Wasting Money

Man I've been doing this a lot lately. The most obvious example is going out to eat way too much. This could probably be fixed if I were to find some more interesting things to make rather then ramen. I eat out because I'm getting sick of ramen, PB&J, and ham & cheese (although I did get smarter and started buying deli ham and cheese rather than the prepackaged stuff. Overall the better deal honestly). I also bought Dr. Horrible on DVD, but that is definitely worth it. I can't wait to watch it with the singing commentary. either way, yeah, wasting money. I need to stop. And yet as I type this I'm thinking of what I'm going to get for lunch and want to spend money on it.

Monday

Blah, I hate Mondays. Don't think I've ever said that I here so I think that I will. Technically I hate Monday mornings, but if the morning is bad, that basically ruins your whole day. Hmm, what days do I not enjoy and why:
Monday- Have to get up after sleeping in all weekend. Not a good way to start it.
Tuesday- Tuesday's are extremely busy. Including institute it's the longest day of my week. And it's still pretty long without institute.
Wednesday- I don't really have any consistent complaints about Wednesday.... although I do have to get up early but the same as Monday and Friday too.
Thursday- So close to the end and yet still so far. Thursdays have always bothered me.
Friday- Definitely a good day. Even if it's the 13th I still love it. Although I still get up too early but there is nothing that can be done about that.
Saturday- It is WAY too short. Unfortunately.
Sunday- I don't like 9:00 church. I don't like getting up that early on the weekend. I get up that early or earlier the rest of the week and need to weekends to recover.

And I guess so that I don't seem like quite the pessimist, I'll list good things about each day of the week:
Monday- The Big Bang Theory!
Tuesday- um.... Daily Show? Colbert? That's Monday-Thursday though
Wednesday- Important things?
Thursday- The Office!
Friday- End of the work week
Saturday- EVERYTHING.
Sunday- Church and awesome dinner if I were to be at home.

My goods are rather pathetic aren't they?

A&W

A&W is a wonderful fast food restaurant. Good burgers, good fries, and fantastic root beer. Having lived in Logan, I've gone to one of the oldest A&W joints in Utah. When most of the others closed down, this one stayed open (or so say my parents). Now others have started to re-open, but a lot of the new ones are part of gas stations. So now I'm considering a difference between the Logan one and this one here in Layton connected to a Conoco (?). Overall, the Logan wins hands down. Faster service, higher quality ingredients, and even more special offers. In fact, there was only a single positive difference in the gas station one. That difference is that the draft root beer (A&W's signature item) was self serve rather than behind the counter. While I'm sure that you COULD get a refill at the Logan one, you can definitely get the refills here at the gas station. And if you're crafty enough, you can keep getting one since the A&W staff usually are more worried about the drive through than they are about the dine in area (another con of the gas station vs. the Logan version).

Wasted Break

I've wasted a LOT of time this break. I've played Half Life, Guitar Hero, and Assassin's Creed. I have NOT done any homework. Which is not good. Most of my classes had some form of homework over the break (all except one). And guess what? I haven't touched a single thing! That's really not good. I should start getting to work. Physics is due first on Sunday night. I'll probably do that tomorrow. Then math and half of Engineering Graphics is due Tuesday so I'll do those Sunday/Monday. The other half of Engineering Graphics is due on Thursday. So that on Tuesday and Wednesday. Will I follow this schedule? Honestly, probably not. Physics will probably been done Sunday night. Math/graphics on Monday night/Tuesday morning and the other half of the graphics stuff will likely get done late Wednesday night. I'm such a fool when it comes to those things. *sigh* oh well

The Future

I just realized my 19th Birthday is a little more than 4 months away. Holy crap. It is so hard to believe that a mission is so very close right now. I still have a month and a half of school left and then I have no idea what I'll be doing until my mission. I've thought about going back to Layton High but I'm not sure I want to go back for 8 hours a day Monday through Friday. I don't know what kind of activities I'll be engaged in to prepare for my mission, so I don't want work to get in the way of that. Although unless Rod and Ryan changed significantly this past year, they'd probably be ok with it. Either way, while summer work is much more enjoyable than daily during the school year work in public school custodial work, it is still extremely tiring. But the money would help. I'll have to think about it.

Spring Break

Today is the first official day of USU's spring break. It is also coinciding with a university furlough that is supposed to make up for the budget cuts that happened earlier this year. While obviously there's nothing that can be done about it, I can't help but think that there would be a nice sized pot of money available to the school next year if they had not fired the current football coach before his contract was up thus making it so they have to pay another coach next year and the old coach. They'll be paying for two coaches next season! They'll only be getting one! I'm sorry, but a one for two deal just does not have the same ring as a two for one deal. I guess I'm just bitter about all that money going towards a vain attempt to improve the games next year with a new guy when the old guy did a pretty good job in comparison to previous years. And he did this good job before he was hired. I just though more money at a research university would actually get devoted to research that can have years of importance rather than a football team that is only the same for one year at a time.

Anyway, back to the actual break. I've enjoyd being home with no responsiblity although I've already spent just as much money as I do during a week at school. Shaving supplies are so dang expensive. At least I only have to buy them every once in a while. I think this is the first time I've needed blades since moving to Logan and I didn't even purchase them IN Logan. Ha ha, irony. Gotta love it.

Things I Don't Understand

There are a few things that I really don't understand that I wanted to get off my chest.

1st off is a bit more light hearted than the rest. What's up with the slipper shoes that are popular among girls these day? They're possibly less of a shoe than flip flops. But since they "cover" some of the foot, girls are wearing them in the winter. But these "shoes" ridiculous. They are very thin, so feet must be sore from walking around all the time. No foot support at all. So these shoes fail at the two main purposes of shoes. The only thing left is how they look, which is objective, so I can claim that it really "fails." However, I don't think they look that good, so I just don't understand them.

Next, why do people seem to think that open mindedness equals accepting all new ideas? Disagreeing with an idea is not close mindedness. Often times, it is intelligence! There is no good reason to accept a bad idea. How is that close minded? If I don't agree with a lifestyle, that isn't close mindedness. Close mindedness is prejudice. It is refusing to change view points with new information (global warming activists come to mind). If there is a good reason to change my position on an issue, then I will change. People seem to define not changing period as close mindedness, which is obviously not true. You can be open minded and still maintain relatively identical beliefs. I believe the cliche goes "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Being open minded means figuring out if it is broken or not and acting accordingly.

3rd thing: Why is racism from minorities tolerated? Especially when said racism is against whites? I say this thinking back to Obama's inauguration and the comments made in the benediction (here it is if you've never heard/read it). That prayer angered me for two reasons: 1st, the blatant racism. Yeah, it might seem all nice and humorous, until you get to the white part. While I did not see the inauguration when it happened, every repeat of that event I did see cut out before the white part. If everyone was taking it in such good humor as the wikipedia article claims, why not show it? Also, the fact that everyone in attendance seemed to take it in "good humor" is biased. Most people in support of Obama seem to have the "Oh look at how far we've come in electing a black man" mentality. Not taking the statement in good humor means admitting we haven't come that far at all, but even possibly in the wrong direction. I'm not saying we've taken steps backwards. More that the destination is in the North and we're headed Northeast. The 2nd reason the prayer bothered me was that is was a prayer. Racist or not, a prayer is not a time for jokes. You should not be pausing in a prayer so everyone can laugh. That is disrespectful, a mockery of religious principles, and downright rude. I know that even the church tries to teach that people can't offend that I can only take offense, but that doesn't make what he said ok. Tolerance of wrong doing only leads to greater wrong doing (boiling a frog).

While this is not a thing I don't understand, but it is rather odd, I must say that the only new source I trust these days is direct feed of events, or The Daily Show. Jon Stewart may not seem to take things seriously, but he has the least biased "reporter" I've ever seen. If people are being stupid, he's gonna make fun of them. Doesn't matter who they are.