Usually, I sit up in the 2nd floor, balcony type of thing in the cafeteria. It's easier to creep, I mean uh, people watch. Today I watched this one guy drink 7 drinks (2 OJ, 1 milk, 2 gatorade type things, 2 hot beverages of some sort). I don't know why this guy had 7 drinks. He had this itty bitty plate of food too. It was weird.
I got a job today. I'm going to be at the tortilla station making delicious burritos and tacos for all to enjoy. I have a theme song:
It's dinner on a thursday night... and you want a burriiiiitooooo. You're wondering where to get one...but you don't knoooowww. What will you do? Whoooo will you call?! AM! She's the taco-making maniac. AM! She makes tacos by the light of the mooooon....AM!
oh you thought I would reveal my name? How silly of you.
So yeah...I guess I start next thursday.
I learned something valuable in my textbook yesterday night. "War between Canada and the USA is unthinkable, perhaps not because of their liberal democratic constitutions, but because they are friends." Well thanks really expensive college textbook for that insight.
I got Craig Ferguson's autobiography two days ago. That book...has made me so happy. Seriously. Anybody who describes meeting Dick Cheney as: "I felt a little awkward; I'm always a bit shy around evil people"....gets laughs out of me.
I took a trip down to the wind turbine yesterday. I walked along the Cross Country 4K trail to do that. Needless to say I couldn't walk the entire 4K. Only walked about....1K. Oh fail. There was a squirrel who was really pissed off at me too. I don't know why. I didn't do anything to it. It was one of them "redhead" squirrels though. They have some sort of irish temper I guess.
Speaking of irish people, some irish dude came into my international relations class to talk to us about traveling to ireland. He was really awkward...but his accent was cool.
It rained all day today. It was nice to wake up to...but my pants got soaked walking around in it. Now I don't have any pants because I'm letting them dry. I'm wearing shorts. rrr.
Well I'm going to put away laundry and do homework and other boring stuff I guess. THEN I get to watch Little Miss Sunshine. I don't think you realize how long I've waited to finally see this movie.
~AM
Showing posts with label international relations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international relations. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
International Relations
This seems to be the only way I can study. I need to distract myself and yet learn at the same time. This has been an issue for me since I got here. Life is making it rather difficult for me to be sane and learn at the same time.
Anyways, if you don't want to learn things in an entertaining way....then don't read on.
Yay international relations is not only about the relations between nation-states...but it also concerns organizations!
Realism-people suck...they are selfish and can never ever be perfect. By now this should seem like common sense because the media likes to show you the awful things we do to one another. The main actors are the states....other things like organizations have to work within the framework of inter-state relations. Everything boils down to human nature. International politics is the struggle for power. globalization makes states interconnected which may make them more dependent on one another.....but states still are sovereign! So take that!
Liberalism-yay idealistic world of happy people. Humans can be perfectible but we need to spread democracy for that to happen! Notice how no two democracies have gone to war? Speaking of war...war is bad. It's not natural. Multinational corporations and international organizations are the main actors in most issue areas....state only gets the stage when they have their own interests in mind. the world is just one big complex bargaining machine. globalization is the end product of world politics. Yay we are all one big cobweb of relations.
Marxist-The world is a system. It's pretty fixed. ummm...other marxist ideas that I still dont' understand. globalization is a sham.
Constructivists- we make and remake the social world because humans are the key! the possibilities for human betterment and progress are endless! World is open to change! You can do anything if you wish for it! Globalization is just a political act so leaders don't have to take responsibility!
GLOBALIZATION GOOD: states aren't closed we are all together, communication goes up, world is homogeneous, economy is interdependent, global culture is developed, time and space collapse...yay.
GLOBALIZATION BAD/NONEXISTENT: it's just a buzzword, a lot of people still haven't made a phone call in their life, non-western values? hello?, drug cartels and terrorists and stuff can operate more easily, it's the latest stage in western imperialism, exploits well off nations....boo.
FUN FACT: Osama Bin Laden didn't like globalization or America...he wanted to stop them both. (hence why he targeted the WTC in the US). So then what does he do? Use airplanes for terrorist attacks, use video to communicate to people around the world, use global financial system to fund operations....does anyone else see a hypocrite here?
I'm going to spare you all the rest of my studying. I have lot more to go over. I'm going to go now.
~AM
Anyways, if you don't want to learn things in an entertaining way....then don't read on.
Yay international relations is not only about the relations between nation-states...but it also concerns organizations!
Realism-people suck...they are selfish and can never ever be perfect. By now this should seem like common sense because the media likes to show you the awful things we do to one another. The main actors are the states....other things like organizations have to work within the framework of inter-state relations. Everything boils down to human nature. International politics is the struggle for power. globalization makes states interconnected which may make them more dependent on one another.....but states still are sovereign! So take that!
Liberalism-yay idealistic world of happy people. Humans can be perfectible but we need to spread democracy for that to happen! Notice how no two democracies have gone to war? Speaking of war...war is bad. It's not natural. Multinational corporations and international organizations are the main actors in most issue areas....state only gets the stage when they have their own interests in mind. the world is just one big complex bargaining machine. globalization is the end product of world politics. Yay we are all one big cobweb of relations.
Marxist-The world is a system. It's pretty fixed. ummm...other marxist ideas that I still dont' understand. globalization is a sham.
Constructivists- we make and remake the social world because humans are the key! the possibilities for human betterment and progress are endless! World is open to change! You can do anything if you wish for it! Globalization is just a political act so leaders don't have to take responsibility!
GLOBALIZATION GOOD: states aren't closed we are all together, communication goes up, world is homogeneous, economy is interdependent, global culture is developed, time and space collapse...yay.
GLOBALIZATION BAD/NONEXISTENT: it's just a buzzword, a lot of people still haven't made a phone call in their life, non-western values? hello?, drug cartels and terrorists and stuff can operate more easily, it's the latest stage in western imperialism, exploits well off nations....boo.
FUN FACT: Osama Bin Laden didn't like globalization or America...he wanted to stop them both. (hence why he targeted the WTC in the US). So then what does he do? Use airplanes for terrorist attacks, use video to communicate to people around the world, use global financial system to fund operations....does anyone else see a hypocrite here?
I'm going to spare you all the rest of my studying. I have lot more to go over. I'm going to go now.
~AM
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Bathroom Edition
In this special bathroom edition I will post random facts about the bathroom in random places (although I know a certain Mr. Ramp that would argue that I just strategically placed them to make it appear random or something like that).
So the first day of classes went well. I'm a little worried about the work load...but ok.
I use the middle sink when I can because it is 3rd one in either way you go. I like the number 3.
International relations, or, as my textbook likes to call it for reasons I don't care to explain, "World Politics", sounds like an interesting class. I don't like the whole group project thing we have to do later on. It sort of sounded like the Treaty of Paris type of deal we did in AmStuds, only not fun. But my professor, Tony, (yeah he wants us to call him by his first name!) is freaking amazing. Seriously. I think I'm going to like this class.
When going to the bathroom, pick the stall that is next to or a couple away from the corner ones. Just because. If you're just changing, go in the very corners because no one uses those very often because they are all using the one that is next to or a couple away from it...so you don't have to worry about the floor having germs.
French 112. Okay....so I had trouble finding the class today because I wrote down the wrong room number. So I walk all the way down to the basement, and walk into the room that I think is my class. There's this conference table and people with russian textbooks in it. So I'm like "ummm I'm in the wrong class" and slowly backed out. One step. Then the next. Then I walked away really fast. So I had to go look up where my class was and it turns out it's on the top floor. So I run up 3 flights of stairs and make it to class. So...I didn't understand half of what the professor said the whole time. She was all speaking french really fast. It was nice to see that there were other people looking awkwardly around like me because they didn't know what was going on. There's only 15 people in the class though so...it's kinda noticeable that you don't know what's going on unfortunately. There was also this creepy 50 year old dude in my class named Steve or something.
If you're not alone in the bathroom and you're self-conscious about people hearing you pee, try to use the bathroom when someone is in stall number 2. That toilet has a longer flush time than the others which will cover up the sound of you peeing for a decent amount of time.
I have a ton of reading to do already...ew. Tony doesn't even like the "World Politics" book...but I guess it's a necessary evil. We also have to read this book called "The translator" by Monday. That's 200 pages. It's like a humanities book though....it's awesome. I recommend you read it sometime.
I had choir practice today. Nothing happened for us altos really. The end. Oh yeah...I made it into the all-women's choir. I'm an alto 2.
Never ever ever make direct eye contact with anyone in the bathroom. Don't even think about making small talk unless you all are just brushing your teeth.
~AM
So the first day of classes went well. I'm a little worried about the work load...but ok.
I use the middle sink when I can because it is 3rd one in either way you go. I like the number 3.
International relations, or, as my textbook likes to call it for reasons I don't care to explain, "World Politics", sounds like an interesting class. I don't like the whole group project thing we have to do later on. It sort of sounded like the Treaty of Paris type of deal we did in AmStuds, only not fun. But my professor, Tony, (yeah he wants us to call him by his first name!) is freaking amazing. Seriously. I think I'm going to like this class.
When going to the bathroom, pick the stall that is next to or a couple away from the corner ones. Just because. If you're just changing, go in the very corners because no one uses those very often because they are all using the one that is next to or a couple away from it...so you don't have to worry about the floor having germs.
French 112. Okay....so I had trouble finding the class today because I wrote down the wrong room number. So I walk all the way down to the basement, and walk into the room that I think is my class. There's this conference table and people with russian textbooks in it. So I'm like "ummm I'm in the wrong class" and slowly backed out. One step. Then the next. Then I walked away really fast. So I had to go look up where my class was and it turns out it's on the top floor. So I run up 3 flights of stairs and make it to class. So...I didn't understand half of what the professor said the whole time. She was all speaking french really fast. It was nice to see that there were other people looking awkwardly around like me because they didn't know what was going on. There's only 15 people in the class though so...it's kinda noticeable that you don't know what's going on unfortunately. There was also this creepy 50 year old dude in my class named Steve or something.
If you're not alone in the bathroom and you're self-conscious about people hearing you pee, try to use the bathroom when someone is in stall number 2. That toilet has a longer flush time than the others which will cover up the sound of you peeing for a decent amount of time.
I have a ton of reading to do already...ew. Tony doesn't even like the "World Politics" book...but I guess it's a necessary evil. We also have to read this book called "The translator" by Monday. That's 200 pages. It's like a humanities book though....it's awesome. I recommend you read it sometime.
I had choir practice today. Nothing happened for us altos really. The end. Oh yeah...I made it into the all-women's choir. I'm an alto 2.
Never ever ever make direct eye contact with anyone in the bathroom. Don't even think about making small talk unless you all are just brushing your teeth.
~AM
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