Minimally Exceptional

…14 days of school left after tonight. that’s monday and wednesday from now till may 3rd, not counting a week of spring break. and then i’m fucking DONE. for good. no more registrar’s office, no more loan paperwork, no more stupid bullshit bookstore purchases or parking permits. DONE.

i. cant. wait. albeit, that means i have to become a productive member of society, but that’s a chance i’m willing to take. it’s time to move on with life.

speaking of school. i think it should be a requirement that anyone in a business administration program should be required to take some kind of class on communicating. how to make decent looking presentations, how to give a good presentation, how to speak in front of a room full of people without reading off of notecards… as common and important as this kind of thing is, it just blows my mind that there’s college seniors about to graduate that can’t give a speech/presentation/talk to save their lives. reading notecards verbatim and not making any kind of contact with your audience won’t just cause people to ignore what you’re saying, it will get you laughed at behind your back, and maybe even fired.

random tangent – is anyone REALLY still interested in any of this princess di shit? the secret audio tapes and secret video tapes that nbc has been showing off like a fucking war medal?

who cares? really? jesus christ, people, she’s dead – can’t we just let her rest without trying to create some controversy where there is none? can’t we just leave it alone already? talk about martha stewart or something already.

finally, before i go, this is something i just have to get off my chest. sorry, but i’m going to get a little political on y’all again.

all these people who ‘vote pro life’ and vote for an official (like dubya) solely based on whether or not they are pro-life? IDIOTS.

newsflash: george bush? he’s not pro-life. he’s anti abortion. same thing, right? wrong.

pro-life and pro-choice are not opposites. just like life and death, they are related, but not opposites. pro-choice is a position that supports a woman’s right to have an abortion. pro-life, however, is not a position against abortion – it is a position against the taking of ANY life.

language experts will argue that pro-life no longer means that – popular usage has changed it’s meaning, and now it IS a position against abortion. well, popular usage is fucking wrong.

so george bush? NOT pro-life. you CANNOT be pro-life AND pro capital punishment. you CANNOT be pro-life AND pro-capital punishment.

so, people – if you’re going to be pro-life, that’s great. it’s a good position to have. but MEAN it. there’s no grey area here – it’s black and white. either you’re against the taking of any life – or you’re not. there’s no room for wishy-washy on the fence shit here.

claiming to be pro-life and supporting the death penalty doesn’t make any sense. it’s a logical fallacy. and it reeks of hypocracy.