A Night at the Theater 1

Well the end of the semester has finally arrived and I have decided that it is about time I do this movie project. I plan on seeing “Bachelor Mother” on either the 9^th, 10^th, or 11^th of December just in case anybody else is interested in attending with me. The movie is relatively old and the play time is quite short- it came out in 1939 and is only 82 minutes long. Nevertheless, I did some reading up on it and it appears to be well respected. According to what I have read, the movie deals with a department store clerk who suddenly becomes the mother of a baby and is not too happy about it. However, her boss is determined to keep the two together and I imagine that is what makes up the plot. I was not able to find much else on the movie considering how old it is and I guess I will have to just wait and see what else happens. I really look forward to going to the film and seeing how the clerk’s boss tries to keep the daughter and mother together. I have a hunch that the clerk and her boss end up falling in love or they have already been in love and he is secretly the father; but I guess there is only one way to find out. Well that is all I got now. Let me know if you interested in going with me and I look forward to watching this classic film!

Thanksgiving Break

Well I must say this break is long overdue. You may find it a little odd that I am writing my blog so early on in the week, but so much has already happened. It has been really great visiting with family and friends so far. On Friday I met up with some friends and we hung out like we used to back in the high school days. It was really fun! However, Saturday and Sunday were a little more laid back because football was on and that’s pretty much the most important thing on weekends. Sunday night during the football game I managed to lose ten dollars in a game of poker. I’ve never managed to beat my friends, and it seems my luck has not changed. Nonetheless, I must say my parents have been making me do a lot of work in order to get the house ready for Thanksgiving. Speaking of which, I can’t wait for Thursday! Eating all the delicious food while visiting with family and watching football will truly be amazing. We always have Thanksgiving at my house and I must say it can get a little hectic. Nevertheless, it is always a great time to catch up and see what’s new with everyone. After Thanksgivings, I will finally be able to hang out with my friends Walker and Kurt. They both go to schools up north and won’t be getting home until Wednesday. In other words, Friday is going to be one hell of a reunion. I look forward to seeing how their college experience’s have been and doing our usual illegal things. All in all, my first Thanksgiving break is meeting all the expectations so far. I have been able to meet up with friends and catch up with family. The only thing left to do is get through Thanksgiving and this weekend, then get back to school and hit the books hard.

Project 4 Recipients

For this project I landed on writing a letter to my parents and a good friend Gary, persuading them that I have made the correct decision in choosing Criminal Justice as my major. My parents are very hard working people and both of them have worked very hard to get where they are today. My mom works for one of the hospitals in Springfield, Illinois. While I am not quite sure exactly what it is she does, it involves the hiring of doctors and payroll. On the other hand, my dad works for the state Comptroller office. He is the manager of the Springfield office and deals with oversight of the whole building. It is actually quite ironic that he has such a high ranking job, seeing as how he did not go to college and instead worked his way up through the state system. Nevertheless, they are both successful people and I have big shoes to fill.

My parents have always watched over me like a hawk, seeing as how I am an only child, and are constantly pushing me to excel. However, they have always been behind me 100% on whatever it is I want to do, even if it is something they do not believe in. That it is why it is even more important for me to prove to them that I have made the right decision. They need to be assured that my major is the right choice and that it will ultimately affect my future positively. My parents are not the type of parents that are willing to keep me under their wing until I am 35. They want to get rid of me as soon as possible so that they can retire and relax. Therefore, seeing as how they are paying for my schooling, they can pull the plug on my education at any time if they feel I am not performing to my fullest.

As for my second choice for this project, I decided to write a good friend of mine named Gary. Gary is a retired federal agent and is now one of the youth leaders at my church. In addition Gary and I, along with other church members, have gone on many Habitat for Humanity trips nationwide. Therefore, I would like to prove to Gary that I have made the right choice in regards to my future. I chose him especially since he is a retired federal agent and has worked with the criminal justice system his whole life. He not only knows what it is my major pertains too, but he has experience in it and can in the future give guidance to me. All in all, both my parents and Gary are worth recipients of letters. While on one side I have a lot to prove to my parents and they need to be assured that their investment in me is the right one, Gary is a long-time friend who has dealt with the criminal justice system his whole life and can offer me future guidance; if he feels I am a worthy candidate.

College Food

I do not know if it is just me or if I am simply getting bored with eating the same food over and over again, but it seems as though the food in the dining halls are getting progressively worse. I understand that after a few weeks of doing the same job again and again, you are going to eventually start slacking. However, there is a huge difference between lazily cleaning a bathroom and cooking crappy food; after all we do have to eat the stuff. In fact, about the two weeks ago I was in the dining hall at Watterson. I was waiting for some vegetables in the main course line and the main course for the day was fried shrimp. As the server went to empty the last spoonful of the pan onto the kid in front of me’s plate, something tremendously disgusting was discovered- a fried up frog. Apparently a small frog had jumped into the boiler while the batch was cooking and decided to become part of the main course. Just imagine how many people ate that fried shrimp before without knowing a frog was a part of that batch! Nevertheless, the server merely took the pan and the spoon- complete with the frog- into the back and came out with a new batch; but it was safe to say that fried shrimp was no longer what everybody in the line so desired. Now I know instances like these are not very preventable and that a frog jumping into the boiler is extremely rare, but the vegetables I got that day were also not very good. They were a bit cold and felt like they had been sitting under that heat lamp for over an hour. So while, a frog may never again jump into a batch of fried shrimp, one thing is certain- the food at the dining halls is steadily decreasing and something needs to be done quickly to change it.