Friday, September 03, 2004
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (for 9/3/04)
Hello again! Here is my week in review, or as I call it, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
The Good:
1) The return of tennis. I have played tennis about 3 times a week now for the last 3 weeks, and I am loving it. I used to play all of the time, and as years drug on, I played less and less. Also, racquetball is creeping back into view (I have dodge Scott, as he will tell you, but his day is coming). I love sports, and I love exercise. Well, when it is after 8 am.
2) Involvement time. I have found one committee that I think I am going to love working with. MHSSA (Minority Health Science Students Association). I do regret turning down nomination to serve as Secretary, but I do want to put a lot of effort into the group’s activities. More on this later. I also am trying to get onto the Pharmacy School’s student admissions committee. I think that I have a unique insight into the process, and could serve as a great resource and encouragement to applicants. I hope that I am asked to serve on this committee. Lastly, I am a student representative for the Pharmacy School in the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit. This is actually a big honor to me. As many of you know, I have admittedly soured to formal church service, but I see this as an opportunity to participate again. Whether I want to accept it or not, my being an ex-minister creates a certain image in people’s minds. While I am constantly letting this image down, I do want to step up and meet the responsibility when I can. This Mass is going to be a good way to make that statement. Not to dwell on it, but I also think that people tend to think I have lost my faith, and that is not true. I hope that in some small way this is a statement that I do have a faith still, and that I too still seek God.
3) I have met a few more people, and two of them seem to be people I hope to study and talk with. They are close to where I am at in life. Everyone I am meeting seem very nice, and I am sort of impressed that there aren’t more people on my nerves by now (I tend to get annoyed easily).
4) I got a few new CDs. They are ones I have wanted to pick up for a while. I picked up The Temptations 2 CD greatest hits. “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” is a massive hit. I also picked up Ween’s whole catalog, minus two. I have had most of their stuff at one time or another, but since my brother bought their Live In Chicago DVD/CD set, I have fell back in love with them. Now I can’t get enough. Boognish!
The Bad:
1) I got a 70% on my first quiz in Pharmacy School. It was in Physical Pharmacy. I was very embarrassed, because I think of myself as smarter than that, and because I missed a couple really easy questions. I took the test too nonchalantly and missed some key words in the questions. But, I always use quizzes to correct my path in coursework, so I am looking to do much better now that I got one bomb out of the way.
2) I have already begun desiring to skip a few of my classes. I have two in particular that just seem pointless to attend. This has been a trend throughout my college career. It was really bad in the early days, but as I became a better, more mature student, I still hated wasting my time in worthless classes. I need to just suck it up and do a better job of avoiding truancy. So if you see me screwing around when I should be in class, scowl at me. Unless I am with Scott, Phuong, or Sara, then leave me alone! : )
The Ugly:
1) Arnold Swartzenegger made the comment that the Democratic Party should quit being “economic girly-men.” This is extremely offensive to me. Even in the context of Party Conventions, this sort of off-the-cuff comment is uncalled for. Not only was it not clever (he was referencing a Saturday Night Live skit spoofing him from long, long ago), it is a bigoted comment, using a code-word for “gay.” What he is saying is a) what the opposition is doing is wrong, b) that they are acting “girly”, and c) being “girly” must be wrong. If he wants to call them weak, oversensitive to external factors, or misguided, he needs to say so. To basically say “they are soooo gay” is not the way a statesman should act. Shameful and ugly. Pay attention, friends. America is a very openly hostile place to homosexuals. These people have all but lost their right to live in sexual freedom; while not listed in the constitution, it isn’t excluded either (except in extreme cases such as incest, pedophilia, and involving animals).
2) Underage drinking. It was going on at the frat Rush (so disappointing), and next door to me last night. The cops busted up the party next door pretty good, and rightfully so. As for the frat Rush, I was mad because if anything bad would have happened due to the underage drinkers, the papers would have reported it as "Jane Doe, a Creighton Pharmacy School student..." and it would have reflected badly on my school, career, the Kappa Psi frat, and students in general. Very irresponsible.
Now you’re up to date on Carl for another week. See ya!
The Good:
1) The return of tennis. I have played tennis about 3 times a week now for the last 3 weeks, and I am loving it. I used to play all of the time, and as years drug on, I played less and less. Also, racquetball is creeping back into view (I have dodge Scott, as he will tell you, but his day is coming). I love sports, and I love exercise. Well, when it is after 8 am.
2) Involvement time. I have found one committee that I think I am going to love working with. MHSSA (Minority Health Science Students Association). I do regret turning down nomination to serve as Secretary, but I do want to put a lot of effort into the group’s activities. More on this later. I also am trying to get onto the Pharmacy School’s student admissions committee. I think that I have a unique insight into the process, and could serve as a great resource and encouragement to applicants. I hope that I am asked to serve on this committee. Lastly, I am a student representative for the Pharmacy School in the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit. This is actually a big honor to me. As many of you know, I have admittedly soured to formal church service, but I see this as an opportunity to participate again. Whether I want to accept it or not, my being an ex-minister creates a certain image in people’s minds. While I am constantly letting this image down, I do want to step up and meet the responsibility when I can. This Mass is going to be a good way to make that statement. Not to dwell on it, but I also think that people tend to think I have lost my faith, and that is not true. I hope that in some small way this is a statement that I do have a faith still, and that I too still seek God.
3) I have met a few more people, and two of them seem to be people I hope to study and talk with. They are close to where I am at in life. Everyone I am meeting seem very nice, and I am sort of impressed that there aren’t more people on my nerves by now (I tend to get annoyed easily).
4) I got a few new CDs. They are ones I have wanted to pick up for a while. I picked up The Temptations 2 CD greatest hits. “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” is a massive hit. I also picked up Ween’s whole catalog, minus two. I have had most of their stuff at one time or another, but since my brother bought their Live In Chicago DVD/CD set, I have fell back in love with them. Now I can’t get enough. Boognish!
The Bad:
1) I got a 70% on my first quiz in Pharmacy School. It was in Physical Pharmacy. I was very embarrassed, because I think of myself as smarter than that, and because I missed a couple really easy questions. I took the test too nonchalantly and missed some key words in the questions. But, I always use quizzes to correct my path in coursework, so I am looking to do much better now that I got one bomb out of the way.
2) I have already begun desiring to skip a few of my classes. I have two in particular that just seem pointless to attend. This has been a trend throughout my college career. It was really bad in the early days, but as I became a better, more mature student, I still hated wasting my time in worthless classes. I need to just suck it up and do a better job of avoiding truancy. So if you see me screwing around when I should be in class, scowl at me. Unless I am with Scott, Phuong, or Sara, then leave me alone! : )
The Ugly:
1) Arnold Swartzenegger made the comment that the Democratic Party should quit being “economic girly-men.” This is extremely offensive to me. Even in the context of Party Conventions, this sort of off-the-cuff comment is uncalled for. Not only was it not clever (he was referencing a Saturday Night Live skit spoofing him from long, long ago), it is a bigoted comment, using a code-word for “gay.” What he is saying is a) what the opposition is doing is wrong, b) that they are acting “girly”, and c) being “girly” must be wrong. If he wants to call them weak, oversensitive to external factors, or misguided, he needs to say so. To basically say “they are soooo gay” is not the way a statesman should act. Shameful and ugly. Pay attention, friends. America is a very openly hostile place to homosexuals. These people have all but lost their right to live in sexual freedom; while not listed in the constitution, it isn’t excluded either (except in extreme cases such as incest, pedophilia, and involving animals).
2) Underage drinking. It was going on at the frat Rush (so disappointing), and next door to me last night. The cops busted up the party next door pretty good, and rightfully so. As for the frat Rush, I was mad because if anything bad would have happened due to the underage drinkers, the papers would have reported it as "Jane Doe, a Creighton Pharmacy School student..." and it would have reflected badly on my school, career, the Kappa Psi frat, and students in general. Very irresponsible.
Now you’re up to date on Carl for another week. See ya!
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