Yep...where have I been since 11:30 this morning?? The Rivertown mall. I brought my car in to be fixed at Sears because that's the only place i trust to go...HOWEVER, i'm stuck here. It will be about 45 min until my car is completley fixed. What is wrong with it, one may ask?? WELL let me tell you...
1. My right wheel bearing is dead and getting replaced
2. my rear brakes are shot to hell and getting replaced
3. one of my wheel cylnders is about 90% gone and getting replaced
4. 2 of my coil springs are busted but are NOT getting fixed
5. They want to replace my strut mounting plate...but they are not.
OH YEAH, and i had to get an oil change...now if i WERE to get all of that done it would cost about $1,100. but since only 1-3 are being done it's only $714. There goes my bank account....
On a lighter note, i'm glad i brought a lot of homework here with me to do. I've gotten a good chunk done! BUT i had to pay $4 bucks to connect to the internet at the barnes and noble store...BOGUS! If i didn't have to, i wouldn't have, but i had to turn in an assignment by 5 pm today...so those 4 buck are worth the points...it's a larger assignment. It had to be done. So here I am, waiting, using up my internet time slot of 2 hours that i really won't use. 4 buck for 2 hours...BLAH! Oh well. whatever.
I'm driving up to Traverse City tonight to visit my family! :) We are all staying at close friends' place! :) The Fishers! They are our family's best friends. Too bad Sam won't be there...no...she had to be in the Netherlands...geez...way to be a world traveler and miss out on the family vaca! HAHA! Love you Sam! :)
I'm excited though. We're going to ski at Boyne. I haven't been there in about 2 years, it'll be nice to get back on those slopes.
I just glanced over at a rack of books and at the top there is a title: "11,002 things to be miserable about" and then two rows below it: "14,000 things to be happy about". I really want to go switch the order in which a person would view them. I really think that a. that miserable book shouldn't really exist, b. if it does exist (which it does) put it as close to the ground as possible c. at least there are more things to be happy about than to be miserable about :). I guess that would make that book "14,001 things to be happy about" haha. I'm a nerd.
mmm coffee has too much sugar in it....bah. i hate when i do that.
I wonder how many people actually do read this. The internet is a vehicle for stalking...haha. I don't really promote this page...i guess i really don't want to, but obviously i don't care if people read this...it's on the world wide web. I'm just weird sometimes, i guess.
Right now I'm reading an article "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" by Fredric Jameson. I'm pretty much ripping it apart right now because i have to write an essay on it for my Capstone. It's quite intriguing and raises a lot of questions in my head. Questions i really can't answer, they are more rhetorical, but at the same time, i do want them answered.
To me, I think a lot about our "pop culture" and how much of a consumer society we have become. It's always about the materiality of things and "individualistic" views. How we can rebel, how we can branch away from the norm, but when you think about it...all the people who are "lashing out", are doing so through the same styles and ways that have already been done before. You really want to show your individuality and your need to lash out from "the man"? Be original, can you? How are we able to create something 'new' from something old? We are taking old ideas and making them "new". We think since we've brought this "fad" back, we now own it because we are doing it a little different...but we're not, are we? Sometimes i feel that we CAN'T come up with our own ideas, not because we don't want to, but because we are not allowed to. How do i explain that? I don't really know...Maybe it's because we are being forced to look back on history, it's all we've ever done, so is that all we'll ever know? BAH! I don't even know if i am making sense....I really want everyone to read this article so they can help me understand! We talked about it in my Capstone...but my mind is going in a different direction than our discussion did.
Fedric gives us a poem as one of his examples of a schizophrenic language (one of the points he discusses in his essay) I would like to post it...not only do i really enjoy the language, i really enjoy the reason he wrote it. The Poet, Bob Perelman is a younger poet and is in the "school" known as the Language Poets... The poem is called "China" and i believe (don't quote me on this) was in response to some art work at a gallery in China...i'm not quite sure tho...
We live on the third world from the sun. Number three. Nobody
tells us what to do.
The people who taught us to count were being very kind.
It's always time to leave.
If it rains, you either have your umbrella or you don't.
The wind blows your hat off.
The sun rises also.
I'd rather the starts didn't describe us to each other; i'd
rather we do it for ourselves.
Run in front of your shadow.
A sister who points to the sky at least once a decade is a
good sister.
The landscape is motorized.
The train takes you where it goes.
Bridges among water.
Folks straggling along vast stretches of concrete, heading into the plane.
Don't forget what your hat and shoes will look like when
you are nowhere to be found.
Even the words floating in air make blue shadows.
If it tastes good we eat it.
The leaves are falling. Point things out.
Pick up the right things.
Hey guess what? What? I've learned how to talk. Great.
The person whose head was incomplete burst into tears.
As it fell, what could the doll do? Nothing.
Go to sleep.
You look great in shorts. And the flog looks great too.
Everyone enjoyed the explosions.
Time to wake up.
But better get used to dreams.
Ok. So it's random and wonderful. I love it. I have to go now tho, staring at a screen really hurts my eyes...OH and my car won't be done for another hour or so...BLAH! Maybe i'll put off my trip til tomorrow...boooo! My mom said it's snowing in TC and i don't want to be driving in the dark to TC while it's snowing...not a good idea. We'll see how the weather holds up. More to update tomorrow.
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