Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Well, I was meaning to write a lengthy entry on Friday, but the server crashed. Then I had too many other activities yesterday and the day prior.

But, at any rate, I would like to discuss what began yesterday. Yesterday was the beginning of Lent, which normally wouldn't affect an atheist such as myself--in fact I hadn't even heard of it until a few years ago--were it not for the fact that our schools bend over backwards to accommodate it. You see, during Lent Catholics can't eat any meat that isn't fish on Fridays for some reason.They also have to give up something important to them for its duration--I'm not sure how long that is. I'd like to see one give up religion, but that's just me. Anyway, in elementary and middle school we only had one lunch line, which on Fridays during Lent had some fish meal which they never served at any other time in the year. Note that they didn't give kosher food during the rest of the year, and they sometime served beef, and they probably didn't follow the dietary constraints of many other religions that I don't know of.

At any rate, then I went to Forestview for a semester, due to remodelling in my old school--Mississippi. They had four lines: a main line, a grill, a pizza line, and a salad bar. Now, they allowed bag lunches in the previous schools, so it doesn't make any sense for them to change their meals specifically for Catholics anyway, but with a salad bar surely they wouldn't, would they? Yes, they would. All of these lines had odd, land-dwelling meat-less dishes which weren't served at any other time in the year. They weren't even being sneaky about it.

And so we come to Senior High. Now they finally have the courage to offer some alternatives. Yet they still have those odd dishes. Not the infamous veggie burger, or just saying to eat from the salad bar or bring your own lunch like Orthodox Jews, Hindus, Muslims, et cetera.

At any rate, time for English lesson number six--I fucked up on numbering that last one. "Gots" is not a word. Say "has" or "has got," you fucking moron. Is it really that hard to move the "s" to the noun?