So, semester is almost over. Only 1 more week and then I Finals hit and after that, 1 month vacation.
During this free time I may have some time to play anything just for a short time. If anyone has any suggestions I wouldn't mind.
You may not hear much from me next semester, as lacrosse season starts...and we got a ton of freshmen to teach/bond with as well as I maxed out all my credits (19) so I'll be very busy.
Looked at IU Bloomington College and it seems like a great college. I'm a communication major but they have 20 different majors inside that criteria, which is awesome if I want a specific degree.
They also have physical education/fitness majors/minors and a major/minor in saxophone too (I played saxophone for 9 years so)
I am thinking about doing a communication major of some sort...and then 3 minors in philosophy, physical fitness, and saxophone XD (I work out alot so I may as well get credits and a degree in it for kicks eh? XD)
Anyway, I'm transferring there hopefully next year, but first I gotta take 19 credits this year and 9 more credits in the fall (or so I am planning) and try to get as many credits as I can.
I have 26 credits now...taking 15 credits this semester...19 next semester..and 9 in the summer.
So in the end before transferring I will have 69 credits total, which is practically a 2nd semester junior, but I'm going to loose at least 6 credits (that I know of) when I transfer, leaving 63 credits...so in the end I'll be on track to my 4 year graduation.
So recently I talked with a old high school friend on facebook and we touched a subject of women having the right to get abortions.
Now this friend of mine is a GOOD GOOD friend of mine...like I can usually tell her everything and vice versa and we always been there for each other.
But anyway, when we discussed the topic of abortions being legal or not...she got very offended when I said I was more pro-life than pro-choice.
The more we debated and more involved we got, the more I realized that my outlooks on life and stuff were far more different than hers...I knew I was a changed man. I know hanging around a Catholic College for 2 years can change my views...but I also know that the views I have now are not nessesarily wrong or right.
Now I had no problem with her views, I fully understood her reasonings as to why abortion should be a right..and later we discussed the circumstances of an abortion being okay and I understand that with her, 3 months is the limit to having an abortion.
I understand her reasonings, EVEN though I do not agree or support them. But for some reason...she could not fathom or understand my outlook on being pro-life more then pro-choice. She even used a illogical fallacy of distortion..ei. attacking the person instead of the arguement. In which she insulted my college, saying they have brainwashed me, and I was a pure example of the Catholic Church Brainwashing at it's best.
It didn't occur to me at the time that she was using the illogical fallacy of distortion, I was more hurt of the fact that she would insult my inteligence and try to make me sound illogical and wrong.
Now my own personal views is, abortion should not be allowed after a certain point. ABORTION, is a PRIVELEDGE, not a RIGHT. I think abortion is 'okay' up until the first month.
Why do I say only 1 month? Because a girl knows when she has sex. She knows if she is using the pill, and she knows the morning after pill. I would hope, that today's technology was good enough so that a women don't rely on a missed period to tell them that they are pregnant.
It's like a child wanting a dog, the parents will say it is a priveledge to have a dog and alot of responsibility, you cannot just abandon the dog, you must take care of it, walk it, and play with it.
If women want the priveledge to be able to get an abortion, they should be responsible. Matter o fact an abortion would never be nessasary if women were responsible (I am not jabbing at women being irresponsible in general). We are all smart enough to know if we had sex or not...they should first be practicing contraception and using the pill, if not, we have those things that you pee into and turn blue and walla, your pregnant, or just plain take a morning after pill. I mean if all these steps were taken..abortion should never be needed. (and if you were raped..well..newsflash...you still know you had sex..unwillingly or not..you know..go get the morning after pill). (by the way, this is not to say men do not take the blame either, I am not saying it is all the woman's fault, men share the blame for being just as irresponsible, it just so happens that women are the ones harboring the fetus).
I also love little kids, and at Holy Cross College, we do not have a daycare system, our college is child friendly. Meaning the students of Holy Cross take care of the lil toddlers out of the goodness of our hearts and do not charge any fees. So yes, abortion strums my heartstrings a bit because I get flashbacks of those toddlers not being around.
Anyway, I won't go into full details of my philosophy on the matter. This is my view, you can agree or dissagree, and vice versa. I do not mind of other's views, I can accept them usually and not care to much as to what ppls views are and such.
The arguement got heated and it sounded like my friend was about to toss away our friendship over 1 simple difference in viewpoints.
So I began disscussing to her, how pointless and irrational it would be to dislike me for 1 view.
I personally, do not care what political stance you are, what are your views, and what are your priorities, or religion. If you are a great person to be around, none of that matters.
Ending friendships or disliking ppl because of the difference in background, religion,political stances and such is as naive as disliking and ending friendships because of the color of one's skin.
Anyway, this is just a little vent for me.
P.S. I recently discovered an AWESOME game called Continent of the Ninth...it's on Youtube...great game...except I believe it is genderlocked from what I can tell. At it is currently Korean server only I think? sad day....
Midterm grades are up, and my grades have dramatically improved. Nothing but A's and B's. The week was a little hectic but it's finally over.
For fall break I went to Bethlehem Farm in West Virginia. Beautiful mountain ranges and trees, sites, absolutely breath taking. It was for a class though, so we did have to work and do community service but overall it was a great exp. Only bad thing was no TV's, internet, or cellphone reception.
I quit cross country last wednesday due to the fact that I do not receive a scholarship for running. I sent a letter of complaint to the Athletic Director and we will have a meeting to talk about my status on monday.
It wouldn't bother me so much that I was running for free, what bothers me is that the coach HAS the money and resources to give me a scholarship, as well as he lead me to believe I had a scholarship all the way till near the END of the season.
Here's the thing: flashback story time.
This cross country coach is new and this is his first year as our coach. I committed myself to Cross country LAST YEAR, before the season started with 2 other runners. All three of us participated in off-season conditioning and practices last spring, when fall semester came along, I was the only runner to return for the season to actually start.(meaning I was committed to the team, before any incoming freshmen were accepted, remember that).
Now the season starts with 9 runners, gradually through rough practices and tough 2 a days. The team shrank down to 5. Out of the 4 that quit, 3 received scholarships(that I know of), all who quit were freshmen. The coach never said I had a scholarship, but he never straight out tell me I DIDN'T have one. I went through the WHOLE season saying "I am running for money" in front of his face, and he never spent 1 second to correct me or tell me otherwise until the very end of the season when I sat down with him and specifically asked.
Now tell me, If you were a first year coach, and you have 1 player who has attended all your practices, committed himself to you BEFORE the season starts, was the only one to return, and pretty much been by your side since you first started your coaching career, why the fuck is this loyal player the ONLY one who is NOT receiving a scholarship out of the remaining runners?
The logic and reasoning escapes me, Needless to say, I quit, and the team needs 5 runners to place in meets. So I pretty much broke the team (1 player quit soon afterwards, leaving 3 runners left). I'm definitely not joining the sport next year.
Anyway, now that cross country is out of my hair, I have an OBSCENE amount of free time now. Enough free time to play MMOs!!!!.
Just one problem....I been out of the loop of which MMO's are in and which aren't D=.
I got a new macbook (mac book pro), not sure how certain games will fair with it but o well.
We all know I read Pearz's blog frequently =P.
I am motivated to play some sort of MMO but what I am not motivated for is to play one that sucks and realized that I wasted my time D=.
One of my friends suggested Lord of the Rings Online (Lotro). Cept I don't think it emphasizes much on PvP and customizations.
I do find Rappelz sota interesting but not enough to actually try. (to be honest I miss the days where Allods was actually fun, don't know if it still is, I kinda miss my Warden lol)
So as of yesterday, I did the paperwork and moved out of my old room and into a new room....
2 doors down from the old room. . .
So basically I live in the same fucking hall, same people, same building, but my new room has a new roommate (who is 100 times cooler as of last night) and the room is closer to the damn fucking door.
Why did I move out and into a different room?
Main reason was cuz my old roommate blows. I don't appreciate any mindset thinking it is OKAY to let your friends come in and browse through my drawers and shit like its their own fucking home. . . . and while I am trying to scold them, he lays on his bed and LETS his friend continue to go through my shit. Then PRETENDS like nothing happened.
More incentive to move out? If you see your roommate exhausted as shit and is shitfaced on the bed trying to catch some zzz's the first thing you DON'T fucken do is turn on the TV and turn up the fucken volume (yes I know I'm using the Eff bomb alot, I just want to get my point across).
We also have a fan in the bathroom that is really loud. I don't know how this guy sleeps through it but he always leaves the fucken fan on and its deafening noise and its a fucken hassle to keep turning it off knowing he's going to turn it on and leave it on.
I also don't appreciate his sleeping habits. He snores like no other, and sleeps deeply while my light sleeping self cant catch any zzz's for shit, hence why I am shitfaced during the day. And sometimes he twitches spontaneously and for as long as 5 minutes. Note that these twitches are like seizures and when our room is a bunk bed, I FEEL the bed vibrate (because I'm on the top bunk), hences more reasons as to why I can't sleep at night, and still shitfaced again during the day-time.
Or leave the same A-hole who went through my shit, in our room, alone, while he goes prancing off somewhere in lala land (because at our college, if the visitor gets in trouble, the consequences fall on the person in the room...but since this fucker of a roommate isn't there, his lil A-hole of a friend can set shit on fire or die and it all becomes my fault, how about fuck no?)
I didn't mind so much that he was gay (and yes...he is. When you are a man, and you have a picture of Sex in the City hanging on the wall with perfume that smells like strawberries and a bunch of other things to trigger a gay radar that I won't mention, can't hide that shit). I personally didn't fucken care that he was gay, so long as he didn't hit on me (and he didn't). What pisses me off about him is that he acted fucken girly like a fairy.
Yes, we all know, I am bi. (if not, fucken SURPRISE!!!)
I don't go prancing with a tutu and a tank top down the street with a fucken purse wearing the colors of the rainbow talking in a girly voice.
Since when does being gay make it okay to act like a girl? Where in the fucken dictionary does it associate the two?
If you're gay or bi, hell even straight. Good for you. Please don't let it define your ass. Gay does not mean you can dress up and play tea wearing make up, it's just a sexual preference. I sincerely don't care how proud you are of it, You make it embarrassing for everyone else. You don't see a straight man walking into a mall or protesting his sexuality in public.
I find it especially funny to read what he plans on doing to his room now that he has it all to himself.
Via Facebook: _________________________________
Madeline Ariel EastmanI don't like your internet service.
Yes, go girl up your room now. I'm sorry that my presence was hampering your girlyness.
/vent
In other random news: A friend of mine, Jeff, is currently playing as a beta tester for the new updates from WoW. (royce read =O)
2 new races on the Alliance side. A goblin class (wasn't interested much in it) and a Class of which I have forgotten it's name, but its a cool class in which you can shapeshift into a werewolve and human at any time.
The class can also be a druid class too, which is redundantly funny. Seeing as the druid class can shapeshift into 3 other animals, having the ability to shapeshift into another is funny. (like a Night-elf class being an assassin.)
Anyway, Shaman is a badass class, enuff said.
Got my midterm/midterm grades (its a midterm...of a midterm). So far I got straight A's down the list.
Gotta hang in there and try my best to get a 4.0. I wanna get into ND (or Purdue).
Rather long post. Sorry.
I'll finish it with a completely awesome fact: My new roommate's (nam'es Ryan) mother happens to be the Dean of Business at Notre Dame and he offered me to have her write a letter of recommendation for me.
