School?

I don't know about the rest of you but I still have a about 1 week of school left and about 4 weeks worth of school work to complete before the end of the week. However, due to a lot of things, some I can control so I can't, I have checked out a long time ago.

I think I checked out a couple of weeks before spring break. My condition has only gotten worse and the pressure to succeed has only increased. The amount and quality of work required of me has increased and only one phrase has been able to help me keep even realatively on track.

"One day it will all be worth it!"

Meaning one day I will get a real job that will require the skills that I obtained in college. It will help me provide for a family that I one day might have or at least help me collect toys that I wish I already had. Either way after school it had better be worth it or else! I didn't really know what I was doing when I delayed the worth it part by enrolling in a masters program, so I still have another year and a half after this current term is over. So the phrase that has helped me through the last five years must remain strong and stay my attention span and study habits through another degree that I have been told will be worth it.

Candy bars

I have often wondered how one chooses a candy bar. I myself have my favorites, however, when purchasing candy I don't always buy my favorites, sometimes I'll buy something else. But really, how do you choose your candy?

Do you base it all on past experience, a dare, by the ingreidients that you think they contain, fat content, carb content, the name, or do you just close your eyes and reach for whatever lucky morses shall grace your taste buds because all you need is sugar? Tell me what motivates your candy purchases.

The only reason I ask is because I'm in a situation without any candy and I'm trying to decide what to consume the instant I can break free from this sugar free environment.

Girls=Chimps??

Many of you may have already read this, however, many of you may not have.

Have you ever had a hard time trying to understand women? I sure know
I have. Then the other day it hit me. The reason that I'm having a
hard time understanding women is that they may not have evolved as
much as men have.

My first inclination that my hypothesis might be true was somewhat
confirmed the other day while I was sitting in a meeting.
Just so we're on the same page as me, when I think of community
grooming, I think of chimpanzees or some sort of primate. If you
disagree, you can stop reading now and save both you and I time about
arguing are differences of what comes to mind when we think about
community grooming. Not that I think about community grooming very
often, but occasionally it gets brought to my attention.
So I was sitting there paying attention as much possible for a
mid-twenties aged male with some degree of ADD. Anyway, I was sitting
there and the girl sitting next to me, yes I was able to sit next to a
girl, starts pulling hair off of the person in front of them. She
pulled four or five strands of hair off the person in front of them
and then she proceeded to move lint off the their shirt. Not to
mention she was trying to do it without letting the "now groomed"
person finding out that she was grooming them. I said to her, why are
you doing that. She said, I don't know, it was bugging me that some
things were out of place. I told her that was stupid and she should
stop. She went to groom another person in front her. I promptly
stopped her and challenged her to let it be and see if she could just
ignore the fact that another girl had shed a piece of hair from her
head and it was sitting on her shoulder. She couldn't it, it drove
her crazy that she was not able to groom another person.
Back to my original train of thought, girls have a tendency to act
like chimps and groom other people.
Another link is you might have also noticed if you have ever been
exposed to chimps at all. To explain this next thought I used to go
to this park that had some chimps in a good sized animal friendly
environment. Anyway, the chimps would play and have a good time, and
them BAM!!, one chimp would take something too far and the chimps were
in a fight. They would scream at each other and try to scratch each
other. They would fight for about a minute or two and then they would
each retreat to a different monkey and started making chimp noises
while pointing at the other chimp with whom they were fighting with.
I don't know exactly how long the fights would last, but when I would
go to the park four or five days later the same two chimps would be
playing again as if nothing had happened before.
When I noticed the correlation of the fight, friend, fight, friend
relationship I couldn't help but think that most of the girls I've
known in my life have, on a few different occasions if not several
different occasions, have acted the same way. I don’t know if it was
just a coincidence or if there may actually be a pattern, but in a few
different areas, girls and chimps seem to have a some common ground.
Not that I think that girls and chimps should start hanging out or
getting to know each other better, just simply pointing out the fact.
Besides, guys really like girls and guys, in most cases think that
chimps are really cool.

Ode to sweats

Don't expect a poem or anything, but I would like to take a minute to show my appreciation for sweats and how great they really are.

You know that feeling when you get up in the morning and you just don't want to have to do anything at all but you know that society frowns on the absence of clothing? I sure do. The only thing that gets me through times like those is a nice pare of sweat pants. These are the best kind of pants because in when it's cold they comfort you, they don't restrict, or try to hold you back in any way. Sweats just let you be you.

They're not a respecter of persons whether male or female, big or small, athletic or lounger, they embrace every person willing to held by a soft, slightly cusioned peice of fabric. If you think about it the ancient Greeks probably would have worn sweats instead of nothing if the climate would have allowed it.

There may be some nay sayers saying nay to the universalness of sweats. Saying that if you want to "look sooo good" that you can't being wearing sweats. I would combat that by saying that a girl who is confident enough to be seen in sweats and still flirt with guys as though she were all spiffed out gives her bonus points. I would dare say that there may be room to expand the market for sweats and introduce a line of formal were. Meaning that you could by a pair of sweat pants that you could put a crease in. A pull over top with a collar that has buttons down the front that are for looks only and a tie that is just screen printed on. Of course in the places the tie cover there would be no buttons. To top it all off a pair of slippers that could pass for dress shoes, but be so comfortable that you wouldn't ever want to take them off.

If this new line of clothing was developed you might see more people walking or jogging to and from work. When people got home from work they wouldn't need to change immediately they could just start unwinding. Thus a little more relaxation quicker. More relaxation faster than before and people jogging or walking to work just makes for an all around better american society.

So let us not feel pressured to dress up all the time. Let us look at what could be instead of what is. Wear sweats more often than before and increase your overall quality of life. Share the phenomenon that is sweats.