Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Fave Five

My five favorite environmental/social issues!

1. Conservation of forests
2. Wildlife preserves
3. Recycling
4. Affirmative action
5. Mentally disabled

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Where do you smoke?

This image illustrates the fight between smokers and non-smokers. At this moment, the non-smokers had clearly won by getting a law passed to put up signs so that there are limited smoking areas. But overall, the smokers are really winning because nobody adheres to or enforces these new laws on smoking.
Everywhere I go I see people smoking within that twenty-five feet barrier of buildings. This invisible force field around buildings is as preventative as sex ed classes in Jr. High.
Every aspect of this picture is added for desired effect. The camels from the "Camel" brand of cigarettes are carelessly smoking right next to the sign allegedly preventing them from doing so. This is simply mocking the law because the sign is in a desolate place, far from those choosing not to smoke. Thus, showing the smoker's opinion that it was an extreme law that is not as important as it was when it needed to be passed.
I am not a smoker but almost have to agree with the presented irony of this image.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

ADD

There are a lot of things that I should be doing right now, including this. But seeing as I most likely have ADD (I have not actually been tested for it) I cannot concentrate, especially tonight for some reason. It could be due to the fact that my best friend is hanging out in my room but I have been like this all day. I started writing this blog at 9:40 and cannot seem to stay in my seat for more than a minute. I have eaten peanut butter on a spoon, the smooth kind because we are out of crunchy, but I like crunchy much better. Then I made some popcorn and called a mutual friend of mine and my best friend's to see if they were visiting next weekend. Of course that could have waited but I'm especially antsy tonight. I was so excited the day that I found out how to actually spell antsy because at that same instant, I understood the reason people say it, ant...ant-sy. This wasn't too recent of a discovery, don't worry.
The above paragraph is what I think when I write and just wanted whoever is reading this to get an idea of my writing style, but this was only my first step. I write whatever I want about the subject and then in papers and such I read through and fix it a million times over. In this case there was no subject so I just started writing anything to come up with ideas about what i wanted to talk about in my blog. I would bet a million dollars that nobody could know what I came up with because I haven't written anything close to it yet. Soccer. Yes, that is what I came up with from writing that first paragraph. That is somehow, how I come to decisions.
Now I would write about soccer in this specific post but I know that honestly, I wouldn't want to read something this long, and it just wouldn't make any sense to add it in now. So for now you will have something to look forward to in my next post.