit, I must now:

• Apply for a job at the college paper.
• Get a job (if not this one).
• Think up 6 topics for my Independent Study in philosophy course (Then discuss them and write on one of them)
• Sign up for the course
• Get a computer
• Write an encyclopedia entry of the philosophy of religion
• Design and improve the vocabulary of my language
• Save up money for a return trip to Australia
• Write blurbs about every major column that has ever appeared in the Pix Capacitor and blurbs describing things about it for the website
• Christmas shopping (that’s a lot of lumps of coal to carry)
• Find a roommate or an apartment
• Move out
• Finish several books
• Finish my diary entries then retire my Australia journal
• Buy a new journal
• Cash my paycheck (if I can)
• Renew the registration on my car
• Transfer the car to my name
• Eat dinner with the pops
• Set up an appointment to get my wisdom teeth removed
• Get them removed
• Write a bunch of articles
• Patch things up with my mates in New Mexico
• Get started with life

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Got a job as the Design Editor for the Round Up. I don’t sound excited, but I’m ecstatic.

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