Smiles' Crazy Blog

So, I haven't posted in nearly three months. I have been busier than a son-of-a-gun. Most of my days were spent working, then school, then officiating, then sleeping. I wanted to blog, but when I sat down to do it, I had neither energy, nor motivation. However now I have some time because it is finals week and I have nothing to do today, well nothing that has to be done today. So what is going on.

One class I am taking this term is Medieval History. It is a pretty good class, except that it is very hard for me to stay awake during. That is beside the point. The major project in the class was to either do a presentation or do an artistic representation of something Medieval. Well I did the artistic representation because I couldn't pick a topic in time to get a presentation scheduled. My topic was the trebuchet.

A word to the wise. If you do not have the ability to cut angular notches into your wood, do not make a trebuchet, or at least use different instructions than I did. It became apparent, while I have decent woodworking skills, that I did not have the ability to make the trebuchet as the plans suggested. I was scaling it down, but still it was very difficult. I had a very difficult time trying to nail 3/4 inch wood. For some reason it did not work well. However after a few short 6 hours of frustration I completed my trebuchet and when I had it in class, my professor walked in looked at it and said "cool." I hope I get an "A".

Writing class has been an adventure. I have done well, but there was a lot of tension in my class between a veteran and a group of four very opinionated students. Why this is important is that I sat right in between those people the whole term. While most of the discussion was from the group of four, who didn't understand the language that the veteran, who is about my age, used. He exaggerated his points in order make them. So he believed that the best course of action in the middle east was military action. However, when you have a controversial opinion you should probably put it better than he did. His exaggeration was that we needed to go there and blow the whole place up. Now, I understood this exaggeration. I think he did as well, however the group of four took it that he wanted to commit genocide against the people who live in the middle east. While that happened at the beginning of the semester and while things never really escalated too greatly, the group would disagree with any opinion that he had. So the last day we were to share what the main idea of our final paper was. I believe that the group was going to disagree with whatever he said. His argument could have been the sky is blue. They would argue that it was really sky blue. His topic was that as Americans we should not buy Chinese products, or products made in China, but we should only buy American, if possible. He said that would keep money in America, and benefit all Americans. Also, American products are better quality than Chinese so any extra you pay is worth it. However he put it in his exaggerated controversial terms and certain people in the class thought that he hated all Chinese people. Idiots. Anyways, there I was sitting in between these two groups hearing them fight, neither one would move an inch, no one was really trying to understand each other, and everything became ad hominem. I had to share my topic next.

I really don't like my philosophy professor. He used a false dilemma, oversimplification, and he took things out of context when he tried to talk about religious ethics. However when I asked questions in class, specifically about his false dilemma, where I brought up a third option, he said after holding his mouth slightly agape for a second "I'll have to think about that." That led to a nice discussion where the other religious people in the class jumped on him and never once got over emotional or angry. I will graciously accept two points for that.

I am doing well at work. I got a sweatshirt last week and a hat this week for how well I have been working. I think I am the greatest ever.

I am thinking about taking a golf class next term. I need a P.E. class just to stay active and that might be good. If it is full though what should I take?

I think it would be cool to make a movie where people randomly drop kicked people from awesome places. I always think that when I stand on the top level of the academic center and look down at the courtyard below. I usually seem some moron walk by that I want so badly just to see someone dropkick. Maybe I should.

I think Barack Obama will win the Democratic nomination. I really do not like Hilary. I think also it would be smart of the Republican party to have a minority VP candidate(Condi?). This way it will stave off the accusations that the Republican party is a glorified country club. Rich, white, old males who hate everyone who is not like them.

However my brother put it the best on this years election. You are either going to vote for big government democrats or big government republicans. I think I will go for the ones who will cut taxes.

Anyways ordering pizza on the internet may be the greatest thing that has ever happened to mankind.

Later