Tag Archive: people


1. Guess what?  I get to leave for Colorado tomorrow for Thanksgiving break!!!  Yaaaa!!!  Four whole days and one half-day in the great state of CO!!!!!  I get to see my parentals, my Uncle and his fam, my cat and the new Harry Potter movie!!  So excited!!!!!!!  Yaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. This is from my PR book in the chapter about  writing ~ “Writing is easy,” said U.S. journalist and playwright Gene Fowler. “All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”  (and a little later)  Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway declared, “Writing is easy.  Just open a vein and bleed on paper.”  ~ I laughed at both of those quotations  :D

3. I thought my mom would enjoy this one – this is from my Twitter feed there was this little movement the other day where people would tweet something that they would have told their 16-yr-old self and this one came from someone who posts as Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter ~ Lord_Voldemort7 #tweetyour16yearoldself Choose Neville Longbottom! Choose Neville Longbottom!

4. I’ve been watching waaaaaay too many Westerns, the other night I dreamt that I was part of a cattle drive (the cattle were owned by my dad) and that I trained my own horse (she was beautiful though, I liked that part of it).  Wow.

5. I looked out my peephole the other morning and it took me a few minutes to realize that what I was seeing wasn’t the sun shining brightly but was in fact bright, white snow on the ground…damn snow (and winter) has arrived in SoDak.  That wasn’t so bad though because it was a light snowfall and was mostly gone by nightfall.  I’m hoping that any blizzard-type weather waits until I’m not living in the state anymore…

6. You know I might have been able to handle living away from the mountains of CO and farther away from family if it weren’t for the damn wind in this state, it’s unbelievable!

7. Days to graduation = 17

w/ weekends and holidays = 25

w/o holidays = 21, by the next week-in-a-flash this one won’t be necessary because the number will be the same as w/ weekends and holidays…hmmm…

8. Bored, excited, stressed, tired…I am so eager to just be done already.

9. I wonder if, sometimes, my strong reactions to things and my passions come off as bitchiness…*sigh* why is it so hard to talk to people about hot button issues without it dissolving into an argument?  I just don’t understand, I mean I understand being passionate about an issue and wanting to convey to people the reason for that passion but that doesn’t mean you have to dismiss someonelse’s viewpoint, does it?  That’s what I don’t understand, I don’t understand being so locked into an opinion that anytime someone raises an opposing view you are unable to proceed in the discussion and remain polite…I try, I really try to remain open-minded while still retaining my views and beliefs and I try to give other people’s views and opinions a fair shake but I also like, adore engaging in discussion and debate. I like it when people disagree with me, I like it when someone has a different point of view but dammit I don’t like it when people are so set in their ways and so locked in the status quo that they dismiss me out of hand.  I just wish that I could find a way to engage in discussion and debate with others that doesn’t end in an argument…that’s all.

10. The song and the video brought me to tears, so beautiful!

11. This was too awesome not to share, read and enjoy! http://thenoreaster.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/sunbeams-12/

12. I have a professor who can’t remember my name in class but when I pass this professor in the hallways they call me by name and say hi..wierd, maybe there’s some sort of memory vortex in the classroom…

13. Yesterday I looked outside and it was…well, I guess it depends on how much you like snow, it was either a winter wonderland or an arctic tundra.  I prefer arctic tundra.  (btw #5 happened either Wednesday or Thursday of last week, completely unrelated).

1. I figured out what America should be known for, or maybe I should say I figured out Americans’ superpower…the ability to take ANY topic and polarize it.  I was reading an article on Yahoo! about the Tsunami and volcano eruption that happened last Tuesday in Indonesia and because I’m morbidly curious I decided to browse through the comments and I was shocked.  I mean honestly people are amazing, they were taking this natural disaster and terrible event and politicizing it – saying things about how it’s a sign of the end times and it’s not that sad because it’s supposedly a Muslim country and how if it happened here (the US) they would be celebrating and that we shouldn’t send aid and how it is somehow Obama’s fault and he is destroying the US (how that relates to a Tsunami I’ll never know) and how it’s God’s judgment for them being Muslim and on and on and on and on.  And I was just amazed and disgusted and saddened.  But hey I figured out what Americans’ superpower is so that counts for something right?

2. I despise cold weather!  Boo, hiss.  :(

3. People are amazing…and, unfortunately, I mean that in a bad way.

4. tired…

5. Everything that I have on my mind to say and all that has happened in the past week will just turn in to me ranting and raving soooo I’m going to not say any of it, I’m too tired to rant right now…maybe later or maybe if I thought it would make a difference.  But as it stands I’ll be just one more voice within a million and I’m too tired to try.

6. Watched The Magnificent Seven for my Topics class, it was good.  I had watched Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai already so I knew the storyline but it was still really good.  Plus…Steve McQueen is fine, especially when he’s in cowboy gear on a horse!  ;D

7. Days to Graduation w/o holidays or weekends = 29

w/ holidays and weekends = 45

w/o holidays = 40

8. Just 20 days until I get to go home for Thanksgiving!!!!  Yaaaaaaaa!!!!!

9. Hey don’t forget Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday – turn your clocks back an hour!

10. I finally learned how to do the bridge thing that you do when you shuffle a deck of cards, yesssss…it only took what 10+ years…yeah, I’m cool like that  ;)