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Okay then folks. I’m just going to go ahead and post this little bit I wrote in Honors Comp today. You might ask why I’m posting this. Well simple answer is, I don’t know. My mind is simply all a flurry today and not for good reasons. As such, I think I’ll be random and post my notes on my Composition blog for no apparent reason.
I could give you an entire nonsensical discourse on why I put this on the blog. I could give you a beautiful discourse I had the other night with a friend on why armadillos are better than trees, but I digress.
The point is it’s on the blog.
We don’t know why.
We don’t care why.
In all probability no one reads this crazy thing anyway and the Professor thinks I’m an insane sad excuse for a student. So why am I doing this?
To rant, to express myself and hopefully find that little scrap of sanity left in my brain after the common sense moved out and left that wonderful ‘This Space For Rent’ sign. I’m pretty sure right now there are a couple of dust bunnies looking at moving in, but we’re not sure, they haven’t made a bid and I’m pretty sure they don’t have enough for the down payment. Well with that being said: here’s my notes from today’s class.
Things I hate
Close-minded people
Sexist people
Racist People
Bad attitudes
Insensitive jerks who enjoy running over other people just because they are different
Shopping
Valley girls
Southern accent haters
People who’s IQs are smaller than their shoe size because they don’t care to work at becoming better people
Being lonely
Mental breakdowns
Hypocrites
The Cubs
Jeff Gordon
People who tell me I’m worthless
Overtly hypocritical religious zealots
Rod Blagojevich
Emil Jones
Dick Durbin
Tomatoes
People who just don’t care
My body type
That my ears don’t match
My lack of social skills
Ok this wasn’t part of the assignment, but I feel like writing a ‘things I like’ list just to balance out all the bad karma here.
Things I like
Ketchup
Helping other people
4-H /All my awesome 4-H friends
Being good at what I do
Philosophy
Networking
Learning new skills/facts
Books of all types (!!!!!!)
Rednecks (I live in a small town in Central Illinois. It’s irony. Learn to like it.)
Cowboys/girls
Farm / Ag people
Running
Business people
People involved in politics/government (notice I did not say politicians)
Wise individuals. Note: Wisdom cannot be found in a text book or on a college campus and is not always found with age. Wisdom is found through understanding.
Good teachers/ professors who love their jobs despite the grossly unfair pay
Cars
Money (Hey, I ain’t gonna lie. I like money. That’s why this is an ‘I like’ list instead of an ‘I love’ list.)
Being valued as a person/friend
Counseling people/listening to their troubles/offering advice
Public Speaking (!!!)
Writing (!!!!!!!!!!!)
Manners/Decorum/Honor
Diversity
My incredibly strange and often mysterious way of thinking
DOCUMENTARY:
I feel I should write my reaction to this documentary as I watch it. Yes I know it’s biased. But just the fact that this hits really close to home for me. I mean I COME from that area of America. I AM that. My father is a truck driver, my mother is a part time secretary. I mean, I UNDERSTAND what these people are talking about. Gosh darn it all, this is all too familiar.
You know as I think about this, I wonder how many people in this room right now have actually had a parent lose a job. How about a parent who is the main breadwinner for the household? I honestly wonder that. I don’t mean it reproachfully, I mean it as an honest question. Does this documentary ring as true for others as it does for me?
How do you stand up for yourself? How on earth do you do it when you can’t stand on your own two feet as it is? You can’t afford to do anything? You can’t go to college, you HAVE no opportunities. You can’t do anything? How do you escape?
Huh?
You can’t, oh well…. Ok.
You are a prisoner of the system. Walmart does kill communities. But how can you get out?
I want to fight for the underdog! Gosh darn it. This movie is biased against Walmart, I know, but honestly this ignites that little passionate fire in me. Especially when they start talking about worker’s rights. I eventually would like to end up in labor relations or labor law as an attorney. I know it’s a dangerous job for those in the legal profession, but its something I have always had a great passion for: standing up for people.
Note: Inspiration for nonsense provided courtesy of the following brilliant blogs
http://race-08.livejournal.com/
http://o-the-insanity.blogspot.com/
Since no one reads this thing anyway, I thought I’d go ahead and tell you that I didn’t copy anything from the above mentioned blogs, these are two very close friends of mine. You can see the influence of ‘random writings’ they have exerted on me….
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