something to write about...
05/18/2003 05:54 a.m.
went to the movies with mother and sister. amazing study on how people change.

sister was p.o'd when i was talking to her over msn because ma wouldn't let her go to the movies with friends to see matrix 2. so i think this partly a peace offering on ma's part...but anyways, she hired a sitter to watch the adoptees so she could go with us.

kind of out of character for ma. or at least the ma i grew up with. of course, back then we had no money to do anything anyways. i can count on three fingers the number of times i remember being watched by a hired sitter. when i got old enough, i WAS the (unpaid) sitter.

then there was the movie, x-men 2. she loved it. considering that she was always complaining when we watched the cartoon version of x-men, that just made me shake my head. back then we had to sneak around and hope she didn't realize what we were watching.

heh, i loved the movie too. but then, i've been a fan of it since the cartoon first came out. gah, it never ceases to amaze me that parents will let their kids watch loony tunes, which is nothing but a string of mindless violent acts strung together, and then object to them watching a show that actually makes sense, has an intelligent plotline, and genuine character development.

obviously i have a grudge of long standing against cartoon programs that treat viewers like morons. it is of very long standing, the first cartoon i ever loved showed around 1980. i don't remember a whole lot about except that it too had an actual plotline. something about the after effects of an asteriod hitting the earth or a nuclear winter...can't remember which. anyways, i used to drag my sorry carcass out of bed at 7am saturday mornings even tho i wasn't a morning person to watch it, a rather difficult undertaking for a five year old.

not all kids are as stupid as tv programmers seem to think they are. it would be nice if more realized it. thankfully, there were books. lol.

in other news, i am at ma's tonight. i am also at 99 comments on my work here at path. who will lucky number 100 be? ............... updated: thank you to rommel cruz, lucky number 100.

emode test results from this afternoon:

The Brainteaser Test
You answered 25 out of 30 questions correctly!

Congratulations! Your score is in the 96th percentile. When we analyzed your test, we also discovered that when it comes to visual-spatial ability, you measure in the 100th percentile. This score indicates you have unusually strong abilities when it comes to spotting patterns in the world around you. You're easily able to envision things spatially in different positions, and this allows you to determine what spatial patterns are present. Compared with you, most others lack the creative ability and/or skill to imagine the movement of objects or patterns in time and space.

.....no big surprise there, patterns are much easier for me to see than working out mathematical equations. altho making statements based on 30 questions seems a bit unreliable.
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