Sunday, April 13, 2008
"Inevitable"
Do you remember when we were just kids
And cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would miss
Schoolyard conversations taken to heart
And laughter took the place of everything we knew we were not
I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now
I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss
Amazing how life turns out the way that it does
We end up hurting the ones, the only ones we really love
I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now
I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss
Is it over now hey, it's over now
Is it over how hey, it's not over now
I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have (that you'll ever have)
I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last, first kiss for all time
-Anberlin
And cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would miss
Schoolyard conversations taken to heart
And laughter took the place of everything we knew we were not
I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now
I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss
Amazing how life turns out the way that it does
We end up hurting the ones, the only ones we really love
I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now
I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss
Is it over now hey, it's over now
Is it over how hey, it's not over now
I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have (that you'll ever have)
I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last, first kiss for all time
-Anberlin
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Corsage
Yesterday I went into the flower shop in Carson to buy a corsage for the prom, I swear that place just sucks out any trace of testosterone one has in them. I went to the front desk and asked to see what they had for prom corsages, and the reaction I get was "Aww, are you going to the prom?", I wanted to answer "No, I'm just buying a one to wear around the house", but I was polite, charming, and just answer with simple yes. But in the end it was worth going into the flower shop, because the corsage I picked out is absolutely gorgeous.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Success by Comparison
One of Paul's philosophies on life...
Success by Comparison
If you drive a beat-up rust bucket, don't park next to the Mustang or Lamborghini, park next to that one car in the parking lot that looks worse then yours. Essentially what you're doing is making your car look better, without actually doing any work.
The same thing works for friends. If you're dumb and ugly, don't hang out with smart and beautiful people who'll make you look dumb, hang out with people dumber and uglier then you*, become their leader, and take over the world(or at least a Wal-Mart). You'll make yourself look like a brilliant leader, without actually doing anything smart(besides following this advice).
*I don't necessarily follow my own advice, and I don't pick my friends based on looks or intelligence
Success by Comparison
If you drive a beat-up rust bucket, don't park next to the Mustang or Lamborghini, park next to that one car in the parking lot that looks worse then yours. Essentially what you're doing is making your car look better, without actually doing any work.
The same thing works for friends. If you're dumb and ugly, don't hang out with smart and beautiful people who'll make you look dumb, hang out with people dumber and uglier then you*, become their leader, and take over the world(or at least a Wal-Mart). You'll make yourself look like a brilliant leader, without actually doing anything smart(besides following this advice).
*I don't necessarily follow my own advice, and I don't pick my friends based on looks or intelligence
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Tupperware
Clinton, Granholm, and Stabenow should all get together and have a Tupperware bitch party, then they'll have a hobby other then killing innocent americans.
Education
Because of a fluke caused by an epic literary illness, I got to be a last minute facilitator at our highschool Socrates discussion group yesterday. And because I was the facilitator, I had to be non-opinionated and refrain from arguing my thoughts. So now I'm going to voice them here.
The topic was on public education in this country...
With a recent national survey of dozens of major cities showing, on average, that the highschool graduation rate is only 75%, there is an obvious problem with the state of public education in this country. Now being homeschooled my entire life, I don't know what it's like in a public highschool, so I can't preach about the internal functions. What I do know is that competition breeds a desire to make one's self better, the more competition you have, the better and cheaper you will have to be to compete. Right now the public school holds a huge percentage of the education, while private, charter, and homeschools are the minority, the reason this is so, is because of money. Public school get tons of money from taxes and the government, where as, in comparison, private and charter school get very little, and homeschools get absolutely nothing(except maybe a 25% discount at the local bookstore). So it's generally a lot more expensive for a parent to send there kids to a private school verses a public school, therefor the private schools aren't big enough to compete with the public school system. So the solution that I think would work, is for the government to spread tax and grant money to ALL schools equally, based on the number of student attending. This would cause the school to be on a more equal level, making the schools compete for the enrollment of students, in turn forcing the schools to raise the bar when it comes to education, sports, and faculty, because parents will now have a choice of where so send their kids. Now since the schools will all be different, some with competent leaders and some without, and some putting more focus on one subject over another. The government needs to make sure our nation's generations are getting a complete education by implementing nation-wide standardized tests(like the ACT or SAT) that every student will need to pass to complete elementary, middle, and high school. So essentially education would free market capitalism style, with the government setting national standards.
Wow, that ended up a little longer then I thought. Please feel free to argue with me!
The topic was on public education in this country...
With a recent national survey of dozens of major cities showing, on average, that the highschool graduation rate is only 75%, there is an obvious problem with the state of public education in this country. Now being homeschooled my entire life, I don't know what it's like in a public highschool, so I can't preach about the internal functions. What I do know is that competition breeds a desire to make one's self better, the more competition you have, the better and cheaper you will have to be to compete. Right now the public school holds a huge percentage of the education, while private, charter, and homeschools are the minority, the reason this is so, is because of money. Public school get tons of money from taxes and the government, where as, in comparison, private and charter school get very little, and homeschools get absolutely nothing(except maybe a 25% discount at the local bookstore). So it's generally a lot more expensive for a parent to send there kids to a private school verses a public school, therefor the private schools aren't big enough to compete with the public school system. So the solution that I think would work, is for the government to spread tax and grant money to ALL schools equally, based on the number of student attending. This would cause the school to be on a more equal level, making the schools compete for the enrollment of students, in turn forcing the schools to raise the bar when it comes to education, sports, and faculty, because parents will now have a choice of where so send their kids. Now since the schools will all be different, some with competent leaders and some without, and some putting more focus on one subject over another. The government needs to make sure our nation's generations are getting a complete education by implementing nation-wide standardized tests(like the ACT or SAT) that every student will need to pass to complete elementary, middle, and high school. So essentially education would free market capitalism style, with the government setting national standards.
Wow, that ended up a little longer then I thought. Please feel free to argue with me!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Early morning thoughts
Call me odd, but I've never really liked the phrases "my girl" or "my woman". They imply that one would have some type of ownership over another, like "my iPod" or "my car", to me it almost sounds degrading to the girl involved. A girlfriend(or boyfriend) is an equal to the other, not by any type of ownership or agreement do they belong to each other, they belong to each other out of love and caring. Just some early morning thoughts.
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