Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
What do you do...
...when you have a blog you don't write in as often as you would like, a blog you often feel you neglect? Well you start another one...of course!
That's right loyal fans I have started a new blog (on wordpress, shh, don't let blogger know..)! You might be asking yourself, 'Two blogs, really? Is that necessary?' To which I would say, this new blog has a different focus, so yes, really two blogs are needed. Now no one worry, I will be keeping up with both blogs (well, as least as well as I keep up with this one as is) so there is no reason to fear.
Check it out!
That's right loyal fans I have started a new blog (on wordpress, shh, don't let blogger know..)! You might be asking yourself, 'Two blogs, really? Is that necessary?' To which I would say, this new blog has a different focus, so yes, really two blogs are needed. Now no one worry, I will be keeping up with both blogs (well, as least as well as I keep up with this one as is) so there is no reason to fear.
Check it out!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Stepping into the modern age...
I have a fancy new phone. It goes on the internet. It's a touch screen. It has apps.
I've decided to view this purchase as a step towards further adulthood; though I'm not really sure how a phone that lets me pass away the hours by watching videos and playing games is going to make me more of an adult. Though so far it has made getting places easier. I've yet to judge it's lasting effects on my ability to get lost - I think that might be something that no piece of technology will ever overcome.
So far I think it's pretty cool.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
And people say we don't need affirmative action anymore
While looking into schools (more on that later) I came across the following statistics regarding this particular schools student population:
While I've always felt people who claimed that minorities were given too much 'special treatment' were delusional, I was still surprised at these stats. We have a lot further to go to bring up those numbers. While I have never been one to stop at just statistics, I think putting faces to numbers is more important, sometimes the cold hard percentages are necessary to show where we are, and remind us where we should be.
Students of Color
Undergraduates
- African-American: 3%
- Asian-American: 15%
- Latino/a: 9%
- International: 4%
Graduate students
- African-American: 8%
- Asian-American: 9%
- Latino/a: 11%
- International: 16%
While I've always felt people who claimed that minorities were given too much 'special treatment' were delusional, I was still surprised at these stats. We have a lot further to go to bring up those numbers. While I have never been one to stop at just statistics, I think putting faces to numbers is more important, sometimes the cold hard percentages are necessary to show where we are, and remind us where we should be.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Reasons why I don't belong in corporate america...
+ I'm not rich (or on the path to becoming so).
+ I'm more concerned about the trees you are killing with all the (useless) reports you are printing than the money they could make you (this is probably the reason I am not on the path to becoming wealthy).
+ I think there are more important things in the world than getting you airline miles for the flight I booked you. And I refuse indulge your concern over them.
+ I am a hippie
+ Cliche business phrases (behind the 8-ball, the ball is in your court, we really need to buckle down, lets think big picture) make me laugh...out loud.
+ Pretending to be nice to important people leads me to drink.
+ Making significantly less than people who don't know how to use a copy machines leads me to drink more.
+ I don't own stock. And I don't have a problem with that.
I don't want to entirely give the impression that all things that are inherent in corporate america are bad. They are just not for me. While I strive to have enough money to pay all my bills and have some for fun, money will never be a number one priority for me, other elements of a successful life are more what I measure myself by. So to each his own I suppose - I just need to keep working on that life plan.
+ I'm more concerned about the trees you are killing with all the (useless) reports you are printing than the money they could make you (this is probably the reason I am not on the path to becoming wealthy).
+ I think there are more important things in the world than getting you airline miles for the flight I booked you. And I refuse indulge your concern over them.
+ I am a hippie
+ Cliche business phrases (behind the 8-ball, the ball is in your court, we really need to buckle down, lets think big picture) make me laugh...out loud.
+ Pretending to be nice to important people leads me to drink.
+ Making significantly less than people who don't know how to use a copy machines leads me to drink more.
+ I don't own stock. And I don't have a problem with that.
I don't want to entirely give the impression that all things that are inherent in corporate america are bad. They are just not for me. While I strive to have enough money to pay all my bills and have some for fun, money will never be a number one priority for me, other elements of a successful life are more what I measure myself by. So to each his own I suppose - I just need to keep working on that life plan.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
NASCAR's Secret
Scene: I am at the gas station, getting gas. My car is very dirty (this is often the case).
Random guy with Nascar shirt: Hello there, I'd like to share with you Nascar's secret for cleaning your car. Please, allow me to give you a free demo of this product.
Me: ::kinda nod ok::
Guy: ::Sprays window with magical cleaning product:: See how it quickly removes the dirt. Is that tree sap?
Me: yeah, I think so.
Guy: ::cleaning window:: So I'm assuming you park your car outside.
Random guy with Nascar shirt: Hello there, I'd like to share with you Nascar's secret for cleaning your car. Please, allow me to give you a free demo of this product.
Me: ::kinda nod ok::
Guy: ::Sprays window with magical cleaning product:: See how it quickly removes the dirt. Is that tree sap?
Me: yeah, I think so.
Guy: ::cleaning window:: So I'm assuming you park your car outside.
Guy: See look how clean that looks and it's smudge proof. ::runs fingers over window:: Now we can move onto the door. You just spray a little foam here and rub. ::rubbing at door - not much dirt is coming off:: Well when you car is extra dirty like this you need a little more. ::sprays more foam - keeps rubbing::
Guy: I can see that. It's really dirty.
Guy: It also takes out scratches ::starts to spray magic foam on a few little scratches:: You know if you leave all this dirt on here for long it will start to eat away at the clear coat and then the paint.
Guy: ::getting the hint:: As I said this is a nascar secret and it normally goes for $25 a can but today we will throw in an additional can for...
Guy: ::knowing this must have been inevitable:: Well, thanks for your time.
Frankly, I think his first mistake was approaching the girl with by far the dirtiest car in the place - maybe he was trying to prove a point. He wanted a challenge. But clearly if I don't pay $10 for someone else to wash my car I'm not gonna pay $25 for some foam that I have to use myself.
Monday, June 14, 2010
"Dear John, you have pushed me too far."
This weekend I realized I have to make a change. I have let myself get out of control and it's not ok. I need to stop watching TV. Now.
The event that brought this harsh reality to light was not technically speaking tv, as it was a movie but it fell into the same general category of most things I watch on tv - being that is was something I did not actually have any desire to see. I think it was the shear stupidity and shameful time wasting that really caused me to see what I had allowed to happen. It's easy to waste an hour here and 30 minutes there watching some stupid show because you are too lazy to get up and do anything productive but on Saturday night I sent two hours watching 'Dear John'. That shit is not acceptable. Not only was it a horrible movie (shocker), I knew it was going to be a horrible movie and I watched it anyway. I somehow convinced myself that that was an ok use of two hours of my life. This needs to stop.
So, I have decided that I need to set a limit on my weekly television time - I feel like I'm eight. But it needs to happen. I have mental list on top of mental list of things I should be doing with my time and somehow I end up just watching tv / equally bad movies. No More. Starting today, Monday, I am going to limit myself to 4 hours of frivolous tv watching a week. I don't include in this movies I actually want to watch that are on my netflix - though the time I spend a month actually watching these is usually minimal. This number is just a starting point and I may lower it after time if it seems like still too much.
Hopefully this will get me started on my mental to-do lists.
The event that brought this harsh reality to light was not technically speaking tv, as it was a movie but it fell into the same general category of most things I watch on tv - being that is was something I did not actually have any desire to see. I think it was the shear stupidity and shameful time wasting that really caused me to see what I had allowed to happen. It's easy to waste an hour here and 30 minutes there watching some stupid show because you are too lazy to get up and do anything productive but on Saturday night I sent two hours watching 'Dear John'. That shit is not acceptable. Not only was it a horrible movie (shocker), I knew it was going to be a horrible movie and I watched it anyway. I somehow convinced myself that that was an ok use of two hours of my life. This needs to stop.
So, I have decided that I need to set a limit on my weekly television time - I feel like I'm eight. But it needs to happen. I have mental list on top of mental list of things I should be doing with my time and somehow I end up just watching tv / equally bad movies. No More. Starting today, Monday, I am going to limit myself to 4 hours of frivolous tv watching a week. I don't include in this movies I actually want to watch that are on my netflix - though the time I spend a month actually watching these is usually minimal. This number is just a starting point and I may lower it after time if it seems like still too much.
Hopefully this will get me started on my mental to-do lists.
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