A great philosopher once said, " To inflict harm upon another is a human's first instinct, because a subject always looks for the source of the pain, whereas performing favors for another has the subject looking inward for a source of desert."  I could not agree more.  To be a more advanced human is to be conditioned to seek the source of pleasure.  Further still is the human that performs an act so great that a subject knows that the desert does not lie within, and thusly looks outward.  To be divine is to not meet that gaze with satisfaction.

A philosophy that does not motivate your every action is merely a religion.

-Trev

Having watched one to many episodes of the Mentalist in my life, I decided to perform an experiment.  You see I have at least 5 problem children on my all this session.  Controlling all of them had been impossible for an extended period of time.  So I decided to cheat.  If I could neutralize 2 or 3 of the hellions then my nights would become manageable.  I tried everything, bribery, threats, reasoning, and even physical force.  Nothing worked.  Then last night I decided to try something radically different.  I went up to two of my most rambunctious kids, and tapped them gently on the hand as I uttered, "You, be good tonight."  The response was instant and unexpected.  Both times the practice was greeted by this response: "What?"

I repeated the process, and then both children responded: "Okay, I will."  And they did.

July has been different.  At times it has been gratifying, and at times terrifying, but more than anything July has been tiring.  I'm sick of this place.  I think it's the smell of it, or maybe the fact that I'm trapped like a teenager on house arrest, without A/C, and without stimulating conversation.  I asked a girl to point blank talk to me about something deep today, she said she wanted to go to the mall.  The Spaniards leave on Thursday; I will be sad to see them go.  Many of them have made me laugh at America in ways I never thought possible, and at the same time be more proud of my heritage than ever before.

"Jes, I hhhaf herrd of this Wal - Marrt.  It is the place where you look this way and djou see tirres and den jou look this way and see FOOD!  WooooW."

-Kike