Steve Holt!!
Ash got the third season of Arrested Development. Since we couldn't watch the season when it was actually on TV (damn youthank you,mom. I don't know where I'd be without your pointless, stupid, idiotic, thought-up-by-your-butt ingenious and total-sense-making rules!) we started watching it as soon as we got home. That show is awesome. I loved how when they were trying to boost their ratings, they put in not-so-subtle hints about HBO and Showtime and publicity stunts and "tell your friends to watch the show!" kind of stuff. Only Arrested Development could pull that off.
I have my last drive tomorrow. Parallel Parking, parking on hills, backing around a corner. Exactly the same as Drive 2. I'm nervous because 1) I haven't really practiced any of those things outside of Drive 2, 2) Annie isn't gonna be able to observe since she is doing going to be at a SOTA camp/orientation thingy, so I'm going to be all alone in the car, 3) I don't know who I'm going to be driving with (Willie, or the woman, who I have never met, so I have no idea what she's like to drive with...I hope it's Willie because I'm used to driving with him by now). I'm going to be glad to be done with drivers ed after tomorrow. No more drives (formal ones, that is) no more boring classes, no more hot/humid/uncomfortable classes. But I actually did have some fun during class. Not necessarily because learning to drive is so invigorating, because it isn't, but because I got to talk to Annie alot, and I got to know Conor. He's cool. Annie wasn't in class today, so it was just me and him basically. But that's not really a bad thing. During break I went to Tully's and got a venti ice water, which he made fun of me for "who goes to a coffee shop to get water?" And then, since we had 5 extra minutes, we walked over to Stadium Video and looked at their posters (note to self: buy posters for barren walls of room). They were playing Star Wars on the TV, so I watched that for a minute while he walked around. I missed Annie though. She makes class a little funnier because she's such a dork. I'm gonna miss her at school when she's a SOTA...Maybe her French class will be close to my first period, so we'll see eachother a little bit, at least.
I finished My Sister's Keeper last night. Stayed up pretty late because I didn't want to put it down. It has such a sad ending! I cried really hard. Like alot. The book made me think alot, about different, mostly politically controversial, issues. Like Right to Life/Death. If anything, it made me more ambiguous (new word!) about my opinion. To me, it really depends the most on the situation that you're talking about. i.e. assisting suicide to a physically healthy person that you loved, versus assisting someone who had a terminal disease, that was expected to die very soon. In the latter situation, I would still want to know the details of the people involved, and everyone's side. Or people in comas, or are brain dead, and rely on machines to keep their body alive. To me, it all depends on the situation. I can't take one side in the issue, because I can see where people are coming from on both sides.
Abortion is another difficult subject for me. On one hand, you have the girls who are having promiscuous sex all over the place, and just use abortion as a way out. And that really makes me irritated when I think about it because they say "It's my body, It's my life, and I don't want that in my life!" If you don't want that in your life, then don't have unsafe sex. Better yet, don't have sex at all! You'd probably be better off! Because it's not just you're body, or your life. It's the life of the child that's in question. What about him/her? And what about the father of the baby? Shouldn't he have a say too? It's not just you're life that you have to think about, it's the life of your baby, and the life of the other half of the baby, the life of the father. There's alot to consider. And when girls are having abortions all over the place, they don't take responsibility for their actions. And then on the other hand, there are the girls who aren't slutty at all, but waited to have sex. Who had safe sex (condom breakage). Who thought of everything when they found out. And I think of myself in that situation... And I don't think that I would be able to handle it. I don't think I could do it. I can see that side too. And what about rape pregnancies? I've heard of women who actually keep those babies, and raise them. Or at the very least give them up for adoption. But, if i was raped, I think that I would be able to handle it even less. I couldn't deal with any of that. And I admire the girls (and those fathers who stick with their pregnant girlfriends) who can handle it.
...wow. that turned into a serious post that i didn't see coming...
I have my last drive tomorrow. Parallel Parking, parking on hills, backing around a corner. Exactly the same as Drive 2. I'm nervous because 1) I haven't really practiced any of those things outside of Drive 2, 2) Annie isn't gonna be able to observe since she is doing going to be at a SOTA camp/orientation thingy, so I'm going to be all alone in the car, 3) I don't know who I'm going to be driving with (Willie, or the woman, who I have never met, so I have no idea what she's like to drive with...I hope it's Willie because I'm used to driving with him by now). I'm going to be glad to be done with drivers ed after tomorrow. No more drives (formal ones, that is) no more boring classes, no more hot/humid/uncomfortable classes. But I actually did have some fun during class. Not necessarily because learning to drive is so invigorating, because it isn't, but because I got to talk to Annie alot, and I got to know Conor. He's cool. Annie wasn't in class today, so it was just me and him basically. But that's not really a bad thing. During break I went to Tully's and got a venti ice water, which he made fun of me for "who goes to a coffee shop to get water?" And then, since we had 5 extra minutes, we walked over to Stadium Video and looked at their posters (note to self: buy posters for barren walls of room). They were playing Star Wars on the TV, so I watched that for a minute while he walked around. I missed Annie though. She makes class a little funnier because she's such a dork. I'm gonna miss her at school when she's a SOTA...Maybe her French class will be close to my first period, so we'll see eachother a little bit, at least.
I finished My Sister's Keeper last night. Stayed up pretty late because I didn't want to put it down. It has such a sad ending! I cried really hard. Like alot. The book made me think alot, about different, mostly politically controversial, issues. Like Right to Life/Death. If anything, it made me more ambiguous (new word!) about my opinion. To me, it really depends the most on the situation that you're talking about. i.e. assisting suicide to a physically healthy person that you loved, versus assisting someone who had a terminal disease, that was expected to die very soon. In the latter situation, I would still want to know the details of the people involved, and everyone's side. Or people in comas, or are brain dead, and rely on machines to keep their body alive. To me, it all depends on the situation. I can't take one side in the issue, because I can see where people are coming from on both sides.
Abortion is another difficult subject for me. On one hand, you have the girls who are having promiscuous sex all over the place, and just use abortion as a way out. And that really makes me irritated when I think about it because they say "It's my body, It's my life, and I don't want that in my life!" If you don't want that in your life, then don't have unsafe sex. Better yet, don't have sex at all! You'd probably be better off! Because it's not just you're body, or your life. It's the life of the child that's in question. What about him/her? And what about the father of the baby? Shouldn't he have a say too? It's not just you're life that you have to think about, it's the life of your baby, and the life of the other half of the baby, the life of the father. There's alot to consider. And when girls are having abortions all over the place, they don't take responsibility for their actions. And then on the other hand, there are the girls who aren't slutty at all, but waited to have sex. Who had safe sex (condom breakage). Who thought of everything when they found out. And I think of myself in that situation... And I don't think that I would be able to handle it. I don't think I could do it. I can see that side too. And what about rape pregnancies? I've heard of women who actually keep those babies, and raise them. Or at the very least give them up for adoption. But, if i was raped, I think that I would be able to handle it even less. I couldn't deal with any of that. And I admire the girls (and those fathers who stick with their pregnant girlfriends) who can handle it.
...wow. that turned into a serious post that i didn't see coming...