Glee's Beatles Tribute and Master's Project

First, I just received news that my newest draft was acceptable and that I passed.  I feel validated and much better about my work and my schooling.

Second, Kitty's voice sucks on Glee.   Too much autotune.  If they can't sing and can't act, don't cast them.  Also, I love Breadsticks, because I have lived in a podunk town where there are no or maybe one "fancy" restaurant.  Otherwise, it's obvious none of the writers have ever lived in a small town.  If Glee is supposed to be a parody, make it so, but otherwise, the Midwest is more important than the inconsistencies and unrealistic setting than they have made it into.  Additionally, a teacher would not be make the interim principal.  Because, one, they have long term processes and two, any school that is this big has to have a Vice Principal or other staff that is actually qualified.  Another thing, Sue doesn't teach anything other than cheerleading, right?  Um, what small school in the Midwest that isn't private can afford that?  None.  Jeez, do your fricking research Ryan Murphy...

Feeling Inadequate

On Thursday, I defended my master's project.  This had been a project that I'd been working on for over a year.  A project that involved a paper that had gone through three rounds of edits.  A project that was pushed back time and again because of my professor's vacations and lack of responses.  A defense that had been rescheduled because of my adviser's father's illness. 

That brings you pretty much up to speed.  Now, my oral examination went fine and I received the grade of a pass with minor revision.  My adviser told me that the main thing I needed to fix was to change some of the language to make it not a causal relationship.  Okay.  I can do that.  She also said that I needed to make the writing umm... better.  Okay, I guess I can try to figure that out.  But don't you think that she might have said something during one of the three rounds of edits?  Or maybe, during the month and half long period between my "final" edit and the defense.

Then, yesterday, I received an email stating that I needed to make the paper writing style more academic.  What the hell does that mean?  Am I using too many colloquisms?  Is it not written at a high enough level?  Is my writing style not advanced enough?  Is this throughout the paper or concentrated in sections?  Are there specific parts that are lacking?  Sounds like criticism that I can go off.  But nope, I just receive I need to make it more "academic."  Well, I'm sorry, but I have never received a score lower than a B on a paper.  Ever.  So, if my writing style isn't academic enough, then mightn't one of my professors in undergrad have given me a lower grade or asked me to change?  Or, even more likely, one of my grad school professors.  But no, from them, I receive critiques like this is the best paper in the grad or you missed two points out of 100.  So, now, I feel as if everything I've done is a lie.  As if, I was just passed along.  Maybe it's the opposite, maybe instead of being the top of my classes(with a 3.79 GPA for Grad school), I'm really at the bottom.  Maybe I'm just not good enough.

Government Shutdown

So, the House today proposed a bill that will avoid the shutdown.  The only thing the senate and Obama have to agree to?  Defund Obamacare.  Defund a program that will allow millions of people to get health care and many people to get off of Medicaid.  Yep, sounds awful.

So, there is no way that that bill is going to go through and who looks like the bad guys now?  The dems.  Because they support health care for Americans.  Because they support a bill that has legally gone through all areas of government, but that the Repubs simply hate.  Or maybe, it's because the Repubs hate Obama.

This current government sucks.

Abortion and the Woman's Right to Choose

There's an article right now on MSNBC about a Florida man who gave his girlfriend medicine to make her have an abortion, without her knowledge. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/10/20422793-florida-man-admits-he-tricked-girlfriend-into-taking-abortion-drug?threadId=3813273&commentId=78893370#c78893370

Many men are arguing that one, women trick men into having children and thus make them pay child support; or two, that this is just like a woman getting an abortion without the man's consent.

Let's address the first.  If a woman tricks a man into making her pregnant, in some cases, he will not have to pay child support.  For instance, if he can prove that she poked holes in condoms.  However, this is rare and unlikely.  Additionally, these people arguing that women do this, do they not have any idea what child support is and what it pays.  Not nearly enough for women to make profit in this matter.

Second, women are the ones who become pregnant.  Women are the ones called sluts for getting pregnant outside of wedlock.  Women are the ones who bear the physical, emotional, and social effects of pregnancy.  Men, they have nothing to do with pregnancy, unless they want to.  Until men are shamed by society, or equally, until neither are shamed by society for unwed pregnancies, women must be given more rights.  They must always be allowed to choose abortion, because women are the ones who bear the brunt of everything from conception to adulthood for that pregnancy.  Men are too often let off the hook.

Boy Scouts and Popcorn

My cousin, who's 12, is a boy scout or something of a similar ilk.  He's selling popcorn to raise money.  I, being uninformed about said popcorn prices, said I would buy some.  However, it's 40 dollars for 2 gallons of popcorn.  2 gallons are the normal size for popcorn tins, which normally I would price at 20 dollars or less.  I guess I thought that it would be like girl scout cookies, which I can afford.  I'm not sure I can afford a 40 dollar tin of popcorn.  Can I not buy it and still be a decent person?