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Alright, it's half way through May, and I failed the BEDA I was attempting so busy. I'm in the process of packing up and moving in with some friends until we can move into our house in August. But I have some opinionated blogs coming; so keep a look out. For now, I have to get back to packing. This was just an update and I will do a blog on my Harry Potter class I took a couple years ago as someone requested recently.

Chao!

BEDA Day 2--What to talk about?

Day 2 of BEDA and I do believe before all is said and done, I may run out of topics to cover. I don't want to discuss Glee here that's what my Glee Thoughts and Recaps Blog is for. So, for all of you who may read this, if you have any topics or suggestions on what sorts of things you would like to hear about, enlighten me. Maybe I could even do some quick research on a topic of some sort and give you my thoughts and opinions of it.

Anyways, if I were to talk about my day it would just consist of me working 8 hours and doing laundry afterwards, nothing special. Of course, nothing special really ever happens here. However, as of right now according to the Digitour 2011, in which I have already purchased tickets, on May 8th in Lawrence, KS the Digitour will be coming and Starkid and Darren Criss are suppose to be there. Which is super cool. Wheezywaiter will be there, as well along with some others that I'm going to try to familiarize myself with before me and my friend go. Tickets were only $10 and Lawrence is only 1.5-ish hours away, not too terribly far. I'm super psyched, but if I get there and Starkid AND Darren Criss aren't there I'll be majorly upset. There's also a meet and greet afterwards, so maybe I'll end up with an autograph and picture with them. However, as long as I leave with a Darren picture and autograph I'll be perfectly satisfied, my life would be complete.

Well, my request on my collab channel sixisgreaterthanfive, someone wants me to blog about my Harry Potter class I took a few semesters ago. So, I think that's what I'll talk about tomorrow. Until then, DFTBA and I'll see you soon.

Hmmm...BEDA

As I've been gone all day. This is a very short blog. I'm going to attempt to do BEDA--Blog Every Day in April. I was going to attempt VEDA, but that would take too much time. So, here's an attempt. A real version of a blog will be up tomorrow, as I have 2 minutes of the day to post this.

See you tomorrow for Day 2 of BEDA!!

Hey!

It's been a while. I've been busy lately and have been meaning to update for quite some time. This is just to let you know that I will hopefully post some sort of blog in the upcoming week or so. But I'll also be starting a Blog about Glee and I will link you to that as soon as it happens. I've had many people tell me I should, so I'm going to run a trial on a Glee blog. As it is, I have been busy with a full time job, aka washing dishes. The job market is pretty low around here, and although I've graduated college, it's going to be hard to find a job within my BROAD major of Social Science. I will hopefully update soon with the latest rant or festive thing I can think of.

Much love and best wishes.

What could be.

So, as you can tell it has been quite a while since I have posted a blog. My sincerest apologies. Sometimes I forget about my blog, just like it's been a while since I've done an actual vlog as well. I am here now, so that is all that really matters.

Summer has gone by so fast, it seems yesterday classes ended and summer just started. Of course, for me, I took a summer class which in turn made summer go by really fast. I haven't done much of anything this summer but work. At the beginning of the summer I read Hunted and Tempted by PC and Kristen Cast, the latest books in the House of Night Series. I also recently finished reading Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation which I highly recommend.

I have also gone to the movies several times this summer, I went to the Midnight Release of Eclipse, and it was extremely amazing. It was better than the first two Twilight films combined. Other movies I have seen include but are not limited to: Inception, Ramona and Beezus, Iron Man 2, Letters to Juliet, Prince of Persia, and The Last Airbender. I recommend all of them they were really good.

On another note, I have a new roommate because my old one moved out because she graduated. Me on the other hand, am due to graduate this December after being in school for so long.

The most awesome thing I have done other than the Midnight Eclipse Release, ROFLCOPTOUR came to Manhattan, Kansas along with The Next Great Adven-Tour, making an epic Midwest Nerdfest concert. Concert performances may be found at my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/alirae03

I also started playing Word of Warcraft as well. I'm currently level 21, I believe. More on that later.

I will try to do more blogging in the future, however, I must be off.

"The Lovely Bones"movie and thinking outside the box

Tonight a friend and I went to see the movie, "The Lovely Bones," in which I highly recommend. As there may be spoilers to follow, I would recommend not continuing to read on unless you've either seen it or don't mind spoilers. After watching the movie, I realize just how much you really can't know one person. You might think that you can trust everyone, and they seem harmless, but how are we really to know, unless we've actually known them for a long time, the true them, not what they want us to think of them as. In the movie, this neighbor murders Susie (rape is also insinuated) because by half-way through the movie you find that Susie isn't the only girl he's done this too. He did it to his landlord, 14 year olds, 13 year olds and a 6 year old, and everyone just thinks he's this harmless neighbor because no one suspects him. It makes you realize that these kind of people are everywhere, in fact there could be some living just next door to you that does these things and you just don't know it. So it makes me question just how trusting we can be, especially at a young and vulnerable age as Susie was.

As children we are taught don't talk to strangers, but sometimes the worse threat is those you know. In my Social Problems class, we discussed an article about Halloween Sadism in which a long time ago people were afraid that their children's candy was being poisoned when they went out tricker-treating, especially when two deaths were reported, but what most of those reports left out was that those deaths were the cause of family members, but we still don't want our kids talking to strangers. It seems these days that it's hard to trust anyone. I know, it's just a movie, and yes, it's based off a book, however, these kinds of things still happen, and there's no stopping it, because there are sickos out there. I'll never be able to understand how someone can do something like this especially to kids. I suppose, this is an pessimistic look, but we should really be aware of our surroundings, which include people you know. If we can't trust our family and close friends, then who can we trust?

PS On a different note, you should go check out "Dear John" it's one of the most amazing movies I've seen in a long time.

To learn in class, or not to learn, that is the question...

As I sit in class actually wanting to learn something, I realize, I'm not actually learning anything, and what I do learn, is stuff I learned in grade school. Keep in mind, I'm 25 and grade school was a long time ago for me. I have two classes that this is the case for. One of these classes, however, is called 'Earth Through Time,' in which all of the notes that we've done so far. I had with the same teacher two summers ago in a class called 'Earth in Action.' Sometimes, I wonder if teachers, at least college teachers, even try any more? Seriously, what's the point in going to a class where you're learning the same stuff you learned two years ago with the same teacher, but a different class? Or learning stuff that you learned in the fifth grade? Not only is it a waste of my time, but it's a waste of my money to pay for a class, that I know most of the information for already. Furthermore, both of these classes, the only grades that count as part of you grade are the exams. However, although these classes seem quite pointless, some people just aren't good test-takers, like me. So basing your grades only on tests is unfair to those people, unless the test is easy that a first grader could do it, but still it's not an accurate calculation on how well you know the material without homework to show more of your understanding of the material being presented.

My other class, 'Geology of the US,' I have actually learned more from going through my textbook than I actually learn in lecture. This class is so pointless, that on a typical day 30-40 people out of 120 actually show up to lecture. Most of us, are either do the Soduku in our college paper or on facebook, etc. not actually paying attention. Furthermore, he doesn't even follow the syllabus either. Our test this coming week is over chapters 1-3 and only chapter 2 in on the syllabus for next week's test, and 95% of the stuff that's in these chapters we have yet to cover in class, and classes started almost a month ago. So, I'm dreading the upcoming test. On that note, I'm going to start going through my text book and pulling out important info, along with my other classes to get on top of things.

DFTBA!