Guys vs. Girls

I had English Lit class today and we were discussing the character of Brett in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. So of course the discussion leads to the topic of why women are viewed as sluts when they sleep around and men are hailed as the conquering heroes of the nubile virgins. Correct? IMO? Not true.

I think, in today's media and with the opinion of many of my peers women who sleep around are not viewed as negatively as they once were. And the girls who are 'saving' themselves are mocked. A fellow student of mine made a comment a few weeks ago that she had never engaged in anything 'serious' in a relationship.... my response? A very shocked and dumbfounded expression, you don't get many of these girls in college anymore. Not that there's anything wrong with her, mind you. It's just that I found it to be very strange indeed.

I think that at my age it's likely that girls have had numerous lovers and no one is looking at them and thinking "those sluts..." the same with guys. I think the negative connotation can go both ways and depends entirely on how the guy or girl treats themselves. In other words, no one will think badly of what you have done unless you think badly about what you have done.

It kind of makes me wonder, are we all just manifestations of our own self image?

One down one more to go....

With the end of the semester so near it's sad yet exhilarating to know that soon, for three whole weeks, the hardest question my brain will have to endure is whether I should get my lazy ass out of bed before,or after noon.

I always find that toward the end of each semester I find myself tired of the subjects I'm studying and looking forward to the new ones that are soon to be starting. Always looking for the subject that will spark my interest so much that I will immediately say to myself "self, this is what you are supposed to do for the rest of your life." How many of us, I wonder, spend their lives doing something that they feel they weren't meant to do. And what of the select few who find their life's vocation and are blissfully happy doing it.

I find myself asking, what would it be like to wake up in the morning and look forward to going to work?

The curse they call television...

Why, oh why do I do this to myself. I swear every week that I will NOT turn on the television on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm. Why you ask? Because my remote control will automatically turn on the Gilmore Girls. I have no idea why I feel compelled to turn that show on. It drives me utterly insane. I do enough rambling of my own without having to turn on the television to hear two semi-grown women prattle on like high school girls who have mixed a cocktail of Speed and Red Bull. It's like an accident, you can't turn away no matter how much your subconscious tells you that it's wrong to stare at the wreckage.

*sigh*

Today's count...

Coffee: One (I'm being good today)
Hours spent on the computer: one and a half
Hours reading "Speaker For The Dead": Two... at least
Hours spent studying: Five, but that includes two and a half hours spent in Psychology and Archaeology.

Not a computer genius...

I decided this morning that I would add a pretty little clock to my blog... not happening, not only do I not know what HTML means I don't have a frigging clue how to even go about putting one of those nice little clocks on my blog. A woman of my generation should have more computer knowledge than I. It's a little embarrassing actually.

It's also a little sad that no one has come to visit me yet today, *sigh*. Oh well I shall continue bravely onward.

Todays count....

Coffees: 2
Hours spent on computer: 4 ish...
Hours spent studying: none (do we detect a pattern...)

Not really on top ;)

Contrary to what the title indicates i'm not really on top. Quite the contrary actually. For the perverts out there who are looking at this title and thinking.... well I won't tell you what they're thinking, suffice it to say there is a reason I called them perverts.

I started this blog so I could tell you all about my crazy life, sometimes it seems like the stupid stuff that happens to me couldn't really happen in real life. Real live people are much more organized and co-ordinated than me.

Are you sure you want to hear this? lol......