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1. So the Glee fandom is huge. I think it's a religion now, and I'll admit I was a huge gleek in the beginning. I used to go on fancast.com (like Hulu but worse quality) and there was the Glee pilot, before they were putting up previews for the first season on T.V. and then HayleyGhoover mentioned it on her blog. Well, I love musicals and the characters were funny and it was all so neurotic and dramatic the plot-line, if that makes sense. So I'd like to think of myself as a founding Gleek. Honestly, though, there are some crazy big fans that came during the spring season. That's why I drifted apart, I still watch it but I don't buy the CDs and DVD's. Yeah, I sound annoying being one of those people who refuse to watch something they like just because every one's obsessed now. It's not only that, as someone once put it "the episode plots are starting to fit the songs they want; not the plot then the songs" so it got repetitive to me. I do like the new character, Sunshine, on this season's premiere, she is fun and young and bubbly so I think it's a good addition.What did you think of the premiere?
2. Popularity fascinates me. I don't consider myself popular but I do have really nice friends. Anyways, at lunch today, the populars were sitting at the table next to mine. The head popular comes over and they refuse to let her sit and she says "that's so mean!" Why? Do they feel more powerful because they have something over her? Why are they her minions if they do that to her? So one girl in particular gets the girls next to her to scoot over so the head popular can to sit next to her. She does and then "closer populars" to the head popular walk over and the head popular runs off to sit at another table with them. The girl who was so excited to have the head popular sit next to her looks rejected. I still don't understand their species at all. Can someone explain why they are so insensitive to each other's feelings?
3. In cycle or electives or what ever you like to call it, we had the following exercise: 15 people on a sinking ship and a lifeboat can fit only 9, who will you eliminate? Then we had a list with information about the passengers, their ages, jobs, etc. One passenger was an 8 year old boy paralyzed since birth. Thankfully my group kept him on the lifeboat because the teacher was so mad at the four groups that as she put it "murdered a crippled boy". It's true though, if the kid were thrown off the ship he would've died automatically because he can't swim. And when she asked a group why they threw him off they said it was because "his quality of life wasn't as good of the rest of theirs and he would grow up and be useless" She read to us what she had overheard the groups say when we picked. It was basically a list of racist and stupid comments like "let's kill the boy, he's useless" "that's so mean! but it's true *laugh*" and "let's keep the nun, I'm a catholic so she should stay" The idea of the exercise was not to focus on who would die but how to save everyone. People were putting the strongest ones on the lifeboat when actually the weakest ones should be saved on the lifeboat because the strongest one's were adults who were in their 20's to 40's and if they could swim would survive. I thought it was really interesting but the teacher did make us feel really bad.
That was long, if you read the whole thing you win a prize! A sense of accomplishment! God, don't you hate when people do that?
The Flying Elephant
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