Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell

Tonight, I have little purpose but to express a thought of mine.

I've been trying to figure out what makes a person interesting to me, and I hit on at least an element of it. First of all, I'm going to use the word stereotype, and I want to define it carefully. It is my observation that, while they have unique characteristics for sure, the majority of people can be classified into a stereotype roughly - there is, after all, a reason for most stereotypes to exist (I'm talking personality stereotypes). Maybe Ashley could expand on this from her psych courses, but from my experience most people roughly fall into one catagory or another - as an example, Stereotype X may have attributes A, B, C, D and E - person Y may be an X if they have only A, C, D and E. Its close, it allows for some variations but they fit into a group - goth, prep, jock, nerd, emo, the list goes on.

And its my observation that the people whom I find the most interesting are people who either don't fit into any classification at all... or draw equally from a number of different catagories - I put myself into the latter and people like Daren into the former. They're people who don't have one word/phrase descriptions for themselves, people who have depth and character, people who have oddities, eccentricities, people who can really only be known by knowing them over long periods of time.

That should be controversial enough to get my chatterbox going with flaming comments :).

A toast to you whom I call my closest of friends - and you know who you are - for you are these very special people... people who know what it means to be people.

I also have an announcement to make before I go to bed. Today I got on the scale and to be honest... it scared me. So as of tonight midnight (in 6 minutes) I am cutting my nemesis - soft drinks - out of my diet. Completely. Actually I find even Coke, my addiction, is becoming too sweet for my liking. In replacement will be much water, chocolate milk on occasion and french vanilla for the caffeine hits. I'm also going to cut down on the amount of lunch I buy at school both to save more money and to eat better :). Finally I'm going to use the exercise bike my parents bought more often. If you want to encourage me, post below in encouragement :). My goal is to get below 200 - if I can get to and maintain 180, I will be happy.

And now... for bed!

*hugs to all and to all a goodnight*

~ Dep ~