Hey everyone.  I'm extremely sorry for the unexpected hiatus...  I really am a terrible blogger. I guess I just don't have the determination to find/post something new every day...  or even every other day...  I have the same problem on one of my other sites.  So, I do apologize for not updating, if any of you really care.

Anyway, this is my way of starting off the new school year.  I was stumbling today on Stumbleupon (you should really try it out if you haven't already, really nifty if you're perpetually bored) today and I came across this interesting article pointing out the Top 10 Cell Phone Etiquette Rules People Still Break.  They're all really good scenarios, but there is an eleventh etiquette rule that I really, REALLY think needs to be added to (or at least integrated into) this list.  What is it you ask?  TEXTING IN CLASS!  Seriously, I think that had I written the list, I would have put this at number one.

Obviously, college opens up a lot of different oppurtunities that weren't necessarily available in high school.  One of those includes the oppurtunity to take a class in a huge room where the professor doesn't really know what's going on past the first five rows.  This opens up a new mindset for some students;  "Hey, I'm going to get on my cell phone and text everyone I know as if I don't do that enough already and I can't go an effing HOUR of my life without it!"  Ok, well, you may not realize this, but people like me are sitting behind you thinking "What the hell?  Is it really THAT important that you're going to sacrifice a piece of your lecture notes?  I mean, seriously, you're PAYING for this shit, why don't you like, I donno, PAY ATTENTION so that you'll do well!?  Do you just not care!?"  Now, I know what you're going to say...  "Well, maybe YOU should pay attention to the lecture instead of paying attention to me while I text my life away."  Well, you see, your texting is a DISTRACTION.  Read your syllubus, I gurantee you that somewhere in there it says not to text in class for that very reason, that it is a DISTRACTION to other students.  Believe me, I know how most professors are...  If they seriously thought that the only thing it hurt was you and your grade, they wouldn't give a rats ass...  But they realize that it distracts other students, and they, as well as I, realize that that isn't fair to said students.

I kid you not...  There was this one girl who sat in front of me in class last semester who was ALWAYS on her phone doing something in class...  I don't even thinks she wrote notes (God help her...  I was lucky to get a C and I was as fully attentive as cell phone chic would let me be), she was just on her damn phone for the whole hour and fifteen minutes that class lasted.  And if you think that's ridiculous...  I kid you not...  One day, she actually GOT UP AND LEFT CLASS to go make a phone call in the hallway and then came back in...  I watched her the WHOLE DAMN TIME!  And if you're going to tell me that THAT isn't distracting...  Seriously, you just need to drop out and quit wasting 1) your time, but more importantly 2) your professor's time, 3) my time, and 4) YOUR PARENT'S MONEY!

Bottom line:  Not only is it rude to your professor (and I'm sure you could give a shit less), but it's also extremely rude to your fellow classmates (who you probably also don't give a shit about) to be on your cell phone in class texting and occasionally leaving the room to make phone calls.  Seriously, people...  Grow some manners already!  I could seriously go on and on about this...  I payed good money to get into school and I'm tired of rude-ass college students with no respect for ANYONE else ruining my education.

Anyway, there's my rant for today...  Hopefully I'll get back into this blogging thing.  Laters!

*sigh* been there, done that...  My friend is dating an absolute asshole, and no matter how much we talk to her about it, she won't listen to us and always runs back to him...  It's very minor abuse, but still abuse nonetheless, so, in this case I just have to say that sometimes, the best way to deal with it is to not deal with it and let them figure it out on their own...  In major cases, though, well...  I don't really know...  And hope I don't have to find out...
  
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I think we should all learn something from this day.  On this day, Apple released the iPhone 3G, and further proved that no matter how lacking your product is in comparison to other products in it's class, if it looks really cool and gives you internet everywhere you are...  People will buy it anyway...  Lots and lots and LOTS of people.  Apple has also shown us that people apparently cannot do math, because the cost of ownership of the new iPhone is more costly than that of the last one...  Even though the price of the actual phone went down, the cost of mobile internet went up $10 a MONTH!  After owning the iPhone 3G for two years, you'll have payed more on it than you would have payed owning the previous model... but, of coarse, Apple isn't going to tell you that up front...  They're going to show you all the shiny, cool looking details to hook you and real you in first.

People...  YOU ARE BEING PLAYED BY THE CORPORATE A-HOLE!

Let us all learn from this...