Disclaimer

As a warning to my grand total of TWO readers, there will be cursing in this blog post, 'cause I'm angry. I'll try to keep it down, but I make no promises.

So, I've just discovered that my school has a blog feature. Not just for individual people (i.e. this blog is mine and no one elses), but... sort of a mass blog feature. So, some guy named John posts a blog about how he would like to start up an organization for students that would like it to be legal to carry concealed firearms on campus. Now, of course, this is only for people that have a permit for that, so it's not like anyone and everyone can start carrying around guns. He asks for opinions.

NEVER a smart idea. I gotta tell you, college students are idiots. Maturity levels are zero.

Some guy that calls himself DK responds. Does he say "I don't think weapons should be allowed on campus"? Of course not. He says (and I quote) "Funny how your respect for life doesn't seem to extend beyond fetuses."

Well, who brought THAT into the conversation? DK proceeds to hijack the blog. I HATE people that do that. See, blogs are the personal soapbox of the person who writes them. When you comment on a blog, you are speaking to the person that wrote it, not to all the people that read it. But when people hijack a blog, they camp out and watch all the comments, replying to every one of them as if it was their own blog. DK was doing this.

He continues on by saying that he doesn't think that guns should be banned, and neither does President Obama.

Nice. I like the subtle use of liberal politics, and the use of the title. Makes it sound like we're supposed to care. Not just Obama, but PRESIDENT Obama.

DK then copies an article in its entirety and posts it in the comments. Pardon me, I say article. This wasn't an article, but an opinion piece. Hardly qualifies as an unbiased source.

John takes every one of DK's so called "points" and calmly responds to each of them with logic, without losing his temper.

DK responds again, saying that John is stupid, because he says he is pro-life, but he owns a fur coat and supports capital punishment. (Remind me some day to bring out my argument for that.)

Really, what is is about the internet that makes people assholes? These are people that would never say this stuff to anyone's face, but they feel that they can type it out because no one will know who they are. This is the same reason why Venice had to ban wearing masks in public. It gave people too much anonymity, and they were acting like idiots. I don't see why internet arguments NEVER stay on topic. I mean, the blog started out as gun control, and DK swoops in and turns it into a personal-insult-fest, using EVERY one of John's political views as ammunition. I mean, I would hope that I'm mature enough to listen to someone's opinion, disagree with it, give reasons as to why I disagree, and admit when I do agree with them. But people are so defined by Left or Right wing, that they figure you have to have the complete and total opposite opinion. Why can't we all be in the freaking center aisle??

Hey look. I only cursed once. Yay me!

You're kidding.

Just saw it in the newspaper. There's human trafficking going on, trying to coerce children and adults into sex trade and forced labor.

In my city.

Well, isn't THAT just wizard? You hear about this stuff going on in the movies, but never in real life. Never in this country! It's always elsewhere. I don't know where elsewhere is, but it ain't here.

Oh, and this has been going on for years.

That's about as far as my reaction goes for the moment. I need to go hunting down some more articles about this.

Ew. Soapy.

I fail to see the appeal of soap operas.

Undelete?

Blogger has a feature to 'Undelete' a blog? That's awesome...

Pardon me for going all Tao of Rio on you here for a moment... but do you think this possibly has something to do with today's generation? I know, I know. I sound like an old fart. But bear with me for a tick.

1950. You're sitting in your classroom doing your English essay. Supplies: Notebook, pencil, eraser, brain. You write out a few sentences, then go back and read over them. Crap! You accidentally wrote "you're" instead of "your"! Okay, okay, we can fix this. You erase the "you're" and write in the "your". Now you've fixed it, but you can still tell that a mistake was made. There's little faint pencil marks on your paper that your teacher will still be able to read. Shoot. Well, you did fix it, so your grade won't be lowered. Just remember to watch your grammar next time.

2009. You're sitting in your classroom doing your English essay. Supplies: Laptop, internet, wikipedia. Brain optional. You type out a few sentences, grammar be damned. Word underlines your sentence in green. You right click, and it tells you that your sentence is a fragment. Well how are you supposed to fix that? You read over it again, fail to see the problem, then read over it again. Aha! There's the problem. You backspace a few steps, then fill in a few extra words. There. The Microsoft gods are satisfied. Save. Print. There you are! A perfect essay.

Now, the difference between the two is that with people today, mistakes are so easy to fix. Backspace, delete, and undo are your best friends. You can even undelete, apparently. Does that somehow psychologically seep into life?

I can sit in art class, make a mistake, and reach for CTRL+Z. I really do. And when I can't find my other shoe, I think I can start the search function. And this only lasts for a milisecond before I catch myself and laugh, but the point still stands.

Do we willingly make mistakes today because we think they are so easy to fix? Like we can just clear our history, empty the recycle bin and be done with it?

Idiots...

So, my scene in the One Act plays we did in the Spring semester went very well. Keith, our drama club director, was asked if he would pick two or three scenes to do for the visiting library group on August 6th. Well, that's all lovely and such, but it means I have to work with Kim again.

Back in spring, Kim was directing the scene. She said that we were going to have rehearsal on Thursday night. I told her that I couldn't be there because I had class. She promptly said "I don't care, you have to skip it." Okay, now I understand that college is different from high school, and you can miss a few classes and not have anything to worry about. But this class was an accelerated one. That means that the classes are four hours long, and they go for seven weeks instead of fifteen. So, that's seven classes, minus one for the final, minus another for the midterm. Are you getting what I am saying? That is FIVE CLASSES to learn how the ENTIRE Community Corrections programs work. And if I missed even one of those? I've missed twenty percent of the class. *sigh* But no. According to Kim, drama club is the most important thing that I can do, and I had to miss the class. It was only by the grace of God that our guest speaker didn't show that day and class was dismissed early. Lucky for Kim, actually, because I had no intention of skipping the class.

I also had to work the day of tech rehearsal. I checked with literally EVERY person in my department and NONE of them could take the hours for me. But Kim wouldn't have it. She said that I absolutely had to have the day off. I told her that it was literally impossible. She still didn't care. I didn't get the day off. Tough lemons, eh, Kim?

ANYWAY.

Now that I've established Kim's background, this brings me to my main rant.

We've got this library thing going on, which means we need to rehearse the scene a few more times before we're ready to do it for the library group. Keith sent me an e-mail in about Mid-June. Now, I don't check my student e-mail during the summer. After about a week, Keith realised that he hadn't heard from me, so he called me. Smart man. So I said sure, I'd love to do the scene again.

Keith said I would be rehearsing with Kim, and that she would be in charge of the rehearsal schedule (Oh, yeah. 'cause that worked SO well last time). He also said that she would call me to set up a time.

Kim e-mailed me at the beginning of July. Remember, I don't check my student e-mail. After a week, she e-mailed me again. Another week, another e-mail. Now, she has my phone number IN HER PHONE, and also in the drama club directory. Did she use it? Oh no. That would have been too logical. She sends me a third e-mail. Then a fourth!

The fourth one says "Rehearsal is July 25th at 1:00. I haven't heard from you, so I assume you'll be there."

'I haven't heard from you, so I assume you'll be there'??? SERIOUSLY??

So, today, I'm thinking "Dude. Kim hasn't called me about rehearsal yet. ... dude, did she e-mail me?"

So I check my e-mail at 7:30.

Only to find out that rehearsal was at 1:00.

I mean REALLY? I picked up my phone, and were there any missed calls? No, of course not!! Why would she try to call me? She hadn't heard from me, so obviously I would be there!!

So next rehearsal is on Thursday. I'll be there for that one, but if she's a bitch to me again like she was during the spring show, then I'm not doing the scene.

I've got half a mind to back out right now.

And I don't think I'm gonna do the play in Fall. Kim causes more problems than she's worth.