highlights from thursday's DBQ

• Andrew Jackson was under-educated, openly racist, and he loved to stir discourse and pugnacity
• Not satisfied to leave the nation in capable hands, Jackson exercised every power he was legally able to as president—and then some
•  a reputation Jackson attempted to keep, inhibited mostly by his lack of proper intelligence
• This election turned out a large quantity of voters, which was not necessarily a good thing, since the voters were more interested in socialization and alcohol than politicking
• Jackson’s administration condoned violence as a part of such vital institutions as voting, which is wholly inappropriate
• Jackson continued to demonstrate a disregard for the good of the public by putting together the “kitchen cabinet” 
• It is doubtful that Andrew Jackson ever read the Constitution
• A man full of delicious contradictions
• Andrew Jackson was not a man of great reason
• the administration was too inconsistent and disorganized (and Jackson too temperamental) to keep any of its promises

i like andrew jackson and he seems like a cool dude

he has that hair

this is my blog and i will do what i want with it

look at me, writing a blog post

today i went to the elementary school "musical" because two of my cousins were in it. most of it was cute but there's a cutoff for small children singing songs together being cute and it's around age eight or nine, and studies show that about 40% of all elementary school children are above those.
did you know?

i wanted to go to the spring theatre festival at the high school (which is where i go to school and no one is cute) but all the doors to the school were locked and it seemed to have sold out anyway, so i didn't do that.

and then nothing else really happened.
i think i'll have a sandwich.

i posted this on livejournal too because i'm the coolest

conversation with amanda that has been going over in my head a lot lately

scene: ca. 2003, mtv is on, "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous" by Good Charlotte
some paraphrasing has occurred

amanda: i love this song!!1!!1!
me: what is this song about
amanda: it's about rich people being high-maintenance*
me: oh. but this is a band. aren't they rich and famous? they are on television.
amanda: no. they're punk.
me: oh.

i'm doing a good job of putting off my DBQ right now.



*despite being ~7, i was familiar with this term (and its negative connotations) because my brother and sister often used it in reference to their sims families' customised personalities.