defiantly optimistic

way it is

2007-02-13T19:03:00.002-08:00

A ver, a ver....fue mucho!! It seems the stage has been set for something...but I'm not quite sure as to what. I have basically the same job I had at 17. Naturally, mixed feelings have resulted: (1)I want something more, and (2)This job is quite mindless, and it pays bills.

Internship. Internship. Internship. That seems to be buzzword this term. The good thing is that this is Omaha. The mixed thing is starting over. It can be done...all it takes is opportunity, and a little bit of luck.

take a bow

2006-04-27T11:54:00.000-07:00

Well, this concludes Public Speaking. One word: Work!! I knew that labs were way more work than lecture courses, and I sorta guessed that this would be the cause with a Learning Center class, but wow!! Staying motivated, picking Speech topics...definately not what I thought would be the most demanding part of this course. Blogging. I never really thought about having my own blog before this class, but hey...it works. There were some entries that took forever to write, and finding some stuff to tie into the class was difficult. I think blogging was one of the things that I loved/hated the most. It was kinda cool actually having a blog, but content wise...I always went back and forth about should I post this/should I not, ya know? I think another part about the blogging that made it difficult at the beginning was finding a rhythm, or style, of blogging. Once I got into the style of blogging, it wasn't that bad. My advice to others that want to take this class: Set aside three days a week, two hours a day to do this course. Yeah, that might be too much time, but if you ever get stuck on picking a topic or blogging, it gives you some extra padding time.

Cue Take A Bow - Madonna...

Bush plans to tackle petrol price

2006-04-25T16:27:00.000-07:00

BBC: " US President George W Bush has unveiled plans, including an inquiry into price fixing, to lower the cost of oil and cut climbing petrol prices."

Hm.......now that petrol is expensive Bush feels he must abandon his oil friends for consumers and the environment? Interesting.....

The article also goes on to say that America should get off its oil habit. Given that oil has hovered around $70 a barrel, (yes $70, but its not anywhere near the inflation adjusted highs of 1980, I'm told) for quite some time, this is an overdue statement. Simple steps, like not taking the weekly drive, taking public transit (if applicable) and higher fuel economy standards can all help insulate the economy from shocks in oil prices. A few years ago, Republicans vetoed mandating higher fuel economy standards, and auto companies along with the government saying technology wasn't practical or too expensive, or too much of a drain on the economy. Apparently now, it seems that higher fuel economy standards and increased renewable fuels (ie ethanol) are what God Himself came down and told them there Republicans to do.

I hope that for the sake of the environment, and my grandchildren, that we raise fuel economy standards. Ford already has a hybrid version of its popular Escape brand, getting 30ish mpg in driving. Lets hope this time political rhetoric turns into action.

OPS and Katrina

2006-04-17T09:23:00.000-07:00

Wow! Another weekend passes. I thought the most noteworthy even of the whole weekend was the OPS school district story in the World-Hearld. Apparently, the Nebraska Legislature has voted to seperate OPS into three separate districts: one mostly black, one mostly hispanic, and the other mostly white. The weird thing is, its 2006. It's not the 1950s anymore. Why are we going back to segregation? This just sounds like racial division...wasn't the whole concept of "seperate but equal" already gone out the window? What is expected to come out of this whole resegregation thing?!? If people outside Nebraska didn't think we were backward before, they certainly will now.

In other news, apparently crude oil went up. Like since the highest its been since Katrina. I don't know about anybody else, but here gas ranges from $2.71 to $2.79 a gallon. Its expensive, but I keep telling people that in Europe, sometimes the tax on gasoline alone is like $2. Personally, I think that if we had more conservation measures (ie less SUVs, higher gasoline tax and much higher fuel economy standards) $3 a gallon gas (and we all know that eventually, it'll get up there again) would be less painful. I am so glad I bought my Honda car that gets 27mpg...much better than the previous car. Regardless of gas milage tho', gasoline is fairly high. My mom says it kinda reminds her of the 1970s, when gas first hit $1 and change. I remember when our pastor thought $1.49 was outrageous for gas.

more quizzes

2006-04-15T14:49:00.000-07:00

Your Famous Last Words Will Be:

"I dunno, press the button and find out."

What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?

You Are An Invisible Ex

You're so over your ex, you hardly even remember you have an ex
You prefer leave all of the baggage behind you - far, far behind
As they say, indifference is the opposite of love!

What Type of Ex Are You?

Your 2005 Song Is

Hung Up by Madonna

"Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you"

You'll be rockin' in the New Year in your croch-o-tard!

What Hit Song of 2005 Are You?

You Should Learn Spanish

For you, learning a language is about career advancement and communication.
Knowing Spanish will bring you tons of possiblities for jobs and travel. Bárbaro!

What Language Should You Learn?

informative speech #2

2006-04-02T13:29:00.000-07:00

I sorta based this speech off an gay rights English paper I did my freshman year at CCC, so most of the research was done, I mostly just had to refresh my memory on APA citations and cleanup some quotes, citations (I couldn't find some publish dates for some sources...but, I hope that will a little luck, I can find them tomorrow) and grammar, and present it in a time ordered sequence.

Note cards were used to help me keep track of everything. I really gotta say - this is a very looooong and braod topic, and I hope I didn't leave anything out that was majorly important, and that its somewhat interesting.

open relationships

2006-03-30T20:28:00.000-08:00

So, I was talking to a friend a while back, and he is in an "open relationship." Naturally, I was curious to what it means, and he replied that all couples set their own rules, but their rules were (1)They could sleep with different people (2)Protection was a must, and (3)No "double dipping" (sleeping with the same person twice) was allowed. He said this was adding some excitement to their relationship, but I dunno. I think its just away to break-up without the messy break-up.

being bored

2006-03-21T20:20:00.000-08:00

Take the quiz:
What clothing store are you?

Prada
Looking the best is the most important thing...Who cares about the money...its your dads anyway...

Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook!

You Are 7 Up

Understated and subtle, people warm up to you slowly.
But once they're hooked, they can't imagine going back to anyone else!

Your best soda match: Diet Coke

Stay away from: Mountain Dew

Which is weird - I looove Diet Coke and I never really cared for Mt. Dew...

What Kind of Soda Are You?

new favorite music

2006-02-10T12:08:00.000-08:00

God Is a DJ - Faithless

This is where I heal my hurts
It's in natural grace
Or watching young lives shape
It's in minor keys
Solutions and remedies
Enemies becoming friends
When bitterness ends
This is my Church
This is my Church
This is my Church
This is where I heal my hurts
It's in the world I've become
Containded in the hum between voice and drum
It's in change
The poetic justice of cause and effect
Respect, Love, Compassion
This is my Church
This is where I heal my hurts
For tonight God Is A DJ
For tonight God Is A DJ
This is my Church

Everytime We Touch (newest love NRG song):

I still hear your voice, when you sleep next to me
I still feel your touch in my dreams
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive

Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last
Need you by my side
Cause everytime we touch, I feel this static
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky
Can't you hear my heart beat slow
I can't let you go
Want you in my life

Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky
They wipe away tears that I cry
The good and the bad times, we've been through them all
You make me rise when I fall

Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last
Need you by my side
Cause everytime we touch, I feel this static
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky
Can't you hear my heart beat slow
I can't let you go
Want you in my life

The Faint - Glass Danse
Wow! Talk about memories. It was too late on a Saturday night (or too early Sunday morning, depending on your viewpoint) it was absolutely freezing cold...to an extent, most of the world was kept out (prolly the 1AM thing...and the whole ghetto thing too)...Some were "weak" from being ocld/tired...others were happily in a drug induced state of ecstacy......I still picture that night whenever I hear Glass Danse.

Feel the vapour pressure drop as the dark
Steam pours out the entrance.
Real cold world is swirling in
To a club that keeps the real life world out
Where every sense seems deathly
Weak from the frozen time you spent in transit
The glass dance world flickers on
And the low end thaws your anxious body

Maybe I feel detatched, I may just look too shy,
It's a disinterest not that I'm a timid guy.
I call them bodies but, they are attentive too,
I feel the social glare I feel the attitude.

Watch as mirrors clear themselves with the
Breath of frigid air that eased in.
Made up babies all rotate as a siren spins a beam of amber
Time sliced beat by beat in a row, in a club
In a line, in the city.
The glass dance world
Flickers on because the cycle happens enough:

A baby falls out warm, it's screaming for it's life,
An infant tries to dance as it grows up then dies.
That's simplified but uh. . .when your complexion dries,
You wake up cold and think, you wish it'd been this way.