Nancy Harvey wrote back in 1998 that parents and children were laughing at responsibility's face and ignoring self-discipline. The children that went through this will be 12 this year. Did this mentality in the late 90s lead to today's "i've got to get what I want right now, and my parents will let me get it" metality? is this the mentality that led to the whiny, pessismistic brat demographic that is so prevalent today? Discuss.
For those interested in the basis of this topic, look up a bref article she wrote called "the imitation of mr. starbuck" link below.
http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9808/opinion/harvey.html
comment with your thoughts.
--Zack
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
activate mini-hiatus!
yea, thats right andy regular readers fo this. i'm taking a mini hiatus from posting here starting today and enidng around october 1st. got a lot of work between now and then.
see you all then
--Zack
see you all then
--Zack
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
weekly update 9-14-10: ramblings and another mini-hiatus?
hey all, back for this week's update.
lets get crackin, shall we?
ok so as youve noticed, this post is going up early. Thats because i'm donating blood tomorrow during my usual blog time so yea.
Thursday last week was pretty mundane outside of work and such. i had schedules to do laps, btu i believe work got in the way, or i got lazy. well, yea work gets precednce over exercise for me. cause i like to just sit down and work, even with distraction. i also dont like working too late into the night.
Friday: Mundane mornign, as i finished up sense and senibility (finally) and then went to lunch and my last class for the day. after that i planned otu my weekend and then hung out with one of my freinds over smoothies and here in my room. we hadnt caught up in a while so it was really nice to do so. That night was the SAB money giveaway thing. i just socialized with friends. i didnt win any $. oh well.
Saturday was very much work filled as the assingment i had thought would be short was anything but. it was easy but very time consuming. so yay for wokring 10-5:30 witha brunch break on the weekend. and no i'm nto complaining. saturday night i simply walked around and hung out.
Sunday was light on work, but still spent sveeral hours working on my senior psych intro outline round 2. round three is dues friday. so yeah. i need to stop being distracted when i get done wiht class for the day and i'm starting work at like 2:45 or so in the afternoon.
Monday, yesterday was fine, i managed to beats out half of a paper in an hour and a half which made me happy.
Tuesday (today): finished that paper otday on top of some reading fro that same class (i'm fining myslef not caring about the poetry and narrative stuff we read unless i have to write somethign for the class on it. is this mild senioritis? i dont know.
ok, so remeber that bloggin hiatus i took last fall? well as a minor heads up, i may have to take one again. stuff gonna get mad busy starting this weekend and going until around october 1st. so if i dont post here after today, you know why.
and now for something completly different!!!!
a heartwarming story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011740342_electronboy30m.html
ok so, i love this story. It makes me so happy that all these people came together to make the dream of a kid living with Liver Cancer come true. especially those two guys from Deadliest Catch. That's so wondeful that people have their hearts in the right place. that's my thoughts onthis in a nutshell.
And thats it for this week guys. Wow a short one, eh?
Thansk for reading, comment below if you wish. Now, follow me on twitter: twitter.com/phoenix88tf
lets get crackin, shall we?
ok so as youve noticed, this post is going up early. Thats because i'm donating blood tomorrow during my usual blog time so yea.
Thursday last week was pretty mundane outside of work and such. i had schedules to do laps, btu i believe work got in the way, or i got lazy. well, yea work gets precednce over exercise for me. cause i like to just sit down and work, even with distraction. i also dont like working too late into the night.
Friday: Mundane mornign, as i finished up sense and senibility (finally) and then went to lunch and my last class for the day. after that i planned otu my weekend and then hung out with one of my freinds over smoothies and here in my room. we hadnt caught up in a while so it was really nice to do so. That night was the SAB money giveaway thing. i just socialized with friends. i didnt win any $. oh well.
Saturday was very much work filled as the assingment i had thought would be short was anything but. it was easy but very time consuming. so yay for wokring 10-5:30 witha brunch break on the weekend. and no i'm nto complaining. saturday night i simply walked around and hung out.
Sunday was light on work, but still spent sveeral hours working on my senior psych intro outline round 2. round three is dues friday. so yeah. i need to stop being distracted when i get done wiht class for the day and i'm starting work at like 2:45 or so in the afternoon.
Monday, yesterday was fine, i managed to beats out half of a paper in an hour and a half which made me happy.
Tuesday (today): finished that paper otday on top of some reading fro that same class (i'm fining myslef not caring about the poetry and narrative stuff we read unless i have to write somethign for the class on it. is this mild senioritis? i dont know.
ok, so remeber that bloggin hiatus i took last fall? well as a minor heads up, i may have to take one again. stuff gonna get mad busy starting this weekend and going until around october 1st. so if i dont post here after today, you know why.
and now for something completly different!!!!
a heartwarming story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011740342_electronboy30m.html
ok so, i love this story. It makes me so happy that all these people came together to make the dream of a kid living with Liver Cancer come true. especially those two guys from Deadliest Catch. That's so wondeful that people have their hearts in the right place. that's my thoughts onthis in a nutshell.
And thats it for this week guys. Wow a short one, eh?
Thansk for reading, comment below if you wish. Now, follow me on twitter: twitter.com/phoenix88tf
quckie update 9-14-10
Hey guys. just to update any reder. this weeks life in brief post will probably go up either tonight (tuesday) or tomorrow night (wednessay 9/15/10). I'm donating blood during my usual blogging time wedensday AM and i will be mired in work wendesday afternoon.
--Zack
--Zack
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
weekly update 9-8-10: blog paradox!!!
Yea so i wanted to put a funny title there for once. Anyway, before i get rolling, you may or may nto have notice i deleted last weeks post. basically i did that to cover my tracks. in retrospect, i said some things in that post that i shouldnt have, and one of my freinds ntoified me that people were talking and i should watch myself. now i've ratcheted some stuff back, cause she said the people were talking bad things abotu me. now i know people will always talk, but i covered my tracks a bit and well yea. I didnt think i was doing thigns too abnormal though. whatever. So thats why lats week's post was deleted and not pared down
Soo, lets get too it.
So classes are underway and have been for about 2 weeks. Feels like tis been longer, btu its going to be a fun, busy semester. theres a great dynamic among the students and prof in both Words and Works of Ancietn rome and in romanticism. Though, i'm nto feeling the first book for romaticism and yea. anyway. senior psych research is going well i have a very firm idea fo what i'm gonna reaserch. History of Psych is fun, lot of information, and everyone seems to not be talking much cause of other prioroties, btu its still fun. moral education has some very interesting discusssion poitns and such and i like the structure of the class. I love the prof, and the different topics we'll cover in the class will be intriguing.
Yay classes recap in brief. Anyway, onto the day by day recap.
Thursday and firdya were pretty much routine, just workin and hangin wiht people (yea i had to work on firday (sadface)). i had a project proposal for senior research due on tuesday so i wanted to get that done sunday, and to do so, i needed to work on one assingment and get it done. Saturday was work filled on things for words and works, and romanticism and i think one of my other classes. after that, i socialized ab bunch and hten wnet ot SAB bingo night. after a long stretch of wanting the prizes and not winning, i finally got bingo and dthe prizes was a 3 piece set of a coffeemaker, iron and skillet. I've made food on the skillet and have so used the coffeemake hardcore. My reaction after i won was absurd. I had bee whispering the numbers i needed to myself, and they both got called. I yelled bingo in my normal voice and then Ninja'd my way very fast and awkwardly around this sophmore Sean that i kind of know and then i pointed to the places on my board and i won. I think at some point i said "That's me" in a very high pitched voice. ugh i have messed up vocal chords.
Sunday was filled wiht wokring on senior psych and i managed to skype wiht my folks which made me very happy. It was great to finally see my dad after his surgery (if you follow me on facebook you know what this is about, if not, just ask). Monday was a normal monday 2 classes and work stuffs. oy. same for yesterday but yesterday was long. For soem reason Moral Education doesnt go by fast, at least not yet.
That brings us to today. Romanticism was fun, ad i need to think of an essay topic to outline over the weeknd or on monday.
Lastly, over the past week, Disturbed released their new album. I'm not too blown away by it, i may get it at some point, but the first single came across as a bit preachy for the band for me and while the title track is very solid and has a great music video, i feel like parts of the song are drawn out and not really well put together. The thing that grabbed me about the new Disturbed album, is that they did a secret hidden track after the last track of the album. the secret track, being secret had a minute 30 of filler, which is really annoying the filler is just dead air and i really dont like when bands do that. Just stick the track at the end and keep it off the tracklisting. anyway, the track thats secret is a cover of "I still havent found what I'm looking for" by U2. IT's a surprisingly awesome rendition of it, the guitar solo seems a bti too sped up and out of place, but other than that, i have no qualms. link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jXHkHRubk
the thing i'm most happy about wiht music is thatALter Bridge leaked their first Single "Isolation" off thier comign Album, ABIII, via Roadrunner records UK. Its also on youtube, so i'll put a link after this, but yea. wow. i love this song. its hard hittign the lyrics are great and there's an awesome feel to it cause the lead vocalist, Myles Kennedy solos on the track and his guiatr work has greatly inproved with each Alter Bridge album. hopefully the rest of the album is like this and yea. it's due out mid-october here in the US i believe, so yea. its pretty much a day 1 purchase for me. in fact, i'm gonna go look at alter bridge posters. link to the song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S9D5RRwQ8g
see you guys next week.
--Zack
Soo, lets get too it.
So classes are underway and have been for about 2 weeks. Feels like tis been longer, btu its going to be a fun, busy semester. theres a great dynamic among the students and prof in both Words and Works of Ancietn rome and in romanticism. Though, i'm nto feeling the first book for romaticism and yea. anyway. senior psych research is going well i have a very firm idea fo what i'm gonna reaserch. History of Psych is fun, lot of information, and everyone seems to not be talking much cause of other prioroties, btu its still fun. moral education has some very interesting discusssion poitns and such and i like the structure of the class. I love the prof, and the different topics we'll cover in the class will be intriguing.
Yay classes recap in brief. Anyway, onto the day by day recap.
Thursday and firdya were pretty much routine, just workin and hangin wiht people (yea i had to work on firday (sadface)). i had a project proposal for senior research due on tuesday so i wanted to get that done sunday, and to do so, i needed to work on one assingment and get it done. Saturday was work filled on things for words and works, and romanticism and i think one of my other classes. after that, i socialized ab bunch and hten wnet ot SAB bingo night. after a long stretch of wanting the prizes and not winning, i finally got bingo and dthe prizes was a 3 piece set of a coffeemaker, iron and skillet. I've made food on the skillet and have so used the coffeemake hardcore. My reaction after i won was absurd. I had bee whispering the numbers i needed to myself, and they both got called. I yelled bingo in my normal voice and then Ninja'd my way very fast and awkwardly around this sophmore Sean that i kind of know and then i pointed to the places on my board and i won. I think at some point i said "That's me" in a very high pitched voice. ugh i have messed up vocal chords.
Sunday was filled wiht wokring on senior psych and i managed to skype wiht my folks which made me very happy. It was great to finally see my dad after his surgery (if you follow me on facebook you know what this is about, if not, just ask). Monday was a normal monday 2 classes and work stuffs. oy. same for yesterday but yesterday was long. For soem reason Moral Education doesnt go by fast, at least not yet.
That brings us to today. Romanticism was fun, ad i need to think of an essay topic to outline over the weeknd or on monday.
Lastly, over the past week, Disturbed released their new album. I'm not too blown away by it, i may get it at some point, but the first single came across as a bit preachy for the band for me and while the title track is very solid and has a great music video, i feel like parts of the song are drawn out and not really well put together. The thing that grabbed me about the new Disturbed album, is that they did a secret hidden track after the last track of the album. the secret track, being secret had a minute 30 of filler, which is really annoying the filler is just dead air and i really dont like when bands do that. Just stick the track at the end and keep it off the tracklisting. anyway, the track thats secret is a cover of "I still havent found what I'm looking for" by U2. IT's a surprisingly awesome rendition of it, the guitar solo seems a bti too sped up and out of place, but other than that, i have no qualms. link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jXHkHRubk
the thing i'm most happy about wiht music is thatALter Bridge leaked their first Single "Isolation" off thier comign Album, ABIII, via Roadrunner records UK. Its also on youtube, so i'll put a link after this, but yea. wow. i love this song. its hard hittign the lyrics are great and there's an awesome feel to it cause the lead vocalist, Myles Kennedy solos on the track and his guiatr work has greatly inproved with each Alter Bridge album. hopefully the rest of the album is like this and yea. it's due out mid-october here in the US i believe, so yea. its pretty much a day 1 purchase for me. in fact, i'm gonna go look at alter bridge posters. link to the song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S9D5RRwQ8g
see you guys next week.
--Zack
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