curtis' blog

Just a quick thought before I actually post something worth reading (or not, depending on how into me you are):  what is FoxNews doing?  Seriously!  I am about ready to unsubscribe to my FoxNews.com RSS feeds.  I don’t need to click on the links to know I don’t care about Hugh Hefner’s health, but I couldn’t resist clicking on a link when the short overview talked about nerds never getting hot dates.  In fact, here is a quote:

Perhaps its because geeks’ troubles getting hot dates in real life. Or their overactive imaginations. Or a combination of the two.

Firstly, look at the sentence structures.  That paragraph (yes, the paragraph begins like that) is enough to make anybody within 500 miles of an English major puke.  Secondly, if you’ve ever taken a psychology class, you may begin to wonder what the author is trying to say about his own confidence….

Needless to say at this point (but I’ll say it anyway, for the sake of those who have taken speech class and believe the lie [yes, that's a fallacy of some sort (I also took speech class)] that you must restate your entire argument after you state it), FoxNews needs some actually interesting and relavent news in their top headlines.

So that’s a rant.

Well, I started work at the radio station today!  I won’t be on air for the first couple of months, though, as I’ll be training.  I’m very glad that I brought a book (yes, it’s Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, and I’ll get to it in a bit), as I had time to get through 6 chapters.  “Work” mostly involved sitting for a while, then watching somebody do something for a couple minutes, then waiting again.  There’s a lot of waiting.  That happens when you play classical music.  There are 20-minute songs.  Most of the work at the radio station is babysitting the airtime.  Basically, an announcer is there to forward- and back-announce songs, provide station info and public service announcements.  Oh, and advertise for the underwriters (that’s very important, as I learned today).  Actually, there’s so much waiting that there is a leisure computer in the announcer studio!  The girl with which I worked today sat there watching “Bride Wars” (let me just say that I will not be using my leisure time the same way) in between her times on air and setting up the programs.

Getting to and from work is half the fun of the day, as it’s a 15-minute bike ride each way.  Here’s a map (without taking my shortcuts through a couple parks and fields):

Bike ride to work

Actually, this shows from work (or actually, from University Drive in front of the administration building) to home.  I don’t feel like changing the caption.  And I usually end up going through the memorial park, then through part of the student park, then across a soccer field, a running track, and through the unfinished parking lot of the Hulsey Wellness Center.  It’s an interesting ride!

I have about a week before Brazil!  Yay!  So send me your last-minute donations!  If you need an address, use the contact form on the site and I’ll email my address to you.  If you need money, we’re in the same boat, and it’s sinking from our weight, so you need to get out, get some money, and then give it to me.

Now, back to the original rant:  well, not really.  I just have a stupid link and a couple of good links from Fox.  Guess which one….

I agree with the professor in this one and I’ll tell you why in a following post, if I feel like it.

This one’s funny, whether it’s relevant or not.

This is straight-up insane!

This one’s weird, to a whole new level.

Anyway, that’s today.  As for yesterday, I caved in and bought a cell phone.  It’s a Samsung Rant, for those that care.  And it came “free”… with a $40 a month plan.  Without texting… yet.  I’ll get texting when the school year starts.  I don’t need it now.  Oh, and I don’t actually have it yet, as it is scheduled to arrive in my hands by the end of the week.