As you may know there is a presidential election, a gubernatorial election, a secretary or state election, and many other elections going on this season. And thought they are not elected by the general public I feel it is important to pay attention to the Supreme Court's new term! It could very well be one of the most historic! With the oldest member of the supreme court being 80, the next president could choose a member of the Supreme Court. Lets examine whats on tap for this court in their new term....
1. Affirmative Action (whether colleges can use race as a reason to bring someone to their school)
2. Voter I.D. laws.... (which I hope they get to before the elections)
3. Same sex marriage
4. Personhood laws (that life begins before conception)
5. The upholding of ObamaCare (yes, a conservative leaning supreme court upheld its constitutionality)
and maybe they might get to reexamining Roe v Wade (a recent push by conservatives). Seeing that the court is slightly more conservative, they very well could cover this..... So a major decision will come out of this term. Its just a matter of which one....
Not to say that the Supreme Court is not being covered by the national news or political sites. Its just that the importance of this next term is lost on a lot of average americans I think.... A lot of potential voters!
Food for thought!
-Samantha
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Arachnophobia
I. HATE. SPIDERS.
Everyone has their little weird fears that they can't rationalize..... mine is spiders. Since I can remember I have had this heart stopping fear of them! Little, big, black, brown, it doesn't matter. They scare the crap out of me! Today was no exception. I was cleaning my room, and I was just moving around a blanket when I see a GIANT (my dad even admitted it was big) spider under it. I screamed, very loudly. My arms flailed around while I did an awkward jump/run/hop motion as quickly as possible out of my bedroom. I continued such motion until I stopped in in the corner of my T.V. room, by now my whole family staring at me, I just start crying.... I'm standing in the corner of the room crying uncontrollably... and doing this weird nervous rubbing thing with my hands. And my dad goes in to kill it, my mind came back to me. I start to replay what just happened. A complete loss of control of my body due to utter and complete fear! My heart beat was rapid for a very long time! And my head hasn't stop hurting since. I experience arachnophobia at its best today. Its all a blur now. It really was a story book freak out. It took me 20 minutes to bring myself down, another 5 minutes of talking myself into going back into the room. About an hour later, moving that same blanket a second spider of the same kind appears.... A variation of the first episode happened again, except this time my dad lost the spider.... Part of me thinks he never got it in the first place. So, I'm currently typing this from my make-shift bed on the couch.... Seeing that there is a rouge spider in my room. Despite all efforts to find it!
All I have left to say is I hope my roommate in college isn't afraid of spiders!
Everyone has their little weird fears that they can't rationalize..... mine is spiders. Since I can remember I have had this heart stopping fear of them! Little, big, black, brown, it doesn't matter. They scare the crap out of me! Today was no exception. I was cleaning my room, and I was just moving around a blanket when I see a GIANT (my dad even admitted it was big) spider under it. I screamed, very loudly. My arms flailed around while I did an awkward jump/run/hop motion as quickly as possible out of my bedroom. I continued such motion until I stopped in in the corner of my T.V. room, by now my whole family staring at me, I just start crying.... I'm standing in the corner of the room crying uncontrollably... and doing this weird nervous rubbing thing with my hands. And my dad goes in to kill it, my mind came back to me. I start to replay what just happened. A complete loss of control of my body due to utter and complete fear! My heart beat was rapid for a very long time! And my head hasn't stop hurting since. I experience arachnophobia at its best today. Its all a blur now. It really was a story book freak out. It took me 20 minutes to bring myself down, another 5 minutes of talking myself into going back into the room. About an hour later, moving that same blanket a second spider of the same kind appears.... A variation of the first episode happened again, except this time my dad lost the spider.... Part of me thinks he never got it in the first place. So, I'm currently typing this from my make-shift bed on the couch.... Seeing that there is a rouge spider in my room. Despite all efforts to find it!
All I have left to say is I hope my roommate in college isn't afraid of spiders!
Friday, September 28, 2012
Making Decisions
Hi all!
This is my first post, so stick with me. I promise I will get better the more I do it!
Making this blog was a huge decision on my part. For everything I do I have a tendency to weigh the pros and cons of it all before I do it. I have been thinking of starting this blog for months now! Why did it take me so long!? Well, first I thought it would be a great idea, but then became afraid of the response I would get. That people would think I was just complaining and writing about useless problems. That idea held me back for a while. Then I decided I didn't care what others thought, and that I was going to do it. I then hit a road block of which blog site to join and whether I wanted to put effort into typing my thoughts and formulating them into understandable writing (if you even call this understandable writing). But, I examined the amount of time I spend going between Pinterest and Facebook, and decided this might be slightly better for me, more constructive. And I simply googled the #1 most popular blog site, and got this one! All my decisions take this kind of planning and thinking. Even something as simple as picking a sandwich for lunch! There are so many factors, like if I do PP&J, will it get squished in my backpack, where am I going that day, how long will it be in my backpack? If I go with turkey and cheese will it still be fresh when I eat it? And don't even get me started on choosing a Starbucks drink! That is at least a day's worth of decision making. Granite, I usually do all my deliberation while doing other tasks, like emptying the dishwasher, my walk home, or laying in bed before I go to sleep. I may make it sound burdensome, but I actually don't mind the rigorous decision making process I go through.... It comforts me knowing I won't (usually) make poor snap decisions. It comforts me knowing I have the freedom and power to make my own decisions, a privilege refused to many around the world. It comforts me knowing I have outlets to turn to such as books and people in my life for guidance. And its comforting knowing I have the brain power and the will power to do it. Making decisions is a privileging and daunting task! I hope you give the important decisions in your life some critical thought!
Think Things Through!
-Samantha
This is my first post, so stick with me. I promise I will get better the more I do it!
Making this blog was a huge decision on my part. For everything I do I have a tendency to weigh the pros and cons of it all before I do it. I have been thinking of starting this blog for months now! Why did it take me so long!? Well, first I thought it would be a great idea, but then became afraid of the response I would get. That people would think I was just complaining and writing about useless problems. That idea held me back for a while. Then I decided I didn't care what others thought, and that I was going to do it. I then hit a road block of which blog site to join and whether I wanted to put effort into typing my thoughts and formulating them into understandable writing (if you even call this understandable writing). But, I examined the amount of time I spend going between Pinterest and Facebook, and decided this might be slightly better for me, more constructive. And I simply googled the #1 most popular blog site, and got this one! All my decisions take this kind of planning and thinking. Even something as simple as picking a sandwich for lunch! There are so many factors, like if I do PP&J, will it get squished in my backpack, where am I going that day, how long will it be in my backpack? If I go with turkey and cheese will it still be fresh when I eat it? And don't even get me started on choosing a Starbucks drink! That is at least a day's worth of decision making. Granite, I usually do all my deliberation while doing other tasks, like emptying the dishwasher, my walk home, or laying in bed before I go to sleep. I may make it sound burdensome, but I actually don't mind the rigorous decision making process I go through.... It comforts me knowing I won't (usually) make poor snap decisions. It comforts me knowing I have the freedom and power to make my own decisions, a privilege refused to many around the world. It comforts me knowing I have outlets to turn to such as books and people in my life for guidance. And its comforting knowing I have the brain power and the will power to do it. Making decisions is a privileging and daunting task! I hope you give the important decisions in your life some critical thought!
Think Things Through!
-Samantha
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