ugh....halloween

I don't know what it is about Halloween, but I can get into the spirit of dressing up but beyond that, I could care less about the holiday. I don't usually go out or make plans, I just stay home and watch movies or work (like I did tonight). There's just something about it that I don't like and care for that kills my mood. I get all excited about what I'm going to be and then when the day comes to get dressed up my mood has died and I could care less about getting dressed up and going trick-or-treating.

With the widespread availability of calculators, is it necessary for students to learn arithmetic?

Even with the advancement and widespread availability of calculators, it should still be necessary for students to learn arithmetic. People don't usually carry around calculators and the ones that are on the phone can only do basic and simple calculations, so by knowing how to do arithmetic, students will be able to figure things out on their own. Nowadays, we have become dependent on their calculators and downloads that we can add from the computers onto the calculators. Sometimes when someone is trying to figure out how much carpeting or fencing and they don't have a calculator handy, they should be able to figure out how to find ther perimeter and area so they can have the correct amount of fencing or carpeting or flooring.

Can guys and girls be JUST FRIENDS?

Why is it that nowadays guys and girls can't be JUST FRIENDS??? If a guy and a girl want to just hang out, almost everyone assumes that they are going to hook up and that they like each other. I have a friend Tim who is like my older brother I swear. We can tell each other everything and anything and talk about anything and not get uncomfortable about it because we are that close. We walk around campus linking arms and sometimes have our hands around each others waist as we attempt to walk without falling over from laughing and people think we are dating just because of that. There's this kid that I work with, Bill Mcleod, and I really like him, and I think he may like me but I'm not sure, and we were talking about this and he says he puts up with the same thing. We both agreed that by having a really good, close friend of the opposite sex allows us to try and figure out how the opposite sex thinks and interprets different situations. We are supposed to hang out this weekend and a lot of people that we work with know that I like him and that we are supposed to be hanging out and they keep teasing me about it because I think he likes me as just a friend but they are like "ohh he wouldn't have agreed to hang out with you if he didn't like you" and it's like uhh yea he could have.

You know what?

McCain does kinda of look like Steve Martin to a certain degree. It's kind of funny and could be the reason that I could never take McCain seriously. Every movie that I've seen with Steve Martin is a comedy and if I think that McCain looks like him, I'm never going to be able to see him as a serious person who may possibly be running out country.

I don't wanna do ANYTHING

If I could do anything, I would cure cancer. I've found out that in my family on both sides, there is a lot of different types of cancer running in our genes. I would love to figure out a way to get rid of cancer for good, without having to use radiation or chemotherapy. I would also make it affordable for everyone because I don't think it's fair that people don't get the same treatment just because of their income and financial status. My aunt was recently in the hospital because she wasn't feeling well, and hasn't been well for 9 months. Turns out she had a cancerous mass on her lungs and it was pushing down her heart. She has lung cancer because she has smoked ever since she was a teenager and she may have brain cancer. My nan and great-uncle died from the same types of cancer and one or two of my cousins have breast cancer but survived. My mom has thyroid cancer but thankfully it is in remission since 2001, so cancer is a big thing in my family.

Explain why you do or do not smoke.

I choose not to smoke because my mom used to smoke when I was younger. When I was about 7 or 9, I made my mom promise me to stop smoking if I stopped biting my nails (she hated when I did that). She quit smoking and I quit biting my nails, and haven't done it since. Also, I don't smoke because both my nan and one of my uncles died from lung cancer (along with some other types of cancer) and I don't want to die from lung cancer. I've done D.A.R.E. programs when I was in elementary schools and am part of my town's municipal alliance and it's program where it tries to do things for the community to keep the kids substance free. Another bonus is that since cigarettes are so expensive, I get to save a bunch of money and spend it on things that I really like or want instead of blowing it away on cigarettes.

The United States has never had a female president. To what do you attribute this

There has never been a female president because a majority of Americans are afraid of change. Many people are afraid of change and don't want to find out what it would be like to have a woman president. Men have been running our country for decades and so by now, we have grown accustom to that, so to go and change what we are comfortable with would create a lot of fuss. When we have our comfort zone, we don't want to let anything new in or change anything. By not allowing anything new into our comfort zone, we are never able to experience something new and exciting or something new that could be for the better, but we would never know.