Recall Walker

Don't worry guys I'm not talking about recalling Walker Texas Ranger. Who could live without his amazingly fake round house kicks? Not me that's for sure. (oh and don't tell chuck norris I think his kicks are fake, the man scares the bajeezus out of me.) Anywho, the walker I am talking about is currently our state governor and in case none of you have noticed nearly every college student and teacher in wisconsin hates his guts. Now, as a college student myself I might be so inclined to hate him too. I mean, he is sucking funds from schools that can be used to fuel my education. But who needs an education anyways? Later on in life when my boss asks me why I can't spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious i'll blame it on Walker. (Actually I'll blame it on society as a whole because i'm pretty sure no school in america teaches you how to spell that word.) HOWEVER, Wikipedia does. God bless Wikipedia. Moving on, for that reason i would be inclined to dislike our governor just like everyone else. But, taking a step back we can analyze this situation from a different non-college perspective. In reality the man is doing what no other person has had to the guts (and dare i say smarts?) to do. Essentially Walker is attempting to save Wisconsin from the depths of debt. Which is good, yes? I do agree he may be pulling funds from the wrong places, like colleges, but he's doing it for the kiiiiiiind of right reasons. If were to be sympathetic to his cause. Think about it, most of you are planning to have children (nodding. yes.) So since they obviously won't have the opportunity to be living in a debt free america (face it guys Obama is not changing anything for the good of the people.) < Now a recall obama petition, thats a good idea. Anyways, not my point, if right now Walker is working to pull wisconsin out of debt and cut loose spending habits then in the future when there are no more budget cuts and fund pulling and wisconsin is happily surrounded by a sea of debt, but not a part of it, wouldn't that be good? Can we not sacrifice some of our money right now to provide for the future of our kids. So far people have pretty much left shit for a country and a state for us to live in, so why is it now that someone is trying to not leave shit for the future are people rebelling and getting angry? It's like the ozone layer guys, we could keep polluting and polluting until the ozone layer rips so large we get sucked into outer space... okay i dont know if that would actually happen. OR, we could stop polluting (spending money) and not get sucked into space (debt.) See that analogy right there? Pure genius. My point is, give the man a break, hes helping Wisconsin in a roundabout way. Isn't that what we ask for in a governor?

100 miles

For the past three months my boyfriend has been consistently 100 miles away from me and i hate it. For the one and a half years that we were dating before we went off to different colleges we lived five minutes apart. Now, we live more than an hour apart and neither of us really has much time or means to get to each other. In the past three months we've seen each other three times, me going to him twice, him coming to me once. It hasn't been bad, I mean i've missed him like crazy but we've worked through it, we've endured. I've been optimistic. Until now.

Dont' get me wrong i still love the boy like crazy. I can still see me marrying him, starting a family, and living happily ever after. But in the month that i have been unable to see him i worry what he's been thinking. He's a guy.. i feel like they, by inheritance, have a wandering eye. I can't say that i haven't myself. Of course i haven't cheated on him but sure i've thought a couple times how much more easy it would be if i wasn't dating him. Less hurt, less worry, less stress. But i know hes worth it, i know i want to be with him. Does he want to be with me? Friday i was talking to him and he said he was going to bed so i said good night, i love you. I was expecting reciprocated feelings but all i got was a "k night." K night, ouch. so i said uhm thanks? and he said love you. Like it hurt him to say it. He was drunk at the time, or at least coming down from that, but still. drunk words are sober thoughts? and today i mentioned that two days was too long to wait to see him and he said it was punny. not miss you too, or i know. just punny. I'm trying to not get worked up over it but i am and i feel like i cant say anything to him about it because he'll just deny it and call me crazy. and maybe i am but if i am going crazy its because of this 100 miles.

Patrick

This is going to be a boring post because I cant really think of anything to say and its 11:41 and I need to wake up for this class at 7am tomorrow. So I'm not really inclined to think of anything really exciting to write about. So I'm going to write about Patrick and the dilemma I have involving him. For the record Patrick is my fish. And he is very awesome. Life with Patrick has been a really good time. He lights up my desk and gets really excited when I come sit down. (Which is very funny.) He also has a plant at the top of his tank so I get the added burst of oxygen around my desk (except not really because I'm pretty sure I'm slowly killing that plant.) In any case, my latest dilemma with Patrick is that I need to figure out what I am going to do with him when I go home for thanksgiving. There is the option where I could put him in a small container and bring him home with me and then bring him back. Unfortunately, I live four hours away and I don't think that much travel is very good for a fish. So, my other option is to leave him at school for 5 or more days and hope he survives that long without food. I've done small amounts of research on this and supposedly he can live that long without food because Bettas are opportunistic eaters. This means that they eat whenever they can and if they cant then they wait it out. So. I could feed him a lot the day I leave and then wish him the best. That just seems kind of cruel though, I would be so upset if I came back and found out Patrick died. (Granted I have a one year warranty on him.) But I've grown rather attached to Patrick and would not want to initiate that warranty if I don't have to. So I'm stuck. My mom suggested an automatic feeder but that seemed kind of ridiculous. In reality, I need to figure this out anyways cause I cant leave him here for the whole of christmas break. Perhaps I'll let my imagination run loose. In case it doesn't though, anybody have any ideas?

vegetarianism?

for the past few years of my life i have thought that someday I'm going to become a vegetarian. (shh dont tell my dad.) Coming from a meat and potatoes kind of family i suppose it is kind of surprising that i want this. However, i do in fact want it. (Mostly because i feel bad about all the ways the poor animals I'm consuming are treated.) So anyways, since I'm bored and don't feel like doing any other homework I've decided to create a comparison between the pros and cons of vegetarianism. Starting with the pros..

To begin with if i became a vegetarian one really good thing would be that i wouldn't be eating animals anymore. Animals that are mistreated and murdered just so i can eat a cheeseburger. (super depressing when you think about it.) Another great thing is that i could get sit all high and mighty with my strictly vegetable diet and give people who are mowing down on a steak very dirty looks (dont try to deny it all vegetarians do it.) Another good thing about being a vegetarian is that i would be healthier. Generally plants and other delicious green things don't contain any source of fat or other gross things that could pack on the pounds. Oh, another good thing is that i wouldn't have to worry about parasites and other disgusting worms crawling around in your body from sushi and other gross foods. (take that mad cows disease.) I get to avoid osteoporosis, kidney stones, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, gum disease, and acne. Above all since vegetarianism is a pretty hot topic right now and kind of trendy there are a lot of easy substitutes that you can find if you have the time and resources. 

Moving on to the cons. The obvious one is that i wouldn't be able to eat meat anymore. (although i have been saying it makes me sad most of the time because i'm eating animals i would still miss food like bacon, and steak, and hamburgers.) These are just too good how could i not miss them? Becoming a vegetarian also means i would need to be motivated to do so, although there are a lot of easy substitutes (even at UW-Stout) they may not always be appealing. And i would have to make myself not give in to the smell of bacon and burgers (yum/ew) so conflicting. Some people say when you cut out meat from your diet your likely to have a lot less protein. This means for most vegetarians it is essential to take vitamins and other supplements to make sure they stay at the peak of their health. In addition, most people who go vegetarian dont plan out their diet very well and end up just eating junk food that isn't really good for them at all. This can lead to weight gain and eventually giving up on vegetarianism because 'there isn't enough to eat.' 

Taking all these into consideration i dont think i'm ready to make this life changing decision yet but i think someday i'll at least try. just for the heck of it.