Stupid People

Have you ever walked through a group of people and felt like you would never pass through to the other side alive? Yeah, this happened to me yesterday. I was exiting my French class and had to walk through a group of very material looking young women. I was hesitant at first, but I had to go on through. The first thing I hear is an unidentified sentence with that little upward inflection at the end of it. Like a valley girl/Long Island princess type inflection. Its the type of inflection used to form a question for a normal speaker. However used liberally by these young ladies in statements and exclamations as well...incorrectly. So I think to myself "Robert, don't listen to them, wahtever you do, they might hurt your brain and you might never recover!!" But alas, did I listen to myself? No. My ears honed in and I hear "When does the next daylight savings time come, like next week?" It's November 20. Daylight savings just ended. ouch! I think I just lost the ability to add simple numbers trying to think about that statement. So what do I do, I listen for a response. I hear "Yeah I know it gets dark at like 2 o'clock." I start to reach the end of the crowd, for a moment I feel as if I am beginning to black out. I just make it out of earshot and slowly begin to recover from the shock I had just endured. These people are in college. Even worse, they are old enough to vote. No wonder the world is going to the dogs. Just thought I would share my near death experience with you.

October Storm part II

On my way home I received a telephone call from Amy (the GF). "Are you liking the snow?" "yeah, I know, it's actually sticking down here." I arrived at the University and attended class. All through the class the snow came down. I was dressed in a suit and nice shoes and was not looking forward to having to walk in that. Luckily I had my huge golf umbrella that would save my suit. The shoes would take a beating, though. About 6 inches of snow fell in the three hours that the class was in session. So I move my car over to the University Apartments and seek refuge inside Amy's place. I stayed ther over night. The next morning was very surreal. From the living room window we could see the campus, and the entire place was covered in two feet of snow. That was not the only thing I noticed, either. One of the trees was missing and every other one looked different some how. I had to get to my apartment. So I, still in my suit, and Amy exited the building through a door that could only open just far enough tyo let us out of it because the snow lay holding it shut. We began to wipe the two feet of snow off of her truck with our bare hands. The suit got wet, but luckily it was not wool, so nothing seriousely bad happened to it. We had qute a lot of trouble getting the car out of the parking space since the university always seems determined to plow every car in. We left the oddly different campus and prepared for a very interesting drive through town. Few things could have prepared us for what we saw on the ride home.

The update on the facebook thing I complained about

A while ago in time, but only like two posts ago, I decided to make facebook the subject of my talk.
Now facebook has changed just a bit, now EVERYONE can join facebook. Yay????

My plight is thus:

While I do support the fact that my sister as an attendee of a community college can now join facebook, I am rather disappointed that something which was exclusive to college students now has been opened up to the world. It might as well be another myspace (shudder at the thought of all the pedophiles hunting for your children). I enjoyed facebook for that reason. I wanted a place to stay in touch with my colleagues from school only. That's what made The Facebook different from Myspace, and was why I subscribed to one and not the other. That's really all I have to say on this subject. I know people will disagree with me on this, and they have every right to. I just thought that the fact that it was exclusive to that 30% or so of the population with higher ed made it special.

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