At the Desk

I'm blogging on the job! Yeah, that's right. I have an infinitely better job than you have. I may not get paid much but it buys me books. So there.

I only have 18 more minutes on the desk, so this blog won't be very planned.

I'm sick and tired. Both in the physical sense and the emotional sense. I've been coughing since two weeks ago and I haven't gotten adequate sleep since school started. One of the reasons for the latter is that I work at 8 in the morning. Hey, it pays.

I'm also sick and tired of Baylor. I hate it from the very core of my being. I can't stand the way people don't acknowledge their privilege or work towards the equality of others on campus. I hate the apathy. I hate the administration for making people who pay tuition outcasts and unwanted.

I need to leave this place. I keep telling myself, 2 more years, two more years. But I don't know if my sanity will hold out that long. My health doesn't seem to be able to.

Kanye West

So, Kanyizee has been getting a bit of bad press in the news lately. Something about snatching the microphone out of Taylor Swift's hands and telling the crowd at the VMAs that Beyonce had the better music video. Everybody's gone and caught feelings because Kanye told her that she sucked in comparison to Beyonce.

I just watched Taylor Swift's video. It sucked. Actually, I didn't even watch the whole thing; it's still playing. I just switched windows. Seriously, it's unwatchable. The song itself is almost unlistenable, but that's neither here nor there.

I'm not sure how it happened, but Beyonce somehow won best video, yet lost best female video. To Taylor Swift's violent assault of art. How exactly?

The audience. The audience somehow had some type of brain lapse and forgot how to function correctly. Somehow they gave an award to a young upstart who is a pretty voiced, beautiful but cheesy and lame singer. The only thing going for her is her ok voice, a humanized auto-tune, and her looks. That's how she won. Which is unfortunate because there are great female artists out there whose looks don't conform to the Aryan standard America wants them to conform to so we never here about them. But those nice little blond, blue-eyed girls get all the votes. Yay!

Who should have really won? Keri Hilson. Her "Knock You Down" video was amazing. Some of you are going to say, "Wait. That wasn't even nominated." I know and it's a freaking travesty. That video was nothing short of genius.

MTV is bull. It's been said for years, but it's true. The people who watch it are idiots and they wouldn't know good video direction if it walked up, kicked them in the face, and left their calling card.

Now, I started off this post talking about Kanye. I'm sure a couple people were starting to get antsy wondering if I was ever going to bring Mr. West back up. Well here he is. I don't understand the problem. Taylor Swift sucked. It's true. She didn't deserve the award. He was correcting what he saw as a malfeasance in the voting. So he did it in a way that was pretty mean. SHE. DID. NOT. DESERVE. THAT. AWARD.

Though, I don't know why it was such a big deal in the first place. MTV sucks. They don't know real talent and their award shows are only based on commercial selling power. It's basically a long commercial for music artists.

Either way, Kanye did the right thing. And I stand by his genius.

More on that Later

I'm stressed. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the semester. I have too much on my plate.

But, one thing that will help me through are great youtube videos like this one:



Thank my sanity for youtube!

New Blogger in the Neighborhood

Hello my adoring fan peoples. There is a new blogger in the blogosphere. Her name is Alex Porter and she just set up her blogger account.

alexporter526.blogspot.com

You should all follow her. I work with her in Texas Freedom Network and we spent some time together while we were in DC together with Texas Freedom Network's Youth Leadership Council. She's smart and funny so check out her blog and follow it!

You Know It's Bad...

So, this past Friday, I was sitting in World Political Systems listening to the oh-so-interesting lecture on England's political system. More specifically their strict party discipline. Then my professor opened it up to discussion. Why is it that England has this system? Is it good or bad?

Almost immediately the hands shot up.

"It's terrible. They don't have the ability to choose what they believe in."

"They don't have any choice."

"They're stuck!"

The obviously American voices clucked on, not believing for a second that a political system that doesn't strictly adhere to the US's could be better in anyway.

But one student among them had the audacity to lay it on the line, to tell everyone what England was obviously missing.

"I think we're looking at it from this perspective because in the US we have more moral....umm, character, I guess, in our politics and the UK has none."

Ladies and gentlemen, I was stunned. So stunned I could not utter a word. I could only laugh. Loudly. Yes, I laughed at this boy. Long and hard.

Some people looked at me knowingly. But what really shocked me was that I actually received icy stares from some people. As if laughing at the complete ignorance of a person is somehow more taboo than being a xenophobic ignoramus with the nerve to indict an entire country's political system, which he has very little knowledge of outside of what he was told in the lecture.


The nerve of some people.

But, if that class taught me anything, it taught me the need to leave this place as soon as I can. New York, DC, Seattle?


Paris?


...London?