Things to Read

I've been really into reading some hard-core books lately. Not sex hard-core, but politics hard-core. I read, "Dude, Where's my country?" by Michael Moore. He asks some very important questions that were not answered about the War In Iraq and the propaganda leading up to that war. I've gotten about half way through David Icke's "Alice In Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster" and I'm currently reading "LIES (And the LYING LYARS Who Tell Them)" by Al Franken. Can you tell which way I lean? In all fairness, I really did try to watch the O'Reilly factor tonight and he does have some good points. But god forbid anyone dissagrees with him. He is always right, and he'll outright lie or make shit up just to make himself look better. For all the proof regarding those allegations, please read that book I just mentioned by Al Franken. It will totally open your eyes. I've also vowed to read Ann Coulter's book, even though Al Franken refers to her as a "nutcase." I usually get really riled up during years where I will eventually get to vote for the next president (and I will vote for anyone who is not Bush.)

So my Physics class is showing promise. I actually understand everything so far, and the teacher seems to know what he's talking about. Isn't our education in a sad state when we can't actully trust that teachers will know what the hell they're talking about when you are paying for a class? You have to wonder every semester if you are really going to get a good education or not. Of course, I've paid for nothing this semester due to my Scholarship, but that runs out after this semester. My philosophy of religion teacher is an old, white christian man, but he doesn't seem so bad. I don't get the feeling that he's going to proselytize or anything. One of our assignments is to go to a church that we are not familiar with at all, and it can't be a christian church, and do a 5 page paper on our experience. Heather is taking the class with me, and I think we're going to go to a Hindu temple, or figure out what Ba'hai is. (I probably didn't even spell that right.)


SHE BANGS! SHE BANGS! WHoa. Sorry. American Idol moment.

We have this new guy at our work. He's a 40 year old gay jewish guy who had gastrointestinal bipass surgury a year ago and has lost 150 pounds. You know, we never get anyone normal. It certainly makes things interesting. Like take a look at (before you click on this link, it's Not Safe For Work)this. YUP. I work with that guy as well. No, I'm not kidding. He's one of the few down to earth people that I know at that job, plus he's a really nice guy.

OH! I got invited to a private party at Steve Wyrick's house next week. All the people that deal with the public are invited to his private home to, I don't quite know. You better belive I'm going. I went to see him when he was playing at the Sahara, and man, was it awful. I went this one time with my Uncles and we were all just laughing the whole time. I've heard that the show is no better at the Aladdin. I wonder if his show will stay when the Aladdin turns into Planet Hollywood. I guess we'll see. I'll let you know how the party went, and I'm going to try to smuggle in a camera, so we'll see what happens.

Columbia

So when I opened up my Physics text book, guess what the first page said?

We dedicate this book to the courageous astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. The women and men of the international team lost their lives not in a contest between countries or a struggle for necessities but in advancing one of humankind's noblest creations - science.

Yeah, I had tears in my eyes. And no doubt in my mind as to my chosen occupation. I went for a job interview to be our director of marketings' assistant. I even got a second interview. I didn't get it, but that whole situation made me realize that I'm really not made out for corporate america. I think the sentence that made my director not chose me for the job was, "I always belive in giving people a second chance. If someone does something wrong, and they are told it is wrong they should get the chance to redo or make it up somehow. I guess that I believe that if we are open and honest with other people, they will do the right thing and be open and honest with us." That sentence of course does not apply to killers, child molesters or rapists, but you get the idea. I'm just too honest for a corporate job. Or as most people would say, naive. You really have to be a shark. You have to be willing to be on the lookout to document whomever is in your way so you can get them fired so that they are no longer in the way anymore. All of the questions that I was asked in the second interview that I had had nothing to do with what my job would have been. They had to do with who was doing what to whom, and who was smoking when they weren't supposed to be. It seemed like my boss was just looking for the ammo he needed to have an excuse to lay people off. Man, I really hate my job sometimes. On that note, I'm going to my real job: Physics 180 - YEAH BABY, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!1

WOW! October!

Boy am I a bad "blogger" hey? I did get all A's again this semester, which is amazing considering I moved and all. I just had a job interview today to be our department's directors assistant. It would pay $13/hr which is much better than the $9.55/hr that I'm making now. Did you know that we get paid the least of all of the people that work at the Aladdin? Pretty sad, isn't it?



I'm taking Physics and a Philosophy course next semester. I'll be taking the Philosophy course with my roomate, which is really cool. My roomates are just cool anyway. Living on my own is most definately an eye-opening experience. Paying more than one bill? WOW. Never did that before.



Christmas and New Years was great. I did have to work on all the major holidays though which kind of sucked. I got contact lenses again because I got sick of seeing the outline of my glasses.



My friend Andy won a trip to Las Vegas on New Years, so finally after me being here for five and a half years, he's finally going to come and see me! I've been back to Edmonton 3 times. Yes, I am keeping count. Oh my god. My 10 year high school reuinion is in 3 years. I started to feel a little older during school this year. In my psychology class we had to come up with a theme song for ourselves. After much deliberation, I chose "Are You Gonna Go My Way," by Lenny Kravitz. As far as I knew, EVERYONE knew that song. It was on the top of the charts for weeks, they played it at every high school dance, at every night club, and it was on the radio every 5 minutes. When I played it for the class, most of the people were too young to remember that song being popular. OUCH. I really need to finish college, this is getting depressing.



Brandon and I are still planning on coming up to Edmonton in the summer, but we decided to take a car instead of an RV. It will be faster, cheaper and easier. Kind of like the plan that NASA came up with.



Speaking of NASA, we'll see if good ol' Dubya keeps his promise about space travel. He'll probably promise all the exclusive building contracts on the Moon to Haliburton, Enron, Exxon and every other company that he happens to personally endorse. Am I bitter? You better belive it.



So I don't know when the next time is that you'll hear from me. Maybe if I don't try to make an effort to write here, i'll write here more often. But then i'll know deep down that i've used that reverese psychology to try to get myself to write here more, and i'll end up waiting another 6 months. But then knowing THAT maybe i'll trick myself again and eventually write here more often. OH GOd, I need to go to sleep.