May 26, 2005
let down your hair...
i have been so busy at the shop. well the lobby area. finishing up painting the walls. which look awesome. they built the stage this afternoon, and it turned out good. we ended up painting checkerboard pattern of purple and black. it looks sweet. i will have to post some pictures when its finally done. im only half looking forward to the show on sunday. i think its going to be a hassle. maybe its too soon. and there are 4 bands playing, which is one too many. we will need 130 people paying 7 bucks to break. there will either be not enough people or too many. im not even done finding people to help out. i went to work at 12:30 p.m. and didnt get out till midnight, and for the past two hours i have been working on the signs at home. i am dead.
May 23, 2005
cha-ching...
i didnt even do it on purpose but over the last 5 months i have lost alot of weight. so much so that pretty much all my pants are falling off. i wear the same size as my younger sister. which is funny and ironic. thank god i wear belts. but i need summer clothes that fit. and its getting hot outide. why are girls clothes so expensive?
May 21, 2005
long distance charges may apply...
i keep thinking how i think good gets punished and bad gets rewarded. the older i get, the more i see, the more i see that a majority of the time this is how it works. i hate it that im only a young adult and i already this bad of a perspective.
i did however realize, that you cant have the good without the bad. that if there were no bad, good would never seem so good. but i dont think that gives anyone a license to be bad. just so that when they are good its the greatest thing. it doesnt work like that.
i guess i feel like i give my heart, love, and time like its going out of style. most of the time i have nothing to show for it, but i keep doing it, and i dont know why. most of the time i just feel taken advantage of at the end of the day. and these days seem to drag on.
i guess i just want for people to treat others the way they would like to be treated. i know that seems so lame. but its true.
May 18, 2005
be there...
Sat. June 18, 2005
Alkaline Trio
@ the Riviera
do i care who else is playing? no
am i irked at the show being 16 dollars, when i used to see them for $5? yes
would i pay? of course
am i excited? no doubt
May 12, 2005
moving in for the kill...
i was googling a friend of mines name. and i found an article regarding the golden apple award scholarship program getting their funding cut. which i was already aware of.
Columbia Chronicle Online Article
my friend just happens to be a golden apple scholarship recipient. part of her duties include observation and student teaching. she was recently at a Southside Chicago public elementry school. that area of chicago isnt the nicest, its a pretty "urban" area. and the director of her program went to observe the setting in which my friend was learning and after realizing the difference in the neighborhood and culture, compared to the loop where Columbia is located. the director basically had a major culture shock of her own and pulled my friend out of the school. this is a school where teachers did have to questionable language to get the kids' attention and do their job as a teacher, in an educational enviorment that already has a major lack of funding and can barely afford a substitute teacher.
the director then placed my friend in a new school, to finish the semester. the new school is not just any school, it is a University of Chicago Lab School. which means they have more than ample funding due to the grotesque amount the yearly tuition adds up to be. and you know, the school has every resource available to them. i am sure the school does wonderful things, they also have a great mission statement.
one of their goals is to teach a sense of community responsibilty. they want it to look like they are teaching children to use their advantages to help people less advanantaged than they. but in reality that translates to "when you grow up, make a donation to a charity that you can use as a write-off, vote, and join the rest of corporate american. to me, they seem to be teaching idealism. and anyone who has seen anything in the real world knows that idealism is a fantasy. we do not live in an ideal world.
my friend has gone from one extreme to another. hopefully, she will be able to take the best from both and apply them in a way to meet in the middle on a more average level.
so much for the no child left behind act. if only this government could figure out their own way to find a middle ground, especially when it comes to education.
