Open Letter to People who Suck at Driving

Dear all you people at there who suck at driving...you know who you are.

I seriously hate all of you. I'm not a perfect driver, but I can get from one place to another without being a total idiot and making everyone else one the road wanna run into me. What I hate most about you people is the little things you do, or don't do. The stupid mistakes that you probably don't even notice but that drive me insane when I'm behind you. For instance, using your turn signal. It's really not a difficult concept to grasp. If you are going to turn, but the people behind you are most likely going to continue straight, then you flip your turn signal so no one is surprised by your sudden drop in speed. But for some reason you never signal and then I nearly rear end you because I don't expect cars to just slow down for no apparent reason.


Another thing I hate about you people is how you love to pull in front of me when there's clearly not enough time to do so. I, like probably everyone else in the world, like to go above the speed limit. This doesn't happen often with me since my car is quite powerful and would probably stop traffic with its sheer beauty. But regardless, sometime I find myself speeding a bit and it is at that time that you idiots to decide that it would be a splendid idea to pull out in front of me. I then contemplate rear ending you to prove a point but typically just end up shouting expletives to myself. How freaking how hard is it to see that my car is close to where to you want to turn and that I am approaching at a faster speed. But all that wouldn't be so bad if you people didn't find it necessary to not only cut me off, put drive as slow as possible. I really don't care that you pull out in front of me, it's when you fail to accelerate after doing so that really gets to me.

One more thing. Why is it that none of you morons can go when a stoplight turns green? This drives me insane (hehehe car puns). It seems that anywhere I go people always take their time starting to accelerate after a red light. This leads to only a few people getting through each time, me usually not being one of them. If everyone just took their foot of the break and started to gradually accelerate at around the same time then I wouldn't have to wait in line at the same intersection for 10 minutes.

Kreative Spelling

I hate spelling in the English language. We have so many stupid rules that make no sense and seem to only exist to confuse me. Things like " i before e except after c", which is great other then the fact that never seems to be the case when I'm writing. Or silent letters. I could write an entire essay on why I hate silent letters. They make absolutely no sense to me. What's the point of having a letter in a word if you don't even get to pronounce it? Like in pterodactyl. Why someone thought it would be a good idea to just throw a 'p' in front of a word that clearly makes a 't' sound is beyond me. But anyway, I think that everyone should still make an effort to be literate and spell words correctly. I'm usually pretty good about spelling, but this is probably because I can type most of my work and use spell-check. But when I'm writing things by hand I always tend to do a little worse. I want to throw fancy, AP caliber words into my papers to not appear so stupid. But I usually just misspell these words which makes me look even worse. But anyway again, I think that bad spelling isn't always indicative of stupidity. Just like good spelling doesn't always mean your a genius. Constantly misspelling the same, easy words does probably mean that you need help. Sooooo... to answer the prompt, yes. I'm glad that I'm not short or Canadian. 'MURICA!!!!

 
Abe Lincoln riding a grizzly bear whilst holding an assault rifle and what I can only imagine is the Constitution. 
go 'murica 

Guilt is a Dumb Emotion

I don't believe in guilt. To me, it doesn't make sense to be worrying about your actions and the consequences they have all the time. This is probably because I am more of  an optimistic Ollie then a pessimistic Pauly. But this isn't to say I never feel guilty. I do. I just don't worry about it and try and move on with my life. That being said, I will now share all my deepest feelings about what makes Chris feel guilty. Lying is a terrible thing, and of course I would never do it, but that was probably a lie in itself. I hate lying to nice people. What I hate even more then that is when I get away with lying to nice people. For instance, if I have a test in a class and I finish early I will ask my teach if I can go to the library. They almost always say yes and I get a note, grab my backpack, and walk out the front door and go home for the day. I know. I'm a terrible person. But I justify my guilt by saying it's a victim-less crime. I have nothing to do for the rest of the day so I don't miss any school work. And I don't get caught because most teacher's probably care less about me skipping then I do. But as I'm driving home I will sometimes experience a slight feeling of discomfort in my head. I'm not hurting anyone by leaving early, but I feel bad for exploiting the kindness and trust of my teachers. Of course I never feel bad enough to go back to school for the rest of the day so I don't let this guilt bother me. And that is why I think guilt is a dumb emotion. Guilt does nothing but make you feel bad about something that usually isn't that substantial. People never feel guilty enough about something to change their ways. They just let the guilt eat at them. But not me. I'm a guy and probably don't have emotions so guilt is the least of my concerns. I also feel as if I should add that I have never skipped your class. Nor have I skipped any class this year. All that earlier was totally fictional. As if a good senior like myself would jeopardize my important high-school education to go home and nap and stuff. 

Thoughts on Beloved

Even though I've only read 59 pages of Beloved, I feel as if that is enough to understand how the rest of the book will be. I'm not expecting Morrison's use of language or writing style to change in the next 300 pages so hopefully I'm not being too rash in my judgments. I wanna start off by saying that I don't totally hate this book, at least not yet. I definitely wouldn't say I like it either, but it has been manageable so far and more intriguing then other stories we've read this year. The non-linear story line has been particularly interesting. I've even been able to follow the frequent flashbacks and changes of point of view with little trouble. It seems clear that many things happened in Sethe's past that Morrison doesn't want full revealed just yet. In every flashback she adds more details about what happened on Sweet Home and how that has changed Sethe. I also think I have picked up on one of the themes: not being able to escape your past. And to me, I think the house symbolizes this theme. If we are to believe that the ghost really is Beloved, then her haunting would show how Sethe must be constantly reminded of what she did to save her children from slavery. Then Paul D, a fellow slave from Sweet Home, appears to remind Sethe all about her former life as a salve. She cannot escape her past because both her deceased daughter and friend from her days as a slave are present at 124.