#4: Still no comments.... but plenty more rambling.

Seriously, guys! How long does it take for my blog to get really popular?

Oh, that long? Really?

But I don't have any comments!

Oh, that's normal? ....huh

Well, I guess I just need to keep plugging along and trying to provoke a response from the whoever-you-ares who read/have read this.
But I really don't have a lot to say. So, I'll just ramble. That should fill up a post nicely.

Nihilism. I didn't realize there was a name for it. Being an atheist, and rather gloomy, I was somewhat naturally inclined to feel that way. However, dear Hubby and I had a rather in-depth discussion last night (and considering he's probably the only person who checks this, there's not a real need to post this). He says his purpose is to make peoples' lives better, to enjoy life as much as he can. I just can't quite wrap my head around that. But I'm going to try to focus on that and see if I can't achieve the same opinion.
Maybe some people need faith to feel purposeful. But I think I would rather have a gloomy outlook than to go back on my views of religion, which are rather harsh. I find myself in a degenerate path. I'm gloomy because I feel there's no purpose. I feel cynical because of the gloominess. Feeling cynical makes me feel more gloomy. Downward and onward, over and over. I get sad because I'm sad.
I really have nothing to be upset about. I have a great life. Really, I do! Not to sound pompous or boastful, but I have a great husband, a great apartment, a great job, a great (and I use the term great loosely here... ) car (hey, it drives!), great friends. There's no reason for me to feel cynical. And yet, I still find myself feeling bitter towards people. What a Debbie Downer!
On a lighter note! I had an exam in Sociology today and I feel that it went really well actually. Sociology is a very strange class. Basically, sociology so far has consisted of taking all the things that we know, common sense regarding people, and gives it fancy names. That makes it pretty easy to study and learn in that class.
My University Studies teacher is still grinding my gears. GIVE THE TIRADE ON MICROSOFT A REST, ALREADY! Sorry, I'm better. Seriously though! Several times a class period, "Stupid Microsoft!" "Damn Windows!" "Windows copied Apple and got it all wrong! They ruin everything!" It gets old. Really fast.
I applied for a different position at my job. I would really love the dollar an hour raise. That would be nice. It's a slightly more stressful position, I would be managing all of our projects and making sure they were being worked on by the appropriate people. THE POWER!
I think I've blathered on enough for one day. I need to pay attention in class.

bye.

#3: My Weekend

I had a pretty groovy weekend.

Saturday was girls day. We meandered down Broadway and went into a bunch of neat little shops. I got a new purse. Very cute, it's got owls and lots of pockets. Then we went to a swanky italian place for dinner. I had expensive spaghetti with meatballs. Then I came home and hung out with Hubby and one of his pals and watched movies.

Sunday was pretty quiet. Had a strange moment when I woke up. I woke up at 5:32a, needing to relieve myself. I looked at the clock and was immediately confounded. Why the hell does the clock say that?! My brain then proceeded to think, "Oh! May 32nd! But May doesn't have thirty-two days. And it's September. Hmm..." The clock then changed to say 5:33 and THEN I realized, "Oh! it's five thirty in the morning. Cool.

Got Rock Band 2 about half an hour before I had to go to work, so I haven't had much chance to play. I did for a bit though after midnight when I get home from work. TOTALLY digging the songlist. Very pumped to get done with class today, shirk some homework, and BE A ROCKSTAR!!! *shifty eyes* I think I shouted out loud in class a bit.

Yes, I am that excited.

#2; Drinking Stats

So yesterday in my University Studies class, we had a guest speaker. It was the campus's Associate Director of Student's Rights and Responsibilities. For an hour, she basically talked about underage drinking and the statistics of such on our campus. Firstly, it was very boring. I fell asleep a little. Secondly, I was relatively upset by some of her statistics. Not because they were surprising (86% of the campus students have consumed alcohol while only 67% are of legal age), but because some of those statistics were pretty bogus.

Apparently since 1975, and more importantly the enactment of the MLDA and the forcing of all states to comply, twenty thousand lives have been saved. That sounds pretty great, doesn't it? But how can you prove that? How can you say, twenty thousand people would have died if we hadn't done this? You can't. I was quite pleased with one of my fellow students, he asked the speaker how those statistics were gathered. She admitted that they can't attribute each of those twenty thousand lives to the MLDA. So I pause to ask myself, WHY THE HELL SHOW A STAT THAT YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T BACK UP?!

I personally support lowering the drinking age. The fact of the matter is, people are going to drink regardless. Rather than enforcing a throwback to the Prohibition, why can't we teach youth about alcohol and encourage them to drink intelligently rather than saying that abstinence is the only way. Same premise as sex education, teach them safe ways to partake in these normal activities. I think that we should make the age for everything 18. Drinking, driving, voting, everything. Encourage use of public transportation. I would be willing to wager that it's a LOT more common for people to drink underage than for people to drive without a license. If you don't have a license, you don't need a car. If you don't have a car, you can't drive drunk.

Let's take a look at the UK for a minute. It's a lot more difficult to obtain a license there. The punishments for abusing your license are much stiffer. So perhaps we should try that, how about? Instead of clogging the legal system with twenty year olds having a beer, encourage them to have A beer. Let law enforcement focus on serious offenses. Basically, let kids be kids and adults be adults. Hypocrisy is shown so clearly by the fact that we are adults at the age of 18, and yet we still don't have all of our rights. You're not an adult if you are still being restricted because of your age (unless you are thirty and trying to cry Senior Discount!).

I'm done with the rant. You are free to go.

#1: Introduction

Hi everyone!
This is my first attempt at a blog. I'm going to try really hard to update at least once a week. There's no set 'direction' for this blog yet, but I envision a journalesque approach with the occasional thought provoking rant. Please, leave comments. I think I will like comments.

Short Intro - I just turned twenty, college student working towards a Psychology major and Business minor, married to the greatest guy ever, work for a company doing document processing for lawyers. I'm easily entertained, a coffee junkie, and am currently pretty into Spore.

Quick story to start this party off right! So I'm in the mandatory University Studies class (yes, I am only a freshman) and my teacher has to teach us facebook awareness (don't put your personal info or drunk naked pictures on the internet). He proceeds to tell us that if we put our email addresses on facebook that the "guys sitting up in the IACC [computer science building on campus] until four o'clock in the morning write these computer programs that scan sites like facebook and steal your email addresses. Then they sell them to these big companies and that's why you get Viagra ads."

Yeah. I'm serious. What makes this all the better is, Hubby is a Computer Science major. I've yet to see the proceeds of these sales. *shakes head*

Another kernel of knowledge from him: "If it weren't for Bill Gates and Miscrosoft, we'd all be driving flying cars and wearing shiny space suits. If we didn't have to reboot so damn much, we'd be twenty years in the future! Get Macs!"

How am I supposed to take that seriously? really?

I am currently listening to Hubby's Pandora station which is delighting me ears with "More" by Junkie XL.