new pet

I don't know if it is a gift or a mess. From my "big sis" in swimming I got a pet fish for my gift. He is cute and small. He is blue and black and well a beta. Since he is a beta well they are well known to be a mess and well smell. He seems like a nice fish but after two days he is already starting to smell. I am so busy all the time I don't have time to clean a fish bowl every few days. Also, beta fish have a tendancy to live kind of long. My neighbors beta fish lived for six years. I think its so cute that she got me a fish, yet its not in my best interest to even have the simplest pet. I can't get rid of it, because it is a swimming tradition to keep and take care of your fish for as long as it lives. Also, when I leave for weekends for meets for some times three days, am I going to have to get some one to take care of this fish. The nicest ideas can sometimes turn into bad outcomes. I am looking at my fish bowl right now and see that it is cloudy and dirty. I just sigh and say ugh, for I know this is the future with my pet fish.

This past weekend the Ball State Girls swim team had there first meet, and well it was different. It was an inner squad meet, and the first one I have ever competed in. I was really excited before the meet and just really pumped up for the first time I could compete this season. I walked into the pool area nervous, but ready to swim. Yet, as I stretched and warmed up my excitement went down and down. I looked around trying to see another team, parents, or offiails. Yet, there was no one just my coaches and my team mates. All of a sudden, this felt more like a practice rather then a competition. The coaches were waiting to see amazing times and awesome races, well mine were just decent and not very exciting. I didn't give any excuses when they asked why I didn't go faster. All I said was I will do better. The meet was a big dissapointment and we had to give up our entire fall break to swim in it. I was very upset with it, and wish my coaches could understand us better. I wish they understood that we all wanted to go home and see our families, and not swim in this fake meet. I just wish coaches could understand that there is so much more to life then swimming.

Article

The author is Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar and the tiltle is Introducing systems change in the schools: the case of school luncheons and vending machines. The article is focusing on children a=obesity, and the cause of children obesity is due to school food. She argues that the meals schools give to children are unhealthy, and very fatty. She argues there is no healthy choices for children to choose from. By schools serving kids an unhealthy lunch and maybe even breakfast this is resulting to a dramatic weight gain. She is also unpleased about vending machines located in schools. The vending machines let kids buy candy bars, chips, and cookies easily for snacks or meals during there school day. Schools should not be supporting unhealthy eating by giving kids an easy accesible machine to get any junk food they want. By even having the machines in the school shows kids that the school approves of these unhealthy items. She says we need a new meal plan for cafeterias and no more vending machines in our children's schools.

Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda, et al. "Introducing systems change in the schools: the case of school luncheons and vending machines." American Journal of Community Psychology 39.3/4 (2007): 335-345. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 18 Oct. 2009.

I may not be Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make your bed rock.

I can't find my puppy, can you help me find him? I think he went into this cheap motel room.

Your body's name must be Visa, because it's everywhere I want to be.

Do you have a map? Because I keep getting lost in your eyes.

You know what? Your eyes are the same color as my Porsche.

I think I need to call heaven because they’ve lost one of their angels.

Is your name Gillette? Because you’re the best a man can get!

Here are just a few random pick up lines I quickly pulled up from a website. Girls do you like when guys use them, and guys do you think it's clever or just plain dumb to say.

My personal favorite is "Have any raisons?" "No" "Well then how about a date?'
Personally I think pick up lines are cheezy, but very fun to just hear and laugh about.

Killer Queen

She keeps moet et chandon
In her pretty cabinet
let them eat cake she says
Just like marie antoinette
A built-in remedy
For kruschev and kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You cant decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

Chorus
Shes a killer queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?

To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from china
Went down to geisha minah
Then again incidentally
If youre that way inclined

Perfume came naturally from paris
For cars she couldnt care less
Fastidious and precise

Chorus

Drop of a hat shes as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild..
Shes all out to get you

Chorus

Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try...



Love this song it's by Queen and I think it is amazing. Comment if you like it have some insight or analysis on it or any background info about the band or era. Thank You!

the question that helped me the most during our peer reviews was

Where is your thesis?
Well I had though I had a thesis, and when I looked at my paper I saw one. Yet, as I looked closer I could see my thesis was very plain and generic. If my thesis couldn't stand out to two people how is it going to stand out to any one who reads my paper. This showed me I needed to elaborate and develop a more direct clear cut thesis to my audience. A thesis is what makes a analysis and synthesis paper, so I need to work on mine.

Roomies

So I am obviously in college and happen to be a freshman. As we all know freshman must live in dorms and experience the wonderful world of a roommate. Now I understand a lot of people fall in love with their roommate and become best friends forever. Yet, that is not going to be my roomy and me some day. We are both swimmers so we are both teammates. From the first day I met her I could tell that she hated me. Before the simple words "Hi" could come out of my mouth she had given me the death glare. Through the weeks she has done so many nice things for me. (sarcasm) As in: hide my stuff, tell all my friends mean things about me, ignores my presence at all times, puts head phones in her ears when i try to talk to her, tells the coach lies about me, and well is just a meanie. She is the strangest person I have met she is extremely friendly to every single one of our other teammates besides me. She hugs them and laughs around them but pushes me away when I'm with them too. I have never had someone hate me this much before so it is weird to deal with, exspceially since we have to live together. I can't switch because that would cause friction the rest of my four years on the swim team. So, I must grin and bear it and try to ignore her as much as possible. Yet, I know people probably have it much worse then me out there. My friend's roommate tried to gage my friend's ears in the middle of the night. So, she has it bad too. If anyone wants to vent or tell any horror or happy stories about them and their roomy please tell. I'm interested to find out how others are doing with living with strangers.

Subliminal Messages

Today in Psyc we learned about subliminal messages. They are mostly found in advertisements, songs, and studies. Everyone has heard of these messages, but in reality never actually notices them. They are so trickily placed and so unconscious to you that you have know idea. You might think that you want to drink that can of pepsi, but would you really want it if that good looking person wasn't on the box. In advertisements subliminal messages can be quite obvious or very subtle. In a magazine you can see a women holding up a bottle and opening the top with her teeth. That is a more obvious one since it shows sex and attracts men to that product. Yet, some adds are much more subtle. In many ads they don't use real ice cubes they actual add computer generated ones instead. Well, on some ads if you look at the ice closely there is the word "sex" spelled out. In psyc we also looked at some songs with subliminal messages hidden in them. For the song "Stairway to Heaven" if you play it backwards slowly Jimmy Paige is saying words about Satin and his love for him. While in the song "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen if you play a part slowly backward you can hear Fred say I like to smoke marijuana. Do you think that you are another victim of subliminal messages or do you think subliminal messages even work on people? Do you know of any other subliminal messages? Please tell all cause you never know what's out there so it's interesting to find out what people know.