Horror

If you look horror up on google images, this is the first picture that is shown. Just in case you were feeling horrified because our economy is going to die and everything we have ever known is going to die! 

I personally am very happy that the bailout plan pushed by all the powers that be did not pass. We love our horror films, like the pictures above. We love getting scared and clinging to our friends in that moment. You know who knows we love getting scared? CNN, NY Times, etc. They love to get us all riled up and freaked out; they love us looking like emo guy top right. We love watching about how scary everything is, so they freak us out. That is why I was so scared the bailout plan was going to pass.

It was only a couple of days after the economic crisis had happened and all of the sudden some guy named Paulson told us that he needed to be in charge of 700 billion dollars going to save the big corporations. Then Bush got up and told everybody we needed to stand behind this bill, much like he told us to get behind the Patriot Act after 911 when we were filled with horror. To each his own, but the Patriot Act scares me and so does this bailout plan. 

It was pretty interesting that the representatives voting against the bill tended to be either really far left or really far right, and the heads of the parties and the president all wanted the bill to pass. I am glad that our representatives are going to take some time to better work out this bill. It does not seem like something to rush in two days. Once it happens, you don't just take it back. 

Anyways, we should be writing our representatives to tell them how proud we are of them, or not proud of them if you really wanted the bill to pass. 

In other news, Our intramural football team won another game. We are 2-1 now but our defense is yet to be scored upon. (We lost the first game 2-0 on a safety, yeah it sucks)

Commonality?

Sometimes I forget how many people really live in this world. It is so easy to consider only ourselves, only to be rudely awakened by pictures like this. These people are all marching to encourage the production of some new car coming out. I have no clue what the essence of the debate really is; I can't relate. Yet somehow there is some commonality between us it seems.

I was reading the article pictured above in the NY Times while I was riding the bus through Miami on the way to school. I thought it might be kinda cool to have our bus run into a big protest like this. We could probably have a big barbeque or something while we tried to change the world.

Course Schedule

This semester I'm taking:

1. Visual Media Design: That's why my graphics are so good on this webpage! Notice all the stuff I've done? lol
   
2. Constitutional Law: Powers: Taught by a Cuban/American guy that went to Wheaton College. I never thought I would see a guy from Wheaton College at FIU, but there he is. He swears more than any teacher I've ever had, and if you know anything about Wheaton that is really odd... LIke really, really odd. Great class though. A lot of pretty girls that are going to law school are in the class, yay! (See pic above)
3. Consumer Economics: Taught by this a very fiscal conservative guy. Really interesting he travels a lot and he works at the IRS. Very Cool Nerd
4. Statistics for Business: What else can I say but, Gen Ed course. This class makes me believe that the world is boring, pointless and without purpose. (Sorry Simon for that hyperbolic statement.) The teacher speaks worse English than my old cleaning lady from Poland and the material is dreadfully easy/boring.
5. Writing Strategies: To help me write because I'm a writer. The teacher wants us to read Stephen King though, I almost cried when she told us that. Stephen King? We can't find any better literature than Stephen King? "Blah, blah, blah..." These are the prominent words that go through my head throughout this hour and fifteen minute class. Blah, blah, blah