Hugemassive Discussion Review Thing

I guess this is my discussion review post. It may be a little late, but it's here.

So discussion in our class didn't usually take up the whole time. At the start of class, discussions seemed to be a little more focused on the material that we were reading. We talked a little bit about the books, then lost focus on some random stuff that was brought up. Of the two days of class we had each week, it seemed like about a total of one was actually used for class related discussion and the other half was whatever happened to us the day before or what is going to happen that weekend. Most of the time, it also involved only three or four people. This probably had a lot to do with a lot of people not really caring to share what kinds of plans they were making for the weekend. Discussion often felt like it was just tryong to waste time so that the class would take up all of its scheduled fifty minutes. When it did focus on the class material, it was usually pretty good. People did bring up specific examples out of the book and sometimes even managed to bring up examples out of their own family history. I thought that was kind of neat. That's really about it for the year long discussion review. That pretty much a vague discription of exactly how discussion went this semester.

On a Side Note

On a side note, I can't stand when people use the term rest in peace or R.I.P. I just think it sounds bad and if you know anything about the person, you should be able to come up with something better than "rest in peace."

In Loving Memory of Ellis Bergstrom

The saddest thing happened this week. My high school band director's son, Ellis Bergstrom, died this week. Ellis was born with a bad heart. He made it two years on that weak heart when the doctors originally said he wouldn't live more than two weeks. Ellis went downhill after his heart transplant due to infections.

It almost made it worse that when I found out it just happened to be at the same time as one of those sad endings of Scrubs, you know, where they play the sad music and something goes wrong. The song they happened to be playing at that time was Fix You by Coldplay. And that made it extra hard just because it helped set the mood. I know this is going to happen because that's just the way I am; but from now on, whenever I hear Fix You, I'll end up thinking of how cool Ellis was.

It's sad to think that this kind of thing happens to the nicest people.

We will all miss you Ellis. You were already better at the drum set than anyone I know. I guess your skills are needed elsewhere.

FIRE!!!

Oh my god! What is that loud ass beeping sound that is making my ears bleed!?! What's that? I can't hear you over the fire alarm. You say someone burnt chicken nuggets? You say they freaked out and pulled the fire alarm at 5:00 in the morning? What an idiot! Seriously, why the hell would anyone pull the fire alarm because they burnt chicken nuggets?!

For those of you who don't know about it, someone pulled the fire alarm in Gay hall tower two at 5:00 in the morning on Saturday. We had to go outside and freeze our asses off while the fire department showed up only to find burnt chicken nuggets. What the hell! Who pulls the fire alarm because they burnt their chicken nuggets?

But I Just Wanted to Shoot Something!

I'm sad. I spent the whole weekend freezing for no use. I didn't even get to shoot. It was the first year where I had a good, easy shot on a deer and it happened to be the year where the DNR changed its rules without telling anyone so I didn't, nor did anyone else in our party, get a doe permit. So, I just pointed my gun at it and said "Pew pew!" And that was all I could do. How depressing. Damn you DNR!

Raging Dooner (Beware)

Okay, so here is my rage post. Be afraid.

I am sick of all the shit. I'm sick of getting fucked over because someone stole my idea. I'm sick of having a class about American Roots Music that that only focuses on one very small part of Americas musical roots. And as you can probably guess, this entire post is going to be mostly about those two things (and also to distract from the paper that I need to finish writing).

So stealing my ideas and fucking me over. Yeah, how about that. I announce in class that I was going to do my project on the music theory behind blues music. And it was going to be great and would have been super easy to do because you can find all kinds of information about it everywhere. And it would have been almost a guaranteed good grade. But no, I got my idea fucking ninjad out from under me just a week before I was suppose to present. And for that, I am extremely bitter. I was forced to come up with something new and I had to do it quick. Well, I didn't come up with any good ideas. I couldn't teach people how to play stuff because I didn't have the equipment. And that was the best thing I could come up with. So I was forced to settle with some bull shit lame assed idea about marching bands and needed some lame connection to make it somewhat relevant to the class. That was obviously really, really hard to do, seeing as if you google it, you will find NOTHING. And I was forced to present this nothing. I only hoped that the relevance to the class wouldn't be brought up. Sadly for me, it was. And again, I was fucked. This project thing has done nothing for me other than to teach me that people are general ass holes that will fuck you over at any chance they can. And being myself, I'm usually too nice to say anything about it, but I guess not this time (though I didn't say anything in person). I got fucked over on this project and god damn am I bitter about it.

Second, I'm sick of this "American Roots Music" class not being about all of the American musical roots. Why do we only focus on Blues and Country music out of one small area of the country? There is more to the nation that just Louisiana. What about all the music that came from other areas of the country, like Chicago, New York and the southeast? Or does this music just not relevant to the American musical style? Should we not care about musicals, jazz, classical, and marches? These are all prominent in America as well. It's not just blues and country.

God this week blew ass. I can't wait for it to be over.

Trick-or-Letdown

*Sigh


I'm really disappointed by the number of trick or treaters that stopped by today. I bought a shit tone of candy, carved a pumpkin, and froze my ass off decorating the porch in my Elf costume. God damn little kids! There's suppose to be way more of them. And of the six that stopped by the house, four of them were older kids that were lame. Two of them were even too cool to say "trick-or-treat!" Jerks.