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Are You Together??

What a busy weekend. That really about sums it up!

But you all know that it won’t stop there… Here you’re about to ender a very detailed account of what happened on my weekend in the crazystates.

Friday was fairly normal. It all started out meeting up with Andrew at work. We had originally planned on meeting there because we were to head out to the State Soccer tourny. Thursday though our plans changed and decided not to go. So from his office we went off to his house to get food, since we are both uber poor and can’t afford to eat out anymore. We get to his house and talk to his mom some about thing, and make supper. Pasta and Italian Dressing. So good! It’s such a simple meal, and it’s refreshing, and always tastes great! We made that, all whilst his mother was bitching at us about leaving, so that she and john could have the house to themselves. But right after she said that the door bell rung, and some woman and her husband came in. It was Kurtis, the weather guy from KCCI, and his wife. Who BTW is a stupid whore bitch. Even Sue said she didn’t like her. They walked around the house, and apparently had come to get paint from Sue, which they did and then stood around and talked to them forever. Itw as very wierd, and I veto the woman. I can’t stress enough how much of a stupid whore slut she is. It was funny to hear Sue make fun of her though! lol. After they left, Andrew and I finished our meal and Sue and John made out in the kitchen, so we departed with Andrew’s sister in tow. She was herself looking like a slut, and when she was on her cell phone saying that she was going to change once she got to the place we were going, Andrew said the whitty thing of “What did she bring LESS??” It was so amusing!

So we dropped the girl off and went to VWM. I hadn’t been there in forever! I mean like REALLY FOREVER. And of course, everyting was still the same-o, same-o. Nothing new really. Although I contemplated buying some shorts from Structure, because they were only $15 and they look uber cute on Andrew. I tried them on and they didn’t look so good, so I decided against it. We got bored at the mall, so we went off to Downtown. Got there and nothing was going on, so decided to go to Chat Noir. I hadn’t been there in forever and I always LOVE the food. So ask the guy at JJ’s for a phone book, find out where it is, and then head in that direction. We didn’t really think it’d be that hard to find. So we go there, and get totaly lost in the ghetto of DM. Had to stop at a DQ to ask directions, although we didn’t because Dustin called and helped us out. Thanks DW! We got there and we had a HORRIBLE waitress. She was so stupid and looked really bitchy. I got a crepe, and Andrew got a pie thing, both REALLY good! Although last time I got that crepe, it had chocolate on it, but this time it didn’t. I was sad. But it was still really good! I was going to leave a tip that night, but the waitress was such a bitch when she brought back my change that I decided not too. Whore slut. If only she had at least smiled once!

After the food we went back to downtown, and hung out ontop of a parking garage. It was very nice and we watched the moon rise, as it was nearly a full moon. Downtown DM is so pretty from up there. Andrew ended up having to pee and that was very amusing. He was just going to pee in the corner on the opposite end of the thing, but there were cops down there, so he came back to the end we were sitting on and tried peeing in a corner there, but couldn’t. It was all very amusing! And then the cop started walking around, so we left quickly. Went back to JJ’s where we saw Shelepy again. I didn’t talk to him, because we both had to go pee and he was with a bunch of people already.

Once we had both peed we broke and Andrew drove me back to my car. We hung out at the WF parking lot for a bit and then broke-broke and went home. I stayed up working on some presents and stuff tell about 2 or 3. Also made a list of all the shit that I had to remember to take to my G&G’s house the next day, and all the stuff that I had to do before I left. It was very long!

Got up Saturday morning mucho early. Did all my stuff. I drove to Ankeny for a while to get things, and ended up buying my dad some fish for the pond. I gave them to him when I got home and he seemed happy. I hope he hasn’t killed them yet. I don’t really see how he can. About 11:30 I left nad headed for Andrew’s as we were to meet at 12:15. I drove over there. Got gas at the Hy-Vee and then went on to his house. Picked him up and got a few last minute things at Hy-Vee and we were off! ROAD TRIP!

The drive down was very nice, and there weren’t many people out on the roads. We talked about a ton of random things and not much really happened. We got to Lenox about 2:30 or so. Talked to my G&G for a while and then they put us to work. I mowed the yard and Andrew trimmed the bushes. He did an excellent job too! Even my Grandpa said he did! I also had to clean some of the gutters, and that was REALLY nasty, so I just did a few feet of each one. Just enough to clear them out so that they weren’t clogged up any more. Someone else will have to do that stuff when they have more time then we did. After all the physical labor, we were both very hot and sweaty. So we went inside and took showers. (Notice the ‘s’. We did take seperate showers, thanks!) After that we ate supper, and it was UBER great! Just like always… Though the noodles were a bit darker than normal, they stil tasted wonderfull. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. I want to go back and have some more now!

Once supper was over, Andrew and I helped my Gma with the dishes, and then we walked up to Cheese’s with her to get some stuff for breakfast. On the way home we stopped and talked to my GG and her company. Andrew and I talked to the guy, about how we want to travel all over… Well I talked to him, Andrew just kinda stood there. lol. Guy had a really nice rig and I totaly want one NOW! Once we were done with that we headed back to the G&G’s house. From there Andrew and I went out to the dump, and then I drove him out to Wilson’s lake. I was hoping it was empty as it normally is this time of year. But guy had said there were a lot of people out there. We got there about 8:15ish, and one side was empty and the other side was full. So we went to the empty side, which just happened to be the side that I wanted to be on anyways. Got there and walked around, they hadn’t put out all of the dock just yet, and that annoyed me. But they had some of it out, so we sat on that and watched the sun set. It was so pretty, the relfection on the lake, and the sun through the trees. And there were just enough clouds in the sky to make it all light up, purple and orange and red. But not so many that it blocked the view of the sun as it went down behing the horizon. So romantic!

We had also taken some citronella candles (again with the ‘s’, yes we took TWO) but they didn’t seem to help, so we got eaten alive by bugs. But it was still VERY nice out there. Str8 boys kept driving by though and it scared us. So we didn’t stay as long as I had wanted too. But we got to see some of the nice stars that you can see out there. At one point a car turned down the road we were on, so we quickly picked up all our stuff and went back to the truck. The car pulled up right behind us as we were getting into the truck. I was so scared. Luckly they turned around and left. I hate the fact that we have to be so scared when all we’re doing is trying to be romantic. It always ruins the times that we have together. Fucking breeders get over it! It sucks so much. As I was getting ready to go, I noticed in my mirror that the moon had finally come up enough so that you could see it. So I made Andrew get out and we went back and stood and looked at that for a while. At least we got most of the romantic things done that I had planned. Though, not all of them and that makes me sad. Perhaps we’ll have to go back. Though I’m busy looking for somewhere around here that’s just as nice, and perhaps more secluded!

We drove back to my G&G’s house. Talked to my Gma some more, ate a few cookies and then hit the sack. As the next day was going to be a LONG one!

The alarm sounded at shortly before 8:00. It scared Andrew to death. He flew off of me, and about rolled out of the bed. It was very funny. Once he regained his composure, we were laying in bed cuddling, when the 8:00 whistle went off, and that too scared ths shit out of him, and he again went flying across the room. It was very funny! We finally got out of bed about 8:30, went downstairs, did our hair/contact thing and then ate breakfast. Gma had made excellent biscuits and gravy. Andrew had never had them before, and it’s a good thing he had some that were good. Because it’s very easy to fuck them up! He seemed to like them, as he ate like 10 plates full! lol. After breakfast we packed up, stole some more biscuits and then headed out to Omaha.

Pulled into Omaha about 11ish, there was some crazy christian thing going on at the stadium, which happened to be right next to the zoo. I’d like to know who’s great ass idea it was to put a stadium and zoo next to each other. Of all things, that shouldn’t be put next to each other. We finally figured out the parking situation and got in. We were very scared because the guy infront of us handed the woman taking money a $20 and only got $2 back. So we were like. “I hope parking isn’t $18!!!!” It wasn’t though, they were taking the admission there, so that was cool. We went into the zoo and had a WONDERFULL time. It was so much fun there. A bit hot, but very nice.

There was much holding hands, and stuff. I’m sure that the breeders didn’t really like it that much, but whatever. We have a right to hold hands, etc in public. Just as they do. We walked around all day, and saw everything. It was so much fun! Andrew kept saying how cute the animals were. And it’s very true, they really are VERY cute. And so was he! He was like a child in a candy store around that place. It was just so much fun!

We kept the indoor things for last. As we were buying our Imax tickets there was this boy running the line over, and he kept staring at us. Just as we were getting out tickets he said asked us… “Are you two together?”

I was shocked that anyone would be brave enough to ask such a thing in NE. I had had a feeling that he was gay just by looking at him, but yeah. It was so cute that he asked. Andrew said, “Yeah we are.” Then gay boy said, “You two are so cute together!”

We thanked him and then went to the gift shop to wait tell the movie started. I felt so special the rest of the day, someone thinks we’re a cute couple! How cute is that! 😀

The movie was really great. It was a 3D movie and we had to wear these big ass glasses, we looked so funny in them, and we tried to make out with them on, but it just didn’t work! lol. There was some crazy guy next to us that kept tickling his child, and I wanted to slap him cause he was so annoying. And the stupid people in front of us kept trying to grab at the things. I was like, “Hello, we all know that it’s just a movie, it’s not actually moving towards you.” Dumbasses.

After the movie we went over to the aquarium. That was UBER fun. And all the fish are so cute. It’s so amazing that some of those things are actually living species. We sat by the sting rays for a while, and Andrew gushed about how cute they were. I was just happy that he was happy! He’s so cute when he’s like that. 😀

Once we were done with that, we flew through the jungle. By that time we were both getting very tired and it was getting late and we had no idea how long it would take to get back to DM. So we didn’t really look at too much of the stuff there. It all looked boring anyways. lol.

Left the zoo and drove home. That was a great ride, we just talked about a ton of random stuff and made fun of some stupid people that we know.

At one point I was doing about 75 in the fast lane passing a semi-truck. I looked behind me and see a fucking COP with his lights and sirens on. I was so SCARED. I though for sure that he was going to pull me over. So sped up and got infront of the trucker. Luckly the cop just went FLYING past me and kept on going. I don’t know where he was headed, but we never saw him have anyone pulled over anywhere. That was uber scary!

Finally got home about 7:30ish. Way before I thought we would. And the ride seemed like it went by very quickly. Once we got here we decided we had time to eat out, and we were hungry. So off to Cheddars we went. We got a really good waitress there, and she was tons of fun. Andrew paid and I left the tip. Thanks Drew Bear!

Got done at Cheddars about 8:30 and went back to his. Layed around on his bed untell 9 when I left to come back to Ames. It was very sad to leave after having spent the whole weekend with him.

Other things that happened throughout the weekend are:
1) Talked about dates for the trip to EWR and LAX. Looks like Aug 15th or so.
2) Talked about things to do in EWR and LAX.
3) Talked about dates for the trip to MCI and ORD and also things to do there.
4) Spilled the beans for some other secret plans.
5) Talked about the trip to Adventurland next weekend.
6) Perhaps a second showing at the Omaha Zoo if time permits.
7) Lots of nasty white trash breeders

I also got an invite to Angels wedding. I dunno if I’ll go or not though, as it seems that none of my hs freinds really want to hang out with me anymore. Since apparently the all hung out and neglected to call me. Whatever. I’m still undecided about going.

Lots of other shit happened that I can’t really remember right now. But I’m sure it’ll come back to me, and at that time, I won’t want to update again! lol.

I’d also like to make a public service announcement… Contrary to popular belief Andrew and I are NOT having sex. Thank you!

Ok.. On to what else has been happening…

This morning I got up early, about 7:30 or so, and showered etc. I read some more of Glover. Nearly done, I can’t wait! I then went off to class. This class should be fairly nice. The prof for it is the guy that actually started the class here at ISU 16 years ago. He now mostly teaches Grad level classes, but said that he likes to teach the summer section of this class just to keep up on the technology. He seemed really nice and like a good guy. So that’s exciting. We also picked our groups for the project, and I got into a group with people that were in my MIS 432 class last semester. They seemed to have always had thier stuff done on time. So that’s a good sign. I think the next 4 weeks will go by quickly.

Class to work, which is where I am now. I have so much shit to do that I really shouldn’t have spent most of the day writing this… In between actually working. lol.

I have lots of pics from the weekend, but I don’t know if I’ll put them up or not. We’ll have to see about that. Also need to purchase more HD space from my provider. I found out that it’s $1 a month per 100 Megs. So that’s not too bad. I only need about another 100 Megs.

Now it’s off to the private entries…

Laters all!

Is Abortion Always Immoral??

In this paper I plan on discussing the topic of whether abortion is always immoral. I will be looking at two essays writing by philosophers that are on different extremes of the topic. In the first essay, John T. Noonan, believes that abortion is always immoral, and he uses a statistical approach and uses three distinctions; viability, experience, and appeal. In the second essay, Jane English, believes that abortion is not always immoral. English bases her arguments on many more distinctions, as well as a self-defense argument. I believe that abortion is not always immoral, and will use English’s arguments to support my claims.

John T. Noonan begins his arguments, as does Jane English, by trying to determine what is a human. He uses three criteria to determine what a human is. He then uses statistical arguments to back up his points that it would only be justified to accept that it is always immoral to have an abortion.

The first criteria for what classifies a human that Noonan uses is the fact of if the fetus is viable. Noonan states, the fetus is not viable, that is, it cannot be removed from the mother’s womb and live apart from her. He then goes to reject this claim that viability is a usable measure because as he says, there is considerable elasticity to the idea of viability. He goes on to reject this claim because if viability were the standard way to measure the humanness of a living being, then the standard would vary from race and individual circumstances. Noonan’s last argument to this claim that viability is a standard measure is that the fetus is still absolutely dependent on someone’s care in order to continue existence. As an example he uses a three year old and a five year old, both are still dependent for continued existence, if left uncared for, they would surely die, just as the early fetus would if detached from the mother.

Noonan’s second claim which he will go on to reject is the distinction of experience. That is, a being who has had experience, has lived and suffered, who possesses memories, is more human then one who has not. Noonan rejects this claim by saying that the embryo is responsive after at least 8 weeks, and the zygote is changing and responding to it’s environment inside the mother. He also points out that in the cases of aphasia, where adult memory has been lost, Noonan asks the question; has it erased humanity? Clearly the answer here is No. Thus, the claim that experience is a criteria for humanity is null. Noonan also asks us what about people who have failed to love or to learn, if experience is to be considered a criteria for humanity then these people would be excluded as loving and learning are a central experience.

A third distinction which Noonan points out is that of appeal to the sentiments of adults. Noonan says that humans tend to morn the loss of a ten-year old then we would his one-year old bother, or his 90 year old grandmother. He claims that this is because of the potentialities extinguished, or the experience wiped out.

Noonan’s fourth criteria is that of social visibility, meaning that since the fetus cannot communicate with humanity it is not a member of society. However, Noonan rejects this claim because in Communist China landlords have been classified as enemies of the people and thus treated as non-humans. Noonan states that any attempt to limit humanity to exclude some group runs the risk of furnishing authority and precedent for excluding other groups in the name of consciousness of perception of the controlling group in society. Meaning that any attempt to exclude the fetus from society to make abortion moral, will thus exclude some other group from humanity, making the killing of that group moral as well.

Noonan’s main argument for his idea that abortion is always immoral is based on a statistical basis. He states that once the spermatozoon and ovum meet there is a 4 out of 5 will come to term, and thus become human. He uses the argument that if the chance that 200,000,000 to 1 that the movement in the buses into which you shoot is a man’s, I doubt that if many persons would hold you careless in shooting; but if the chances are 4 out of 5 that the movement is a human beings’, few would acquit you of blame. Here he’s saying that, if you were to shoot into a bush in which the chances are 4 out of 5 that it’s a human movement, you would be held accountable for the death of that person, thus you should be held accountable for the death of a fetus which had a 4 out of 5 chance of growing and developing into that human.

One argument against this is that there are 200,000,000 spermatozoon and 100,000 to 1,000,000 oocytes in a female, of which no more then 390 are going to be ovulated. So thus, every time you waste a spermatozoon of oocytes you are therefore performing an abortion and killing a human. Noonan’s argument against this is the fact that there is a small statistical chance of any of those spermatozoon or oocytes becoming a zygote and that once they do actually become zygotes there is a sharp shift in probabilities, an immense jump in potentialities. He uses the shooting into a bush argument here to counter these claims. If you were to shoot into a bush in which there was a 200,000,000 to 1 chance of the movement being a humans then you wouldn’t be held accountable if it was that minority chance. Noonan concludes Do not injure your fellow man without reason. In these terms, once the humanity of the fetus is perceived, abortion is never right except in self-defense. When life must be taken to save life, reason alone cannot say that a mother must prefer a child’s life to her own. With this exception, now of great rarity, abortion violated the rational humanist tenet of equality of human lives. Thus he is saying that with the one rare exception of when a mothers life is in danger, abortion is always immoral because you are taking a life without reason.

Jane English takes on the same type of arguments, that there are criteria for determining if a fetus is a person, she also stats that some abortions are permissible in self-defense. English states that there are many criteria which can be used to determine if a person is a person or not. She lists, many which include: biological features, psychological factors, rationality factors, social factors, legal factors and many more. She goes on to say that even though these are used to determine the humanity of a person, they are not strict and rigid guidelines. She uses the example that if someone were irrational, and rationality were one of the strict guidelines then that person would fail to qualify as a person. She also states that on the other hand, something could exhibit a majority of these of these features and still fail to be a person, as as advanced robot might. English rejects that the criteria for determining a human because they are only features that are more or less typical and not required and that a conclusive answer to the question whether a fetus is a person is unattainable. English goes on to state that the debate as to what is human and what is not human does not assist us in the determination as to whether abortion is right or wrong.

Englishes main claims is that of self-defense, and that abortion is right in terms of self-defense. She argues that not only physical self-defense if alright, but that innocent threats to the mother’s well-being, life prospects, or mental health would justify an abortion. English uses the example of a doctor and mad scientist, in which the doctor is forced to forget all his knowledge of doctoring, therefore destroying his career. In this situation English says this it is morally permissible to use force and even death to get out of this conflict so that you can continue with your life prospects. She uses this example to justify the abortion from a woman who, where having the child would ruin the womans life prospects. She gives the explicit example of a teenage pregnancy. English concludes that abortion is justifiable early in pregnancy to avoid modest harms and seldom justifiable late in pregnancy except to avoid significant injury or death.

I believe that Jane English is more correct on this issue on whether abortion is immoral. I feel that with her arguments on if the fetus will eventually come to harm the woman either physically, mentally, or by harming her well-being are all acceptable reasons to have an abortion. John Noonan’s statistical view of the world is not one that will convince many people as to the rightness or wrongness of abortion. At least both these authors conclude that a strict definition of when a person becomes a being with moral rights.

In conclusion the two arguments that you have just seen are on extreme ends of the views. John T. Noonan states that abortion is always immoral and Jane English states that abortion is moral as long as it in what she calls Self-defense.

Long time, no see.

So what have I been up to lately that I haven’t been able to update??

Well not much really.

Lasdt Friday Adam and I went out and did the one year anniversary thing. Food, Movie, bed. You know. It was nice.

Saturday, I’m sure I did fun stuff, and there was a fight or two in there somewhere as well. A pretty bad one if I remember right.

Sunday, went to Christmas on my mom’s side and lusted after Steven all day. I know that sounds really bad, but the boy is SO fucking hot. All I wanted to do all day was grab him and take him to the bathroom. Yummyy.

Monday, Adam, Andrew and I all went out shopping. Good times there. We were going to go to Group, but found out that Mike was going, so we avoided that and watched movies instead.

Tuesday I sat on my ass and did nothing.

Today’s christmas, so we went to my grandpa and grandma’s house. That was fun times.

I got alot of cool shit for christmas, nothing REALLY exciting.

List includes:
DVD Player
Zoo Tycoon Expansion packs
Lamp
Christmas lights
Picture Frams
Cooking things
A cushion for my chair
and other small stuff.

It was really nice of my mom to get me the DVD player. Although, now I’m going to have to buy a VCR because my TV doesn’t have the right connectors. And again it was nice, but I wish she would have gotten me a lot of the smaller thing on my list. They would have been alot more usefull. But I am happy that I got a Very NICE DVD player! Yay, DVD porn!

Tonight Adam’s going to come over and spend the night, and then tomorrow and Friday we’re off to the Mall of America. MONEY will be spent there, I just wished that I had my new credit card, so that I could spend lots of money and not have to pay interest on it! lol

I’m out.

PS. Hopefully I’ll update a bit more some other time, but I REALLY REALLY hate my PU’s keyboard, so the chances are slim!

No Crashing!

So Friday afternoon I got to Adam’s house, and I was hungry… So we went to Hy-Vee to get pizza. None of the pizzas looked very good so we went around looking for other things. We got to the cheese island and thought that a sandwich sounded good, so as we were talking to the lady that worked there, who… But ROB turned around and looked right at us. I waved and said “Hey look it’s Rob.” In a very friendly and courteous manner… He upon hearing my apparently mean and unpleasent remarks about him (aka, “Hey looks it’s ROB!”) Gave Adam and I the meanest DEATH look I’ve ever seen in my life, turned around and went about his business, for the whole 15 or so minutes we were there, never once did he even acknowledge the fact that we were standing there. And had he NOT given us such a death look, I would have gone over and talked to him. But whatever, if he wants to play mean then that’s fine by me. I never did anything to him to make him mad at me, nor have I ever expressed such things as hate, or anger towards him. I’m simply trying to be nice and give everyone a chance… He ruined his chance Friday night with me. Asshole!

So after we got our sandwitch and enjoyed it in the wonderfull Hy-Vee deli, we went off to the Mall to just hang out. We wondered around and met up with Dustin where I bitched at him about his bf, and that made me feel better.

After that we went downtown and met up with Mike, Andrew and various other people. It was much good times. Everyone dispursed about 11 or so, so I went back to Ames.

Saturday I got up about 6am or so, because I couldn’t sleep. I took a shower and hung around tell 9:30 or so when I went to Sam’s Club and got some food. I got back and started doing HW. Adam called me about 11 or so, in a paniced state from and Ankeny Phone number that I didn’t know. He said he was coming to Ames.

You can go read that information on his website… Use the link at right. He had me very scared, but in all things turned out alright.

After that we went back to my house, did some random things and then went off to return a $179 paper wieght that I had purchased a while ago… in the entry I wrote last night, I went on and on in an amusing banter sort of way about my 4 hours of drug induced sleep and how the stupid people at Best Buy and Comp USA pissed the hell out of me and how I threw things at the Comp USa guy… But I don’t feel like recreating that, so you can just ask me in person if you want to know the whole story!

After that pissed me off we went back to my house and made food, and ate nummy nummy cookies. Before I left I took some drug for my cold/headache etc things and then we went back to Adam’s house. 15 minutes later we arrived at Adam’s house. He went to the bathroom and by the time he got back, I was dead asleep. He managed to wake me long enough to talk for a while, and I rammbled completely point less things… Must like this whole post. We went to bed about 11 after a much enjoyed time, and a 3 week hiatus that ended.

Sunday we got up and I went back to my house to shower, which I did. Then we went to the zoo. It was fun times for being overly hot, and very sick. Anyhow, after that we went shopping and did random things. Adam’s power went out, so I came home and tried to get on the internet. IT didn’t work. And it didn’t even pretend to start working untill like 9 or so, when it started working in off and on banters.

Ok, now I’m here and I must be heading off to my next class… Bubye everyone!