[Hivemind] We are all made of stars.

[Alzrius]

I'm ok now, it's just that today I had the realization that I overestimated my importance. Not a pleasant thing at all.

Aww, that's so sad!

Alzrius hugs Ashwyn

Here at the Hive, you're important to all of us Teddy Bear. Isn't that right guys?

 

[8XXX{0}====>]

Hey Sword,
Who's Richard Hoffsteader?

I'm not gonna rant. I want too, but I wont.

Hoffsteader, or Hoffy as my class calls him, wrote a book in 1948 called "The American Political Tradition," his massive triatise on American History. It was widely aclaimed as a good good book. And for his time, its actually a pretty revolutionary perspective on US Hist.

See, my AP US class reads three books. The textbook, a sort of standard history textbook, unfortunatly lacking in pictures, etc, and a bit dense; Hoffy, which is a pretty good read, but is a bit dry and longwinded, and Carl Degler's Out of Our Past, another, more recent, historical analysis. Each week we read a chapter from the textbook, and a chapter of either Hoffy or Deggy.

But... since the chapter i'm reading is 40 pages long... bleh.

 

[Ashwyn]

Aww, that's so sad!

Alzrius hugs Ashwyn

Thanks. It's just something I have to accept. I'm really pretty unremarkable. With all the people there are, it's not really that surprising.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

So how 'bout them Padres?

 

[Alzrius]

Thanks. It's just something I have to accept. I'm really pretty unremarkable. With all the people there are, it's not really that surprising.

Hey now, that's the wrong attitude to take. Everyone is remarkable in their own special way, and everyone is special in a way that no one else can duplicate. Just being here is a good example. What would the Collective be like without its Teddy Bear I ask you?

 

[Ashwyn]

So how 'bout them Padres?

I'm sorry, I don't follow sports.

 

[Steve Jung]

I'm not gonna rant. I want too, but I wont.

<snip>
See, my AP US class reads three books. The textbook, a sort of standard history textbook, unfortunatly lacking in pictures, etc, and a bit dense; Hoffy, which is a pretty good read, but is a bit dry and longwinded, and Carl Degler's Out of Our Past, another, more recent, historical analysis. Each week we read a chapter from the textbook, and a chapter of either Hoffy or Deggy.

But... since the chapter i'm reading is 40 pages long... bleh.

Ouch,
It's a good thing I didn't take AP History, then. What's the chapter about?

 

[Ashwyn]

How are you doing tonight, Andrew?

 

[Skade]

Thanks. It's just something I have to accept. I'm really pretty unremarkable. With all the people there are, it's not really that surprising.

grrr.

You need a Snickers. Negativity, another side effect of hunger.

 

[8XXX{0}====>]

The chapter was about Hoover, and how although he did some dumb stuff as president, he redeemed himself in post-presidency years as the concience of the republican party, a sort of spirit of the strict moral times that lay behind them.

And now i'm reading another thing, a packet, with the opposite viewpoint, that Hoover was a good president considering all the stuff he had to deal with. And after i finish it i have to write five paragraphs discussing five of the things they have opinions on, and how each compares and contrasts to the other.

No fun.