Archive for November 13th, 2002

On Reality

Gash: If you want to get down to it, our perception of reality is only a series of electrical impressions interpreted by our brain, so how do you know what you are seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling and hearing is actually what is there? Kind of mind-boggling, don’t you think?

Yengwa: No, not really. All of your arguments always come down to that same damn line from the Matrix. It’s not like you suddenly had a revelation and came up with it yourself. Besides, if what is real is defined by our brains, then how do we know our brains are real?

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Maria

Five minutes after she and I were discussing something, she goes on about it again. After about two minutes of listening to her talk rather loudly about the girl in the next room, I say to her, “Okay, we stopped talking about this five minutes ago.”

“There’s not need to be so rude, you brought it up!” (which it did, now seven minutes prior.)

“And we’ve already said all we’re going to say on the matter.”

“It’s not big deal” blah, blah, etc.

*shush noises*

“Oh don’t you shush me, you brought it up.”

“And now I’m trying to END it.”

Money situation

I am promised by the school to get my financial aid reimbursement check tomorrow. I can’t be 100% certain on this, even if they did put up a sign outside their door about it, because they were 100% certain I’d get it the second week of school. This is the 6th week.

On the off chance I do not get my money, I finally got my PIN for my Visa to use it as a cash card. I must use this sparingly, though, as my parents are the ones who pay off the card.