VOTING DAY FOR JULIX

Alcatraz was on my ballot for being taken away from the government in order to become a Global Peace Center. I would like to say outright that as much as I believe in peace (thought I now realize that this doesn’t make sense and when someone says they want ‘world peace’ they are just dumb and don’t even understand that peace is really relative and that peace doesn’t even have a concrete meaning), I think this whole idea is HORRIBLE. Do people actually think that peace is better than a historical prison? I think not. No way. Prison is something that no one ever gets to see. Unless you are in prison, have family in prison, or are my sister. My sister hates prison, yet she spends all her time there. She likes to kick it with the prisoners in the South. Go figure!

I spent my 16th birthday at Alcatraz. Would I have wanted to spend it as at a Global Peace Center? NO. Global Peace isn’t edgy. Global Peace does not resonate with teenagers. Global Peace doesn’t have a cool audio tour where you hear the prisoners banging their silverware on the table. Global Peace doesn’t have a ferry that takes you there. Global Peace is not a tourist attraction.

I voted for Obama. I don’t know why. I really wanted to vote for Mitt Romney. He wasn’t on my ballot. I didn’t really want to vote for him, I just find him interesting because he reminds me of the dad from 7th Heaven. Is that bad?

Something horrible happened today–I learned that people who actually do math and science don’t use Excel. I talked to two people who are nerdy Jewish boy science/math people and neither of them had heard of pivot tables. I thought I was SO GREAT for knowing about pivot tables. They made me feel like I was really intelligent and mathy, but apparently I was way wrong. Me and Joe:

me: do you know what pivot tables are?

12:35 PM Joe: no!

12:36 PM me: really???

you don’t!

they are part of excel!

12:37 PM Joe: i haven’t used excel since middle school computers class

me: really?

not with your science work?

12:40 PM Joe: no… we use like.. more complicated things.

some scientists use excel, but we laugh at them … it’s like children’s toys compared to big fancy equipment

12:41 PM me: that is why ben purcell didn’t know about them either!

i hate you guys!

i thought i was so cool!

Joe: yeah we do suck, it’s true.

oh julix, you are cool

just not because of pivot tables

me: hahahahah

do you want me to email you some?

Joe: no

but thx

me: PLEASE

I feel pretty sad about this. Especially because I quoted gchat as evidence. Sad day.

Just now while I was talking to Walker, the Holocaust came up. Just like that. I told him how much I love Holocaust museums. I think they’re really well done. It would be pretty bad if they weren’t well done. I hate the Holocaust, but I love museums about it. Interestingly, I love art and hate art museums. I would rather do anything than go to an art museum. This is probably because I have spent too many hours in them already. I have fullfilled my quota. Schools need to stop taking field trips to art museums. They need to start going to Alcatraz more! Or reading more. It is so much better to be literate than tosee a bunch of art. Seriously. If kids are interested in art, they should just make some. Why do they have to go see a bunch of shit in a quiet room? That is no fun for kids.

Courtney is in school and she is taking a class about concrete. She neeeds to build a new art museum. One that kids can just do whatever the fuck the want in it. One where they can design the museum themselves. Their museum. No fucking Upper East Side shit museums. I’m sick of that shit.