Episode 18: "Thats the way it is"
So I hate to go off onto a political tangent here(haha which is pretty rare and you probably wont see it from me again), but there's something really bugging me about todays America. Have you ever heard someone tell you "Life is Hard, deal with it" or "That's life" everytime you have a bad teacher or you have to pay 70 dollars for gas, or finding a job/working, etc? I'm so tired of everything being followed by this standard of "life." Although I wasn't really for Nader or Ron Paul, now that I think about it, they are geniuses. They wanted to make drastic changes to America, but guess what? No one voted for them. Wonder why? Because there ideas would be changing life, and for some unknown reason, Americans don't want to see that.
Getting back to "That's life." It doesn't have to be that way. My friends Dad's and my Dad are always working or out of town. So all of our problems seem minor to them. And they say "That's life." again. But what if that wasn't life? What if we became socialistic? What if we had one standardized test after high school that determined if we went to college or became a labor worker but everyone was guaranteed a job? A lot of people see this as a bad thing, but whats the point of a college student wasting all there money on a job that doesn't pay or that is above there skill level? I'm not trying to rant about us becoming socialistic, but we need change. And everyone is too afraid to leave capitalism or "standard living." Its like people don't care that were in a wack war or the dollar is useless and inflation is on the rise, or that college becomes more and more of a competition each year. Why don't we all get an education? Why don't labor jobs pay equally to desk jobs? Why are the poor getting poorer?
So please, don't be ignorant. The next time someone tells you, "that's life" respond: "Why? because everyone wants to keep it this way?" We have the worst of almost everything. Pollution, health care, the list goes on. You should research how other non-capitalistic countries work such as England and Canada as well as other European countries. It may seem really weird how some of them work, but please, don't be afraid of it. Because they have strong money and good health care and low unemployment rates. Don't let the older generations tell you how life is supposed to be. Because it doesn't have to suck, it's just todays "normal." We are creating a false reality in the United States, and it's bad for everyone. I hope this is something our generation can learn, understand, and accept by the time we gain power. Instantly dismissing candidates for wanting radical (and needed) change is so close minded. Stop being close minded and save our Country! Peace and Love.
~Andy
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
One for the Money... (DLP)
Episode 3: Two for the show!
So it's been a while since I've blogged last. I guess that's just because of the summer. Or no topics have come up to write about. Like usually my ideas for topics come from whats around me, and in college so many wack things happened, topics came up all the time. But just working and chilling with friends makes interesting topics pretty rare to think of. But it's also pretty rare that basically everything in my life is awesome, so I guess I'll write about that for now! XD
Family and Friends: Pretty much everything is awesome here. The old crew is back and in full force. Everyday we take steps to complete all the things we want to do over the summer. It's been good to see Dan, Andrew, J9, and Sean again, even though after the first week it's already felt as if we've never been gone. We've also come up with and kept so many new fads, such as NYOHMYGOD, Rob and Big, and of course: DJ KHALED! WE THE BEST! LAMATB, a blog where all of us are admins and can post, did an incredible job of keeping us in touch. Matt Jackson and that crew were also glad to see me, and we've had fun being outside and doing arts and crafts type stuff. The family is also excellent, except for my brother being caught doing drugs. But otherwise my brother is a lot tighter now, I can actually converse with him and can be around him without getting annoyed. My dad is getting better, and my mom is still just being my mom :D
But "baby let me tell you 'bout my best friends". Well I already did, I just wanted to make a Rob and Big reference! XD
Girls and Games: So of course I'm still playing plenty of Smash Bros. Brawl, but was looking for a new game for my Wii. I Didn't want to get MK Wii, because the wheel doesn't seem that great to me, and I've been spoiled by MK 64. So I picked up "No More Heroes" a wacky hilarious game in which you get money and fight random and epic characters in your quest to be the number 1 assassin and get the girl too. Its got plenty of unnecessary blood effects, swearing, and some of the best boss battles ever. I recommend it! As far as girls go... well there's one. A beautiful one I should say XD. Long story short, I've liked this girl for a while, but people have been quite against it for as long as I can remember. Finally, Lori helped us out and put us together and it worked out really well. We went out again... and you know girls say they have a good time a lot but I really wasn't to certain if she was :O. Then she told me she had one of the most fun times shes had in a while and it made my day(as if she didn't already)! And shes also gotten me into looking at all kinds of Art quite a bit. I love her! :D So I'm looking forward to that! Games I'm looking forward too: The new Sonic ones (both the RTS and the 3d old school platformer one), Kingdom Hearts 3(if ever announced), Doom 4, the Wii version of Mario Golf, and eventually buying Mario Galaxy :P
Work and Weather: So I got a job at this sandwich place, Potbelly. I didn't really want to work there, but I wanted to start working as soon as possible, and they hired me first! So far in training at the Reston store, I've learned the hardest part of the line "Dress", where we put all the stuff on sandwiches or make salads. Other jobs I will eventually learn are "Cash" where you perform cashier duties, get soups, and make shakes. Then the first one, "Load" where the meat, cheese, and bread are put together and put through the oven. It takes approx. 1min 40 to go through the oven, so I also have to have conversations with all the customers while there waiting, which is quite fun, and interesting(you know, seeing what people have been up too, where there from, etc.). The outfit is pretty chill, just jeans with a belt, a PB shirt, and a PB hat. I think I look awful in hat, but it actually doesn't look to bad with my hair being longer! The weather has also been amazing, especially on the days we need it too! It was awesome at Lake Fairfax, Lake Anne, and at Browns Chapel for the Picnic. The picnic was amazing by the way, and so I hope the weather continues to shine because I want to have counted at least 10 picnics completed by the end of the summer!
Sorry for the post being long. I usually try to keep it readable XD Anyhow, I hope everyone elses(is that a word?) summer is going just as well. Peace and Love!
~Andy
So it's been a while since I've blogged last. I guess that's just because of the summer. Or no topics have come up to write about. Like usually my ideas for topics come from whats around me, and in college so many wack things happened, topics came up all the time. But just working and chilling with friends makes interesting topics pretty rare to think of. But it's also pretty rare that basically everything in my life is awesome, so I guess I'll write about that for now! XD
Family and Friends: Pretty much everything is awesome here. The old crew is back and in full force. Everyday we take steps to complete all the things we want to do over the summer. It's been good to see Dan, Andrew, J9, and Sean again, even though after the first week it's already felt as if we've never been gone. We've also come up with and kept so many new fads, such as NYOHMYGOD, Rob and Big, and of course: DJ KHALED! WE THE BEST! LAMATB, a blog where all of us are admins and can post, did an incredible job of keeping us in touch. Matt Jackson and that crew were also glad to see me, and we've had fun being outside and doing arts and crafts type stuff. The family is also excellent, except for my brother being caught doing drugs. But otherwise my brother is a lot tighter now, I can actually converse with him and can be around him without getting annoyed. My dad is getting better, and my mom is still just being my mom :D
But "baby let me tell you 'bout my best friends". Well I already did, I just wanted to make a Rob and Big reference! XD
Girls and Games: So of course I'm still playing plenty of Smash Bros. Brawl, but was looking for a new game for my Wii. I Didn't want to get MK Wii, because the wheel doesn't seem that great to me, and I've been spoiled by MK 64. So I picked up "No More Heroes" a wacky hilarious game in which you get money and fight random and epic characters in your quest to be the number 1 assassin and get the girl too. Its got plenty of unnecessary blood effects, swearing, and some of the best boss battles ever. I recommend it! As far as girls go... well there's one. A beautiful one I should say XD. Long story short, I've liked this girl for a while, but people have been quite against it for as long as I can remember. Finally, Lori helped us out and put us together and it worked out really well. We went out again... and you know girls say they have a good time a lot but I really wasn't to certain if she was :O. Then she told me she had one of the most fun times shes had in a while and it made my day(as if she didn't already)! And shes also gotten me into looking at all kinds of Art quite a bit. I love her! :D So I'm looking forward to that! Games I'm looking forward too: The new Sonic ones (both the RTS and the 3d old school platformer one), Kingdom Hearts 3(if ever announced), Doom 4, the Wii version of Mario Golf, and eventually buying Mario Galaxy :P
Work and Weather: So I got a job at this sandwich place, Potbelly. I didn't really want to work there, but I wanted to start working as soon as possible, and they hired me first! So far in training at the Reston store, I've learned the hardest part of the line "Dress", where we put all the stuff on sandwiches or make salads. Other jobs I will eventually learn are "Cash" where you perform cashier duties, get soups, and make shakes. Then the first one, "Load" where the meat, cheese, and bread are put together and put through the oven. It takes approx. 1min 40 to go through the oven, so I also have to have conversations with all the customers while there waiting, which is quite fun, and interesting(you know, seeing what people have been up too, where there from, etc.). The outfit is pretty chill, just jeans with a belt, a PB shirt, and a PB hat. I think I look awful in hat, but it actually doesn't look to bad with my hair being longer! The weather has also been amazing, especially on the days we need it too! It was awesome at Lake Fairfax, Lake Anne, and at Browns Chapel for the Picnic. The picnic was amazing by the way, and so I hope the weather continues to shine because I want to have counted at least 10 picnics completed by the end of the summer!
Sorry for the post being long. I usually try to keep it readable XD Anyhow, I hope everyone elses(is that a word?) summer is going just as well. Peace and Love!
~Andy
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Looking Down, and Maybe Back?
Episode 17: The Downside
I'm not a big fan of looking at the downside. I myself am extremely optimistic. I'm not saying everyone should be this way(although I highly suggest it in the favorite of my episodes - Episode 7) because sometimes that's what makes us different. However I do believe one should never think pessimistically. Thinking pessimistically makes you look down on yourself, and even look back at things you've done in the past with a negative attitude. It also effects your friends and family. It makes them look down on themselves, or even make them regret there decisions.
(Backstory)
Sadly, my most recent example is my father. He has been pushing me really really hard to get an internship in the Computer Science field this summer. I agree that this would be important. However, I felt that after only one year of courses that I wasn't ready. And I personally wasn't ready for an internship with a company; which is the part my dad didn't understand. I mean sure, internships provide you with a lot of experience and they are there to teach, but you have to know something. After reading the requirements for these internships, I felt like I knew about these requirements, but I was so on the edge of being qualified, that I felt a majority of these internships were for sophomore level college student. My dad didn't seem to think so, even though he himself didn't start interning until his sophomore/junior year.
(Example)
So today I went to Target with Andrew and applied there. Later, I got back and told my mom about it while my dad was there. "Well that's the perfect job!(my dad said sarcastically) Because all they ever do there is stand around and shoot the shit!"
'Shoot the shit' is slang for basically standing around doing nothing. First of all, that is an extremely pessimistic and incorrect view. It was also unnecessary. It was almost as if the only point of that comment was to make me feel bad about myself. I'm just trying to make some money! I also think it's unfair of him to criticize me when the job he had after his freshman year of college was a Christian Camp Counselor, which paid just around the same, possibly worse. It's possible that he's looking out for my future, but the manner in which he said it was so negative and sarcastic I truly believes he doesn't want me to get a job at Target, or Best Buy or any similar venue. But instead of telling me that, he had to make me feel really bad about even applying there.
So I beg you, don't do that to your friends or to yourself. If you think something a friend is doing is wrong, tell them and talk to them about it. Don't make them feel down, shitty, and negative just because you are. And if you have your own problem, look up. Looking down or back will only make you the pessimistic one. Peace and Love!
~Andy
EDIT: So I was talking to my mom about where I applied at Best Buy and dad overheard again. "Another teenage slacker job." So I said jokingly "ahhhh, go to hell!" And he replied "hahaha *laughter* I think thats what they do there but I'm not saying you shouldn't apply there!"
So I take it back, my dad is chill with it. But still, I think the post still teaches a decent lesson :D
I'm not a big fan of looking at the downside. I myself am extremely optimistic. I'm not saying everyone should be this way(although I highly suggest it in the favorite of my episodes - Episode 7) because sometimes that's what makes us different. However I do believe one should never think pessimistically. Thinking pessimistically makes you look down on yourself, and even look back at things you've done in the past with a negative attitude. It also effects your friends and family. It makes them look down on themselves, or even make them regret there decisions.
(Backstory)
Sadly, my most recent example is my father. He has been pushing me really really hard to get an internship in the Computer Science field this summer. I agree that this would be important. However, I felt that after only one year of courses that I wasn't ready. And I personally wasn't ready for an internship with a company; which is the part my dad didn't understand. I mean sure, internships provide you with a lot of experience and they are there to teach, but you have to know something. After reading the requirements for these internships, I felt like I knew about these requirements, but I was so on the edge of being qualified, that I felt a majority of these internships were for sophomore level college student. My dad didn't seem to think so, even though he himself didn't start interning until his sophomore/junior year.
(Example)
So today I went to Target with Andrew and applied there. Later, I got back and told my mom about it while my dad was there. "Well that's the perfect job!(my dad said sarcastically) Because all they ever do there is stand around and shoot the shit!"
'Shoot the shit' is slang for basically standing around doing nothing. First of all, that is an extremely pessimistic and incorrect view. It was also unnecessary. It was almost as if the only point of that comment was to make me feel bad about myself. I'm just trying to make some money! I also think it's unfair of him to criticize me when the job he had after his freshman year of college was a Christian Camp Counselor, which paid just around the same, possibly worse. It's possible that he's looking out for my future, but the manner in which he said it was so negative and sarcastic I truly believes he doesn't want me to get a job at Target, or Best Buy or any similar venue. But instead of telling me that, he had to make me feel really bad about even applying there.
So I beg you, don't do that to your friends or to yourself. If you think something a friend is doing is wrong, tell them and talk to them about it. Don't make them feel down, shitty, and negative just because you are. And if you have your own problem, look up. Looking down or back will only make you the pessimistic one. Peace and Love!
~Andy
EDIT: So I was talking to my mom about where I applied at Best Buy and dad overheard again. "Another teenage slacker job." So I said jokingly "ahhhh, go to hell!" And he replied "hahaha *laughter* I think thats what they do there but I'm not saying you shouldn't apply there!"
So I take it back, my dad is chill with it. But still, I think the post still teaches a decent lesson :D
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Required Feedback! (DLP)
Episode 2: Hair and College
So I'm sitting here basically alone now. I'm one of the few students not leaving today and tommorrow morning(friday) instead. So me and like maybe 5 other people are sleeping here tonight :P
But I'm so so sad college is over. It was one hell of an experience, and I don't feel quite ready to leave the dorms yet. But a lot of people didn't. This is one awesome school. Now that ODU is getting more dorms, a football team, and expanded faculty, our school went from VA's best kept secret to the best. After visiting other schools during weekend road trips with friends, it's pretty obvious that JMU, GMU, and VTech don't have as unique an atmosphere, or chill parties like we do over here. Almost everyone got along with everyone here. The last 3 days everyone including my whole crew felt weird. We couldn't believe such an awesome era was about to end. No homo to my guy friends, but I miss you all of my friends here already so much. Like an unbelievable amount. I could go on forever about my friends tight personality's or crazy adventures we had, and about all the video games we played and catch phrases we created. Love you guys, see you next year(and some of you over the summer hopefully).
I'm packing up, which is being a real pain right now, cause I don't have enough suitcases, and I was hoping to not carry any loose things out to the car but I can't fit everything, ahhh! One roommate on either side of me is actually still here tonight surprisingly, and hopefully we will chill... if I can get everything packed. But the last few days here have been rocked by excellent weather. Which worked perfectly for the new benches they put outside a few weeks ago(thanks for waiting till we leave ODU). But we just go outside all the time and chill, talk, and enjoy the weather. We always rolled deep and we always met new people. I think the last few days here have been some of the best. I've even done a little reading out there too, but it seems like I'm getting nowhere in that 48 laws of power book, it's so big. I'm excited but also a little scarred about the summer, I mean who knows what could happen!?! I mean with worrying about getting a job and a few other things, who knows. I'm just hoping for the best and I think my home crew can make it happen :]
~Andy
Also, as some of you may know, I've been growing my hair out in order to attempt to do something interesting with it. But that's exactly what it has done, grown out! My hair just grows out, it doesn't really get like, long or interesting. So I found some gel in my room and decided to try it with my hair. But, what you guys think: Up or Down? Or another style you think would look cool? But I don't know I think I'm thinking I like "Up" a lot more.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Mind Your Own Business
Episode 16: Gossiping and Noseyness
So I don't know. Some recent real life events have I guess inspired me to write a blog about Gossiping and being Nosey; and also helped me learn there is quite a difference between them. As most of you know I'm a pretty big fan of gossip. Whenever I visit Herndon I always want to know what going on with everyone. And yeah I ask about things but if no one has info on it I move on. Some say that action is Nosey. And maybe it is, but I don't think that clarifies me as a Nosey person. A Nosey person is a person who performs Nosey actions after they don't get the information they wanted. So I want to brake it down: to compare and contrast to explain why you can accept gossip but why Nosey people should be avoided.
~Andy
I would say that I am quite a responsible gossiper. But to keep this argument fair, I will compare a nosey person to an obsessive gossiper. And not to be sexist here, but the high majority of both of these type of people are girls.
1) Spreading Information
Both Gossipers and Nosey people like to spread information. But the difference is, gossipers spread information just to do so. They want to see the action and the drama unfold. Nosey people are similar, except there mission is to get information going. The more people they tell, the more people are going to be talking about it, the more likely it is they are going to get back information they want.
2)Hiding Information
This part is Nosey only. Gossipers usually do not do this. I hide information just because I can't verify that what my friends tell me is fact, and I've had people spread gossip about me and I wouldn't want to do the same to others. Nosey people are different. They withhold information because when they have the info, they have the power. If there information is good enough, they can pretty much manipulate everyone and everything with it. I can't sit here and say that gossipers don't do this, but more often then not gossipers are just excited to everyone the story and that happens to effect peoples lives, where as Nosey people use the information to effect peoples lives intentionally or just to find out more about there lives intentionally.
3) Facts
Both gossipers and Nosey people disregard the authenticity of what they've been told, they just believe it as fact. Gossipers would spread that "fact" like wildfire. Nosey people would actually use it to obtain more fact, even if there original fact is true or not.
4)How I've been effected
So some would say not all Noseyness is bad. But consider this: I just recently discovered that a few girls from college that are friends of mine who are extremely nosey have been facebook stalking me and reading my blogs. They might even read this one when they find out it's been written. To be honest, I don't care, and that's cool and all, but I don't really know what to make of it. When men do this it's called stalking, when women do it, its called finding dirt. I enjoy when people read my blogs because I enjoy the feedback. But in a scenario such as this with such nosey girls, I'm inclined to say that they are "finding dirt"; Because they kept it a secret that they were doing so. What is the point of that? Since there my friends already there obviously not looking to see if I was cool or not; so I feel like they were just looking for some kind of dirt to use on me, and it disappoints me that girls(or should I say nosey people) do this. Even though I might be wrong about there true intention and would be sorry if I was, I can't see there intention being a good one. So I think it's safe to say that Noseyness is bad.
So I don't know. Some recent real life events have I guess inspired me to write a blog about Gossiping and being Nosey; and also helped me learn there is quite a difference between them. As most of you know I'm a pretty big fan of gossip. Whenever I visit Herndon I always want to know what going on with everyone. And yeah I ask about things but if no one has info on it I move on. Some say that action is Nosey. And maybe it is, but I don't think that clarifies me as a Nosey person. A Nosey person is a person who performs Nosey actions after they don't get the information they wanted. So I want to brake it down: to compare and contrast to explain why you can accept gossip but why Nosey people should be avoided.
~Andy
I would say that I am quite a responsible gossiper. But to keep this argument fair, I will compare a nosey person to an obsessive gossiper. And not to be sexist here, but the high majority of both of these type of people are girls.
1) Spreading Information
Both Gossipers and Nosey people like to spread information. But the difference is, gossipers spread information just to do so. They want to see the action and the drama unfold. Nosey people are similar, except there mission is to get information going. The more people they tell, the more people are going to be talking about it, the more likely it is they are going to get back information they want.
2)Hiding Information
This part is Nosey only. Gossipers usually do not do this. I hide information just because I can't verify that what my friends tell me is fact, and I've had people spread gossip about me and I wouldn't want to do the same to others. Nosey people are different. They withhold information because when they have the info, they have the power. If there information is good enough, they can pretty much manipulate everyone and everything with it. I can't sit here and say that gossipers don't do this, but more often then not gossipers are just excited to everyone the story and that happens to effect peoples lives, where as Nosey people use the information to effect peoples lives intentionally or just to find out more about there lives intentionally.
3) Facts
Both gossipers and Nosey people disregard the authenticity of what they've been told, they just believe it as fact. Gossipers would spread that "fact" like wildfire. Nosey people would actually use it to obtain more fact, even if there original fact is true or not.
4)How I've been effected
So some would say not all Noseyness is bad. But consider this: I just recently discovered that a few girls from college that are friends of mine who are extremely nosey have been facebook stalking me and reading my blogs. They might even read this one when they find out it's been written. To be honest, I don't care, and that's cool and all, but I don't really know what to make of it. When men do this it's called stalking, when women do it, its called finding dirt. I enjoy when people read my blogs because I enjoy the feedback. But in a scenario such as this with such nosey girls, I'm inclined to say that they are "finding dirt"; Because they kept it a secret that they were doing so. What is the point of that? Since there my friends already there obviously not looking to see if I was cool or not; so I feel like they were just looking for some kind of dirt to use on me, and it disappoints me that girls(or should I say nosey people) do this. Even though I might be wrong about there true intention and would be sorry if I was, I can't see there intention being a good one. So I think it's safe to say that Noseyness is bad.
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