Jay
24 & residing in NYC. Student of life.
Infatuated with cars, good reads, and the pursuit of knowledge.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are
and what you stand for, where you want to
go and why you want to get there. ~Kofi Annan
3:30 and I just don’t feel like sleeping. Bored. Hungry. Would like some titties in my face. Would like to go for a drive to clear my head a bit. Plus the city looks nice at night when its mostly asleep.
I’m just yeah…just one of those nights I guess. So much I want to say, just don’t know how. C’est la vie.
My girlfriend is in optometry school studying to be an eye doctor, and I sat for her yesterday so she can practice procedures and stuff on me. She took this while doing some procedure on me and its super cool. I have pictures of my actual eye as well under magnification but it just doesn’t look as nice as my eye lashes under magnification.
I’m waiting for my girlfriend at the Dr and the Steve Harvey show is on and its terrible. I don’t understand why he has his own show. First and last time I’m watching this.
Anyway, Tyler Perry is on and I don’t like him. Well not him specifically, I respect his hustle, but, his movies are terrible. It amazes me how the black community gets all bent out of shape of the depiction of black people in movies -warranted or not..personal opinion largely unwarranted- but yet love this dudes movies. If anything in the movies makes black people look bad it’s his movies, yet people love his movies, the more ratchet they are the better. It just doesn’t make much sense to me.
It’s fun (read interesting) hearing/participating in these great political debates with my parents. They really are angry people. More so my father than my mother, but they really don’t like anyone.
My mother though is a special kind of person because she really doesn’t care about feelings. She’s very much a tell it like it is person and I get my assholeness directly from her. So politics in particular shes invested and especially forward. She’s been involved or around politics most of her life so things happening these days mean something to her.
News, current events and politics has become an increasingly big part of my life and to a large degree thats because of my mother. I’m not as dire in my outlook on the state of this country as she is, but I’m interested in what happens.
It is the middle of January and its 50+ degrees outside. What?!
I just wanna do hoodrat shit with my friends but the Falcons and Niners are playing currently and later, the ravens and pats are playing, so that means I’m sitting my ass down and getting comfortable.
Thats all.
Im concerned for the state of higher education in this country. Well not just higher education, but education in general. Theres a myriad of issues I see with the whole thing, and honestly, funding for education should be the least of peoples concerns.
One of my papers that I have to write is a group paper with 5 other people. I HATE group work. Either way, I have all their respective papers and I have to pull it all together into one cohesive paper, plus add my few pages of work. This is what I’m working with so far:
“Take your time and manage the resourcefulness of the individual. Companies should also plan implementations. After signifying implementation you must in the impact, impression and take forth with action.”
I don’t know wtf is going on here. The rest of the paper isn’t much better. The others I’ve received aren’t as bad as this first one, but really though? This is writing from a mid 20’s female who is a manager at a store. Assistant manager if I remember correctly. I just don’t understand how someone gets through life like that, and how the education system as a whole, lets someone get through life writing things like that.
I’m not the best writer around-my girlfriend is a better writer than me, and her younger brother is an amazing writer-but I give a shit about what I writing and how I’m writing. I can put together a cohesive paper that actually makes sense, even if its all bullshit. That shit is just unacceptable.
I’m concerned about the quality of people advancing through the education system, if this is whats going on.
Film anyone? My mother has had this camera since forever! Its captured many family moments, vacations, family visits, and other random stuff. However, its been sitting idle in my parents room for a very long time, kinda just there lonely. For a while now i’ve wanted to get back into taking pictures but, buying the DSLR I want just isn’t happening right now. The alternative? Why film of course. I’ve seen some pretty rad pictures taken with a film camera, and I just love the texture you get from shooting film. It has a very nice look to it. So, this old SLR camera thats seen some things in its lifetime, is gonna get a rebirth or sorts. I have time these days really to do whatever. The world is my oyster so to speak. So, i’m going to embark on this little journey of film and see where it takes me.
There is a family of deer seemingly living in my back yard, well the woods part of my yard.
It is currently snowing hella hard.
That is all
It is currently 1:30 in the morning, and i’m having 2 pieces of cheesecake, cookies from LU, and a ginger ale. Totally healthy.
I have boredom.
The plus side is…my laundry is done.
So, I just got home not too long ago (Parents place for Thanksgiving…drove with papa) and I was home for all of 5 minutes…literally 5 minutes..before I was in the kitchen looking for food and subsequently eating said food. Im such a fat person.
Anyway, when we pulled into the driveway, being that this is Pennsylvania-The Poconos to be exact-the sky out here is super clear. Its a beautiful night out and the stars are shining pretty bright. So I was standing there staring at the stars and commenting on how many stars are out tonight and my father gets out the car and goes yeah, we should get a telescope. Im like…we should! He didn’t respond lol.
Its just interesting to see and think about how small we really are in this universe. These stars are so far away and we see them, and its like theres a whole other world out there thats so much bigger than us, and we’re kinda these small dots in this much larger system. Perspective is an interesting thing.
