Mmmmm, cat placenta


Tonight there was a much heated discussion on what exactly defines "learning." Well there were different scenarios given and we were arguing whether these scenarios actually represented learning. So one of them was about a cat that licks its newly born kitten clean and then eats the placenta. The question was whether the mother cat did this because it knew that these actions could prevent her kitten from contracting an infection. Yeah, this went on for like 20 minutes, all I could hear was placenta over and over again. People were screaming things like, "Maybe the cat slipped on it's own goo and accidentally had her mouth fly onto the placenta and then eat it." I just wanted to move it along. But seriously, come on, cats & dogs, they just eat stuff off the floor. It's not like the a cat runs a test and eats placenta the first time and then doesn't the second time around to see what the results are.

Oooooh oooh scary, part 2


To continue the "scare" so to speak, we went to watch The Grudge tonight. Uhm yeah, it was scary but more so in the jump in your seat and gruesome kinda way. I'm totally freaked out with a lot of the scenes which sucks cause it makes me rethink about the showers, closets, and bedsheets. But seriously, there were a few scenes where I was thinking, okay I'm totally grossed out you can stop now...but they just had to add more to it to make it ickier! Though of course there were some people who shall remain nameless (like Ryan) who were completely not scared at all (we're just going to pretend that it's an act, that the whole time he was really staring at the floor cause he was that scared). But I can always count on Bach to be freaked out with me for days, though he is evil cause he has a tendency to try to scare me later on during the week. Like that one time he knew I was watching the Ring and he had decided to leave me a creepy voicemail saying 7 days. The only bad thing was all the immature kids in the theater, the ones that wouldn't shut up and start screaming as if they were on a rollercoaster ride. Of course there was this man sitting behind me the whole time going, "This is why I don't come here, blah blah." Dude, shut up, you're talking to. Then he starts blabbing about how the movie isn't in sequence like in Pulp Fiction...like 5 times. He did say something that annoyed me, he was like, "Where that chinese chick go?" like soo many times. I wanted to turn around and scream, "Dude, this whole movie takes place in Japan...the girl's name is Yoko...think about it!" I think I've had my helping of scary movies for a while now...

Oooooooh ooooh scary


So I went on a haunted hayride for the first time last night. Of course before it all, I had to prewarn them all that I'm a huge wuss and I do get scared...which of course led to multiple mockings. But come on, you're vulnerable sitting there in a haystack in the middle of nowhere, it's dark and things come at you, like I'm supposed to be able to sit there calmly. The thing we sat in was so cute, it was a minitractor draggin this giant crate like thingy. Let me just say one thing, hay is not fun to sit in, it was like poking my butt and all over and it was so itchy, not to mention that I found a piece here and there afterwards. Of course I wanted to drive it, I know I have issues with that. They started taking all of us into the far far areas of the farm, that itself was pretty freaky, especially the shadows of all the farm machinery. Well this guy I just met that night, starts off like a 15 minute soliqy about farm stuff, like explaining what a sickle was and did (some sorta blade). I was like the only sickle I know is sickle cell. Yeah but of course he didn't get the hint and he kept going on and on about farming stuff, it was so hard trying to act interested. The ride consisted of going around and stopping at various sheds and displays. They had the "scary" people pop outta nowhere and come near the tractor and some even jumped into them. At one point, there was some guy with a mask from that guy in Halloween and he was just slowly staring at Jess from behind, when she finally turned around...totally body slammed ontop of me. Eww, and then there were clowns, I normally am freaked out by clowns but these were the scary looking ones too, that point I was totally freaking out and squeezing myself into the middle of all the other people! There was one area that I was very impressed by and am still trying to figure out how they did it. We stopped in front of an open shed and there was an image, you could tell that it looked kinda mirrored, well it was some guy dancing around and then he drinks a potion. Then immediately, the image changes to him being all deformed and this time it seems like a real image. He's trying to bust outta the shed and finally he looks straight ahead at us and the shed completely blacks out. Baam, in 5 seconds, there's like 3 of them hanging off our tractor. Dude, I screamed sooo loud, I had been hanging my head over the edge to see how they were doing this, I was not expecting them to be right there in my face. This one father on the ride was totally amused by me b/c everytime we stopped at an area, I would be scanning the back and trying to figure out if the things could come alive behind us, I wanted to be prepared for all areas ya know? Then of course there was the like 12 year old boy that thought it would be funny to pat my back every 5 minutes to try and freak me out. Uhm what else, towards the end there were these dudes with chainsaws, I'm quite freaked cause they sounded very real and I could smell like gasoline from them. They actually stuck them inside what we were sitting in and stuff. Well that guy that I had met that night (the one that made fun of me)...uhm yeah, how come he was shrieking like a little girl and hiding underneath us? I'm still confused, I don't think I've ever seen a guy that scared, or would display that he was that freaked out? Yah, but in the end, I thought it was fun...nothing like sitting in a hayride full of people screaming. To top it all off, they were selling funnel cakes & caramel apples, that's all I needed to have!

A night of sex & violence


It has been quite an amusing night of conversations in class. There was a discussion on teen sexuality about how obviously nowadays it's more frequent and occurs earlier on. Well the prof brings up the topic of "friends with benefits." There was this one older woman (I'm guessing late 40's into her early 50's), she had the most confused look on her face. She seriously had no idea what that meant and all of us tried to explain to her that basically you have a friend that you have no intention of being with, and you just have sex with them, no strings attached. Seeing the shocked & disgusted look on her face was so hilarious, I just couldn't believe that she had never heard of it! Afterwards, somehow someone questioned whether video games/shows with violence actually promote it among children. A lot of people felt that cartoony violence was okay, like stuff from 3 stooges or Home Alone antics. Well the prof brings up a show that his son used to love watching but he always felt that it was a bad influence. Get this, he loved to watch Texas Ranger!! I was so amazed, I thought I was the only one with the guilty pleasure of watching that show...it's so lame that it's great. The prof believed that it was a negative show because it demonstrated that it's alright for police officers to kick the crap out of people when they could have just stabilized them with scaring them with a gun. He was like, "Funny how all the villians and cops just happened to know kung-fu!" Seriously, I thought that was the best part, that Chuck Norris would hi-yah them all! I don't see anything wrong with that, it wasn't like he was going around kicking everyone's ass, it was just bad guys and damn straight it's okay to kick the crap outta them.

Machinery Awe


Wow, each week I see a cool contraption that I wanna drive and use more! Let's see, it first started with the big huge tractor like thingy that I saw mowing down all the dried up corn. Then, there was the lil cart that sucked up trash. It looked like a bigger version of a golf cart cept it had this giant vacuum pipe that the guy moved around to suck up garbage on the streets....so much smarter than using a poker and stabbing everything. I was seriously thinking about going up to him and telling him I would do his job for him. Then again, he would have thought I was insane. I dunno why the idea of vacuuming up trash on the streets is fun to me, probably cause I don't have to do it everyday of my life. For some reason, I made myself believe that those giant cement blocks that they use on roads (to block the 2 opposite sides) were set down with just man power. I figure they put the giant orange cones down, why not cement blocks? But...just the other night, I finally saw a machine that did it. It's so cute...it's thin and it kinda just rests ontop of all the blocks, that way it can do its thing while the cars on both sides can still drive on by. I guess it kinda eats it up in a sense? To me, it looks like that little one man train that they have inside the Holland tunnel.

Ooh, on a random note....the man selling ice cream from the truck ended up giving me 2 free ice cream bars...probably cause he thought I was 5 but I'm gonna pretend it's because I bought a lot from him :P