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Sick

Published by Cody on October 29, 2007 in Personal and Rant. 3 Comments Tags: job, nature, Personal, Rant, school, sick, work.

Being sick sucks. I mean, really. It’s awesome when you’re a little kid and missing school doesn’t matter because the only things you ever did in class were pick your nose, eat glue, and maybe learn about numbers. Maybe.

But when you’re older, being sick is a huge hassle. It started in high school, when teachers began telling you to make up work you had missed. What? What happened to the pat on the head and “Oh, that’s all right, you don’t have to do this assignment” of elementary school? Big bummer there. College is even worse. Some professors might not even let you make up an assignment, especially if you’re sick on a test day. You have to tell them you’ll miss the test in advance. That’s right, Professor. I’m planning on being sick Thursday. I was thinking the flu, but it might be AIDS. I haven’t decided.

Why the sick rant? Well, I’ve suffered a rather nasty cold/flu thing over the past weekend, which has caused me to miss most of class Friday (including a review session which could have really helped on the test I dragged myself out of bed for today) and two days of work. I thought I was getting better, but no. Mother Nature has to make it worse. Damn you, Nature. Now I’m not sorry for that one incident in the woods. That tree deserved it. You know what I’m talking about.

Anyways, the older I get, the less I like to miss school or work. It’s probably a result of having actual penalties for missing things. Whatever the case, I don’t like being sick. I just thought I’d let everyone know.

Yoga in school

Published by Cody on January 29, 2007 in Rant. 0 Comments Tags: religion, school, stupid-people, yoga.

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of yoga to relax you before a test, right? Wrong. Apparently, practicing yoga in public school encourages kids to explore other religions. Which is bad. Eh, what now?

According to an MSNBC article I was reading earlier, in 2002, a woman by the name of Tara Guber wanted to introduce yoga into public schools in order to help relax children before tough tests. No harm in that, right? Well, not everyone saw it that way, as both Christian fundamentalists and secular parents teamed up to accuse her of being a “new age nut” out to brainwash their children. Right. It’s understandable from a certain standpoint because some of the parents claimed it violated the separation of church and state since Yoga is an important part of the Hindu religion, but still, brainwashing? Yes, let’s convert school-age kids to Hinduism so they can…what, take over the playground? Come on.

Guber finally decided to eliminate almost every spiritual aspect from the yoga curriculum and it was accepted by over 100 schools nationwide, including the one at which it was so vehemently opposed five years ago.

But that’s not good enough for some people. Critics claim that even this version of yoga “goads young people into exploring other religions and mysticism.” I fail to see how this is a bad thing. Ignorance of other religions inevitably leads to conflict when the known and the unknown collide. Just look at things today. Few people know enough about Islam to realize that it’s not a “terrorist religion.” They just hear that Muslim terrorists are killing people, so they assume Islam praises this sort of thing. Of course, the media doesn’t help. But the simple fact of the matter remains: if people knew more about Islam, they’d realize it is no more violent than, say, Judaism or Christianity. So it seems to me that learning about other religions is a very good thing.

Of course, there are other critics who have more reasonable objections, saying that yoga is an important religious practice in Hindu. One practices yoga in order to reach enlightenment. It was never meant to be a fitness program. But hey, Westerners have been corrupting other religions for hundreds of years. And since yoga has been shown to improve grades and behavior, I have no objection to it in school. I think the benefits here outweigh the doubts.

Interview time

Published by Cody on July 4, 2006 in Personal. 1 Comment Tags: application, interview, job, Personal, problems, school, test.

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

So, I got my AP test scores back yesterday. I was actually pleasantly surprised to find that I got a 4 on the AP Calculus test. Pretty sweet. That means I get placement into MATH 124 (Calculus with analytic geometry, or some such) as well as five credits towards that class. Yay, more calculus…

Today, I also have a job interview at Haggen. Well, it’s an open interview, so anyone with an application can walk right in and be interviewed, so it’s not really that special. But at least it’s something. I still can’t believe Target hasn’t gotten back to me. I’m fairly sure they’re not going to hire me. I seem to be cursed in the job-hunting department. It usually goes like this:

Me: I see you’re hiring. Can I get an application?
Manager: Sure, here you go.
Me: *fills out application* All right, here’s my application. When can I get an interview?
Manager: Right now! Come on in.
Me: Great!
Manager: *does brief inteview* Well, I’ve reviewed your application, but I’m afraid we don’t have any positions available at this time.
Me: But your sign says you’re hiring!
Manager: Yes, but you applied for cashier, and we don’t need any more cashiers.
Me: Can I apply for any available position, then?
Manager: Yes…we’ll get back to you later, all right?
Me: Okay, sure.

And then they never speak to me again. It never fails. I apply nearly everywhere with a “Now Hiring” sign. Sometimes I get lucky enough to actually get an interview. Sometimes. And even then, it’s doubtful that I’ll get hired. I think it’s because I always look angry, even though I try my hardest to smile during interviews.

I don’t know. But it sure bugs the hell out of me when I hear about some friend of mine with just as little experience getting a job at Target or Fred Meyer days after applying, when it takes me months just to hear that they don’t have any positions for me.

Oh well. Maybe I’ll get lucky at Haggen this time. It is, after all, the third time I’ve applied. I guess we’ll see.

Let’s just go with “I hate school”

Published by Cody on February 23, 2006 in Personal and Rant. 0 Comments Tags: band, high school, marching, Personal, poetry, Rant, school.

I still hate poetry. Maybe it’s because my analytical mind can’t comprehend most of the creative elements used in poetic phrasing. Or maybe it’s because I have a four-page paper on a poem due tomorrow, and I’m only through the first page. Yeah, maybe that’s it…

In other news, I had a excellent four-day weekend, which, of course, made it all the worse to have to come back to school and get a slight scare about not having enough PE credits to graduate. Luckily, I found out that was a false alarm, but I still have to do spring marching band in order to get the credit. I hope the freshmen aren’t as stupid as they were last year…

I also hate physics. And calculus. And Washington State history. Physics is really hard and barely understandable (which bugs me to no end considering I’ve never had this much trouble comprehending anything). Calculus has an insane workload (think thirty not-so-easy problems a night almost every night). And finally, Washington State history is just an idiotic graduation requirement that’s vastly harder than the version my peers had to take in eighth grade, when I was busy taking Texas State history. Life is unfair, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. Gar.

So here I am, two paragraphs done in my essay, and I don’t know what else to say. I’m not a big fan of poetry, if you haven’t noticed. I simply don’t understand why I need to write four pages analyzing it. I understand the poem fine. It’s about a guy and his lover with the guy saying all this flowery stuff to the sun about how it was intruding upon their world, blah blah blah, yada yada, and all that jazz. It’s a good poem, but I just can’t seem to figure out what my English teacher wants me to write about. There’s a limit to how much one can BS an essay. It’s about a page and a half. After that, it becomes obvious you don’t know what you’re talking about, and the grade drops exponentially in relation to the amount of paper you’ve wasted saying nothing important.

I know from experience.

It just turned eleven, which means I should get things in gear and crank out a semblance of a well-made essay, even if I don’t do any pre-writing (a quarter of the essay grade, unfortunately, but totally pointless) and the final ends up being three pages. I don’t care (enough) any more to worry about getting a 75% on an English paper. It’s about par for the course these days, meaning both the grade and the pointlessness of the essay. I’d rant about the time we had to write an essay literally about nothing, but that’d take too long, and I really need to finish this essay so I can sleep and try to forget all the physics homework I didn’t do because of the essay. (Of course I didn’t procrastinate! Well, not really. Kind of. Perhaps a bit. Okay, I could have made my life easier by doing the essay over the weekend, but where’s the fun in that? I wouldn’t be able to complain. Meh.)

Midterm hell

Published by Cody on January 27, 2006 in Personal. 0 Comments Tags: basketball, dating, Dreamweaver, girlfriend, midterms, Personal, Photoshop, relationship, school, website.

At long last, the week of midterms hell is over! I’m so happy! Well, not as happy as I could be, I suppose, considering I probably ended up with a horrible grade in Calc. And I promise that next semester, I’ll actually do my homework for it.

Girls basketball game tonight (oh joy…), but I’m going out to dinner with Lindsay before and then to a movie-fest-night-thing at a friend’s house. Much rejoicing will be had.

Now that I’m going into a three day weekend, I had better get working on my website. Huzzah for Photoshop and Dreamweaver and mass amounts of tutorials!

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