Rocket ON, Rocket Off

Ahh space camp... an experience I won't soon forget. Whosit got what was coming to him... I didn't think the NFB liked abstract things -- you know all about rah and now and long canes and power to the blind which I don't have a problem with. I did meet a lot of non blind type blind people there which renews my faith in the community as a whole. Keep on trucking non-weirdos, so blind people won't only be known for staying at home all day and learning an unnecessary amount of information about car doors or aviation or something equally as obscure, or going on the internet all day and making many other blind friends way too far away and hooking up in trivial relationships and getting far more dramatic than even they perhaps think they should but hey, it beats sitting around and listening to talk radio or tapes. Oh and don't all try to get careers in CS when all you know is HTML (which by the way isn't programming) so the real CS guys can take over. Someone was right... blind people need to stop being so freakin' interested in computers and branch out. That someone wanted to be a physicist. Somehow I don't think that's branching out far enough, but hey she does all sorts of shit. I'm in NY, a great place to get around on your own and I do like 0.5 things which make me go "whoa that was new and refreshing!" and if I do I usually don't start willingly... until now I hope. Sadly I took APCS last year and am probably going to major in it. Way to set an example. Oh and I have actually been learning how to do things like shave and fill the dishwasher (which isn't that impressive since all you do is move dishes from one space to another) but I am actually doing it. Thanks NFB Camp, for inspiring me to do what you sort of succeeded at doing four years ago, although in different ways than you might've thought. Oh and of course since it was NFB they tried to make us clean our rooms out the last day (you know because since we're blind we have to work harder than everyone else who goes to camps where their rooms are vacuumed and washed for them) but all we ended up doing was replacing sheets and that's pretty freaking alright. I am actually attempting (or should initiate the attemption process) to stay in contact with these guys. Some of you were really quite awesome; one so awesome she doesn't even have IMs or those bloggy things since she actually has a life. I wonder what it'd be like to have one of those? Honestly sometimes I feel dishearteningly not busy and everyone my age and on this thing is like "I am so busy I can't talk" but come September that should all doubtless change since I have to start the college essay writing, SAT retaking, and SAT 2 taking, and all sorts of things of that nature. That will be quite refreshing and probably annoying. I plan to make this year a productive one; really I need to since I am leaving highschool at the end of it so I should probably stop being such a muttering, invisible weirdo at Packer and actually start making people's ears bleed with my super original theories on life which may be divulged in future entries. But that's all artsy bullshit so I'll probably just be angry again. Being angry is still sort of in style but it's now been replaced more than usual by a sort of dizzy outlook on life; everything is supposed to make you so incredibly happy, oh and don't forget the artsy flighty writing style psyche_sprite oops, I mean that tag was going to be put somewhere else, I -- Oh screw it I put it there. I don't know you and yet I make fun of you. Isn't the internet great? Now if only people would learn to write inteligently (no you don't have to spell correctly) and not constantly say hi to people even though the list of logged in users hasn't changed significantly and talking about how bored you are. Get out of the house -- I do it sometimes and it's great I tell ya, even with your freaking Mom who you can't help not to get in a fight with, and I don't whine about how bored I am. Hopefully most blindies will know which site i am talking about but now everyone does so hah. Then the internet would be usefuller than it is now. I wonder, like some, weather the internet would've been best left as a place to do research and exchange mathimatical and other accademic data.

James