HPU asked for my screen name on the application and I put it. Then I wondered if they were going to use it to -gasp!- stalk me online or something.

'Cause, y'know, I hear colleges do that sometimes.

I guess it's not technically an invasion of privacy, since blogs are kinda.... open to the world, but it doesn't seem like a good way to judge people's character. I mean, if they just picked a random page to go to, and it had a rant, some random posts about how I like eating various food items, and a weird, badly-written story about oddly named creatures that go on adventures, what would that make me look like?

"Hmm, this girl is obviously crazy and untalented. DENIED!"

I figured I'd just leave my screen name up in my profile anyway. If they e-stalk me and don't like what they see, whatever.

No point in lying just to go to college. (Part of the reason why I never joined any clubs or did extracurricular activities/took honors classes?)

Strange as it may seem to many (most?) of my college-obsessed peers, I don't believe in piling up the APs and achievements if I don't sincerely think they'll help me be a better person or positively impact my life.

I don't mind doing volunteer work, but I hate it when my mom signs me up for some without telling me.

Speaking of which, I thought I was going to do some volunteer work at a glass pumpkin festival next weekend, but apparently it's a paid job. That's cool, although I would've done it anyway. (What do you do there, though? Show people pumpkins and say "these are made of glass"?)

When I think about what kind of person I could be when I'm older, sometimes I think I'll go the way of my dad and just stop wanting material things at some point. I wouldn't be exactly like him though. If one of my kids hit another with a plastic pie server, I wouldn't freak out and start raging about how dangerous it is to hit people with knives.

I checked out The Hellbound Heart e-book from the library website. I'd much rather have it in a solid, physical form. I can only read the PDF file on this computer, so it's kind of annoying since I do a lot of my reading in my bed, late at night. I must admit though, it's kind of neat that I can fix the typos and stuff in the document, even if only I can see them.

Watched part of Fast Food Nation earlier. Some of the things that go on are kind of awful. My mom showed me The Meatrix in the special features, and it was so horrible... Apparently they cut the beaks off chickens in factory-farms so the birds won't fight each other. Hearing that made me sick. That's just wrong on so many levels, and if I actually believed in the place, I'd say the people who started that should go to hell. Or maybe just... y'know... be grated to death or something.

I'd really like to have all my food be cruelty-free, but sadly price usually makes more of a difference in my family than anything else.

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