January 20th 2009: Part II

Moving on, today I debated Chris Carter in government. Our teacher thought it would be fun to put us up against each other because we were both on the debate team—never mind the fact that I had been on the team for four months and he had been on the team for four years. We were debating gay marriage. He was arguing in favor of traditional marriage, though he doesn’t personally agree with the argument. I guess that’s the problem with class debates, hey? Either way, he was still trying to beat me, if not for the sake of the argument, for the sake of his reputation. Ah, Chris. I won. I am happy about it, but at the same time I feel cheep. Chris was doing actual debate arguments (aka: gay marriage somehow leads to nuclear war/environmental apocalypse). But rather than stealing those impacts as I normally would, I appealed to the class and argued ‘no logical link.’ I don’t know. Well, actually, I think I did steal his impacts, but he insists that I didn’t. His argument was that allowing gay marriage causes dehumanization which in turn leads to nuclear destruction, and I said that not allowing gay marriage actually caused dehumanization “so I steal your impacts.” It happened pretty quickly though. It just doesn’t feel as good as I thought it would.

Exams start tomorrow. They were supposed to start today, but we missed last Thursday and Friday due to ‘cold weather.’ Whatever! This is Wisconsin! You’d think we’d be able to handle a bit of cold weather. Apparently not. I had to go an extra four days without seeing Damayanti or Sam because of cold weather!? Either way, exams were moved back. We still have Friday off, and then 7th and 8th hour are on Monday. Yay! An extra weekend to study for AP Chemistry! I’m not too bad at Chemistry, but any extra time would help. I’m exempt from government, since it’s my only semester-long class. Otherwise I’d be exempt from all of my other classes… well, maybe only math. I don’t think I can exempt myself from AP class exams.

Anyway, seeing as I haven’t written in this diary for a very long time, I am going to devote the next few pages to getting you up to date on my friends from high school (aka: everyone except family and friends that I made before my high school days).