CAPTAIN INSENSITIVE

when i first considered starting a blog i figured it would be sort of an anonymous online journal, where total strangers would stumble upon my posts, be intrigued/offended and never meet me. i had absolutely no intention of ever showing my blog to anyone i knew personally. this would allow me to be unbiased in my judgements of others and keep things edgy without any "real world" repercussions. not a bad idea really. but the reality it is, the internet is not as full of inquisitive blog-searching sheep as i had thought. so i branched out.

sure, you might be thinking that i, captain insensitive--the perpetual heckler, would have no problem speaking my mind, even if it insults or offends someone. and that is fairly true, actually. i try my best to truthful and forthright and i have a tendency to do it in a peanut gallery style. but even i have my limits. i have a pretty good idea of the things that would really set off my closer associates. and so i usually dont bother bringing up those things. im talking about stuff like someone talking too much, or scaring visitors away, or stealing love interests. ya know, the stuff that would crush a person if i told them what i really think of them...

and dont assume that i am the only one who thinks like this. i know that i do stuff that pisses people off and i can sometimes tell when they bite their lip so they dont offend me. everyone does it. everyone passes judgment--even if they feel hypocritical about it. it is only human. so what is the big deal then? why cant we bring up certain things that really piss us off about our friends? isnt that the only way to resolve the situation and not let is fester and build up? even though i dont always follow it, i do believe people should bring these sorts of things up, at the very least so the other person knows about it and can try to minimize it when you are around. and really you would be doing them a favor since you are probably not the only person to notice it...

so what? so people hold grudges without ever telling the other person. who cares, right? the fact of the matter is, you have to decide whether holding a secret grudge is a fair trade for the uncomfortable revealing conversation.

as for me, i will continue to poke fun at my anonymous friends for all the blog-reading sheep...

let the paranoia begin...

CLASSY

if there is one thing i know, it is school. i have lots of experience at it. in fact, most of my life has been spent at school. i never really minded it until i got to byu and had my first chemistry class. it was at that point that i didnt like school anymore. which is why i became a teacher.

you see, school doesnt suck nearly as much when you control every aspect of the classroom. no one is there to tell you what to do, how to do it or why you are wrong. instead, you get to do it to others. what goes around comes around (although, in this particular instance, the order is reversed).

so what is it like molding minds like silly puddy? bouncy. by that i mean, every day i witness something new that i never would have expected. here are a few (mild) examples completely stipped of context:

"when i grow up i want to work at an elementary school so i can meet chicks."

"you nasty. you farted in the bathroom."

"im allergic to peanuts." "why?"

"i can taste it in my mouth!"

"im gonna eat it without swallowing."

"what month is may?"

"...and for some reason it was christmas."

ah, the future is bright.

MIS-ADVENTURES IN WINTER TRAVELS

so i went home for chirstmas like i usually do. only this year i decided to only go home for a few days instead of the more traditional few weeks. this is mostly due to my work schedule, but is also due to my inability to entertain myself at home for such a long period of time. 4 days was all i got/needed to enjoy my trip. well, i should clarify that the trip itself was good but the traveling part was less than good. perhaps even bad.

to start out, my flight was scheduled for dec 24 (supposedly the busiest travel day of the year) at about 11am. i didnt have to check in luggage so i left about 3 hours before my flight figuring that would be plenty of time to get through security and such. after about 30 minutes of driving i realized that my ticket was sitting on my desk. so i turned around and, going about 90 mph, got home, got the ticket and got back on the road. i continued to go 90 mph all the way to the airport, passing cars and cops alike (and i still didnt get pulled over. honestly, what DO utah cops do?) and i made it to the airport about an hour before my flight was scheduled to leave, thinking that i was never going to make it through security on time. but it turns out that the christmas rush was about three days earlier when byu/uofu/uvsc all got out of school. i breezed through security in five minutes.

everything was looking up as i boarded my flight to reno, nevada... where i spent three hours waiting for my connection to seattle (by the way, reno was also dead... i had an entire wing to myself. no one was there to witness me make a mess of my $7 sub sandwich). it was for this very reason that i bought a new 80 gig zune. unfortunately, it was scheduled to arrive via ups later that day. luckily, i still had my 1/2 gig sandisk and happily listened to metallica's "black," ac/dc's "dirty deeds done dirt cheap," tool's "10,000 days," some flyleaf album i found, and a mix of wolfmother songs, all while trying to figure out how to take off the auto-fill option while texting on my new cell phone. and my flight was delayed, so i listened to "10,000 days" again. i got to seattle at about 6pm.

in related news, my return trip took the regular 2 hours and i was home in time to for lunch.

in less related news, my car heater is frozen (i assume, it did the same thing last year) and i had the thrill of my life yesterday as i tried desperately to scrape away the ice that was rapidly forming on the inside of my windshield as i drove through byu traffic with this much [......] visibility. luckily, i had a half gallon bottle filled with hot water under my coat to keep me warm...

in even less related news, i am planning a road trip to vegas in the spring (end of semester-ish) with some friends (moydie and i will be on motorcycles). let me know if any of you are interested.