The FUTURE. dun dun duhhhhhhhhhn....

Yeah I'm feeling slightly intimidated right now. I made a list of potential career opportunities and then took some career aptitude tests and omg I am sooooo lost. I mean there are so many things I could do! Obviously I want to act but I don't want to be some bimbo actress that knows how to do nothing else. I could do anthropological work or I could do something in IT like communications or what my dad does, I could become an advertising executive. Hell I could do absolutely ANYTHING! This is stupid and frustrating and tedious and scary. The aptitude tests weren't that much help because half of them I have to pay for in order to get the full results and stuff like that which is stupid, they have no right to hide my aptitude from me!
Mostly I've been thinking of acting as my ultimate goal because its what I love, no matter what phases I've gone through acting has always been there. More or less I'm looking for something that will get me adequate income and opportunities for travel and moving up. Mainly because acting isn't all that lucrative, its a competitive business and its always changing so if I can't make it there then I'm screwed because I have no fall back option, ergo the fall back option search. Man I want a crystal ball right nowl... jeez. How do some people figure this out?! Course I know I'll change complete careers around 5 times in my life so this isn't locking me in a gilded cage forever, its just what I will do for a couple of years. But university is a pretty formative part of my life and if I spend it studying the wrong things then who knows what I'll do.
I want to study anthropology which means I should go to a Christian university (CU) so I can get biblically sound teaching rather than all that evolution stuff they teach in secular universities. I also want to study acting but I'm not sure if a CU will help me if I choose to go into mainstream acting like television or movies or braodway or something like that. Would I be better served looking at an agency type place or a professional acting school where they teach practical skills? Theoretical knowledge has its importance but I do need practical application skills as well. Which I don't really have at this point. This is an abrupt stop but I will be back soon...

Mack

The Secret Life of Hogwarts People

Who knew there was so much yet to be
dug up and explored?! Certainly not me!

link jack

Got this from another blog, this is just stupid funny.

Go home plz!!!

I'm sorry, I support the whole war in Iraq and Afghanistan and all the men and women out there risking their lives everyday I really do. But honestly who appointed the US police officers of the world? We already have the UN (not that they do much but that's besides the point) and personally I think I've had enough global powers. I get the whole Middle East blowing us up would suck thing but you have nukes! We hasn't the UN sent stormtroopers in to raid your nuclear supply cupboard huh?

Low road indeed

My goodness, the PQ certainly know how to take snobbery to a whole new level.

Count the ethical issues in this one

AP newswire service reported this week on a lesbian woman who is suing a doctor because she had twins after fertility treatments and she and her partner only wanted one child. The pair was “devastated” when they learned the “mom” was carrying twins and thought about giving one up for adoption. They want over $300,000 to cover the costs of raising one of the girls and another $12,000 for compensation for time off work. The mom says she told the doctor she only wanted one child but the embryologist implanted two embryos.

- from the Alberta Pro-Life E-update for September 20/07

....there are no words. This is just ridiculous. (man do I need better adjectives....)

Zhen

Censorship

What do you think?
We're having a talent show here at theatre school and the comittee for deciding what is appropriate needs to decide on belly-dancing. Most of the Christians do not agree with it being a viable option for an act and most of the non-christians do. I can't discuss it at length right now because I have class in 7 minutes so tell me how you feel.

Zhen

Kiss Me Kate

We watched that last night because we are watching three adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew, first we watched a strict stage production of The Taming of the Shrew, last night we watched a musical called Kiss Me Kate and I think tomorrow we are watching 10 Things I Hate About you which is cool because I love that movie!
After we've watched all three our teachers will put forth an assignment to compare and contrast the three movies and I have chosen to compare Katerina (or her various counterparts in the other movies) and Petrucio's relationship. Fairly standard and not really imaginative but I'm including some technical elements like that Kiss Me Kate was very modern to it's time. There were fifties (it was shot in '53) references like gangsters and what not in the play they were performing and the dancing was all modern. All in all both very fairly good movies (because I'm really one to judge ;)) although The Taming of the Shrew was bloody freaking long. Well I have general session in 15 minutes and class in 45 so I'll talk to you all later!

Zhen

Long gone

Hello my faithful or first time readers! How are you? Its been awhile hasn't it? I'm sorry I've left you drifting for so long. School got hectic and I had no time! It was all escaping too fast. At any rate, I am back now at least for the time being.
I recently watched The Taming of the Shrew. Interesting movie, the end was most dissatisfying. Katerina have gone soft and letting Petrucio win his bet at her expense. Although I can't help wonder if Kate herself didn't demand some sort of payment when they were away from the rest of the buffoons like The Guardian.
I am very very tired so I bid you all adieu (hopefully I spelled that right) and goodnight.

Zhen

Irony

Supremely ironic, that's what racism is. In fact, I could walk into an all brown community and get beaten up because I'm white and supposedly trespassing on their turf. But if a brown or asian person walked into an all white community and got beaten up because he/she was "coloured"; those people could be taken to court for racial discrimination. I get more flak because I'm white than any of my friends get for being brown or asian. And they're the ones giving most of the flak. Excusing idiotic or rude behavior on their skin colour. There's always the underlaying feeling that I am somehow lower or lesser than or just plain not as cool as they are by virtue of the fact that I couldn't control my skin colour. If I could go back and choose the colour skin I was born with, based on what I've learned so far about this world, chances are it wouldn't be white. I'm not saying all brown/asian people are like that; many aren't. But the few that I have met, befriended or spent time with are mostly of that mind set.

I know there are many countries where racism is alive and well and very dangerous, but North America has become so scared of offending anybody that white people have become portrayed as the stupid, nonathletic, evil capitalist pigs of todays society who can't do anything as well as a black/latino/middle eastern/asian person could. There are many different points of view on this subject, and I would love to hear some of them so leave a comment.

Sick

This is just sick.

Lords of Logistics

Absolutely mind blowing.

SOMEbody's lost his marbles

And I think we can all guess who....

That's right! The world famous twinkie boy Dion himself. Can anyone feel a merger coming? Like the Progressives with the Conservatives and then the Progressive Conservatives with the Alliance. All I can say is WE DID IT FIRST!!!! so cebu.

Anyways, apparently the notorious Jack Bauer may be hunting down Quebec separatists instead of the usual Russian/Mexican/Chinese/Middle Eastern criminals. Sweeeeet, I think we all want to see a little bit of that...

P.S. Top 100 Random and Fairly Useless Facts about Jack Bauer make sure you have some time on your hands, there's more than a hundred.

Zhen

mumfumbajook

not entirely sure what thats supposed to mean but my office is hot.

Okay, did you know that World Tuberculosis Day is coming up? Cause I sure as heck didn't. How exactly is one supposed to spend WTD anyway? Testing themselves for it? Handing out awareness pamphlets? Honestly.... there was a Pi Day too. I mean, the edible kind I can understand there being a day for but the mathematical kind?
And this month is Liver Disease Month AND Kidney Month. Wow. Yikes these people are weirdos.

Okey dokey, Flaherty introduced the new budget, lotsa tax cuts for families. Dion's already strategizing as to how to tear it limb from limb and SM got caught in a protest. Well looks like things were busy while I was gone. Anyone miss me?

Cooler Heads Coalition

Well, today I was looking for something absolutely ridiculous so I could mock it mercilessly, double if its on the big GW. But then I realized, nobody who reads my blog really understands my position on global warming and why I have that position, you all know I hate the idiotic campaigns with their green scarves and electric cars and Kyoto trash but do you know why?

If this topic has ceased to interest you by all means continue surfing.

I think global warming is stupid because there is NO scientific evidence to back their "facts" that the world is going to turn into a ginormiguous green house, or that all our polar animals are gonna die because the ice is melting. I mean we had a freakin ICE AGE and yet somehow we're all still here. Its weather patterns bigger than anybody can forecast because we only have approximately 100 years of recorded weather so this pattern is ha-UGE. I found this article a few minutes ago and it's pretty good. I warn you, its like 3 years old but not a lot of this stuff has changed so enjoy!

Zhen

Just a question

Why exactly do we care what is on the PM's plate? No honestly, why do we care??? So we can scorn them for over spending on food, so we can berate them for not spending money on more important things like global warming?
Actually, this is holding up an uncomfortable mirror to my own hypocrisy because if this had been a liberal/NDP/bloc plane/PM/cabinet I would be talking about it until I was blue in the face. But because its the Conservatives, I just bash the people who reported in instead. The truth is, any one of us would probably do the same thing in their shoes, if you had the option between filet mignon and a burger, you would probably choose the mignon. Unless you absolutely despise the former in which case you're odd.
This kind of thing came up when people were all huffy over Dion's limo driver spending 14 grand on a hotel and additional expenses, there is a slight difference and I'll talk about that in a sec but its true. We look through lenses tinted the way we want to see, mine are right-hued and some other people wear left-hued shades.
Now about Dion's driver, $14 000!!!!!!!! For crying out loud people, that's where Dion lives! Home life a little to rough? Whatever...

Zhen

*guess*

Oh this is good...

Jack Layton interview. I love it, and I think if he weren't well Jack, I might actually like him... funny that 'eh? Well I have to go, buh-bye.

Zhen

Fav song right now

Okay, for some freaky reason, Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace is my favorite song at the moment. I'm not emo or anything I just like the sound, angry music is my thing right now...
The video is a little weird but just listen to it without watching, its good... talk to y'all later.

Zhen

Smoking nicotine patches???

How wacked is that? Its almost like offering tatoos to the inmates cuz they keep giving themselves HepB with dirty needles... twinkies. Anyways, I can't offer an immediate solution better than the one offered in the article, I don't even have a relevant rant to dish up. Oh well, talk to y'all later

Zhen

Sentenced

This is bad, this is so very very baaaaaaaaad. There's lots about it on Sandmonkey. I wrote an essay about this kind of thing for Social Studies not too long ago, its not good. Not good at all, SM lives in Egypt, he could be next!!!! Course nobody knows where he lives, at least not people who want to murder him for being an infidel and consorting with them and mocking merciless dictators. Well, I have stuff to do, talk to y'all later.

Zhen