The lifestyle and mating habits of dirk. If Jane Goodall can get a lot of notoriety for her work with apes, I'm a shoo-in for something noteworthy.
I'm back in school after a few years resarting my degree in radiologic technology. It consists of a lot of anatomy, physiology, and computer training amongst other things. I haven't even started my internship yet, and that'll be much harder than what I'm complaining about now.
Sounds intensive. Well good luck to you!
If what is stopping you from going to the parade is another person going then that's not much of an excuse. Go alone, it's an event. Plenty of people do it. I also understand that meeting me could be one of the creepiest things you will ever do. But then again it's Halloween.
I actually ended up getting ahold of my old friend who's gonna go with me. No way would I go alone. I'm not usually the type to worry too much about going places alone, I'll go out to eat by myself, go for walks, shopping, parties, all sorts of things by myself, but this is one of those things I just wouldn't feel comfortable doing alone.
same reason they took it out of school. and christmas too. politics, JWs. when i was in school, it was christmas vacation, now its winter break.
sorry, but things were a lot easier, safer, and more fun then. no one got offended, and moms used to bring homemade snacks for the whole class too for holidays and birthdays. now, they aren't allowed to, and if they do let you bring something for a fund raiser or something, its gotta be store bought.
but removing all mention of holidays? they call that progress.
but that's another story. all i can is compare the holidays to years past. used to be decorated houses everywhere. not anymore. saddest halloween ever this year.
so i encourage everyone, pull the head out and celebrate!
That is awful. I wonder if the people who are supposedly offended by all these holidays and things were actually the ones who spoke up, or if the big boys in charge decided it for themselves. I've been conflicted about all this crap I've been seeing posted on facebook throwing out these stupid gifs about bringing back "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays", taking God out of the pledge of allegiance, etc. On one hand I think it's good to limit some of those things, though that's mainly because I'm against the idea of people shoving their religion down other people's throats. A bunch of people in my family have been talking about religion lately, claiming that this country was founded on Christianity and a bunch of other nonsense. It wasn't, it was founded on the idea of freedom of religion, not everyone abiding to one single religion.
But on the other hand I think it's stupid to completely change everything about our holidays, worrying about offending other people. That's just dumb. I could understand if we were sticking the flag in foreigners faces and commanding them to worship it or some shit, but we're not. If I went to Mexico, I wouldn't want them to get rid of Cinco de Mayo, and I wouldn't China to do away with their way of New Year celebrations. People shouldn't shun other cultures because they're different, that goes for anyone.
I've been very disappointed in some of my family for some of the crap they're spreading around. About a week ago, one of them was passing around this thing on facebook about Muslim stamps in post offices, telling everyone not to get them because they're Muslim and accusing the US of supporting terrorism. And a few days ago, they posted about this movement encouraging every woman across the US to run around naked at this specific time and date to offend the Muslims, saying they're not allowed to see any other women aside from their wives naked or else they are required to commit suicide, and were saying to not promote terrorism. Just... seriously?! Since the fuck when are Muslims terrorists? Who's the terrorist in this situation? People running around naked with the intent to make a specific group of people commit suicide, those people are the terrorists, to be blunt. The actions of a few should not reflect on an entire culture. If I went to another country and went on a murderous rampage, should that mean all Americans are terrorists? Absolutely not. That's just plain stupid.
Ok, end of rant.
