OK when I started this journal it was supposed to be scholarly, and I ended up getting a little off track. And really, that was a mistake. I should have kept my scholarly distance from this stupid internet thing and never ever have gone on it.

( this is a rant to no one in particular )

So basically what I want to say to all my fans on this journal system is that I can't be here anymore. It's too painful. I've been betrayed and all I can say is: it hurts. Maybe someday I'll come back but right now I'm going to set my password to a randomized string of proteins and only reset it when the heartache is over with.

Feel free to leave your words of encouragement but I'm not going to answer.

[[Stickler is gone, ladies and gents. I had a good run, and I got to let him go with a bang! Feel free to have conversations in the comments for this entry. Go nuts!]]

This happened a couple weeks before Stickler's last entry.

( Hypothesis: True Love can be found on the intertubes )

It turns out girls themselves aren't what's confusing it's just certain PARTICULAR girls that are confusing and other girls are really nice and sweet and probably really cute.

So yeah. Things are totally looking up as long as my mom doesn't check the history on my computer and agrees to take me on a trip before the end of the summer. I got good grades in all my summer classes and I bet she'd like the place I want to go anyway. So it's all good and in fact better than good and scientifically verifiable as awesome.

I'm going to go build something incredibly complex with k'nex and take pictures of it and send them to her bye now!!!!

Ugh so it's been a while since I wrote because my mom's computer was totally fried in the earthquake so she was using miiine and now it's full of weird bookmarks and stuff... What in the world is stitch and bitch!? My mom likes some weird stuff I think. I'm a little worried about looking at my history... Should I just delete it without looking!?

So anyhow, school is over and I am soooo booored. I'm taking a couple of summer courses - my mom totally thinks I'm going to graduate early but really I'm just taking a LOT of classes so I can do them for free shhhh - and they're all right but at least one of them is mostly stuff I've already done. Not like I'm not going to get an A in both these classes anyway, summer courses are totally EASY. These are elective courses at the community college btw not like summer school lol.

Actually for real I've been kind of depressed lately. I mean... girls... are totally confusing. You do absolutely all the right things and stuff but then they still don't appreciate it! I'm thinking about giving up on them and focusing totally on my first love. (It's science, duh)

Hey guys while I was researching my social science paper I totally found this article that basically sums up the way I feel about science, so you should read it and stuff.

It's an old article from the New York Times.

The Op-Ed guy totally knows exactly how I feel and he says it in a way that's more easy for your average person to understand than I could and all, so yeah if you have the time read that and you'll understand me a little better ok.

Man Mother's day sure is trying at my house. My mom is the only parent I have that isn't a deadbeat loser who left to work at NASA and never comes to visit me and is a JERK.

Anyhow. Today I made my mom breakfast in bed and gave her a book of great recipes and then we went out to dinner at Friday's and had brownies or something. It's totally weird because mom spent the whole day complimenting me even if I was trying to compliment her and tell her how great a mom she is. She got more and more insistent as the day wore on that the only reason she's such a great mom is because I'm such a great kid and all... Like she needs to be and then she said that she's really not a great mom or anything....

Like... then she started crying... Anyhow, moms I dunno.

I need to go study. Bye.

If only cussing weren't the last refuge of a feeble mind, I would be cussing right now. I had someone FLAKE OUT on me during a group project in my science class for this term, and so I took a hit to my grade, which means that if I don't get a perfect score on the final, which admittedly is completely doable, I will get an A- instead of an A! And that will pull my GPA down since I'm already getting ONLY a B+ in English, because LIKE THE OBFUSCATION OF IDENTITY IN THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL IS EVEN A LITTLE BIT IMPORTANT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS!!!! Mrs. Dayton said I used too many 'I' statements. Well who else's identity do I have to compare it to!? AND WHAT IS UNNECESSARILY FLOWERY LANGUAGE ANYWAY!? She accused me of padding out my page count! SO MAD. Anyway, whatever.

I just really really really need to ace this test completely or there go my chances at Ivy University's prestigious science theory track. My mom made me peanut butter crackers and said she knew I could do it. SO MUCH PRESSURE!

Ugh I totally got grounded guys. It sucks so much. So after that thing at People Park (which went pretty awesome except for the part where the tent started on fire and I had to run away) I realized I left all my supplies there but it was a crime scene and I didn't get my stuff back! My mom was so mad that I lost the liquid nitrogen that she grounded me for a week, which is why I haven't been on the internet for a while. Augh.

My mom said I did a great job on the talent show but she was pissed when I didn't come home right away which might also be part of the reason she grounded me. But I went home and she wasn't there! So I came back to the park but she wasn't there either! So anyhow, she hugged me hard enough to make it hurt and then I told her about the liquid nitrogen and then she grounded me. Moms. 9_9

At least I got the wheelbarrow back but I totally wish I knew where the nitrogen went because I had to save up my allowance for like a really long time to even go halvsies on it with my mom. My mom is still pissed at me tho, so I best get going on my studying.

Yeah so like I said in my last entry I checked that Dale Carnegie book out of the library or whatever. So when I returned it to the library I went out and bought my own copy at the used bookstore because it actually had some good advice in it or something. Stuff like, how you should talk to people about their own interests, easier said than done since everyone at school is only interested in like who's gonna be the next American idol or whatever blaaa.

That's OK because I am pretty sharp myself so I know what to do. I'm just gonna ask everyone on this list what they like to talk about so that if and when we meet in person I'll have read up on it and have something interesting and conversation-provoking to say about whatever it is. I already know the interests of some of the people on here except that they're people who already hate my guts for some reason. (I know you do and don't care why so don't bother telling me.)

So like. Go nuts, what do you like to do?

If anyone cares the reason I've been out of school for a while is because I got in a fight and my mom wouldn't let me go back until she squared it away with the administration and she threatened to follow me around during school and audit all my classes with me so that's why I didn't show up.

I think the girl's floor hockey team got suspended for a couple days for beating me up, but I didn't really feel like telling Daryan and his friend on them, because... well I dunno why except that maybe I got a head injury. They're both jerks... But I guess it was a pretty bad momentary lapse in judgment that I didn't lock that entry more tightly so whatever. They had the upper hand that time anyhow.

Anyway I get the feeling that it's my own fault for being... shall we say.. hard to get along with? I have to make a more sincere effort to make up for the fact that other people are just not as smart as me. I mean, having a few people dislike you out of jealousy is normal, but this many people... At a certain point you have to realize you're just not making enough effort.

So, though I loathe things like this, I've checked out a book from the library that might help... "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie... I'm not sure how much good it'll do so far, but it'll be an interesting experiment to try and see what good applying the concepts from this book will do me. I guess I can write about that in my sociology paper.

[[RETCON ALSO

Kyousaku Kawadzu is now Wesley Stickler

<33333 Update your whatevers if you feel like it, otherwise don't. I've updated all his entries with the new names. ]]

It turns out that Daryan wasn't the cool guy I thought he was. Just another one of the small but tenacious contingency of faceless plebian jerks who don't appreciate me at this school. Even though I put myself at risk of legal action probably by threatening that jerk from the prosecutor's office who was being mean to him, he didn't appreciate it at all. So I've decided to just stop being friends with him. It's not worth all the drama, really. I'm more well-suited to people who engage in more academic pursuits, anyway.

In the long run I really do pity him because as a crass and violent person he will never really understand the endless beauty of knowledge for knowledge's sake, and he probably is not as popular as me as well. It's really quite sad to know that he's driving away all the people who could really have helped him become a better and more.. well... intelligent person.

Oh, and for anyone who saw our little argument, don't worry about me. My calculated and brilliant mind managed to get me at the exact right angle only to have a bad bruise on my face, and to not break my cheekbone. I believe if I hadn't dodged subconsciously, I could have ruined my beautiful face forever. My mom was so worried when I came home.

Anyhow, I hope Daryan is disappointed that he's ruined his chances to be friends with me. Also he should clean his locker because it smells like gym clothes and hairspray and is doubtless full of dangerous bacteria. I hope he enjoys the undoubtedly dysfunctional relationship he has with his prosecutor friend.

Oh, unrelatedly, I was just browsing wikipedia and I found this really fascinating article on biology. Apparently, it's more common than we think!

Please put all your gifts and such in this box, for Wesley Stickler. If the box gets too full, notify me so that I can come and empty it. Thank you for your cooperation!

So me and Daryan hung out this weekend at the library lol. Not like reading or anything. See there's these dudes who are always skateboarding on the concrete steps and stuff in front of the library and they're douchebags. One time one of them "ACCIDENTALLY" pushed me into a mud puddle and then the librarian yelled at me for my books being dirty but it was her fault for not stopping those guys from being jerks in front of the library.

So I went there with Daryan because he was all mad at his friend, some kind of Klaver guy or something I dunno I never met him. He spent most of the time talking about that guy and his girl who's named Ema but I don't think it's the same Ema from my Biochem class because that band dude goes to a different school. But we threw trash at those jerks and it was awesome except for the part where I got a pickle from a hamburger wrapper in my eye and had to go to the bathroom to wash it out. But it made Daryan laugh so it was totally worth it.

When I got back, Daryan was already walking off but I caught up with him and he let me look at his guitar. (Well, it was in its case but I saw it.) He still seems really mad so I dunno what I should do about that, I mean I'd like to help since we're friends now but it's really none of my business. I asked my mom to give me extra dessert in lunch on Monday so I could share, but she totally forgot. Oh well, I guess even parents of geniuses can't be geniuses all the time.

So I signed up to be a witness in that mock trial thing that Apollo was talking about. I'm totally in, I know it, so I started studying up on witnesses testimonies. I am a little pissed that all the true crime books in the library maybe have one or two paragraphs of witness testimony and I don't have access to transcripts or anything and we don't get Court TV or anything so I can't really get much studying in.

So I figured since I had all these friends on the internet I'd ask you guys if any of you had done any witnessing or testifying and maybe you could help me out with this whole mock trial thing. So here's my question..

Did anyone on my friends list ever testify in a trial? If so, what is the best way to do it?

I want to make sure I use my great powers of intelligence to good ends, and make myself the best mock trial witness ever, not that it'll be hard. And hey who knows maybe it'll be a good skill to have in the future. I kindve have my finger on the pulse of everything, so I'm sure I'll see something go down someday probably.

And I would do that meme but everyone else totally already did it and I try to be a leader, not a follower.