Crazyness

Well I dont know how I really feel about expressing myself on the world wide web, not really my thing but I will try this out and see what comes of it. I had the most awkward weekend since I have been here at WSC, its been the first weekend that I thought to myself "Fuck Mass, I want to be back in Vermont." The thing that was weird about it was that nothing happened to provoke this feeling. My two best friends came up for the weekend, we hang out, went out to Springfield to "roam around the city" as Paul put it and had a great weekend. But when they were leaving Sunday morning I felt like my entire world was falling apart. I just has a breakdown and didnt know why. Awkward Feeling. But after having a long talk with my Hippie friend Kolby she made me realize that you can just up and leave whenever you want to. Why would I just leave college because I was having one bad day, thats nonsense. I have made some friends here that I can honestly say I will know for the rest of my life. And I dont want to go back to Vermont and leave everyone that has been more than wonderful to me?

"Eyes of Hope"

I knew a person long ago with hair as brown as mine. Her eyes a deep abyss with but one little wish to find herself within the big cold world she calls her planet earth. Her heart as sweet as her smile was flawless but she still hid something from the world. The feeling of being out of place on her dear planet earth. The pain felt like being cast away in darkness like the deep abyss that are her eyes.Day in and day out she walk along her planet earth looking for someone to answer her pain but no one did. Surprised at how long she walked along her dear beloved planet earth she closed her eyes and wept. She wept and she wept until the tears in her went dry.And then suddenly there was no more pain because there was no more hope.Out of pain, out of hope out of fear no one would go near, the girl with eyes like an abyss.For she let out a cold shiver down the back of your neak, a cold that made your heart feel sorrow more sorrowful than the last.But suddenly an angel came and wispered in her ear"you are not alone in this beloved planet earth". "For I am with you" and with one kiss upon her cheek the angel took all the pain,the sorrow and the fear away. No longer was the girl with hair as brown as mine full of the pain of being out of place.She no longer had eyes as deep as an abyss for her eyes were full of hope and the blessing of an angels kiss.

democracy?

Today in class, one of the assignments that we reviewed was an essay that discussed whether or not we actually live in a democracy. This essay was a speech from a pro-democracy rally held in Toledo, Oh in 2001; so this essay is obviously biased, and it tried to display a specific idea (that while we are lead to believe that we live in a democracy, we actually do not). As I read through, the essay provided several examples from modern society (relating to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan), and several personal accounts from a man who was a Marine in the early part of the 20th century who claimed that many of the missions that he was a part of in foreign countries only served the interests of big business. Now, I'm not going to write anything talking about my own personal opinions on whether or not the war in Iraq is legitimate, whether or not we live in a real democracy, pros and cons of supporting a free market economy, etc... The purpose of my post is not to provide any of my political opinions. Rather, I just wanted to provide an observation that I made in class today regarding something that I would not have been able to notice on my own. While discussing this essay in class, I had expected that the purpose of this essay was going to be to persuade the people listening to the speech to agree with what the speaker was telling them: that we do not actually live in a democracy. However, Professor Meek pointed out that the actual purpose of the essay/speech was to persuade people to think that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are illegitimate, since the author focuses so heavilly on the wars on the second page. Before Prof. Meek mentioned this, I honestly thought that the author was simply using the examples of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to support the idea that we don't live in a democracy. While I still sort of think that the author is trying to persuade people to believe that we do not live in a democracy, I can definitely now see the possibility that the author could be focusing on the idea that the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan are illegitimate. Learn something new every day!

My name is Paulmses. I was born and raised in Needham, Massachusetts. I love to play and watch sports. For as long as I could remember I have never went a season without playing and winning on a sports team. Whether it was at the beginning of my sports career with soccer and tee ball or the end of it with football, basketball, and baseball. Now that I'm in college I'm still playing intramurals but unfortunately not as much as I would like to have. The other love in my life if TV. If I find a show that i really enjoy and understand I stay with it and watch it whenever its on. I have gone as far as memorizing episode from The Simpsons as well as Seinfeld.  Two of the best shows in the history of television. That statement can not be argued. Whether its a reality citcom or an animated show about an american family every writer will say they have got most of their material from those two shows.

woot blogging in 101!

hell yea. I dont know the point of blogging yet, so im just going to basically write whats on my mind. So yeah. I'm beggining to dislike Mondays even more. Now my wonderful schedule has me goin to four straight classes on Mondays. Wolrd of Music, then this class, Enlfish 101, twice in a row, then Theories of crime. then i have about an hour break then i got elementary statictics. It's pretty sick. Of course im kidding. The best part is though that i dont have any classes on Tuesdays or Thursdays. And lets be real here, that really is sick. Anyways, i'm pretty pumped to be taking this class again. Apparently im slow in english. I gotta set up an appointment or suttin to see why i failed last semester. Thats buggin me alot. I deffinately did all the work and stuff, so I have no clue why i failed. OHHH!. Thats bugs me.

Iraq

I am currently filing papers to become a United States Army Soldier. Many of my friends have become either Marines or Army soldiers in the past year and Im feel like I want the same. I have passed all my papers and done all the background checks. Although this is what I want, many people try to persuade me otherwise, saying things about how I will be in Iraq soon. In my opinion I feel that Iraq is a necessary step towards making this country a safer one. I am ready to swear in to the Army and serve my country, but will the country appreciate it? The troops catch criticism all the time about this war. The way I look at it, if they were not over there fighting for this country, then it would be all of the people complaining. I am joining the Army for many reasons. The most important reason above all the rest is, Im joining so the poeple i care about do not have to. Many people say Iraq and the war is complete bullshit. To these people I would like to say, you live in America, if you dont like it get the F*ck out. If you have any advice for me it would be appreciated.