Everyone needs to stop taking jabs at my political beliefs. I belive what I believe because I think that some things just need to be left alone and that some things are being forgotten, such as the idea of “equal protection under the law.” Keep religion and everything else out of government. If you’re religiously opposed to something because God has told you it’s wrong, then it is between God and the people offending His decree. It is not your job to enforce it, and even less the government’s. That’s my stance.

Ryan, I’m sick and tired of you giving me shit about voting Democratic. I am indeed conservative on some issues, which I’ll openly admit. This is why I’m really a moderate instead of either party alone. I did vote for Kerry, and I don’t give a damn what you all think of him. The social issues that I feel the most strongly about made my decision for me. You will not convince me that I made a wrong decision, so stop wasting your time. Note that I do not blanketly criticize Bush unless he does something I really disagree with. I don’t make unfounded, irrelevant claims that anyone is just “imitating” other candidates. Such accusations are baseless, politcally charged, and a waste of everybody’s time, so how about we just put it all behind us, like civilized people?

I share my beliefs so you can think about them on your own. I share them to be discussed, NOT so you can take jabs at me every chance you get. The jabs you take at everyone about homosexuality are also very crude, uncalled for, and immature. Grow up. We’re all tired of it.

Cas needs to start sleeping and stop procrastinating. He spends his life getting distracted by stupid little things, and then complains when he forgets to turn something in, or is crunched for time. Tonight he said “What? Work on Project 4 before the deadline?!” This is a prime example of why he gets no sleep when some things come due, because he never takes the initiative to work on things up front. Quite frankly, I’m tired of hearing about it, and even more tired of being asked to help with problems when procrastination and sleep deprivation are the cause. Oh… please stop swearing when you complain; it’s neither effective nor impressive. Sleep in your own damned room instead of coming and sleeping on our futon and making us cater to your slumber every time. Just because you never sleep at humane hours doesn’t mean you have free license to crash in our room.

Amanda needs to stop a lot of things. If you’re going to complain about your boyfriend not being committed enough, then stop sleeping with him and stop getting alcohol from him. I’m fed up with her getting alcohol and coming into our room slightly tipsy. She is mad at her boyfriend, yet sleeps with him at night, and spends her days crawling all over Daniel and Jerry. Quite frankly, I’m disgusted. I don’t like the prospect of drunk (or even just tipsy) people in the room, especially when they become inappropriately loose despite the presence of people who would prefer such things not be displayed publicly. The gap between being focused on a boyfriend and spending all of your waking hours touching and/or torturing another guy is driving me insane. Pick one person and deal with it, but you can’t have it both ways. The alcohol is illegal until you’re 21, you know. That bothers me a lot as well.

Paul also needs to start sleeping and keeping sane hours, but at least he gets things done ahead of time and doesn’t impose on others when it gets to be crunch time. However, he needs to be much kinder to his girlfriend. He’s been slowly drifting away from her, but it’s all been from his own acts and words. The blame goes nowhere else, to be honest. He says that he feels completely ignored, but it’s probably just a fabrication of his own imagination that does nothing other than make things worse. Rapidly.

Jerry and Daniel are both sane, thankfully. Unfortunately, they have to deal with the other three people on whom I’m railing tonight—Cas, Amanda, and Paul. Marj—you’re also sane, but you’re just consistently overloaded with work, and that’s nothing anyone can hold against you. If Paul complains about things, it’s only because he’s lonely and feels neglected, though it’s not something you can control—your work has to come first and he’s being entirely irrational to expect you to cater to his needs before the needs of your schoolwork.

Well, that’s the end of this rant. I needed to dump severely. Hopefully nobody will read this, or they’ll take the suggestions out of it and ignore the aggravation-inspired portions. Some people have nothing to worry about—Jerry, Daniel, and Marj, specifically. The rest of us—Ryan, Cas, Amanda, and Paul—however, have a lot of things to work on.

Good night everyone.