I know I just finished writing, but I got one more thing. And it has nothing to do with the previous topic. Most people have written something down about the past year and the year ahead by now, and I tried not to do it. However, I can't resist. So just imagine if you are reading this that it is the first or second of January and fuck off if you don't want to.
In 2008, this is what I don't want to hear about:
- steroids in sports
- weight issues that celebrities have
- dane cook
- millionaires complaining about anything
In 2008, this is what I do want to hear about - millionaires doing something for someone else (excluding their close friends with coke problems)
- something good on the news every night (I am sick and tired about everything that is on the news: war, drugs, shootings, stabbings, oprah, celebrities). I don't care if it is about a puppy being adopted from the local shelter, someone finding five bucks on the ground and giving it back to the rightful owner, or a cease fire lasting more than two weeks. There has to be some good that happens everyday.
- the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series (sorry, a bit bias)
- Musicians writing and playing their own music (I'm a bit weary of this american idol singer bullshit). just because you can sing doesn't make you a musician. What kind of band would the Beatles have been if the four of them just stood around and sang?
- Rap music going away.
If any of that happens, I'll put this year in the win column.
I've determined that all this political bullshit and none sense needs to go away. I know that nothing would get done in the scenario I am about to suggest, but it would ease up on all this political positioning almost an entire year before an election takes place: Just alternate. Think about it. Every six years go to another political party for president. Extend the years in office from four to six years that way something might actually get done (HA) and kick them the hell out and let the other party take over for six years.
And to completely do away with all the campaigning, make the previous president pick two candidates, both from the opposite party. These two candidates would be approved by congress and senate and then the people would vote. Because politicians are egocentric, they are going to want to be known as 'the president who picked two good candidates' not the guy who is best known for 'picking those two guys that were horrible'. This would also bring the political left and right closer together because the previous president would (I assume) try to pick someone just like him to get more of their agenda done, but because he would have to choose from the other party, that candidate would have to be close to the former on the political scale, so they would get closer and closer to the middle. Make sense? I hope so because that isn't getting explained again.
I just can't stand people who walk in on voting day and vote based on political party. It doesn't make any sense, but they are blind and stupid if they vote straight ticket. This kind of system would make people stop and think about who they vote for. It doesn't matter to some people if a candidate wants to burn down all the schools or put babies on rotisseries, they would vote for them because they are part of their political party.
Stop and listen to what politicians are really saying, not what they are spoon feeding you. And don't be afraid to look to the left or the right when considering your options.
I've decided to take a quick break from the soap box blogging. That last entry took a bit out of me. My brain can only take so much these days. So here is something light and airy to nibble on: I'm not gonna lie, there are some days I wonder 'what if...' and the questoin expands from there.
What if...
- I found a job using my degree
- I wanted to go back to school
- Another company approaches me for a new job
There are those days when I would love to have an educator's job at a museum so I wouldn't have to deal with all the shit that I do have to deal with at work. Or even a curator's position. But then, after I think about that, I realize two things. 1.) I make more money now then I would starting out at a museum, especially here in Wichita and 2.) I can honestly say that I am both comfortable and happy with my job.
My boss asked me a question today that he was kind of required to ask. He asked me if I would be interested in moving to another department. He and I both tried not to laugh. After asking he said 'I knew what you would say but C wanted me to ask just in case. I told her I thought you would quit before moving to that department.' My response: 'I wouldn't go that far, but no I don't want to work over there. Or anywhere else for that matter.'
I also know of companies going and scouting (I guess that would be the right word) people from other companies to go work for them. I know we do it all the time. It happens when companies are in a crunch for people. It happens. They dangle more money in front of people hoping that will lure them away. Thats the beast of retail I suppose. Kind of makes you feel like a whore if you ask me. I wouldn't do it. I like my job, I like my bosses, and I like my company too much to do it. Have I been brainwashed? Perhaps, but I'm okay with that because I get paid.
I'm just going to throw this out there and get it out of the way...religion is pissing me off. I'm sick of those fucking jesus fish on the backs of cars, and sick of the darwin fish, or the jesus fish eating the darwin fish, or the darwin fish eating the jesus fish, or the darwin fish eating the jesus fish that is eating...get my point? SICK OF IT I highly doubt that the person behind you cares if you believe in evolution or creation. They only care that you get off the phone. It's not going to change someone's mind. 'Hang on, maybe evolution did happen because that person has a fish that has legs on their bumper.' I surely hope that is not the thought process as people put that shit on their bumpers.
I do have a little wiggle room to talk about this. I openly admit, I do have three stickers on the back of The Jeep. And all have a good reason.
sticker 1: 'Marxists get crazy laid' Obviously I have a man crush on Karl Marx, its the wicked beard. I have his most popular book, I titled this whole reading and typing experiment after said book, and I own a sticker with an entire political theory based on him on my vehicle. Plus, it makes people read it a couple of times and still won't get it. He developed the greatest government (in theory) in communism: you really can't predict the greed of an entire nation...or can you?, and his development of communism led to several key events in our history in the United States, just within the last fifty years:
- The Korean War
- The Vietnam War
- The Cold War
- Our landing on the moon (we were trying to beat the Soviets there, for what I do not really know. Maybe moon rocks)
- Cuban missle crisis
- Fidel Castro
- Our supplying upstart Al Queda against the Soviets in Afghanistan (didn't see that end game, did we? Oops)
The list goes on. Think of everything that may not have happened if Karl Marx had never been born.
sticker 2: 'Don't tread on me' A wonderful statement to come out of the American Revolution. This can be applied to our current state of affairs. I try to avoid politics and the war, but this is a great thought for anyone trying to persuade someone towards the left or right.
sticker 3: 'Unamerican' Don't get me wrong, I enjoy living in this country. However, there is that great running joke revolving around that if you go outside of the North American continent, just claim to be Canadian, and I feel like doing that ALL THE TIME. People blame george bush for our current state of affairs, and rightly so, but don't forget about the rest of the politicans who either back him or didn't fight hard enough to get their agendas pushed through. In all honesty, I have lost faith in the american way. It is too commerical, for lack of a better word. It revolves heavily on what you own (for example, do soccer moms really need that H2 or yukon?) and unfortunately that is what people notice.
It'll be twenty years down the road before china takes over as 'world power', but let them have it now and let's go back to an isolationist practice until Germany tries to take over the world again.
One last thing. If it were not against some law (which I'm sure it is one), I would rip off every single bumper sticker that dealt with the 'one man + one woman = marriage' every single mother fucker that has that on their car needs to get beat. Marriage is for everyone.
As I type this, it is 9:45 post meridian on 31 December 2007. The last day of the year. most people are out getting drunk, or are already there, and not even paying attention to the time. They are just out because. In my four long years that I have been able to legally go out to local drinking establishments meant for mostly frat boys and old desperate single people (lets be honest) I have spent one new year's eve at a bar. As it turns out...not so much fun. It's just loud and packed and full of drunk people who are out to celebrate an occasion that happens every year. I don't think it is anything special. And to top that off, it was back in the Soo, so there were tons of people I went to high school with that were there and started talking to me. I got no problem saying hey to people or even a head nod. But if you wouldn't give me the time of day in high school, what the fuck? Why would I want to talk to you while one or both of us are drunk? Honestly. Piss off.
Side note: Rage Against the Machine just started playing on itunes. Lovin' the rage and anger. Side note over.
I would rather spend the evening hanging out with a few friends at a house watching a movie and drinking a little (well not this year, I'm sick. Nasty little stomach bug...great way to lose weight though) and just having a good time. You know, playing some board games, just talking, the old people stuff. Which this now begs the question:
Am I old?
Is it because I don't want to go hang out with the frat boys who try to look tough or the sorority girls who put on too much make up and not enough clothes? Or is it that I have grown out of that whole scene? Don't get me wrong, I love going to the bars every now and then. Every Thursday at the Chalet it is dollar can night. How can you argue with that? When I first started going there with work people, it was very low key and we could hang and talk and shit on each other...good times. Then some jackass told the entire WSU greek system and it is frat boy heaven. It's just disgusting.
So this year, A and I ordered a pizza, went to a movie and I am almost ready for bed. A bit of it is that I have to work at seven tomorrow morning, but part of it is that there is too much effort going out anymore. People don't want to head out until nine or ten at night and by that time I'm just wanting to go to bed. On that note, I am, sadly, off to bed.
And 2007, you can just fuck off. You weren't anything special.
