Blog of a crazy man

I’ve been off from school since Wednesday. Usually I try to make a couple of posts when I don’t have school, but I’ve been sick for about three weeks. I thought I was getting better but then on Thursday it got really bad again. I’m pretty sure now, however, that I’m almost in the clear, probably only a few days until it is completely gone. I apologize for not posting frequently, but I should be blogging more frequently soon.

In other news, Weblogs.us turned on HTTP compression for all blogs. The practical upshot of which is that my blog should load within a few seconds on dial-up and almost instantaneously on broadband connections! OK, technically speaking it was almost instantaneous on broadband connections without compression, but now it’s even more instantaneous!

I got my ACT scores back. I got a 27. I did worst on the writing section, which is humorous considering that I want to be a journalist and do alot of writing in my blog. I blame it on the lack of time to revise and edit the essay. The other odd thing is that I got 26 on every section execpt reading, on which I got a 28, and the essay, on which I got a 25.

I don’t think that I need to take the writing section the next time around. That might help my score a little, but with them all being so close it isn’t going to help that much.

A local church had a large men’s conference yesterday and this morning. Over 900 men showed up from all across the country, and even a few Canadians. I went to it with my friend, Matt. It was two days long and I spent the night with my friend which, of course, means that we stayed up talking until 2AM (we had to leave the next morning at 6:30), thankfully the church provided plenty of coffee and Pepsi so I could stay awake during the services this morning.

The preaching was awsome. There were three speakers and six total sermons and a few skits as well as plenty of music.

We went to the YMCA yesterday after the services and almost everybody played basketball, but since Matt and I weren’t any good at basketball we went swimming. There were only four guys in the pool, including us. I didn’t know how to swim so Matt took it upon himself to teach me how to swim. He was an OK teacher, but one of the other guys decided that he was going to help teach me…the hard way. He tried to drag me out of the pool and through me in at the twelve-foot-deep end of the pool. I was very glad when the lifeguard stopped him because he isn’t technically aloud to let them through me into the pool against my will.

That said, I had fun.

Here’s a randomly chosen paragraph that I wrote for my Advanced Composition class. Enjoy!

Paragraph 5

Wind power is better than coal power. Although coal power is more widely used than wind power, coal is far worse for the environment. A coal power plant produces several tons of carbon dioxide, which is believed to be the cause of global warming. Coal power also releases large amounts of smoke that makes the air look, taste and smell dirty. Wind power, on the other hand, adds nothing to the air and actually adds to the aesthetic value of the surrounding area. Coal has a couple of advantages over wind power. Coal creates far more power with far less time and space than is required for a wind farm. Coal is also not subject to the changing weather. These few advantages of coal, however, are not enough to make it better than wind power. Wind power is a sure sign of an environmentally friendly community that relies on nature to provide a continuous stream of clean, beautiful power.